Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Off The Post

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• Top ten worst footballing injuries
• Top 10 football transfers we’d like to see this summer
• Video: Welcome to diving practice, with Elano
• Kitman: New 2011/12 season football kit sneak peeks
• Video: Mexico – where even the linesmen have skills
• Mario Balotelli gives £1,000 to homeless man with ginger dreadlocks
• Terry Venables shows off his incredible prediction powers once again
• OTP Podcast: Episode 22 – Dalglish Unleashed
• Help OTP’s Daniel Storey do good work for charidee

Top ten worst footballing injuries Posted: 20 Apr 2011 07:57 AM PDT As in Gene Tenace at the plate… iiittt WHAMMY! WHAMMY! On a day on which we learned that Frazier Campbell of Sunderland may be out for a further year after a second knee operation, and a season when Owen Hargreaves football career looks to be dwindling, OTP looks at some of the nastiest injuries received [...]

Top 10 football transfers we’d like to see this summer Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:20 AM PDT Transfer window dreaming With the business end of the season now very much upon us, it won’t be long before the only sports news in the papers will be transfer rumours and tittle-tattle of varying degrees of believability. With that in mind, we’re glancing ahead to some of the deals we’re hoping to see when [...]

Video: Welcome to diving practice, with Elano Posted: 20 Apr 2011 04:49 AM PDT Practice makes perfect Ex-Manchester City midfielder Elano has been showing that winning penalties for your team is not something that happens by luck – you have to work at it. In training with current club Santos, the Brazil international seems intent on perfecting his diving technique. No doubt Javier Hernandez is going through a few [...]

Kitman: New 2011/12 season football kit sneak peeks Posted: 20 Apr 2011 02:51 AM PDT Latest footy fashions Strip designs for next season are beginning to leak out – be they genuine or hoax – and some of the new-fangled garb is not pretty. Nike in particular seem determined to return to their roots as the Mythical Goddess of Crap Kits. So here’s a rundown of some of the best/worst [...]

Video: Mexico – where even the linesmen have skills Posted: 20 Apr 2011 02:04 AM PDT All refs are frustrated basketballers People say match officials just love to be the centre of attention, but we think that’s a really unfair stereotype. That’s why Mexican linesman Jose Luis Camargo likes to keep a low profile before kick-off by grinning in the general direction of the TV cameras while showing off his ball-spinning [...]

Mario Balotelli gives £1,000 to homeless man with ginger dreadlocks Posted: 20 Apr 2011 01:45 AM PDT Charity (nut)case Another day, another bizarre Mario Balotelli story. At least on this occasion it’s a heart-warming tale with minimal opportunity for severe maiming. The Manchester City bad boy decided to show his generous side by giving a cut of his winnings to a homeless man after a good night at the casino. The 20-year-old [...]

Terry Venables shows off his incredible prediction powers once again Posted: 20 Apr 2011 01:30 AM PDT Always back the reverse of El Tel’s picks Ex-England manager and current The Sun columnist Terry Venables has repeated his knack of predicting the exact opposite of what will actually happen. In his column published last Saturday, entitled Why it will be Utd v Bolton final, El Tel outlines precisely why Manchester City and Stoke [...]

OTP Podcast: Episode 22 – Dalglish Unleashed Posted: 20 Apr 2011 01:08 AM PDT I don’t want people thinking I’m an alcoholic Ep.22 Dalglish Unleashed by Off The Post on Mixcloud Much like Mario 'The Little Winker' Balotelli, the Off The Post podcast routinely has its maturity called into question, has a penchant for pub darts and will never be on Rio Ferdinand's Christmas card list. We also get [...]

Help OTP’s Daniel Storey do good work for charidee Posted: 19 Apr 2011 12:20 PM PDT It’s not very often we come to you cap in hand, OTP fans. But this Friday OTP writer Daniel Storey is embarking on a 265-mile trek from Nottingham to Bude, Cornwall, to raise money for Thomas Singleton. Thomas was born in Nottingham on 30 March, 2010. Due to complications in the birth, he suffered high [...]

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