Tuesday, August 7, 2012

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• Hard Tackle: US women’s national team grope each other to celebrate victory over Canada
• Cockerel-killing Hajduk Split fan comes clean over Tottenham animal cruelty
• Top five clubs that Michael Owen should join
• Santi Cazorla wearing an Arsenal shirt
• Who Are Ya? Santi Cazorla (Arsenal)
• Video: USA 4-3 Canada – Alex Morgan scores late extra-time winner
• West Ham midfielder Ravel Morrison has seven teeth removed
• Olympic 100m champion Usain Bolt wants Manchester United trial

Hard Tackle: US women’s national team grope each other to celebrate victory over Canada Posted: 07 Aug 2012 04:14 AM PDT USA booked a place in the Olympic women’s football final last night with a 4-3 extra-time win over Canada. With excitement running high among the US squad, TV viewers witnessed the most boob-groping and bum-squeezing seen on a pitch since a matchball was lost somewhere in Neville Southall’s fat-rolls during a 1993 pre-season friendly and [...]

Cockerel-killing Hajduk Split fan comes clean over Tottenham animal cruelty Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:36 AM PDT A Croatian football fan has solved one of football folklore’s greatest mysteries by revealed that it was he who killed a live rooster on the pitch ahead of a Tottenham Hotspur match. The bizarre incident happened ahead of a UEFA Cup semi-final against Hajduk Split in 1984. The Croatian side were fined 3,000 Swiss francs [...]

Top five clubs that Michael Owen should join Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:32 AM PDT 1. Everton They need bodies up front and he seemingly enjoys pissing off Liverpool fans, so after moving to Manchester United what better way to seal the deal by moving to Everton. Plus, he’d be able to choose between Chester, Haydock and Aintree for his Saturday afternoon sports watching. 2. Stoke City It would be [...]

Santi Cazorla wearing an Arsenal shirt Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:22 AM PDT New Arsenal signing Santi Cazorla has donned an Arsenal shirt for the first time. He wore the Gunners’ away kit while holding the new home kit as he completed his transfer from Malaga. It’s name only for now though, since the Spain international has not yet been given a squad number.

Who Are Ya? Santi Cazorla (Arsenal) Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:31 AM PDT Your whistle-stop guide to the latest Premier League arrivals Name: Santiago Cazorla González Age: 27 Position: Midfielder Signed from: Malaga Fee: Undisclosed (rumoured £15m) Did you know? Santi Cazorla was known to his team-mates at former club Villarreal as ‘our Ronaldinho’. Apparently the Spaniard was compared to the Brazilian superstar of the time, because of [...]

Video: USA 4-3 Canada – Alex Morgan scores late extra-time winner Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:04 AM PDT USA women star Alex Morgan gave her side a last-gasp winner against Canada after an end-to-end Olympic semi-final encounter. Morgan’s 122nd minute header booked USA’s place in the final where they will face Japan. Canada striker Christine Sinclair bagged a hat-trick, but her side ultimately fell short as goals from Megan Rapinoe (two), Abby Wambach [...]

West Ham midfielder Ravel Morrison has seven teeth removed Posted: 07 Aug 2012 12:54 AM PDT Ravel Morrison has left West Ham for a season-long loan at Birmingham – but not before a trip to the dentist that was nearly as long. The former Manchester United had to be flown home from the Hammers’ pre-season training camp in Germany to have seven teeth removed. Morrison was set to be fined for [...]

Olympic 100m champion Usain Bolt wants Manchester United trial Posted: 07 Aug 2012 12:33 AM PDT London 2012 sprint champion Usain Bolt has dropped some not-so-subtle hints that he’d like a trial at Manchester United. The Jamaican has been sidling up to United for a long time. As long ago as 2009 he visited their training ground. But he’s now stepped it a gear by pretty much begging Sir Alex Ferguson [...]

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