Dirty Tackle 22 November @ 05:20 AM EST
Today's lesson: Remember to turn your flash on when you come out of an elevator and find
yourself staring at Chelsea's starting XI. Even still, I like how blurry Joe Cole fancies up his
warm-ups with that scarf.
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Randomly ended up having lunch beside a former Wolves executive (who had no delusions of the
club staying in the Premier League).
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Dirty Tackle 21 November @ 06:47 AM EST
One of the television channels at Chelsea Football Club "Russia TV". Roman Abramovich must be
pissed that technical difficulties are preventing him from watching The Andrei Arshavin Comedy
and Out of Place Rants Against Women Drivers Hour.
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Met up with former editor of The Spoiler, Ryan Bailey for drinks.
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Dirty Tackle 20 November @ 03:11 AM EST
There's a door next to Lampard's crotch. ... Sounds about right.
Today's lesson: Always tip your taxi driver well. Upon experiencing your awesome generosity and
overall wonderfulness as a human being, he just might reveal that he's a season ticket holder and
member of the club's gym, where injured players apparently congregate on matchday.
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Dirty Tackle 18 November @ 02:43 PM EST
Alright, everybody here's the thing. I'll be hopping a plane to London tonight, in part to catch
the Chelsea v Wolves match at the Bridge on Saturday. So your regularly scheduled programming will
be interrupted between now and Monday, but unless I end up passed out in a pub somewhere for the
next four or five days I hope to share pictures and tidbits from the trip while I'm there.
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Dirty Tackle 18 November @ 03:31 AM EST
Another day, another head shot. This really is the final straw for American girls soccer,
though. I mean, the hair pulling and dirty tackles are one thing, but to take aim and obliterate an
opponent's face like this on a free kick is just way over the line. And totally hilarious.
After the jump, a special bonus DTotD.
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Dirty Tackle 17 November @ 07:23 PM EST
First things first that's Tigre midfielder Matias Gimenez in the picture above. Dressed as a
tiger. Holding two live chickens. With a demonic look on his face. In what appears to be the
backyard of a meth lab/child abductor's hideout. I have no answers for any of that. I found the
picture here.
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Dirty Tackle 17 November @ 05:53 PM EST
On an international break Tuesday, this qualifies as noteworthy all Austria's Paul Scharner has
to do now is suffer disfiguring burns on one side of his face and he'll be a Batman villain.
[Photo: Reuters]
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Dirty Tackle 17 November @ 01:10 PM EST
All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award winning Dirty
Tackle...
A puddle of mud proves to be Notts County goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel's best friend. [Extra
Footie]
It was inevitable: the Elizabeth Lambert dating video parody. [Tauntr]
Bookmaker stops taking bets on new Scotland manager because their chief executive is on the SFA
board.
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Dirty Tackle 17 November @ 05:04 AM EST
According to Football Italia, Samuel Eto'o has cemented his reputation as the Oprah Winfrey of
footballers by giving each and every member of the Cameroon national team, which he captains, a
£30,000 watch simply because they qualified for the World Cup.
Meanwhile, every other national team captain is cursing his name for making them look bad.
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Dirty Tackle 17 November @ 04:25 AM EST
Manchester United having already bucked the Premier League trend by raising ticket prices this
season and selling Cristiano Ronaldo for more money than actually exists in the world are now
taking somewhat odd cost-cutting measures, according to The Sun. In addition to logical
reductions like trimming the staff at MUTV, the club are also apparently forbidding groundsmen at
their training ground from taking any left-over bread for morning toast and the former players who
act as hosts at Old Trafford can no longer take up seats to watch the game, nor can they eat the
left-over food put out for guests, instead being given packed sandwiches.
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Dirty Tackle 17 November @ 01:03 AM EST
There's a lot to be impressed with in this clip. Mostly in how #20 was able to nail his opponent
square in the face at such a sharp angle and that said opponent quickly recovered to go after
it.
The clip ends too soon, though. I have a feeling #20 didn't come out of that corner
unscathed.
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Dirty Tackle 16 November @ 08:24 PM EST
When you think of a professional footballer's mode of transportation to a match, you probably
conjure images of pimped-out limousines with built-in hot tubs, strippers and maybe even a personal
pizza chef.
Well, for footballers in the United States (who aren't Davey Becks) it's not like that.
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Dirty Tackle 16 November @ 04:59 PM EST
Though Sunderland's Darren Bent finally got his call up to the England squad, it appears even he
is a bit bored with the international break. So bored, in fact, that he sprung for the Call of
Duty: Modern Warfare 2 deluxe edition and is wearing the included night vision goggles around a
dark house.
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Dirty Tackle 16 November @ 01:56 PM EST
A friendly between Uruguayan clubs Paysandu and Cameta turned not so friendly (see what I did
there?) when defender Carlos Eduardo decided to play a little prank on the linesman. While
Eduardo's Paysandu teammate was being stretchered off the pitch, he went up to the linesman and, in
his own words:
"I said, 'Boy, you're very jumpy' and threw water on him, which was very hot.
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Dirty Tackle 16 November @ 05:58 AM EST
Well hello there.
I see you've caught me wearing an old Argentina national team shirt. Naturally, I'm wearing the
old one because it was significantly cheaper than the new one and because it was the only one I
could find in the dryers at the laundromat. ... Why am I wearing an Argentina shirt at all, you
ask?
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Dirty Tackle 16 November @ 02:19 AM EST
Two years ago, when he was still playing for Chelsea, Lassana Diarra would rather would rather
flee in terror than speak English and now he's apparently going out of his way to insult the Irish
in the frightening language.
After France won the first leg of their World Cup qualifying playoff 1-0 over Ireland on
Saturday, Diarra allegedly went up to the home side's Keith Andrews and made an insulting comment
that was so bad Andrews refused to reveal what it was:
"I don't want to say exactly what he said, but he knows what it was, which was a disrespectful
comment and it was typical of him, to be honest, and the way that he was.
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Dirty Tackle 15 November @ 10:06 PM EST
Soon after the start of Saturday's 0-0 friendly between Italy and Netherlands, an Italian fan
ran out onto the pitch wearing a Superman t-shirt with "Cassano in Nazionale" (Cassano in the
national team) written on the front and back. Once he got his shirt message of support for the
ignored Sampdoria striker seen (hooray for s-words!
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Dirty Tackle 13 November @ 09:17 PM EST
The matches to watch after you realize- AHHH LOOK OUT GARETH BARRY THE FLYING GIANT IS GOING TO
NINJA KICK YOU!!!
Saturday
Russia v Slovenia at Luzhniki Stadium The beginning of the end of the long, drawn out
process that is World Cup qualifying is finally here with the first leg of the playoff
fixtures.
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Dirty Tackle 13 November @ 05:19 PM EST
This is the jam Deco is using to get his adrenaline pumping for Portugal's World Cup
qualification playoff match against Bosnia tomorrow. I think.
[Photo: AP]
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Dirty Tackle 13 November @ 05:10 PM EST
As the world of football continues to mourn the suicide of German goalkeeper Robert Enke on
Tuesday and the crippling depression that led to it, mentally challenged French national team
manager Raymond Domenech had this to say in his Friday press conference:
"People can say what they want, when they want.
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Dirty Tackle 13 November @ 06:27 AM EST
This is going to be the strangest, most illogical football rule you see all day, so prepare
yourself or your brain just might melt and slide out your ear...
Second division club Portimonense won their Carlsberg Cup (Portugal's league cup) first group
phase by simply substituting in a 19-year-old goalkeeper (pictured above.
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Dirty Tackle 13 November @ 05:57 AM EST
AAAAHHHHHHHH I AM ARTUR BORUC AND THIS IS A LIST OF THINGS THAT MADE ME ANGRY THIS WEEK:
1. STILL BEING INJURED AHHHHHH I STILL CAN'T PLAY AND IT'S DRIVING ME INSANE!!!!!! I THINK I'M
GOING CROSS EYED AND I'M STARTING TO LOOK LIKE BILL MURRAY IN CADDYSHACK!!!!!!! THIS IS
HORRIBLE!
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Dirty Tackle 13 November @ 02:36 AM EST
Compilation Fridays are back and this one is for anyone who thought American girls soccer just
suddenly turned epically violent in the last two weeks. This video is from one high school team
over one season in 2007. There's stuff in there that would make hardened Premier Leaguers take jobs
at Hello Kitty shops.
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Dirty Tackle 12 November @ 04:15 PM EST
Noted world leaders Fat Ronaldo and Israeli President Shimon Peres meet at a hotel in Sao Paulo.
Fat Ronaldo discusses how he forgot to wash his upper lip. And how he ate his necktie on the way
over.
[Photo: Getty]
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Dirty Tackle 12 November @ 03:49 PM EST
All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award winning Dirty
Tackle...
Insane video taken Rafik Saifi of the Algerian national team as their bus is attacked by
rock-throwing Egyptian fans. [Goal]
Rangers not happy with their "moronic" fans. [STV]
Even when wearing a dress that went through a broken shredder, Abbey Clancy still looks hot.
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Dirty Tackle 12 November @ 03:23 PM EST
The members of Manchester City not busy with international duty finally met the man who pays
their massive wages for the first time yesterday in Abu Dhabi, ahead of today's friendly against
the United Arab Emirates (which City lost 1-0). The awkwardness of the occasion is evident
especially the shot at 10 second into the video where it appears they just finished talking about
the weather and now have absolutely nothing left to say to each other.
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Dirty Tackle 12 November @ 05:56 AM EST
Cristiano Ronaldo
This is not the kind of erotic foot massage I had in mind. ... It is kind of relaxing, though.
Putting me to sleep faster than one of Iker's stories. ... If Portugal tries to make me play I'm
just going to cry and maybe pee my pants a little bit. They can't make me play with a hurt ankle,
tear-stained cheeks, and a the distinct smell of pee wafting from my pants, can they?
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Dirty Tackle 12 November @ 03:11 AM EST
Last Saturday's derby between Hamilton and Motherwell produced a few DTotD worthy tackles and
some fine goals, too. Our interest in the game, however, is when Hamilton's overly excited manager,
Billy Reid, celebrates his side's second goal (both scored a man down) by jumping up and grabbing
the advertisement board above the dugout, which he rips off, causing him to fall on his ass (4:28
into the video).
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Dirty Tackle 11 November @ 08:52 PM EST
Although they lost the away leg of their Copa del Rey fixture against Real Madrid 1-0, third
division Alcorcon still completed their shock 4-1 aggregate upset over Spain's most expensive team
and advanced to the fifth round (of eight) in the tournament.
For Alcorcon, this was their championship, though, and without a doubt the club's defining
moment (it was only founded in 1971).
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Dirty Tackle 11 November @ 04:51 PM EST
Japan are in South Africa for a friendly on Saturday and while they're not going to the lengths
that Germany are falsely rumored to be for the World Cup, they are taking precautions that are a
bit worrisome for a country about to host one of the world's biggest sporting events.
Team media director Ichirota Fukushi tells The AP:
"The players are free to go to the beach in front of the hotel, but we've told them not to go
out after dark.
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Dirty Tackle 11 November @ 04:06 PM EST
Mike Ashley has really done it now. In his efforts to rebrand Newcastle's stadium as
sportsdirect.com@St James' Park, which I'm pretty sure is just a dyslexic email address, Ashley
forced supporters to launch their own bid to buy the club from him and end his reign of
embarrassment.
Well, Sting and the rest of The Police (you know, the other two guys who aren't Sting) are
backing the Newcastle United Supporters Trust's totally originally titled "Yes We Can" campaign to
gain control of the club.
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Dirty Tackle 11 November @ 07:16 AM EST
Everybody hates French national team manager Raymond Domenech. This is a well established fact.
When he's not getting called "a man who seems intent on messing them [France] up" in the press by
opposing players, he's getting booed by his countrymen and laughed at by his own players at the
Paris Bercy Indoor Masters ATP tennis tournament (as you can kind of make out in the horrible
quality video above).
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Dirty Tackle 11 November @ 03:53 AM EST
In a match from Argentina's Liga Regional de San Francisco between Sociedad Sportiva Devoto and
Rivadavia de Rio Primero, the referee showed a red card to a Rio Primero defender for his
goal-saving handball in a way that was either very nice or very creepy, depending on how you look
at it.
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Dirty Tackle 11 November @ 12:05 AM EST
It's finally happened. Fat Ronaldo has admitted that he's a chubby tub of goo. (A very talented
chubby tub of goo, but still a chubby tub of goo, nonetheless.)
In an interview with Globo television, The Fat One, who has 11 goals for Corinthians this
season, said that he wouldn't call himself up to the Brazilian national team right now, that he
will put forth perhaps the greatest effort of his career to make the team, and that he thinks the
first half of 2010 will be vital blah blah blah.
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Dirty Tackle 10 November @ 05:20 PM EST
Well, it's official the maddening buzz of the vuvuzela will be heard at the World Cup (assuming
you don't gouge out your eardrums for fear of suffering through a month of aural torture before
then). Says SABC News:
During the Confederations Cup earlier this year, players and the international media complained
about the noise made by the vuvuzela.
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