Thursday, May 19, 2011
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- Premier League flops of the season – part two
- Meet the perfect Premier League manager
- Sir Alex Ferguson wishes he’d taken Man Utd ’19 TIMES’ banner to Liverpool
- Arsenal use GPS tracking to check players’ whereabouts
- Video: Kaka and Robin Van Persie play football paintball
- Video: Liverpool’s Chris Mavinga inflicts horrific head injury
- Video: Everton star Jack Rodwell tips England under-21s for success in Euros
- Top 10 shocking football before and after shots
| Premier League flops of the season – part two Posted: 19 May 2011 05:12 AM PDT The second of our ‘flops’ feature 10. Heurelho Gomes The ultimate Jekyll and Hyde goalkeeper. No one has given away or saved more penalties than him this season in the Premier League, and Gomes is now second only to Rob Green in goalkeepers whose errors have been directly responsible for the conceding of a [...] |
| Meet the perfect Premier League manager Posted: 19 May 2011 02:39 AM PDT Perfection takes on an unusual guise The perfect Premier League football manager is Scottish, an ex-professional footballer and aged 51 and five months, according to new research. The study, carried out by the makers of the Football Manager game, revealed that on average managers have most success at that age and that that the ideal [...] |
| Sir Alex Ferguson wishes he’d taken Man Utd ’19 TIMES’ banner to Liverpool Posted: 19 May 2011 01:28 AM PDT Ferguerilla Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has praised the pranksters who hung an ‘MUFC 19 TIMES’ banner at Anfield and claimed he wished he had done it! Speaking at club’s end-of-season awards gala, Fergie said: “I wish I had taken that banner to Liverpool on Sunday. I bet there were 76,000 fans wishing they [...] |
| Arsenal use GPS tracking to check players’ whereabouts Posted: 19 May 2011 12:59 AM PDT The Voyeur is always watching Arsenal have reinvented their on-pitch tracking technology as a socially acceptable electronic tag for players, according to star striker Robin Van Persie. The satellite technology is now well established on match days, helping coaches and TV viewers alike to keep an eye on how far each players has run. The [...] |
| Video: Kaka and Robin Van Persie play football paintball Posted: 19 May 2011 12:34 AM PDT Bullied by Kaka, willingly Normally it would make big news if two of the world’s top professional footballers were stood around pelting balls at youths, even more so if they were dipping their balls (so to speak) in a bin full of luminous paint first. But Kaka and Robin Van Persie managed to get away [...] |
| Video: Liverpool’s Chris Mavinga inflicts horrific head injury Posted: 18 May 2011 10:37 AM PDT One of the worst tackle you’re likely to see Liverpool left-back Chris Mavinga was probably hoping to make an impression on the Reds’ new management team during his loan spell at Belgian club Genk. Instead he has made an impression on the head of Standard Liege star Mehdi Carcela-Gonzalez. The Moroccan needed reconstructive surgery after [...] |
| Video: Everton star Jack Rodwell tips England under-21s for success in Euros Posted: 18 May 2011 09:29 AM PDT In Rod we trust? Everton midfielder Jack Rodwell reckons England have got what it takes to win the European Under-21 Championship this summer. He said: “I’m definitely hoping that we can go very far and definitely win it.” The Toffees youngster said the experience of tournament football he received at the previous U21 championship in [...] |
| Top 10 shocking football before and after shots Posted: 18 May 2011 08:18 AM PDT Inspired by our rediscovery of Neil Shipperley, and his subsequent inclusion on our Top 10 fattest football managers list, here’s a group of personalities who have undergone quite a transformation. 1. Neil Shipperley Where better to start than the man who planted the seed from which this list grew? Don’t get us wrong, the ex-Southampton, [...] |
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