Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Off The Post

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• Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola praises Liverpool’s Academy / Rafa Benitez’s kid collection
• The Taiwanese animators get to work on the Ryan Giggs affair once again
• England plan to stay in Holiday Inn for Euro 2012
• OTP Podcast: Best of 2010/2011
• Video: Republic of Ireland pull off shock win over Italy
• Liverpool agree fee to sign Sunderland’s Jordan Henderson
• Video: USA’s Clint Dempsey attempts scorpion goal against Canada
• Rio Ferdinand calls Daily Mirror journalist Oliver Holt a ‘fat prick’
• Video: Carlos Tevez says he will never return to Manchester, not even on holiday

Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola praises Liverpool’s Academy / Rafa Benitez’s kid collection Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:11 AM PDT Pep talk for Liverpool fans Liverpool fans might have got frustrated at the time by Rafa Benitez’s love of signing 16 and 17-year-old kids, but his policy will pay dividends in the long-term. That’s according to Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola. The Champions League-winning coach reckons the Reds’ Academy could soon rival Barca’s own production line. [...]

The Taiwanese animators get to work on the Ryan Giggs affair once again Posted: 08 Jun 2011 03:58 AM PDT Giggs gets animated again The animated dramatisation of Ryan Giggs’ alleged affair with Big Brother star Imogen Thomas proved to be a big hit. So much so that the Taiwanese animation company behind the video have now produced a follow-up in response to the latest revelations about the Manchester United legend’s private life.

England plan to stay in Holiday Inn for Euro 2012 Posted: 08 Jun 2011 03:16 AM PDT You wanna live like common people England are hoping to stay in a Holiday Inn for Euro 2012 – assuming they actually manage to qualify for the tournament. FA bosses have got their eyes on the 148-room Holiday Inn in Warsaw’s Jozefow district. The tournament is being jointly hosted by Poland and Ukraine, but the [...]

OTP Podcast: Best of 2010/2011 Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:09 AM PDT Tick, tick, tick… BOOM! Best Of 2010/2011 by Off The Post on Mixcloud As we come to the end of a long, hard season, the OTP podcast team is feeling a little tired – just like the England squad. So instead of turning in a lacklustre display of fatigued audio, we've decided to cobble together [...]

Video: Republic of Ireland pull off shock win over Italy Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:45 AM PDT Mamma mia We always assumed that if Keith Andrews slammed a 25-yard piledriver past Gianluigi Buffon, the universe would implode. But it would appear that isn’t the case. The Blackburn midfielder opened the scoring for the Republic of Ireland as they secured a surprise 2-0 victory over coach Giovannio Trapattoni’s native Italy. West Brom striker [...]

Liverpool agree fee to sign Sunderland’s Jordan Henderson Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:27 AM PDT The Kop Hend Sunderland have agreed to sell highly-rated midfielder Jordan Henderson to Liverpool for a fee in the region of £20m. The Reds had been bartering with the Black Cats for a few days over the England international. But Kenny Dalglish obviously spotted Henderson in OTP’s Top 21 Players to Watch at the European [...]

Video: USA’s Clint Dempsey attempts scorpion goal against Canada Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:18 AM PDT Your not in goal now, Dempsey! If this had found the net it would be featured in every YouTube football compilation from now until the end of time. Alas, it didn’t and we will all have forgotten about it by this time tomorrow. Still worth a watch though. Finding himself ahead of the ball at [...]

Rio Ferdinand calls Daily Mirror journalist Oliver Holt a ‘fat prick’ Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:13 AM PDT The Daily Mirror’s chief sports writer Oliver Holt claims Rio Ferdinand sent him a direct message on Twitter calling him a “fat prick” in a row over the ex-England skipper’s drugs ban. Holt reckons the message was in response to a Twitter argument he was having with Manchester United fans who felt Kolo Toure’s six-month [...]

Video: Carlos Tevez says he will never return to Manchester, not even on holiday Posted: 07 Jun 2011 09:08 AM PDT Carlitos engineers his exit The quotes from this interview have been knocking around for a couple of days, and now here’s the interview itself. Carlos Tevez has once again enamoured himself to the people of Manchester by saying he will never return to the city, not even on holiday. Not content with being hated by [...]

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