Tuesday, September 4, 2012

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• Arsenal players try their hand at sitting volleyball
• Christian Vieri gets €1million damages over Inter Milan phone-tapping
• New Real Madrid signing Michael Essien explains why he calls Jose Mourinho ‘daddy’
• Hulk transfer highlights British media guesswork
• Video: Hulk signs off at Porto with shameful Fair Play FAIL
• Cologne’s Kevin Pezzoni has his contract cancelled after fan threats
• Random 1990s Footballer Tuesday: #36 Shaun Teale
• Football managers want Robert De Niro to play them in the film of their life
• Fulham new boy Dimitar Berbatov makes chewing gum look illicit
• ‘Alan Pardew, I love u’ – German girl’s slightly stalker-ish video tribute to the Newcastle manager

Arsenal players try their hand at sitting volleyball Posted: 04 Sep 2012 03:43 AM PDT There was once a time when finding a group of Arsenal players sitting around shortly after training could only have meant you’d walked into a north London boozer and there was a great card game in progress. But this isn’t the early 1990s and things have changed drastically. The current crop of Gunners have been [...]

Christian Vieri gets €1million damages over Inter Milan phone-tapping Posted: 04 Sep 2012 03:07 AM PDT Former Inter Milan striker Christian Vieri has been awarded €1million in damages after the club allegedly spied on him during his six-year stint at the San Siro. The ex-Italy international was granted the payout after Inter and Italian communications firm Telecom Italia were found to have conspired to keep tabs on Vieri’s personal life. Phone [...]

New Real Madrid signing Michael Essien explains why he calls Jose Mourinho ‘daddy’ Posted: 04 Sep 2012 02:30 AM PDT Boss, gaffer, guvnor, mister: there are plenty of names to call your manager. But not too many players would get away with calling their coach ‘daddy’. That’s exactly what Real Madrid loanee Michael Essien calls Jose Mourinho, and he’ll be rolling out the nickname once again after moving to the Santiago Bernabeu from Chelsea. In [...]

Hulk transfer highlights British media guesswork Posted: 04 Sep 2012 01:03 AM PDT Whilst undisclosed transfer fees can be annoying when football fans feel it appropriate for clubs to reveal quite how much they have spent, it does throw up an interesting and enjoyable game within the media. We present to you…… Guess The Transfer Fee. Despite Hulk's sensational move from Porto to Zenit St Petersburg being undisclosed, [...]

Video: Hulk signs off at Porto with shameful Fair Play FAIL Posted: 04 Sep 2012 12:47 AM PDT Hulk has now left Porto to join Zenit St Petersburg. Before completing his transfer, he decided his parting gift to the club could be a final goal and winding up every non-Porto fan in Portugal. With Porto trailing 1-0 in Hulk’s final match, a drop-ball restart after an injury – which usually protocol dictates should [...]

Cologne’s Kevin Pezzoni has his contract cancelled after fan threats Posted: 04 Sep 2012 12:30 AM PDT Former Blackburn defender Kevin Pezzoni has had his Cologne contract cancelled by mutual consent after being confronted outside his home by a group of angry fans. Coach Holger Stanislawski said: “A group of people were waiting for him in front of his apartment. They abused him and it is a situation which has been building [...]

Random 1990s Footballer Tuesday: #36 Shaun Teale Posted: 04 Sep 2012 12:30 AM PDT Name: Shaun Teale In his 90′s prime for: Aston Villa Lowdown: After being born on Merseyside, Teale began his career on the South Coast at Bournemouth, where he played a hundred league games before being spotted by First Division Aston Villa. Bought in the summer of 1991, Teale helped Villa to a seventh-place finish in [...]

Football managers want Robert De Niro to play them in the film of their life Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:09 AM PDT Acting legend Roberto De Niro is the man most football managers would like to take the starring role in a film of their life. That’s if a straw poll by Yahoo!'s The Dugout is anything to go by. Over the last season, they asked more than 30 managers who they’d cast as themselves. De Niro [...]

Fulham new boy Dimitar Berbatov makes chewing gum look illicit Posted: 03 Sep 2012 08:53 AM PDT Perhaps only Sir Alex Ferguson was allowed to hit the Wrigley’s at Manchester United. Whatever the reasons, chewing gum has never looked quite so suspcious than it did when Dimitar Berbatov scored some during Fulham’s defeat to West Ham on Saturday.

‘Alan Pardew, I love u’ – German girl’s slightly stalker-ish video tribute to the Newcastle manager Posted: 03 Sep 2012 07:56 AM PDT This bizarre video tribute to Newcastle manager Alan Pardew is doing the rounds. It appears a girl in Germany half his age has got a bit of a crush on Pards, or the ‘silver fox’ as she calls him. Love takes many forms and, in the case, that form is crudely Photoshopped images of the [...]

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