Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Off The Post

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• Newcastle United’s official 2013 calendar cruelly features Demba Ba as Mr January
• Arsenal have a themed nursery in Norway
• Iker Casillas rejects Real Madrid captain’s armband
• Blackburn Rovers issue full apology to Sam Allardyce
• QPR defender Ryan Nelsen set to be named as Toronto FC manager today
• Advertising firm gets the ultimate 5-a-side ringer as Ronaldo becomes their intern
• Bolton confiscate Marvin Sordell’s phone over ‘Twitter obsession’
• Goal of the Year: Former Chelsea youngster Miroslav Stoch wins the 2012 Puskas Award
• Video: Greek kids’ team scores amazing team goal

Newcastle United’s official 2013 calendar cruelly features Demba Ba as Mr January Posted: 08 Jan 2013 05:43 AM PST Newcastle fans treated to the club’s official calendar for Christmas have been forced to spend the first month of the year looking at a player who’s no longer at St James’ Park. Despite him being out of the door as soon as the transfer window opened, Demba Ba was picked to open the 2013 calendar. [...]

Arsenal have a themed nursery in Norway Posted: 08 Jan 2013 05:07 AM PST This is verging on propaganda, isn’t it? The owners of a nursery in Norway are such big Arsenal fans that they have themed their place of education on their favourite football team. The Ruselokka barnehage nursery was the subject of a news report in Oslo, which interviewed some of the children. The kids are dressed [...]

Iker Casillas rejects Real Madrid captain’s armband Posted: 08 Jan 2013 04:47 AM PST All is not well at the Bernabeu. Manager Jose Mourinho’s name is booed before every home game after the club now face a battle for second place as they have lost ground on leader Barcelona and Atletico Madrid. Club captain Iker Casillas has particularly suffered recently, relegated to the bench by the manager in favour [...]

Blackburn Rovers issue full apology to Sam Allardyce Posted: 08 Jan 2013 02:29 AM PST Presumably it was an effort to ward off any potential legal action for defamation and to signal the last cutting of links to the their former manager, but Blackburn Rovers today issued an apology on their club website for quotes attributed to former manager Steve Kean. The bungling Scot had strolled into a bar in [...]

QPR defender Ryan Nelsen set to be named as Toronto FC manager today Posted: 08 Jan 2013 01:42 AM PST The January transfer window is the last chance to desert a sinking Premier League ship, but QPR centre-back Ryan Nelsen is poised to take an unusual exit route today. The former Blackburn and Spurs defender is being tipped to be named as the new manager of MLS side Toronto FC. He would replace Paul Mariner, [...]

Advertising firm gets the ultimate 5-a-side ringer as Ronaldo becomes their intern Posted: 08 Jan 2013 01:27 AM PST Ronaldo’s career never found time for a move to England… until now. The former Brazilian striker is set to join Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP advertising agency for a work placement. The double World Cup winner has set up a marketing firm since hanging up his boots and is now keen to learn all the tricks [...]

Bolton confiscate Marvin Sordell’s phone over ‘Twitter obsession’ Posted: 08 Jan 2013 12:46 AM PST Dno if people realised but if you didnt, i dont really care how im perceived or what people think of me. You dont know me is all ill say… — Marvin Sordell (@MarvinSordell) January 2, 2013 Bolton striker Marvin Sordell has had his mobile phone confiscated by the club in a bid to overcome his [...]

Goal of the Year: Former Chelsea youngster Miroslav Stoch wins the 2012 Puskas Award Posted: 08 Jan 2013 12:33 AM PST This was the goal of 2012, according to the 2012 FIFA Puskas Award. A long-range, controlled volley from Miroslav Stoch for Turkish side Fenerbahce against Genclerbirligi was deemed to be the best strike of last year. The Slovakian beat the likes of Lionel Messi, Radamel Falcao and Neymar to win the honour. Here is a [...]

Video: Greek kids’ team scores amazing team goal Posted: 07 Jan 2013 07:11 AM PST ΑΟ.ΓΙΑΝΝΙΝΑ-ΑΤΡΟΜΗΤΟΣ 6-1, 20 σερί πάσες και γκολ! by kokoretsi The players involved in this video are not from Barcelona; they’re from a Greek youth team. But that didn’t stop them scoring an incredible team goal in a recent match. It could so easily have been a sloppy goal conceded at their own end, but instead [...]

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