Thursday, December 20, 2012
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- Tottenham star Gareth Bale makes a really strange noise
- Robbie Keane takes part in viral Skype advert (and it’s awkward)
- Rapid Bucharest sack every foreign player in order to save money
- Seattle Sounders fans vote to keep manager in job
- Advent Calendar: Swansea’s strangest Christmas gift
- Video: AC Milan players sing Wham’s Last Christmas
- Steward doesn’t recognise Reading boss Brian McDermott, tries to stop him watching the reserves
- Sir Alex Ferguson reveals he installed tanning booths at Manchester United to combat lack of sun
| Tottenham star Gareth Bale makes a really strange noise Posted: 20 Dec 2012 05:59 AM PST Gareth Bale was hauled before Tottenham’s official YouTube channel to front up to accusations that he sounds exactly like the guy who conducts Spurs’ interviews. Cue some playful bickering between the two, culminating in Bale making a noise that has never before been heard from a Premier League footballer, nay a human being. |
| Robbie Keane takes part in viral Skype advert (and it’s awkward) Posted: 20 Dec 2012 04:05 AM PST This is the most awkward advert I have ever seen. In a little festive campaign by the Three mobile network in Ireland, Robbie Keane took part in a viral advert. An Irish couple, who live in Australia, thought that they were just having a normal chat with family members in Ireland over Skype. However, half [...] |
| Rapid Bucharest sack every foreign player in order to save money Posted: 20 Dec 2012 03:49 AM PST Rapid Bucharest are a side in financial turmoil, and they have taken a fairly extraordinary stance in order to ease their woe. Having filed for insolvency last month, the club have now announced that every single foreign player at the club would be dispensed with, leaving just a side of local players. This is in [...] |
| Seattle Sounders fans vote to keep manager in job Posted: 20 Dec 2012 03:21 AM PST Fans of MLS side Seattle Sounders have elected to keep manager Adrian Hanauer in his job, after they were given the chance to vote on the decision. The Sounders are also part-owned by Hanauer, and when he took over the manager’s job four years ago he promised the fans that after his first ‘term in [...] |
| Advent Calendar: Swansea’s strangest Christmas gift Posted: 20 Dec 2012 03:12 AM PST For each day of advent 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 Swansea City, who haven’t exactly smashed into the Christmas market. Whilst other clubs have up to 100 different products created and branded especially for [...] |
| Video: AC Milan players sing Wham’s Last Christmas Posted: 20 Dec 2012 12:57 AM PST Fair play to someone in AC Milan’s marketing team, who clearly decided that a bit of festive humiliation wouldn’t do their players any harm and would entertain the rest of us. The squad were provided with a karaoke machine and a copy of Last Christmas by Wham and told to take it away. A couple [...] |
| Steward doesn’t recognise Reading boss Brian McDermott, tries to stop him watching the reserves Posted: 20 Dec 2012 12:46 AM PST Reading manager Brian McDermott almost missed the chance to run the rule over his fringe players after a steward wouldn’t let him watch a reserve match. The Royals boss had travelled to Bournemouth to watch his second-string in a behind-closed-doors friendly. But he was refused entry to the stadium when a steward said he couldn’t [...] |
| Sir Alex Ferguson reveals he installed tanning booths at Manchester United to combat lack of sun Posted: 20 Dec 2012 12:35 AM PST Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson revealed he has beaten Manchester’s infamously grim weather by installing at tanning booth for his players. Fergie opened up to Harvard Business School to share some of the secrets of his management success during his time at Old Trafford. And one of the things he cited was the steps [...] |
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