Wednesday, June 13, 2012

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• GIF It: Liverpool’s Glen Johnson goes for a jog, misses the team photo (England v France)
• Mark Lawrenson’s casual racism during Germany v Portugal
• Ex-Germany captain Michael Ballack slams England for ‘parking three buses’ against France
• Norway fans revel in showing Sweden’s Mikael Lustig how to guard his post
• England and Arsenal star Theo Walcott: ‘Roy Hodgson doesn’t play us at table tennis’
• River Plate’s Leo Ponzio ruptures a haemorrhoid during match
• Top 10 Euro 2012 conclusions: Poland 1-1 Russia
• Polish and Russian fans fight before Euro 2012 match
• Top 10 Euro 2012 conclusions: Greece 1-2 Czech Republic
• Who Are Ya? Nick Powell (Manchester United)

GIF It: Liverpool’s Glen Johnson goes for a jog, misses the team photo (England v France) Posted: 13 Jun 2012 06:58 AM PDT Lining up to represent your country in the opening match of a major tournament is a great honour. But while Liverpool defender Glen Johnson lined up on the pitch to face France, he did not line-up for the team photo. After the national anthems, a pumped up Johnson went skipping across the pitch to warm [...]

Mark Lawrenson’s casual racism during Germany v Portugal Posted: 13 Jun 2012 03:52 AM PDT Along with all decent people, UEFA were worried about racism during Euro 2012, and these fears were exacerbated when Dutch players were subjected to monkey chants during a pre-tournament public training session. Thankfully, however, instances have been isolated at worst, and the group stage has thus far passed by without too many alarming scenes. But [...]

Ex-Germany captain Michael Ballack slams England for ‘parking three buses’ against France Posted: 13 Jun 2012 02:15 AM PDT Opinion has been very much divided on England’s performance against Les Bleus on Monday. One person who falls very much on the acutely unimpressed side of the spectrum is former Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack. Using a phrase made famous by his previous coach Jose Mourinho, Ballack accused Roy Hodsgon of “parking three coaches” to achieve their point [...]

Norway fans revel in showing Sweden’s Mikael Lustig how to guard his post Posted: 13 Jun 2012 01:44 AM PDT Ukraine fans weren’t the only ones enjoying Andriy Shevchenko’s winner against Sweden on Monday night – it went down quite well with Norway supporters too. So much so that Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet has put together this little feature of various readers handily showing Sweden player Mikael Lustig the correct way to guard the near post [...]

England and Arsenal star Theo Walcott: ‘Roy Hodgson doesn’t play us at table tennis’ Posted: 13 Jun 2012 01:16 AM PDT England’s Euro 2012 training camp has succumbed to table tennis fever. But winger Theo Walcott has revealed that manager Roy Hodgson has not yet caught the bug. Asked on BBC Radio One whether Hodgson has been joining in, Walcott said: “No, no. He doesn’t – I’ll leave it at that. No, he’s brilliant. He’s very [...]

River Plate’s Leo Ponzio ruptures a haemorrhoid during match Posted: 13 Jun 2012 12:35 AM PDT We’d warn you about letting your food settle before watching the video above, but since you’ve set about reading a post entitled ‘River Plate’s Leo Ponzio ruptures a haemorrhoid during match’, OTP can only assume that digestion is the least of your concerns. This is the sorry tale of River Plate midfielder Leo Ponzio, who [...]

Top 10 Euro 2012 conclusions: Poland 1-1 Russia Posted: 12 Jun 2012 02:32 PM PDT [www.online-soccer.ru] Russia 1-1 Poland by all-goals 1. The real winners this evening were the Warsaw police. This was probably the best result for them (albeit it’s all relative). 2. If you had Alan Dzagoev for Golden Boot, you’re laughing at the minute. 3. Blaszczykowski knows how to blast the ball. It wasn’t quite Shevchenko, but [...]

Polish and Russian fans fight before Euro 2012 match Posted: 12 Jun 2012 11:43 AM PDT Although there were fears of extreme hooliganism before the tournament, the first week thankfully didn’t see much football-related violence. However, Poland vs Russia was always likely to be the one match of the group stage that would invite some bother, and it seems that is exactly the case. 56 arrests were made and seven people [...]

Top 10 Euro 2012 conclusions: Greece 1-2 Czech Republic Posted: 12 Jun 2012 11:21 AM PDT 1. Greece look set to be out of the Euros before they’re out of the Euro (if you took advantage of that novelty bet). 2. After their lethargic start, Greece were left with a deficit that not even Germany could write a Czech for. 3. Football is all about relativity. The Czech Republic looked like [...]

Who Are Ya? Nick Powell (Manchester United) Posted: 12 Jun 2012 10:18 AM PDT Your whistle-stop guide to the latest Premier League arrivals Name: Nick Powell Age: 18 Position: Midfielder/second striker Signed from: Crewe Fee: Undisclosed (rumoured £4million). Did you know? Powell recently became the first player in Crewe’s history to do a clean sweep of the club’s end-of-season awards, including winning goal of the season, player of the [...]

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