Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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• Top five English-raised Ghana internationals
• Five reasons why England friendlies should be scrapped
• Video: Robin Van Persie concedes a top corner half-volley against his son
• “Konichiwa Bitches”: Idiotic USA fan ruins minute’s silence for Japan
• Mario Balotelli throws darts at Man City youth team players
• Yemenis channel their inner referee with red card protest
• Video: Franck Ribery crashes into railings during a game of football tennis

Top five English-raised Ghana internationals Posted: 29 Mar 2011 08:04 AM PDT English football’s generous gifts to Ghana Ahead of tonight’s clash between England and Ghana, and in view of the fact that Ghana would like to make late England call-up Danny Welbeck number 1 on this list, we celebrate the English-born or raised players who chose their Ghanaian heritage as the path to international football. 1. [...]

Five reasons why England friendlies should be scrapped Posted: 29 Mar 2011 05:49 AM PDT Well, four and an irrational dislike of a player 1) I feel indebted to watch them We have seen some dross down the years. I'm talking about Australia, Denmark, Japan and Cameroon, from memory. Friendlies wouldn't be so bad if I didn't feel so obliged to watch them. Worse than that, I even feel myself [...]

Video: Robin Van Persie concedes a top corner half-volley against his son Posted: 29 Mar 2011 02:41 AM PDT Shaq attack Robin Van Persie proved that he’s not the answer to Arsenal’s goalkeeping dilemma as he conceded a goal against his five-year-old son. Van Persie senior was left statuesque as his son Shaqueel fired the ball into the top corner. The best thing about it is that Van Persie’s not that good an actor: [...]

“Konichiwa Bitches”: Idiotic USA fan ruins minute’s silence for Japan Posted: 29 Mar 2011 01:38 AM PDT The friendly between USA and Argentina was supposed to be preluded by a show of respect for the victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Sadly, one dimwit USA supporter took this as the perfect opportunity to seize his 15 minutes of fame. Part-way through the ‘silence’ he drowns out the other mumblings [...]

Mario Balotelli throws darts at Man City youth team players Posted: 29 Mar 2011 01:13 AM PDT Mad Mario’s downwards spiral continues Manchester City striker – and near-daily OTP subject – Mario Balotelli is in the headlines once again, this time after allegedly throwing darts at youth team players from a first-floor window at the club’s training ground. The incident happened several weeks ago, but has only just been leaked to the [...]

Yemenis channel their inner referee with red card protest Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:23 AM PDT Referees and democracy in the same story for the first time ever! Pro-democracy protesters in Yemen are giving unpopular President Ali Abdullah Saleh the football treatment… by holding up red cards. Associated Press reports that demonstrators intend the cards as a signal to the President that he must depart the ‘field’ -in this case, the [...]

Video: Franck Ribery crashes into railings during a game of football tennis Posted: 28 Mar 2011 08:47 AM PDT Without his bus this time You wonder why club managers seem to think there is some sort of injury conspiracy linked to their players joining up with their national team, and then you see something like this and it all makes sense. Bayern Munich could only wince as this footage of Franck Ribery falling over [...]

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