Bixente Lizarazu. 97 Caps for France, one World Cup winners medal, one European Championships
medal, one Champions League winners medal and six Bundesliga titles.
Did you know that he is also the current European jiu-jitsu champion in the under 76kg category for
blue belts aged 35-40?
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[this is a cross-post from here, but it's making me really angry and it seems relevant to include
it here too....apologies]
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There's a bit in Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" where Captain Black runs something he calls the
"Glorious Loyalty Oath Campaign", where everyone in the squadron finds themselves forced to sign
oaths pledging their loyalty in order to get absolutely anything or everything:
"Almost overnight the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade was in full flower, and Captain Black was
enraptured to discover himself spearheading it.
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101 Great Goals #34 - John Goossens
It's not very often that my adopted Dutch club, NEC Nijmegen, appear above the radar. They are the
very definition of 'mid table mediocrity' - sitting in the middle of the Eredivisie every single
year, doing absolutely nothing whatsoever.
To include a goal that earned them a 1-1 home draw against ADO Den Haag also sounds like the
dullest thing in the world, but this particular piece of brilliance from ex-Ajax kid John Goossens
deserves to shine a light on the club.
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I can't believe the reaction to Rubin Kazan beating Barcelona in the Champions League. Rubin are
the strongest side in a very tough and high quality Russian league and, as Zenit have shown in
recent seasons, Russian club sides should be a force to be reckoned with in European football.
It's not as if the team that finished third in the weak French league went to a multiple European
champions and won, is it?
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Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
1. Goooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllll
It would be fair to say that Kelvin Koogan's 'love it!' rant on Sky was our nailed on Number One
clip when we sat down to formulate this list. That was, however, until I was sent this cfootage.
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Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
2. "You Can Tell Him Now - He'll Be Watching It....."
I doubt there's anyone outside the Newcastle United community who would deny that this now infamous
television interview deserves its place in the annals of TV footballing folklore.
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Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
3. Ilunga Mwepu
No disrespect to the intelligent, knowledgeable CUAS readership here, but I bet there's hardly any
of you who know who Ilunga Mwepu is.
In the 1970s he played his club football for TP Mazembe and he now lives in Malta, where he is an
assistant coach in the Adelaide Cini Championship with Girgenti Athletic.
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Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
4. All The Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
John Motson is 64, you know. If you'd ask me, mind, I'd have said that due to his increasingly
inconsistent commentary he was nearer 75. We love a bit of Motty, but he's been gradually losing
the plot as he has aged, and his increasingly hyperbolic commentary has led me to race into my
living room at many a time only for someone to have won a boring corner.
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Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
6. Broken Nose
The football video industry has been a rich source of income over the years as "celebrities" from
Nick Hancock to Gary Lineker host their stocking-filleresque "Football Gaffe" DVDs. These
variations on a theme generally feature utterly hilarious moments of people standing on the ball
and scoring own goals.
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Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
6. "They've Never Heard Chris Rea."
I can almost see the pitch at Sky Sports HQ now.
"Yes, I know we haven't got any live football that we can show on Saturday afternoon. But, what we
can do is ask four ex-professional footballers to watch the games for us, and explain to us what's
happening.
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Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Footballing Moments
7. "I was going for the ball with my head, which I understand is a legitimate move in soccer."
Rewind to May 2006 and a balmy night at the Madjeski Stadium. Two teams of ex-footballers,
celebrities and other stars had turned out for a light-hearted charity match to raise money for the
Bobby Moore Fund bowel cancer charity and the Red Cross.
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Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
8. "A Match Already Being Described As 'On This Sunday'"
It would be fair to say that Sky Sports are prone to a little bit of over-enthusiasm about their
range of live football. Their 'Grand Slam Sunday' was my particular favourite, considering football
doesn't have a 'grand slam' and that whoever triumphed in such an event would have to presumably
win four matches in different parts of the world at different times of the year.
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Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 Football Moments
9. Schteeeeeeve McLaren talks jibberish
No-one really blamed Steve McLaren for moving abroad after the wally-brolly failure of England to
qualify for Euro 2008. In a path trodden by his one of his predecessors, Bobby Robson, the
ex-England boss ran to the relative safety of the Eredivisie after his international experiences to
take charge of little known FC Twente.
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Right, it's time to start making this place fun and interesting again *cough*. So, without further
ado, a brand new CUAS series....
Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
10. Delia Has Too Many Gins
Ah, Delia Smith. She's the UK's best selling cookery author, you know, having shifted a whopping
eighteen million units.
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