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January 27th, 2012

For Love Or Football

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11121971-planning-your-honeymoon-trip“Footballer asked to give up honeymoon for new club.”

Admit it – first thoughts center around the wife and a reaction worthy of any reality shows in which a new bride or bride-to-be seem like a good candidate for a rubber room and a key which gets mysteriously lost for…ever.

Tim Ream was given a choice: sign for Bolton or head off on the honeymoon. Some may envy the opportunity, no one envies “So honey, I just got this call…”

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January 26th, 2012

Bayern Munich Signs The Common Man

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article-1327592083830-1178F989000005DC-909827_636x505High up on the list of things no to do with football fans is to promise the unveiling of a big new signing and then fail to follow through. Worse is to promise a big signing and then come through with someone who won’t even find the end of the bench on the reserves. Like Bayern did this afternoon, requesting their fans tune into an official press conference to unveil the signing, which turned out to be the photo of the fan who’d logged in via facebook.

Do they realize how much most of these signings suck? That’s just crushing. Unless of course Lionel is a Bayern fan.
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Category Category: Bundesliga
Jan 26, 2012

Water Sports At AFCON

By: chris | Comments View Comments

Including both diving and synchronized swimming.

His name is Narcisse Ekanga, and there is a pool of water near him - or all around him, rather. There's also a rounding of the football gods cursing him with some really bad karma for the rest of AFCON.

There's actually a very real chance he was hurt on the landing after a genuine attempt to escape injury. However, it just might look less fake without the water-aided spin and delayed howling after looking around to make sure there wasn't a call.

He does get pretty decent rotation, though. Silver lining and all.

[101gg]

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January 26th, 2012

Jose Being Jose, In A Parking Lot

By: chris | Comments View Comments

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That’s Jose after last night’s Clasico, hanging out in the Camp Nou parking lot next to the referee’s car. He’s not waiting to tell him how much he enjoyed his performance or beg him for the maker of his cologne, I can tell you that much.

Google Translate can do the rest.

The man just loves staying out of the spotlight, doesn’t he?


January 25th, 2012

Cristiano Throws A Clasico-Sized Fit

By: chris | Comments View Comments

A Clasico which lived up to its name? But of course.

And Cristiano was seen off the ball throwing what should now be one of his toddler tantrums? But of course.

It’s not one of his finest, in fact it’d have a hard time cracking his top five, but it’s nice to know that even as he seems to be maturing, some things will just never change.

Meanwhile, Dani Alves scored a bananas goal and Mesut Ozil hit wood on a ball which would’ve escalated from bananas to mangoes or something had it gone in. (And Barca went through on the back of a 2-2 (4-3 agg.), in case you hadn’t heard.)

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Category Category: World Football
Jan 25, 2012

A Lesson In Nonchalance

By: chris | Comments View Comments

It's going to take quite a bit for Olympic qualifying of any type to make any type of news, unless David Beckham is personally championing his merits for the cause. Women's CONCACAF qualifiers? That will take something extraordinary. Like Costa Rica's keeper Julieth Arias and the dreaded bouncy backpass.

Julieth might become infamous for this clip in ways she wouldn't enjoy. But it's entirely possible the ball just, err, disappeared. Can't really fault her for that, can you?

(Alright, that's pushing it - she just went in a little too casual.)

[101gg]

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