Monday, June 27, 2011

Off The Post

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• The gold medal-winning past of the Team GB Olympic football team
• Emile Heskey vs Neymar: who is best?
• Ivory Coast striker the new big star of world football?
• Video: Thiago Alcantara scores spectacular 45-yard free-kick as Spain win European U21 Championship
• Video: Riots after Argentinian giants River Plate relegated for first time
• Video: Czech Republic’s Jan Lecjaks suffers dangly broken arm in U21 match
• Video: Wayne Rooney headlines Glastonbury with Beyonce

The gold medal-winning past of the Team GB Olympic football team Posted: 27 Jun 2011 06:33 AM PDT A football team representing Great Britain at the 2012 London Olympics: a one-off concept that should have been fun, novel and exciting has withered into disdain and endless bickering. The ping-ponging of arguments from one FA to another is at fever-pitch at the moment and looks settle to rumble on like an uncooked curry in [...]

Emile Heskey vs Neymar: who is best? Posted: 27 Jun 2011 01:59 AM PDT We trawl through a lot of football videos here at OTP, but when you spot one entitled Emile Heskey vs Neymar it tends to stand out from the crowd. And so we are featuring it purely on the grounds of randomness. Is it a post-modern statement on the hype surround young footballers in the YouTube [...]

Ivory Coast striker the new big star of world football? Posted: 27 Jun 2011 01:42 AM PDT Ivory Coasting to the Golden Boot The U17 World Cup is a great tournament for the football obsessive. Previous Player of the Tournament awards have been awarded to Cesc Fabregas and Anderson, and so the late night viewing provides an opportunity to scout out the next big thing. Players from Brazil, Germany and England were [...]

Video: Thiago Alcantara scores spectacular 45-yard free-kick as Spain win European U21 Championship Posted: 27 Jun 2011 12:43 AM PDT szólj hozzá: Switzerland 0-2 Spain As if to prove by just how far they are the dominant force in world football at the moment, and to show how much better they were than any other team in the tournament, Spain decided to clinch the European Under 21 Championship by beating Switzerland goalkeeper Yann Sommer – [...]

Video: Riots after Argentinian giants River Plate relegated for first time Posted: 27 Jun 2011 12:33 AM PDT Cry me a River Fans of Argentina’s River Plate rioted as their club was relegated for the first time in its 110-year history. Police had to hose the crowd down with water cannons as they vented their anger following defeat in the play-off against relative minnows Belgrano de Cordoba. River needed to win the second [...]

Video: Czech Republic’s Jan Lecjaks suffers dangly broken arm in U21 match Posted: 27 Jun 2011 12:21 AM PDT Czech Republic Under 21 player Jan Lecjaks ended the European Under 21 Championships with a broken arm for his troubles as his side lost the third-place play-off against Belarus. Belarus grabbed a late goal to see-off the Czechs, who had been one of the favourites to win the tournament. But Lecjaks was already off the [...]

Video: Wayne Rooney headlines Glastonbury with Beyonce Posted: 26 Jun 2011 04:20 PM PDT Well, kind of Among the more bizarre moments of this weekend’s Glastonbury festival, nay of any Glastonbury festival, was Wayne Rooney’s ugly mug being beamed onto the Pyramid Stage as part of the video accompanied Beyonce’s performance of Halo. While the superstar singer belted out her hit, the Manchester United striker loomed large behind her. [...]

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