Giampaolo Pazzini celebrates his goal in Sampdoria's 4-1 win over Bologna just one week after suffering a broken nose and being told he would be out for a month.

His protective mask fittingly describes him as "crazy."

Inspired by this form of injury-induced expression, Cristiano Ronaldo has already decided that if he ever breaks his nose, his mask will read: "effeminate.

Yossi Benayoun and Albert Riera are in contention for a surprise return to the Liverpool squad for Saturday's clash with Manchester City after some controversial therapy.
They have been treated by a Serbian physiotherapist credited with accelerating recovery from injury with the use of placenta cells.

Coleen Rooney not only pledged to have her baby (due anytime now) naturally, but says she's doing it on the National Health Service rather than privately. For those unfamiliar with the thrill of sitting in an NHS hospital waiting room with broken-nose drunks, chicken-bone-stuck-in-the-throat drunks and other such injured-due-to-intoxication drunks, this is a truly noble quest.

Sampdoria striker Giampaolo Pazzini took a vicious elbow to the nose from Lazio goalkeeper Fernando Muslera as he tried to punch the ball away during Sunday's match. Pazzini suffered a "fracture of the nasal bones" and will be out for a month.

Malicious or did Muslera's elbow jut out toward Pazzini's face in some kind of reactionary attempt to keep the flying striker from landing on him?

It's been a while since we've had a good striker-on-keeper full-speed collision and this is exactly that.

I like how the goalkeeper tries to get up right away, then realizes "yeah, that's not going to work. I think I can already feel myself peeing blood." Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure the striker is dead.

Coleen Rooney has not only pledged to have her baby (due anytime now) naturally, but also says she's doing it on the National Health Service rather than privately. For those unfamiliar with the thrill of sitting in an NHS hospital waiting room with broken-nose drunks, chicken-bone-stuck-in-the-throat drunks and other such injured-due-to-intoxication drunks, this is a truly noble quest.

Bob Malcolm and Craig Moore will not play next week. Certainly in the case of Malcolm that is a very good thing. He may be the worse import the A-League has had. Robbie Slater described his work as the worst defending he had seen in the A-League. He caused the first 2 goals. The first bounced off him to the Mariners (2nd time in two weeks) and the 2nd he decided not to tackle.