1. You know it hasn't been a festival of football when the highlight of the first-half is the goalkeeping popping two balloons. Truly topped off by the slo-mo replay. 2. Given the circumstances of France's qualifications, Thierry Henry might have been well-advised to appeal for a handball. 3. At times like this you have to wonder how [.

Well, it wasn't exactly his birthday but O fenomeno deserves a pat on the back and maybe a call-up by Dopey (for an exhibition game) for being so cool at his son's birthday! If he turned up at my door looking like that, my dad would immediately ask if he was from the loony bin.

The pre-game preparation for Timbers Army members usually involves making stops about town for balloons or streamers for use during the game. While I realized that the team was starting to draw attention from even casual fans around town, even...

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Pink began her performance at Dublin RDS with a thirty metre descent from a box decorated with enormous balloons.

There's an episode of the seminal TV show ALF in which a relation of Alf's earth family, I think an uncle, comes to stay. Unfortunately, while the family are out, the uncle discovers Alf and drops dead of fright. When the family return home they're greeted by balloons and party gear. Everyone at Melmac dies at the same age, so they're sent off with a big party.

How times change. This time last year, Portsmouth were preparing for the start of the Premier League season. The hints were already out there, that something was desperately, horribly wrong at Fratton Park, but few would have managed to guess just how bad things would get. Being the first Premier League club to enter into administration brought them a nine point deduction which all but guaranteed their relegation from the Premier League in March (although, as things turned out, they would have been relegated even without this deduction), and the consolation of an extraordinary run to the FA Cup final was only a transitory diversion from the greater prize of the club's ongoing existence.

When I first got to meet players closely here in Indonesia I would invariably ask which of their contemporaries did they admire the most. Invariably they would reel off a list of two or three names and the one name that appeared the most was Eduard Ivakdalam, the long serving inspirational captain of Persipura.

They say football is all about the supporters and if that's the case, English Conference side Histon FC hit a bit of a low point in their recent game away at Wrexham. Thumped 4-0, the team set a long standing English record of being the only team in the top 5 divisions to play a match with not one single fan cheering them on.