Mark Chamberlain, dad of England star Alex Oxlade Chamberlain, missed his son's excellent goal against Brazil after falling asleep during the game. The former England international blamed an early morning airport run for his dozing, but we reckon the first-half of the match should also shoulder some of the blame.
Comedian Simon Brodkin was arrested after invading the Goodison Park pitch in full Manchester City training kit ahead of Saturday's match against Everton. Brodkin, best known for his BBC Three show in the guise of his comic creation Lee Nelson, joined City players for their warm-up ahead of the match dressed as his footballing alter [.
Non-league side Bashley have written to the Football Association to ask for their tie with Gosport to be replayed after the referee missed a clear goal. Gosport's keeper booted the ball through the side-netting in frustration before ref Will Bull had seen it cross the line. He didn't award a goal, believing that the ball [.
Earlier this week, we shared with you the Sky Sports montage of the 2012-13 Premier League season, which included some of the highlights of another glorious nine months. Not to be outdone, BBC's Match Of The Day program also produced their montage, which is included below.
Plus, here are the Goals of the Season according to BBC's Match of The Day.
Turn on your TV to watch a game anywhere in the world and the chances are that you will soon see the face of an ex-footballer attempting to share his knowledge of the game with you. Except that all too ... Continue reading →
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Playing tiki-taka with the interwebs Lionel Messi talks about his defining moment: being given Barcelona's number 10 shirt [YouTube] Rio Ferdinand signs a new one-year deal at Manchester United [Man Utd] Titus Bramble set to leave Sunderland. Shocking that Paolo Di Canio doesn't want to keep him [BBC] Tony Pulis writes in the local newspaper [.
Southampton manager Mauricio Pochettino says he could leave the club if executive chairman Nicola Cortese quits. Cortese is in dispute with Saints' owners, the Liebherr Trust, about the running of the club and is seeking assurances from them that he will continue to have the final say in major decisions.
Carlos Tevez and a linesman both succumbed to a potentially lethal step at Wembley [101GG] Former Everton boss Howard Kendall has backed Duncan Ferguson to become the club's new manager [BBC] Wigan's Callum McManaman has won his first England under-21 call-up... and he's off to the European Championships [Guardian] Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola recreates a [.
Everton manager David Moyes appeared to hint that he's ready to become increasingly intimate with Sunderland counterpart Paolo Di Canio. Moyes was caught off-guard by some surprise physical contact from the Italian ahead of Saturday's match at the Stadium of Light. The Toffees boss appeared to hint that he was impressed by Di Canio's hugging [.
Newcastle and their boss Alan Pardew have found themselves becoming the butt of a few jokes after the club completed the signing of another French player and lined up two more not least being renamed Nouveau Chateua and having their logo reimagined. Pardew has also been reminded of some comments he made about Arsenal [.
Ex-Blackburn Rovers boss Steve Kean has paid undisclosed damages to his predecessor, Sam Allardyce, over claims he made that the current West Ham boss was a "crook". Kean was filmed telling Rovers supporters on a pre-season tour of Hong Kong that Big Sam had lost his job at Ewood Park "because he's a f**king crook".
QPR boss Harry Redknapp celebrated his side's FA Cup third round replay victory over West Brom by humming the tune to BBC Radio Five Live's Sports Report. That's Radio Five reporter Pat Murphy on whatever the humming equivalent of backing vocals might be. Via 101GG
Playing tiki-taka with the interwebs What if David Moyes was an early-1990s R&B vocal group [IllustratedGame] David Beckham viral moments [101GG] Sunderland manager Paolo Di Canio will shorten his players' summer holidays if they don't perform with dignity on Sunday [BBC] A distraught Benfica fan after last night's defeat [Feint Zebra] The trajectory of Frank [.
Playing tiki-taka with the interwebs Self-styled 'Bad Mourinho' strikes back. 300 Brazilian prostitutes have signed up for English lessons ahead of next summer's World Cup [Global Post] Sir Alex Ferguson will aim to sign "one or two" new Manchester United players this summer [Guardian] Fernando Torres flashes his bits around [101GG] Mauricio Pochettino says he [.
Newcastle United are on the verge of signing a much-needed new defender. The deal for full back Massadio Haïdara is expected to be finalized today withHaïdara moving to Newcastle from French Ligue Un side Nancy. Meanwhile, Newcastle are also...
Sir Alex Ferguson is famously very picky about who can and can't attend his press conferences, so
it was a tad hypocritical of him to turn up unannounced at tennis star Andy Murray's post-match
presser following his US Open semi-final victory. In a veritable Who's Who (Scotland Edition),
Fergie and James Bond star Sean Connery [.
Get your 'Chelsea Mugs of the Roman Empire' commemorative mug [101GG] Ever wanted to play 'Where's Wally?' with a slightly disturbing Phil Thompson twist? Here's your chance [Lurking Thommo] Great photos of the first FA Cup final, which took place between Bolton and West Ham 90 years ago [Dirty Tackle] Legendary Liverpool ball-crusher Phil [.
Lokeren goalkeeper Boubacar Barry knocks himself out on his goalpost [Pies] Liverpool are driving Anfield into decline by buying houses around their ground and leaving them empty [Guardian] Practice your lip-reading with Steven Gerrard [Feint Zebra] Rapper Jay Z is set to do what the likes of Chelsea and Real Madrid would love to do [.
Rosenborg striker Nicki Bille Nielsen responds to a very harsh red card by ripping off his shirt [Pies] A young Gareth Bale aka Frank the caretaker's son appears in a school newspaper [101GG] Mario Balotelli: "I will gamble on my girlfriend. If Madrid comes back and goes to the final on 25 May, [...]
Playing tiki-taka with the interwebs Antonio Nocerino not impressed at how long it takes AC Milan team-mate Mario Balotelli to get dressed [101GG] Matt Le Tissier makes his Guernsey debut [BBC] Get your custom-made Barnet coffin [Pies] Arsene Wenger's entirely fictional congrulations to Robin Van Persie on winning the title [Dirty Tackle] Liverpool [.
The protest by football supporters throughout the Premier League is beginning to spread. After Manchester City and Liverpool fans protested at their separate away matches versus Arsenal in recent weeks, today City and Liverpool supporters continued...
The protest by football supporters throughout the Premier League is beginning to spread. After Manchester City and Liverpool fans protested at their separate away matches versus Arsenal in recent weeks, today City and Liverpool supporters continued their protest by joining together to hoist an "£nough is £nough' banner.
If you thought the end of last week was all about Lance Armstrong's warts 'n' all confession to Oprah, you would be wrong for this side of the Atlantic there was a one-on-one interview with someone equally forlorn and desperate for people to hear his side of the story. We're talking about Dietmar Hamann [.
Ex-Everton flop Andy Van Der Meyde has lifted the lid on how his life spiralled out of control during his time on Merseyside. In a candid interview with BBC Radio Five Live, the Dutchman speaks openly about a number of problems in his personal life. Perhaps the most bizarre example of this is the story [.
It's been a busy morning for transfer news as Sky Sports are reporting that Chelsea is close to signing a new midfielder named Taison from FC Metalist. Meanwhile, West Ham have signed a Brazilian on loan, while Sunderland has signed ......
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Arsenal supporters could be in for more headaches next summer if both Theo Walcott and now Bacary Sagna leave the club. Talks to renew the contract for popular Arsenal defender Sagna have reached an impasse after the Gunners have only ......
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Big Sam is open to bringing Nicolas Anelka under his wing. The West Ham United manager gave Anelka a new lease of life when he managed the mercurial striker at Bolton Wanderers. I don't know about you, but I'd love ... Continue...
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BBC Hillsborough – Searching for Truth by dm_504d1dd58a163 Last night, BBC North West and BBC
Yorkshire aired a brand-new documentary entitled "Hillsborough – Searching For The Truth." If you
missed it, here it is in its entirety. According to the...
This audio comes from BBC 5Live's 606 phone-in on Saturday evening. Liverpool fan Omar, from
Nottingham, rang up to tell Robbie Savage that he "talks through his a*se". Omar starts off
sounding quite pleasant, giving a nice hello and congratulating opponents West Brom on their win...
but then he snaps.
With Scunthorpe anchored to the bottom of League One and on a six-game losing streak, you'd have
grounds to assume that manager Alan Knill had no reason to consider himself a lucky man not so, as
we're talking about a man who survived a vicious SQUIRREL ATTACK here.
With Scunthorpe anchored to the bottom of League One and on a six-game losing streak, you'd have
grounds to assume that manager Alan Knill had no reason to consider himself a lucky man not so, as
we're talking about a man who survived a vicious SQUIRREL ATTACK here.
Sheffield United have announced that they plan to name a stand at Brammall Lane in honour of
Sheffield's very own Olympic heptathlon gold medalist, Jessica Ennis.
The stand in question is the Bramall Lane Stand, which the club will rechristen 'The Jessica
Ennis Stand' ("two tickets in the Lower Ennis please")Â before this Saturday's League One game
against Bournemouth.
The respected BBC football expert David Ormstein seems to have been talking with someone at Arsenal
and he has been assured that Arsene Wenger has no intention of adding to the squad today. With the
departures of Nicklas Bendtner and Chu-Young Park this is rapidly turning into a deadwood day for
Arsenal fans rather than [.
So our less-than-scintillating but far-from-disastrous start to the season gets puts to one side
for the last straight of the madness that is the transfer window. This morning, belatedly if you
ask me, it's all about Theo Walcott who's apparently turned down an offer of £75k a week.
Now, I haven't blogged much this summer, partly because I needed a break and partly because the
incessant rumour gets my giddy goat, but I did write about Walcott back in July and it pretty much
all still stands.
In the week that Sunderland appoint a tin-pot manager FFS brings you the last Anton Ferdinand Turkish lesson, more In Play Betting with Ray Winstone, an over-respectful footballer, a banner protest and a song about Newcastle being more French than Gerard Depardieu. Look up and use the channels. Get in.
Tony Gubba, one of the most recognizable voices of British football, died today of a short illness, aged 69. The Match Of The Day commentator joined BBC Sport in 1972 replacing David Coleman as the presenter of the Sportsnight program. ......
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OTP dares say that QPR fans have called their defenders a fair few names this season. But the abuse being levelled at Clint Hill by the club programme is a bit harsh. Somebody at Loftus Road needed to pay a bit more attention to the character spacing before sending their match programme to the printers [.
TweetUmmmm, naughty Freddie Ljungberg said the S word on Match Of The Day 2 at about 11pm last night.... For those who were offended, try going to a football game. If you're a parent of a kid who saw it, be a better parent they shouldn't be awake that late. Football is a sweary [...]
It's Transfer Deadline Day. The action is all around the web on Twitter, the BBC, and everywhere in
between. To follow it all here is a Transfer Deadline Day Live stream BBC. In summary: Stoke have
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You only get one chance to make a first impression. So Geoff Cameron decided to make his EPL
debut a memorable one.
On Sunday, the Attleboro (Mass.) native earned Man of the Match honors after helping Stoke
City's hold off Arsenal for 90 minutes during a 0-0 draw at Britannia Stadium.
