IOSS: Wayne Calls In Sick
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Up this week: Sven hauls ass to the jungle voluntarily in search of reality fame; Jose stumbles onto old friends, taps them up; The Boy gets a slight case of the Bubonic plague; and Fabio tries to get down to the root of this mysterious injury sweeping England, International Friendlyitis.
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Tags: England, Fabio Capello, Frank Lampard, IOSS, It, John Terry, Jose Mourinho, Puppets, Sven, The Boy, Wayne Rooney, World FootballWeekend Quiz: MLS Version
By: Laurie | 10 Comments
Today we’re doing an MLS Quiz in honor of the MLS Cup tomorrow. (Be sure to come back tomorrow, when I think Travis is going to liveblog the championship game between the Columbus Crew and the New York Red Bulls.)
And since I know a lot of you aren’t MLS fans, I’m not [...]
Offside Rewind: Shut Yer Mouth
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William Gallas: One man’s ode to Dumb & Dumber.
Football’s sugar daddies.
Real men wear pink boots.
Marc Janko’s assault on history.
Not everything is butterflies & cupcakes for Sven.
Uruguay shows the rest of the world what a football riot should look like.
Maradona takes on Scotland & Google. Beats Scotland, will be tougher against rulers of the universe.
The mass [...]
Category: World FootballBetting Co. Offering £10,000 To First Player Who Does Ridiculous Goal Celebration
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There are all kinds of legal hangups here, so that £10,000 may in fact end up costing the player, but it’s a clever attempt from Betfair nonetheless. They’re offering £10,000 for the first Prem player with no shame willing to look like a jackass with some dance which resembles an ode to Daniel Larusso by [...]
Category: World FootballGallas’ Rant Proves Costly; Autobiography Lessens The Blow.
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Coming as a surprise to absolutely no one, William Gallas has been stripped of the Arsenal captaincy for his very uncaptain-like rant yesterday aimed at “Mr. X” (the good money’s on RvP). It’s also being speculated he will be dropped from the squad to face Man City this weekend, while the band will go to [...]
Category: World Football Tags: Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, captain, Cesc, Gael Clichy, Karim Benzema, Manchester City, Manuel Almunia, Robin van Persie, Samir Nasri, William Gallas, World FootballWhat Motivates Footballers More: Pornography or Violence?
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We found out about two unique methods of motivating footballers today. The first involves watching pornography as a reward for winning matches, the second involves breaking blocks of wood in half. Guess which one comes from Denmark.
As revealed in Scotland’s Daily Record, FC Copenhagen’s players are being rewarded for every win with a team screening [...]
Category: World FootballWill the Last DP to Leave MLS Please Turn Out the Lights?
By: Laurie | 4 Comments
Looks like we’ve got a veritable MLS Designated Player exodus on our hands this off-season.
All “loans,” of course.
First we learned that David Beckham was heading to Milan. “On loan.” To “maintain his fitness” in case Fabio Capello came calling.
Category: MLSWhen Flip Throw-Ins Go Wrong
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What’s the last thing you want on a cold, rainy day? How about an front flip followed by a ball fired off your face? This young lad got exactly that, not to mention a firm place in YouTube history. And for his troubles, the ref hives him a stiff slap on the ass. Good times.
What [...]
Category: World FootballJogi Won’t Give Jens His Tribute, So Rene Adler Does.
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What a teammate. Or former teammate. Since Jogi Low wouldn’t give Jens Lehmann his international swan song - deeming the fixture too important for team experience purposes, which is quite reasonable - Rene Adler decided to take matters into his own hands by leaping six inches off the ground and whiffing miserably at a cross [...]
Category: World FootballUEFA Want Your Skill Submissions; Hideous Prize Awaits.
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If you haven’t checked out UEFA’s Training Ground in the past, it’s well worth a look now. They take the biggest stars and ask them to give a short tutorial on what they do best so you can realize how goddamn difficult it is when attempting at home. Learning skills like Juan Roman Riquelme’s lethal [...]
Category: World Football Tags: contest, Europe, Juan Roman Riquelme, Pirlo, Ray Hudson, Robinho, skills, training ground, UEFA, World Football, Zlatan IbrahimovicThe 10 Richest Men in Soccer (According to Forbes)
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Last week, Forbes announced it’s list of the 10 Richest Men in Football. None of them are footballers. Though playing the game is spectacularly well rewarded, players earn peanuts next to these guys.
Top of the list is a Russian gentleman, but not the one you’re thinking of. He’s number two. Number one is Oleg Deripaska [...]
Category: World FootballLucas Viatri: Goalscoring Phenom/Accused Salon Burglar
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Hard to imagine there are greater things as a 21 year old lad in Buenos Aires than being the next goalscoring superstar and scoring the “1″ in a 1-0 Superclasico in your debut year - even if half the city despises your very soul. Which I suppose is what makes these accusations seem pretty bizarre.
Category: World FootballRobben’s Agent Has A Cure For Real’s Amateur Doctors: Fatty Food.
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One doesn’t have to be exceedingly brilliant to be an agent. Can be just the opposite, in fact. Pretty sure Arjen Robben’s agent, Tscheu La Ling, also a long time Ajax player, falls under the latter category.
Arjen, more commonly known as Mr. Glass, is currently hurt. Shocking, I know. Not because he’s injury prone, [...]
Category: World FootballIOSS: Who Wants Chips?
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Up this week: Wayne does Ruud Gullit, dreads and all, and gets a diet change; secret footage of Jose’s secret non-meeting with the sheiks is released; a fire breaks out in Newcastle; Voyeur calls in and gets himself in hot water; and Rafa’s glad he doesn’t play for England.
Category: World FootballRonaldo Plays Twenty Minutes for Charity; Zidane Goes an Hour
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Watching charity matches is always a little surreal. Part footy match, part spectacle, part day trip away from the retirement home.
I don’t think I’ve seen any game that captured this surreality more than yesterday’s charity match between “Friends of Zidane” and “Friends of Ronaldo” (the Brazilian one, not the pretty one) to [...]
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