Friday, March 2, 2012

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• The official 2012 Olympic match-ball is pink and has a bubbly personality
• Spoof: The FA invent fourth place trophy at Wenger’s request
• Top six tree-based pitch invasions

The official 2012 Olympic match-ball is pink and has a bubbly personality Posted: 02 Mar 2012 02:20 AM PST Yesterday, Olympic officials launched the brand spanking new ball set to be peppered around by David Beckham and various pre-pubescent teenagers at the London 2012 Games. It is called 'The Albert,' a title based on the cockney rhyming slang for a football – Albert Hall. It's either that justification or a veiled championing of pierced genitalia. [...]

Spoof: The FA invent fourth place trophy at Wenger’s request Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:56 AM PST The FA today publicly unveiled a new trophy to be awarded to the fourth placed finisher in this season's Premier League. The controversial announcement came just one week after Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger reacted to criticisms of his lack of silverware by suggesting that coming fourth was a 'trophy' in itself. The beleaguered Frenchman appears [...]

Top six tree-based pitch invasions Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:42 AM PST There is no way Tony Yeboah could have done a ‘Yeboah’ on a field of gravel and the Cruyff turn just doesn't look as majestic in a sandpit. In sum, plant-life is the ultimate unsung hero in football. It is quite literally stepped all over without a peep of retaliation, while delivering a surface to [...]

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