By Chris Wright
We're a little late to the hoedown with this one so please forgive our mortal souls for the grievous tardiness, but when Emmanuel "Big Spoon" Eboue was approached for a quick Q&A after Galatasaray sewed up the Turkish title at the weekend, the GSTV(Gala's in-house television station)reporter got a little more than he bargained for.
By Chris Wright
In a quest to "unite histhree greatest passions: beer, music and Barca," this plucky chap has set about recording Barcelona's club anthem, "ElCant del Barca", using nothing but a range of half-emptied Estrella bottles.
The result, via a dash of computer jiggery pokery (though we are assured that all sounds are 100% genuine), is really rather impressive.
By Chris Wright
In which, over in the Thai Premier League, Muangthong United's Macedonian midfielderMario Gjurovski celebrates scoring a rather nifty free-kick against TOT Sport Club (who have a mighty fine badge, we might add!) by whipping his shorts down and off, putting them over his head and gunning down the crowd with a fake machine gun.
By Chris Wright
While they'll no doubt be question marks over the defence's offside trap, Ross Turnbull's wee sprong scored a slaloming, solo stunner at Stamford Bridge as his old man celebrated Chelsea's sort-of successful season on the grass at Stamford Bridge; charging half the length of the pitch and steering the ball across the line from close range.
By Alan Duffy
What a cheeky young scamp 11-year-oldLouis Kearns is. The Liverpool fan had watched the Europa League final with his old man before decided to get closer to two of his heroes, Fernando Torres and Rafa Benitez. And in doing so, he ended up slap bang in the middle of the Blues' celebrations, even finding himself face to face before a bemused Michel Platini at the medal-giving ceremony.
By Chris Wright
Wilfried Zaha stuck a couple of late ones past Brighton at the AMEX last night to spirit Crystal Palace into the Championship play-off final against Watford at Wembley a couple of Mondays from now though it was in the dressing rooms afterwards that things got really exciting.
By Chris Wright
In which RKC Waalwijk midfielder Jeff Stan goes in for a penny, in for a pound and completely wipes out the referee with a perfectly executed double-footed thunder lunge during RKC's Eredivisie game against NEC Nijmegen on Sunday afternoon...
Textbook stuff.
By Chris Wright
With the La Liga title sewn up in Barca's favour and the Copa Del Rey final just around the corner, Real Madrid rested most of their big names for this weekend's game against Espanyol including Fabio Coentrao, though it appears no-one actually told him!
Coentrao turned up and took a place on the bench as the teams emerged before kick-off before Iker Casillas had a word in his ear and broke the news to him.
By Chris Wright
In which Manuel Neuer makes it rain quite literally on some pour girl, tipping a bloody huge beersteinall over her while Bayern Munich celebrated their run-away Bundesliga title victory after a 3-0 win over Augsburg at the Allianz Arena yesterday...
The poor lass!
By Chris Wright
No wonder Sir Alex retired so suddenly. He obviously wanted to be offski and well away before this little video leaked out...
(There's a better quality video available over on Soccer AM's Sky Sports page)
By Chris Wright
This isn't the first time we've featured this video on Pies, but we reckon that it just might be the showreel that landed Michael Owen the gig as lead co-commentator for BT Sports next season?
Watch and listen as Little Micky takes us on a helicopter tour of Dubai, complete with breathtakingly enthralling commentary.
By Chris Wright
Despite being about as incongruous as it's possible to be, Chelsea double-agent super spy David Luiz somehow managed to infiltrate the top secret tactical meeting between Spurs operatives AVB and Lewis Holtby on the touchline at Stamford Bridge last night, before being spotted making his getaway and getting his tresses tugged for his troubles.
By Chris Wright
At 74-years-old he's earned the right, but former Manchester United midfielder Paddy Crerand is prone to getting a bit tetchy especially when it comes to people chatting bull-honky about his beloved team.
In need of a go-to guy for a good old-fashioned rant about the rumours that circulated last night vis-a-vis Sir Alex Ferguson's imminent retirement, Irishradio station Newtalk phoned Paddy up at sparrow fart on Wednesday morning to canvass his opinions on the matter.
By Chris Wright
FC Copenhagen wrapped up their tenth Danish Superliga title at the weekend with a goalless draw against Brondby, which right-back Lars Jacobsen (briefly of Everton) celebrated by catching sight of TV reporter and ex-Copenhagen strikerPeter Moller interviewingNicolai Jorgensen on the touchline, breaking from the huddle and flooring his former teammate with a hurtling sliding tackle.
By Chris Wright
PSG centre-half Thiago Silva was shown a straight red card we'll say that again, a straight red card for this soft as pudding/heinous and gross infringement of the referee's personal space against Valenciennes yesterday...
"HOW DARE THOU TOUCH THE SACRED NIPPLES OF REFEREE MAN?
By Chris Wright
Up there with David Luiz's gorgeous weak-foot top corner pearler for Pies' moment of the night from Chelsea vs Basel: a seemingly endless parade of jobsworth Chelsea stewards prevent Basel sub Marcelo Diaz from taking a corner for what seems like an eternity.
By Chris Wright
Last night's various Serbian Super Liga action was studded with a couple of calamities that simply must be seen to be believed, with Partizan Belgrade right-backAleksandar Miljkovic getting the ball rolling or, moreaccurately"sailing harmlessly over the bar" with a pitiful open-goal botch against Radnicki Nis.
By Chris Wright
While Chelsea were able to throw megabucks at their 2013/14 kit launch campaign that saw the likes of Juan Mata, David Luiz and Fernando Torres splattered with liquidised Smurfs, Icelandic side Tindastoll didn't quite have the same budget available though it hasn't stopped them having a go.
By Chris Wright
In which, after not getting a penalty despite having his leg caught "bear trap" style bySandes Ulf 'keeper Sean McDermott and picking up a second yellow for dissent to rub salt into the wound, Rosenborg striker Nicki Bille Nielsen lets the 'mania run wild as he tears his shirt from his body in a state of pure, unadulterated RAAAAAAAAAGE as he trudges away down the tunnel.
By Chris Wright
Robin van Persie was on autopilot when he arrived at The Emirates ahead of Manchester United's game against his old club yesterday, so much so that he almost took a wrong turn down Herpy Derpy Avenue and ended up in the Arsenal dressing room...
Doh.
By Chris Wright
It's that time of year again...
A-League Blooper Archives...
2011/12
2010/11
2009/10
2008/09
By Chris Wright
Norwegian television show Golden Goal the same intrepid chaps who bought us "Bubble Football" and "Electric Shock Football" have been busying themselves once again, asking one of the most hard-hitting questions to dog the mind of the football fan since time immemorial: could a team of 22 amateur footballers beat a team of 11 professionals (from Valerenga no less)?
By Chris Wright
Complete with Yakety Sax to complete the effect, here's the truly glorious goalmouth scramble (or "stramash" for our Scottish viewers) that graced the Uruguayan Premier League game between Danubio and Cerro last weekend...
(Thanks to Pies fan @JBBetting for the tip-off)
By Chris Wright
Here's one we missed at the time, but thanks to this high-angle footage sourced by our chums over at Off The Post we're now able to bask in the full glory of Mario Gomez's little goal celebration slip-up, in which he overshoots a knee-slide by several feet thanks to a slick little feint from scorer Arjen Robben.
By Chris Wright
Though undoubtedly a fine player in his pomp, it's bloody amazing that Chris Waddle emerged from his playing career with a single iota of credibility given his repeated dalliance with producing god-awful, ultra-tacky pop music.
Just four short years after joining forces with Glenn Hoddle to form footballing supergroup "Glenn & Chris" and unleashing power ballad standard 'Diamond Lights' (a number 12 hit in the UK, no less) on the world, Waddle decided it was high time to launch an assault (a word which has never been used so aptly) on the French charts.
By Chris Wright
As we've already seen with AC Milan's hideous new third shirt for 2013/14, Adidas are currently dilly-dallying with the concept of introducing totally redundant pockets to a few of their new shirts, but their design for Olympique Marseille's new third shirt is beyond the pale.
By Chris Wright
Yep. Some dozy pillock at the Pala K go-karting complex on the outskirts of Milan decided it'd be a good idea to let Mario Balotelli rag his brand-new, £200,000, gleaming white Ferrari 450 (apparently bought to ease the pain of splitting up with girlfriend Fanny Neguesha)around their tiny, twisty track.
By Chris Wright
"Oh man...that sign's like...so big and GREEN man..."
ADO Den Haag spanked Feyenoord 2-0 in the Eredivisie last weekend but that wasn't nearly as heavy as things were getting in the terraces.
According to reports emanating out of Dutchland, 16 ADO fans had to be taken to hospital during the game after falling ill and passing out in the stands.
By Chris Wright
Non-league side Rimington FC have been bestowed with ahumongousticket allocation of 19,000 for their upcomingWest Riding County FA Challenge Cup Final against Bay Athletic at Elland Road ground, despite the tiny village in Lancashire only having a population of around 400 people.
By Chris Wright
An unfortunate set of initials has seen an IT consultant from India bombarded with Tweets intended for Manchester United striker Robin van Persie, known to his friends as "RVP".
52-year-old Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad signed up for Twitter under the account handle "@rvp" and is now complaining that the case of mistaken identity is becoming a real "nuisance" after hundreds of over-eager United fans Tweeted him to congratulate him on his Premier League title success.
By Chris Wright
"Mmmm, needs more BBQ sauce"
Sensing a nailed-on publicity opportunity, a couple have invited bitey bitey Liverpool striker Luis Suarez to their zombie-themed wedding after chowing down on Branislav Ivanovic's fleshy bits on Sunday,
Jennifer Jones and Rob Blackmore are to be married as members of the undead on Wednesday with the wedding being paid for as a PR stunt by Deep Silver, thecompany behind new video game Dead Island: Riptide, and the Liverpudlian couple have extended an invite to their favourite cannibalistic Uruguayan.
By Chris Wright
With the ball played square and only Hugo Lloris to beat, Ramires done a bit of whoopsie tonight...
PWARP! The FAIL tastes grass-flavoured.
(Via football blogging's GIFmeister General, Feint Zebra)
By Chris Wright
Nothing wrong with a grown man styling a young boy's hair every now and then...
(Via 101GG)
By Chris Wright
What a legacy the man leaves behind...
So good it deserves to go in twice...
Say what you want about the man, but boy-howdy could he pull off a hat with panache!
By Alan Duffy
Never one to let things go, Man Utd's Patrice Evra celebrated his side's title win at Old Trafford by having a little pop at his old friend Luis Suarez.
The French defender held aloft a fake plastic arm (which had been thrown from the stands) before pretending to take a Suarez-size bite out of it.
By Chris Wright
What do you do if you're the head of a gigantic marine engineering company and a seafoodconglomerateand the Mexican first division football club you own happen to find themselves relegated into the obscurity of the second tier? Exactly, you pool your resources, buy a shiny new club 1,000 kilometres down the road and submit your application to move the damn thing across the country to replace your old, broken toy.
By Chris Wright
Bit like this, we imagine...
You're welcome.
By Chris Wright
With Wolves second bottom of the Championship and needing a win away at Brighton to stay up, and that's even beforethey start totting up tricky little things like results elsewhere and goal difference, it's fair to say that things are getting a bit desperate at Molineux.
By Chris Wright
You no doubt heard that Reginald D Hunter a professional comedian whose last five Edinburgh festival shows have all had the word 'nigger' in the title caused "outrage" at the PFA awards gala on Sunday night when a room full of middle-class white peopleharrumphedin unison when he used the 'N' word in his set a few times.
By Chris Wright
Peeved at the decidedly average 2012/13 season their side have muddled through this term, a group of Rapid Vienna fans staged a protest at the club's general offices in the Austrian capital by building a brick wall across the entrance to prevent management from going into the building.
