When Everton put United out of the FA Cup on penalties last season, Phil Neville stood with his arms folded looking away as his team mates raced forward in celebration. Not the behaviour you'd expect from an Everton captain, but certainly the behaviour you'd expect from a born and bred red.

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A double international milestone was reached this past weekend, when both Italy's Gigi Buffon and Spain's Iker Casillas made their 100th international appearances on the same day. Nice little co-incidence as they are arguably (or maybe inarguably) the two best keepers in the world today.

Let me tell you what this is not: This is not a Buffon vs Casillas "who's better?

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Arsenal striker Robin van Persie is likely to miss his rematch with Manchester City centre-forward Emmanuel Adebayor.
Van Persie's injury threatens to stop him lining up against former team-mate Adebayor in next month's Carling Cup quarter-final at Manchester City.
Van Persie was keen to play after a stormy Barclays Premier League clash in September in which Adebayor stamped on his face and provoked travelling fans after scoring in a 4-2 win for his side. Click to continue reading...

Easily the greatest penalty shootout celebration in history. (0.20) Fabio Capello is not such a hit in Spain. (La Liga Loca) The dam is breaking in Manchester. (EPL Talk) Raymond Domenech: not so smart. (The Spoiler) Amaral writes a nice, though curious, parting letter. (SoccerLens) Robin van Persie to get mystery placenta juice treatments. Click to continue reading...

Ah, to be a fly on the wall.

Diego Armando Maradona, coach of the Argentine National team, and all around deity, graced FIFA's Zurich based home to answer questions on his media outburst nearly one month ago. In typical Maradona fashion, he arrived 50 minutes late to his scheduled hearing, with an envoy of limousines following him, wearing a track suit and sunglasses.

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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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David Beckham switches attack with a swerving long ball down the left to Donovan. The Galaxy skipper crosses into the box to Mike Magee who is brought down by Yamith Cuesta's challenge. Ricardo Salazar points to the spot as Magee writhes in pain. Donovan converts the PK after an interminable wait.

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On Friday Emily and I put up my very first soccer goal!! I was tempted too but I decided it would be really cool if one of my players take the first shot on it! So my man Ashton Durham, in the short video above, slammed in a great first kick and then topped it off with an excellent goal celebration!

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! Article Start >Newcastle United wing wizard, Jonas Gutierrez explained his non goal celebration for a fantasic solo effort against Peterbourough yesterday. While many fans were expecting some kind of extravaganza involving 'that' mask as Guti covered St James's Park in an invisible spider's web, he eventually made even Alan Shearer look ostentatious. Click to continue reading...

Columbus center back Chad Marshall has trophy-cased his second straight MLS Defender of the Year prize.Seeing as how he suits up in a few hours to decide the Crew's first round playoff tie, the award celebration will be either delayed and heightened or subdued.- Greg Seltzer Click to continue reading...

Mark your calendars: On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the Hispanic Health Coalition and the National Alliance for Hispanic Health will present the third annual !Vive tu Vida! Get Up! Get Moving!(TM) celebration in Houston. The event promotes Hispanic family physical activity for better health and wellness for people of all ages and all sizes. Click to continue reading...

For no reason whatsoever, a celebration of the main bits of Saturday.  Who knows, in years to come this graph may convey more than mere words.  Or it'll still look rubbish.  History will be the judge.

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Never seen the Heart Shape goal celebration before, that was cool. Anyone know who it was for?

You thought HP sauce (it's English) had flavor... check out Becks in the middle of this clip!

JM

If you are watching this video on the main page of the blog and the video is sticking out into the categories on the right hand side I apologize.

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What goes around comes around eh? Less than a week after hauling Michael Owen down as the last man, Jamie Carragher got his just desserts. In the first half, Carragher fell in to Zamora in the penalty area but the referee let him off the hook again. It was a case of three strikes and your out for Carragher though, with the Liverpool defender finally handed a straight red card for rugby tackling his opponent.

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It's a celebration, bitches.

Via the Guardian ... "The competition may change, the advertising hoardings spinning to proclaim Champions League or Premier League or Carling Cup, but Chelsea's swashbuckling home form remains a constant. A tenth consecutive win here, achieved gracefully and impressively last night, has propelled Carlo Ancelotti's team into the quarter-finals.

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There is a news circulating that South Africa plans on kicking off the 2010 World Cup games by 'sacrificing' a cow (check out the article at Yahoo.com). This of course is upsetting some people as they seem to care if a cow get's killed. South Africa is defending their decision by stating that the ceremony needs to be blessed 'African Style' for the games to run smoothly.

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All people are talking about tomorrow Manchester United game against Liverpool at Anfield and everyone wonder how Michael Owen will celebrate if he scores a goal in front of the fans that used to...
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Andy Cole writes for The Independent about United vs Liverpool.

When The Seagulls Follow The Trawler reviews last night's victory.

Between The Lines looks at Antonio Valencia's lacking celebration.

The Daily Mail looks at where Rafa's £229m has gone.

The Spoiler reveals the new FIFA goal of the year competition.

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Interesting goal celebration on the 1st goal... was that a bunny hop?

This game happened a week or so ago but still good highlights.

JM

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I was sent to these thanks a great resource, Grant Wahl's twitter.
1. A Honduran call of the game
2. Scenes of the celebration
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After beating Albania 4-1 in match that even the local press called "meaningless" since they had already been doomed to miss out on qualification for South Africa, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and his Swedish teammates hit the clubs of Stockholm following a farewell dinner for departing national team manager Lars Lagerback.

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So in these last two World Cup qualifiers, USMNT fans were raving about Conor Casey (Saturday) and Jonathan Bornstein (Wednesday)?
Yeesh. Quite the odd couple.
And I'm not sure hero is the right word? The 2-2 draw arguably didn't mean much, but winning the group is cool. Though it would have been nice to beat Costa Rica as a tribute to Charlie Davies, not scramble to salvage a point at home. Click to continue reading...

Following Diego Maradona's eye-catching diving celebration after Martin Palermo's dramatic last-gasp winner against Peru, Goal.com looks at 10 other crazy moments during the footballing career of the current Argentina coach.
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Whatever honeymoon the US Men's National Team was enjoying after clinching it's sixth-straight World Cup Finals appearance has ended abruptly.
Last night at 3:15am, forward Charlie Davies was in a car that crashed on the George Washington Parkway in DC. A 22-year old woman in the car was killed in the accident. Click to continue reading...

So I'm kind of bummed that yesterday's post fetched zero responses from the Offside readers. The picture of Stuart Holden had me laughing for a good bit of the day, but to each his own.

If you looked at the Dynamo's picture gallery from the charity match against Monterrey then you saw this strange goal celebration by Geoff Cameron.

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As the heavens opened in Buenos Aires it took Diego Maradona a few seconds to go from King Lear Gene Kelly, to from howling in the storm trapped in tragedy to singing, dancing and sliding in the rain in celebration. Click to continue reading...

It's a day for celebration and with the photos safely stashed away, the Roberts emerge into the sunlight. ‘We won't be getting any trouble now, my dear' the Chairman reassures his wife as they stride across the dusty yard to inspect the prisoners. Janet Roberts idly adjusts the curls around her magnificent green beehive as [. Click to continue reading...

I was unsure how I'd react if the U.S. beat Honduras on Saturday. It would ensure qualification to the World Cup -- but shouldn't we expect that at a minimum?
Even the lowest expectations begin at qualification.
Then, after a 3-2 win on the road, I stop thinking. And started drinking, in celebration. Click to continue reading...

The Pied Piper of Higuain may have opened the scoring for Los Albicelestes but it was Martin Palermo's close-range effort that secured a crucial win 2-1 win over Peru last night. The Dona actually dived into the wet grass on his stomach in celebration.

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Despite the unfamiliarity with the artificial turf and the hostility of a fervent 80000 strong Russian crowd in Luzhniki Stadium Moscow, the DFB-Elf secured their ticket to South Africa 2010. Here are the ratings for the team with more analysis to follow after a thorough celebration... Adler - 8.5 : Adler Click to continue reading...

How can you not love these guys? That run in the '06 World Cup was a blast.
And led by awesome-dude Tim Cahill the team is going to help out the earthquake and tsunami victims in Samoa and Indonesia.
Not just a neat goal celebration.

Football Federation Australia (FFA) said it will donate one dollar for every fan who attends the Socceroos' matches against the Netherlands in Sydney on Saturday and against Oman in Melbourne next week.

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Before Gary Neville got fined £5k for his celebration against Liverpool, what irked me the most about Robbie Fowler's five digit salute a week before was that he had no claim to Liverpool's European success.

Whilst wearing City's blue shirt, he had ten years at Liverpool, 330 appearances to his name, and just five trophies.

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Credit this WTF find to Off the Post. The original source over here.
"When I'm back home with my family and friends I'm just Jimmy. I've been called it since I was about ten and still do to this day. It's rarely Wayne."
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October means Oktoberfest, and FC Bayern Munich's Daniel van Buyten and his girlfriend or wife (depending on who you believe), Celine, were all over it this past Sunday. Really, does it matter if she's his wife or his girlfriend? It's a celebration either way.

Here is a better photo of her.

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Sigh. International breaks are so boring. Not too much going on in the lead up to the games over the weekend, but a few things have popped up so I thought I'd do a roundup/link dump of what's been going on this week.

First, Adebayor said he "regrets" stomping on former teammate Robin van Persie's face last month.

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