Friday, February 8, 2013
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- Turkey and Czech Republic in strange pre-match swap
- Ipswich Town’s Michael Chopra quits Twitter in style
- Owen Coyle’s face used to create gangster in computer game
- Video: The FA’s new Football Mash Up viral (featuring a few painful looking headshots)
- Chelsea’s Frank Lampard favours Manchester United transfer
- Video: Lionel Messi signs his new Barcelona contract
- Bacardi, cocaine and short skirts: Why Andy Van Der Meyde begged Royston Drenthe not to join Everton
- It’s a huge weekend for… Benitez, Manchester City, QPR and Nottingham Forest
| Turkey and Czech Republic in strange pre-match swap Posted: 08 Feb 2013 07:30 AM PST The swapping of pennants is, for me, a glorious hark back to the old school, and should be preserved in modern times. However, Turkey and Czech Republic took things one step further with their pre-match routine on Wednesday, as the picture above shows. They swapped huge rugs (or maybe magic carpets), which just seems crazily [...] |
| Ipswich Town’s Michael Chopra quits Twitter in style Posted: 08 Feb 2013 07:22 AM PST Michael Chopra doesn’t do things by halves. Some people just go to a racecourse to have a little flutter on the nags, whilst Chopra went into a spiral of debt of £2million and had to borrow £250,000 from Ipswich. Just last month, Chopra stated: I have extensive debts and loans and simply cannot afford the [...] |
| Owen Coyle’s face used to create gangster in computer game Posted: 08 Feb 2013 07:13 AM PST Owen Coyle may have been out of work for a while since being relieved from his duties by Bolton Wanderers, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been getting his face out there. Literally. And in a rather bizarre turn-up, Coyle has appeared on a computer game as a gangster, namely Emmet ‘Doc’ O’Connell in Omerta: [...] |
| Video: The FA’s new Football Mash Up viral (featuring a few painful looking headshots) Posted: 08 Feb 2013 02:27 AM PST Anyone else spot the pitchside hoardings imploring you to “Search Facebook for ‘Football Mash Up’” during England vs Brazil? Well, this is what it was all about. The FA and Vauxhall have launched a new viral campaign aimed at stopping 14-17 year-olds dropping out of football. The idea is that you can fit football around [...] |
| Chelsea’s Frank Lampard favours Manchester United transfer Posted: 08 Feb 2013 02:03 AM PST Frank Lampard’s preference is to make a summer move to Manchester United when his Chelsea contract expires, according to the Daily Star. The reports follow suggestions that Chelsea had yesterdat performed a U-turn on their decision to move Lampard on and offered the England midfielder a new deal. That talk of a new deal is [...] |
| Video: Lionel Messi signs his new Barcelona contract Posted: 08 Feb 2013 01:31 AM PST Lionel Messi has put pen-to-paper on a deal that will keep him at Barcelona until June 2018. It was well known that the new contract was in the pipeline, but the Argentine star officially signed the paperwork in front of the cameras yesterday afternoon. He told Barca’s website: “I said it before – in Europe [...] |
| Bacardi, cocaine and short skirts: Why Andy Van Der Meyde begged Royston Drenthe not to join Everton Posted: 08 Feb 2013 01:23 AM PST Former Everton flop Andy Van Der Meyde begged fellow Dutchman Royston Drenthe not to join the club, it has been revealed. Van Der Meyde warned his compatriot not to move to the Toffees because there were too many damaging temptations on offer on Merseyside. According to Dutch news site HP De Tijd, Van Der Meyde [...] |
| It’s a huge weekend for… Benitez, Manchester City, QPR and Nottingham Forest Posted: 08 Feb 2013 12:48 AM PST Rafa Benitez Is there a dead man walking in West London? After last weekend's defeat to Newcastle Chelsea's manager went odds on to be the next Premier League manager sacked, as rumours became abound that Jose Mourinho was being sounded out for a return to Stamford Bridge. Whilst much of the circus surrounding Benitez's employment [...] |
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