Thursday, September 27, 2012

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• Chelsea captain John Terry handed four-match ban and fine
• Miroslav Klose scores handball goal for Lazio, tells referee to disallow it
• Video: Borussia Dortmund show off their ‘footbonaut’ training facility
• Video: Barcelona star Lionel Messi turns inadvertent car thief
• Manchester United’s Ryan Tunnicliffe wins his dad £10,000
• Paris installs slightly homoerotic statue of Zinedine Zidane headbutting Marco Materazzi
• Croatian side Vojakovac Viktorija appoint 24-year-old former Miss Croatia Sport as new manager
• QPR players chanted down the phone to Stoke’s Jon Walters after he kept them up last season
• When watching football on TV is not enough…

Chelsea captain John Terry handed four-match ban and fine Posted: 27 Sep 2012 07:17 AM PDT John Terry has been banned for four matches and fined £220,000. An FA hearing found the Chelsea skipper guilty of misconduct following his altercation with QPR defender Anton Ferdinand in a match in October 2011. The 31-year-old was cleared in court of racially abusing Ferdinand. Terry has 14 days to appeal against the decision, so [...]

Miroslav Klose scores handball goal for Lazio, tells referee to disallow it Posted: 27 Sep 2012 05:10 AM PDT Thierry Henry take note, this is how you do fair play. In the third minute of Lazio’s trip to Napoli last night, Lazio were given a goal after German striker Miroslav Klose netted from close range from a corner. Napoli’s players immediately remonstrated that the goal should not have scored because Kloe had handled the [...]

Video: Borussia Dortmund show off their ‘footbonaut’ training facility Posted: 27 Sep 2012 04:11 AM PDT Footbonaut appears to be Borussia Dortmund’s answer to gameshow The Cube. Receiving and passing the ball might appear to be easy, but nothing’s easy in… the footbonaut. The German champions’ new training facility is a four-sided ball feeding machine. The 14ft square complex has 64 targets at which players must aim. for players to aim. [...]

Video: Barcelona star Lionel Messi turns inadvertent car thief Posted: 27 Sep 2012 03:57 AM PDT We’ve all strode confidently out into a supermarket car park only to find the car we’re heading towards (or worse, standing next to wondering why the doors won’t open) is not ours. This is the footballer equivalent of that. Lionel Messi has the same top-of-the-range car as team-mate Thiago Alcantara. When the Barcelona squad head [...]

Manchester United’s Ryan Tunnicliffe wins his dad £10,000 Posted: 27 Sep 2012 02:20 AM PDT When Ryan Tunnicliffe made his Manchester United debut by coming on as a 76th-minute substitute in his side’s 2-1 Capital One Cup victory over Newcastle, you would have been forgiven for thinking that the sheer pride of playing at Old Trafford would be enough. But there was an added bonus of his debut: he won [...]

Paris installs slightly homoerotic statue of Zinedine Zidane headbutting Marco Materazzi Posted: 27 Sep 2012 01:14 AM PDT Statues are usually commissioned to celebrate the high-points of a successful career, not the low-points. But Paris has installed a sculpture commemorating Zinedine Zidane’s World Cup final red card. The statue shows the precise moment he headbutted Italy defender Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup final. At least it’s supposed to. There’s something quite [...]

Croatian side Vojakovac Viktorija appoint 24-year-old former Miss Croatia Sport as new manager Posted: 27 Sep 2012 01:04 AM PDT Croatian fifth division outfit Vojakovac Viktorija have appointed a woman as their new manager. Aged 24, Tihana Nemcic is also pretty young to be a football manager. But the former Miss Croatia Sport winner has now taken up the post. And she maintains that her appointment is not a mere stunt. She said: “If a [...]

QPR players chanted down the phone to Stoke’s Jon Walters after he kept them up last season Posted: 27 Sep 2012 12:44 AM PDT QPR’s squad celebrated avoiding relegation from the Premier League last season by putting in a jubilant phone call to Stoke City striker Jon Walters. Mark Hughes’ side stayed up despite their last day defeat to champions Manchester City because fellow strugglers Bolton Wanderers failed to better their result at Stoke. And goalscorer Walters was the [...]

When watching football on TV is not enough… Posted: 26 Sep 2012 09:31 AM PDT Which team is the best in the world? Who’s the best player? They’re questions we’ve all attempted to answer at the pub. And the suits at FIFA have tried to provide a more sober answer by creating various statistic bodies that work meticulously to create numerous football rankings systems. But despite their sophisticated mathematical algorithms, [...]

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