Saturday, December 1, 2012

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• Lech Poznan fans go overboard with the flares
• Fail – Dugouts blown over in Saudi Arabia
• 74-year-old footballer scores his 1300th goal
• Advent Calendar: Arsenal’s strangest Christmas gift
• FC Emmen’s Jeffrey De Visscher sacked for public indecency

Lech Poznan fans go overboard with the flares Posted: 01 Dec 2012 05:14 AM PST Eastern European football fans do love a flare or two, which is all very well whilst they are under control. But in their game against Slask Wroclaw, Lech Poznan fans showed that flares can create atmosphere but also destroy the view of the pitch. There must be 100 lit flares at the peak, and the [...]

Fail – Dugouts blown over in Saudi Arabia Posted: 01 Dec 2012 03:43 AM PST A quick note to the organisers of the Qatar World Cup – If you are thinking of holding the tournament during the winter, please don’t make the two dugouts out of polystyrene or paper as they seem to do in your neighbouring countries. During the Saudi Premier League match between Ittihad and El Ahly, the [...]

74-year-old footballer scores his 1300th goal Posted: 01 Dec 2012 03:13 AM PST Lionel Messi may be favourite for the Ballon D’Or and have scored an obscene amount of goals this year, but he still has a fair way to go to catch up with Derek May. May might well be unbeatable in world football for his goalscoring longevity, and last weekend he scored the 1300th goal of [...]

Advent Calendar: Arsenal’s strangest Christmas gift Posted: 01 Dec 2012 01:42 AM PST For each day of advent (or up until the 20th) we will be looking at the club shop of each Premier League club to pick out the strangest or oddest gift. Today is the turn of Arsenal, and we have opted for the Arsenal Talking Tom Toy. This is a real version of the Talking [...]

FC Emmen’s Jeffrey De Visscher sacked for public indecency Posted: 01 Dec 2012 01:32 AM PST Some footballers are sacked for drug offences, some for untoward events with questionable ladies and some for stupid criminal events. However, FC Emmen’s Jeffrey De Visscher has found possibly the oddest reason for a sacking after being arrested by the police for doing a faeces in the woods after stopping his car whilst comfortably over [...]

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