Samir Nasri scored the winner for Manchester City in their 3-2 win over
Southampton last night (which nearly didn't happen, given the Saints' impressive counterattacking)
and promptly revealed a shirt he specially made in celebration of the month-long Islamic
celebrations of Eid-ul-Fitr, which simply read : "Eid
Mubarak!
Gareth Bale has branded Charlie Adam a 'coward' after another dismal challenge from the
orthodontically-challenged Liverpool midfielder saw his Tottenham counterpart leaving the stadium
in Baltimore on crutches.
Of course, this isn't the first time Adam has butchered Bale with a malicious tackle, with a
frankly disgusting challenge back in 2011 while Adam was still at Blackpool bringing Bale's season
to a premature conclusion and putting him out of action for the best part of three months.
Morning all, today starts with a mild *boilk* but it's not my fault. It's all
the fault of The Man from East Lower who has left his comfortable surrounds and is in Dublin
instead and insisted that I drink beer with him.
"No," I said, "I am an abstemious man who rarely partakes of the demon drink, especially around
this most holy of times.
What a difference a week makes. Since Christmas Day, the teams at the bottom and in the middle of
the Premier League have performed spectacularly, picking up much-needed points. Consider that
Blackburn beat Manchester United at Old Trafford and tied...
Many people look forward to Christmas Day, what with all of the presents and the food and the
family time. Now, that's all very, very nice, but I look forward more to the day after Christmas,
even if it's not a holiday in my little corner of the world. Boxing Day means football, football,
football, [.
Barcelona striker David Villa got a welcome boost as he was released from Hospital yesterday,
five days after undergoing an operation on his broken leg picked up last month in his clubs
successful World Club Cup competition.
Villa must be delighted with being able to spend Christmas day with his childhood sweetheart,
Wife Patricia Gonzalez and their two Daughters, Zaida (8) and Olaya (2).
On You Tube people are creating better and better videos all the time bearing in mind the copyright
constraints imposed by the Premier League and clubs in general.
TheSpinFire on YouTube has created some of the best of them. I have posted up some of these videos
on here before but yesterday the final part of The Roman Abramovich Era 2003-2011 was uploaded and
I am featuring today.
Manchester City top Premier League on Christmas Day stats of title winners
Man City top of the Premier League table on Christmas Day but fans should be careful not to
count their, erm, turkeys as leading the way at Christmas is not as reliable an indicator as many
think.
Naughty Naughton Norwich full-back Kyle Naughton picked up the most sensible booking of his career
during last night's pulsating 2-2 draw with Wolves. Naughton received his fifth yellow card of the
season to earn himself an automatic one-match ban. That rules him out of the Boxing Day clash with
Tottenham.
Kobe Bryant suffered a sprained wrist in the first preseason game between the Los Angeles Lakers
and the Los Angeles Clippers. The injury could keep Kobe Bryant out of the Lakers second and final
preseason contest.
However, the good news for the Lakers and Kobe Bryant is that he should be ready to go once the
regular season begins on Christmas Day.
I got such wonderful feedback from those of you who I bought presents for last year, I just had to
send you some more to say thank you for a great start to the season, and to give you further
incentive to carry it on into 2012. Have a look below to see what you can expect to find in the
post for Christmas day.
We are starting to get some details of the 66-game NBA season that will take place following the
end of the lockout. The season will start on Christmas Day and will run through April 26th. The
playoffs will be pushed back and end later than usual.
During the regular season, teams will play conference opponents a total of 48 times.
Finally. The NBA lockout, which never really made that much sense, is over. The NBA owners
softened there stances are a number of key issues and a deal was reached early Saturday morning.
While both sides have to vote to make this deal official, that is all just a matter of time.
Among the issues the owners softened on were rules regarding the mid-level exception,
sign-and-trades and even the overall BRI split.
When Tacony FC traveled to St. Louis in December of 1911 in one of the first tours pitting the
largely immigrant-based East Coast teams against the largely native-born teams from the West, they
had lost only three games in two years. The confidence they felt on departure proved to be
premature and they returned to Philadelphia with a 4–4 draw against St.
By 1916, exhibition soccer games on Christmas Day were a Philadelphia tradition that dated back
at least to the inaugural season of the city's first organized league, the Pennsylvania Football
Union, in 1889. As was the case then, the exhibition game in 1916 took place at the grounds of one
of Philadelphia's professional baseball teams, this time at the Phillies Ball Park.
26.12.2011 - Mientras una Buenos Aires semidesierta funciona a media máquina y los diarios
cumplen con llenar el espacio destinado a "noticias", Londres y toda Inglaterra vive el sustancial
y legendario Boxing Day, el día posterior al "Christmas Day", nada menos que en Lunes.
El Boxing Day es una festividad celebrada en las islas británicas el día de San Esteban,
26 de diciembre (o próximo día hábil después de Navidad) y su origen data de la Edad Media.
It seems there is no shortage of ‘look at me' columnists or radio shock-jocks ready to stick
the knife into Liverpool following this week's events and the fallout from the Suarez-Evra verdict.
It was like Christmas had come early, albeit by a few days, with a topic they could talk about from
atop their high horses without wasting valuable festive drinking time by bothering to do any
research on it.
Will Manchester City still top the English league after Christmas?
While the rest of European football shuts down for a well-earned break at Christmas time there
is no such luxury in the United Kingdom. It has long been a traditional within the Home Nations to
continue over the festive period and this season will should see some interesting action.
So it is Manchester City who proudly sits at the top of the Premier League table going into
Christmas this year.
Of course, manager Roberto Mancini is refusing to get carried away by all that, but it is true
that it is his side who now hold the advantage going into the tough second part of the season.
In my two decades as Newcastle fan I have had worse Christmases, tucking into my Turkey in 2008
whilst languishing four points above the relegation zone springs immediately to mind. This was made
all the worse by having to bypass drinking my despair away due to a nice early drive to Wigan the
next morning.
So Steve Kean at least avoided the ignominy of becoming the Premier League's first coach to be
sacked thi season. Poor old Steve Bruce has taken that title for him.
But with Rovers propping up the rest of the division and slung out of the Carling Cup by Cardiff in
midweek, most managers in Kean's position would be nervously awaiting a phone call from the
chairman.
10! 10! 10! Fabrice Muamba received top marks on Christmas Day for making another huge and rather glittery step in his recovery from the cardiac arrest he suffered on the pitch in March. Just nine months on from being seconds from death and being told he can never play football again, the former [.
It's a puzzle Jimmy. Posted in Italy but it's all in Dutch. Must be the wrong address. . The Greg Meyer Column . Christmas Day 2012. . Standing Room Only ... A Wesley Sneijder Accident. . Before we cover the Sneijder speculation and bearing in mind it is hard to confuse Christmas Day with April 1st, some reflections on a trip to the Park Lane, South Lower.
Date: Thursday July 05 2012
Ground: Nantporth
Comp: Europa Cup Qualification Round 1
Match: Bangor City 0 Zimbru Chisinau 0 HT: 0-0
ATT: 1,012
Additional: Entrance £15.00 Programme £3
Nantporth in pictures
Ground Statistics (marks out of ten, maximum 40)
Character 8, Structures/Terracing 8, Hospitality 9, Backdrop/Scenery or aesthetics for larger
stadiums 8 Total 33
When July arrives you can start to smell the new season.
Ep.23 Deadline Daze by Off The Post on Mixcloud The Pod lived the ultimate football punditry dream
last night – recording whilst all the frenetic bedlam of Deadline Day played out. With producer
Stu alerting us of live developments throughout, the Pod's narrative zig-zagged back and forth like
Bellamy's rubber band dance in the FA [.
The Bedfordshire regiment play soccer with the Germans, Christmas Day 1914
Truth is stranger than fiction. Liverpool are to host Man Utd in the FA Cup 4th round at the end
of the month in a potentially explosive match that could see many sources of conflagration from
fans, players, and even the managers all centered around the Luis Suarez vs Patrice Evra racism
row.
The Chicago Fire might be in the off-season but Section 8 Chicago keeps working on. The Section
8 monthly Board Meeting will take place tonight, December 7 at 7:00 PM at The Atlantic Bar & Grill,
5062 N. Lincoln Avenue in Chicago. As always, the board meetings are open and everyone is invited
to attend.
With the NBA season set to begin on Christmas Day, let's take a further look at the basketball
landscape. We already looked at the NBA power rankings to see the best teams in basketball. Now,
let's look at the worst. Here are the top 10 worst teams in the NBA headed into the 2011-12
season.
Welcoming Laurie Dunsire this hour. A Hearts fan. This blogathon is inclusive to its bones.
Laurie writes for the excellent Scottish Football Forums
And follow him @lauriedunsire
I'll let Laurie explain what this hour has been about:
Aidan Smith, Hibs fan and sports journalist, carried out an unthinkable challenge when he became a
Hearts fan for a whole season, something which he documented in his book, Heartfelt: Supping Bovril
from the Devil's Cup.
