Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Off The Post

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• A-League’s early season Culina-out as father and son fired
• Outrage over Martin Jol’s missed penalty fines at Fulham
• Video: Another Portuguese stretcher FAIL
• Bayern Munich fans caught having sex during 0-0 draw
• Watch England train live on OTP
• Pub wins battle to show Saturday 3pm Premier League games
• Video: The fastest goal ever scored by Michail Osinov
• Niall Quinn aims to Make Poverty History at Sunderland
• Swindon boss Paolo Di Canio encourages his players to follow Paul Alcock’s lead
• Video: David Beckham gets scrappy with Real Salt Lake coach Jason Kreis

A-League’s early season Culina-out as father and son fired Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:31 AM PDT Coach – and his son – dumped only days before kick-off A coach has been dumped from one of Australia’s A-League clubs just an hour after representing them at the season launch. Newcastle Jets’ boss Branko Culina was fired by club owner Nathan Tinkler on Tuesday afternoon. Later the same day the club sought the [...]

Outrage over Martin Jol’s missed penalty fines at Fulham Posted: 04 Oct 2011 06:47 AM PDT On-the-spotkick fines Fulham players are said to be furious after Pajtim Kasami was fined £500 for missing a penalty in the Carling Cup. Manager Martin Jol imposed the penalty after Kasami ousted designated penalty-taker Orlando Sa, but missed the spot-kick against Chelsea. The fine was part of Jol’s strict new disciplinary regime. But the Cottagers’ [...]

Video: Another Portuguese stretcher FAIL Posted: 04 Oct 2011 06:29 AM PDT Are you injured yet? Hot on the heels of last week’s very nasty stretcher disaster in Portugal comes this incident. It looks like some serious health and safety training is needed among the nation’s stretcher-bearers. The match between Academico de Viseu and Sanjoanense descended into a low budget sketch show as two hapless stretcher-bearers – [...]

Bayern Munich fans caught having sex during 0-0 draw Posted: 04 Oct 2011 03:28 AM PDT Off-pitch action Two Bayern Munich fans were ejected from the stadium during their side’s drab 0-0 draw at Hoffenheim after being caught having sex during the match. The randy couple managed just 16 minutes of the goalless encounter before opting for an encounter of their own. Despite being in the middle of the crowd and [...]

Watch England train live on OTP Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:24 AM PDT Three Lions on the site England are due to start training ahead of Friday’s Euro 2012 qualifier against Montenegro at 10.30am this morning. And you can watch them in action just by clicking play on the video above.

Pub wins battle to show Saturday 3pm Premier League games Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:22 AM PDT Oooh, it just got interesting A pub landlady has won a legal case against the Premier League over showing matches uses a foreign TV decoder. In what appears to be a landmark ruling, the European Court of Justice says national laws prohibiting the import, sale or use of foreign decoders are contrary to EU laws [...]

Video: The fastest goal ever scored by Michail Osinov Posted: 04 Oct 2011 01:58 AM PDT Veteran midfielder heads for the record books It looks as though the world record for the fastest goal has been broken. Almost a month ago. And nobody noticed. That’s because the goal was scored by 35-year-old Michail Osinov. He fired in from kick-off after 2.68 secs for Mitos against Olympia Gelendzhik in the Russian Second [...]

Niall Quinn aims to Make Poverty History at Sunderland Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:51 AM PDT The International Development Secretary Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn has stepped down from his role and will take up a new position in charge of “international development” at the club. Quinn was forced to make the move after the Black Cats failed in their attempts to lure Bono to the Stadium of Light. The former Republic [...]

Swindon boss Paolo Di Canio encourages his players to follow Paul Alcock’s lead Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:38 AM PDT Take a tumble Enthusiastic Swindon Town manager Paolo Di Canio has said he will instruct his squad to dive in future after seeing his side’s appeals turned down at the weekend because the players stayed on their feet. The Italian was furious after the Robins’ 2-0 defeat at Macclesfield after Matt Ritchie’s penalty appeal was [...]

Video: David Beckham gets scrappy with Real Salt Lake coach Jason Kreis Posted: 03 Oct 2011 12:42 PM PDT Becks clash after MLS match There was finger-poking and tempers flaring aplenty between LA Galaxy star David Beckham – or David as he’s known to MLS commentators – and Real Salt Lake coach Jason Kreis. The pair exchanged words as they passed each other after the final whistle, before Becks decided he wanted to take [...]

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