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There's been a story going around about how Liverpool bought £20 million underachiever Stewart
Downing because the club's American owners were so impressed by the blatantly doctored viral video
above produced by Aston Villa two summers ago. This, of course, is a ridiculous tale and beyond
stupid and something no one could ever believe.
Dutch supermarket chain C1000 tasked the Dutch striking trio of Dirk Kuyt, Klaas Jan Huntelaar
and Ricky van Wolfswinkel with becoming superheros blessed with prescient capabilities. Those
capabilities are then used to save footballs from destruction.
A task you'd think better suited for the likes of Mathijsen, Heitenga, van der Wiel and
Stekelenburg, but defense isn't really a commercially appealing art.
Movember 2011: Footballs best and worst
It's that time of the year again when blokes across the world prepare to shave off their
moustache they have proudly been growing for 'Movember.'
View the full story here: The Mail
A news article on 2011-11-28 15:53:53 from: The Mail
This news item has been reproduced from today's media.
By Chris Wright
Like that scene from every cartoon you've ever watched when someone bashes a janitor over the
head, steals his clothes and uses them to sneak into an abandoned funfair, ticketless Republic of
Ireland fan Conor Cunningham somehow managed to make his way onto the Estonia subs bench to watch
the Euro 2012 play-off first-leg using nothing more than a tracksuit, a half-inched sack of
footballs and fair old pair of cajones.
A ticketless Republic of Ireland fan has revealed how he not only blagged his way into the stadium
for their Euro 2012 playoff first-leg in Estonia, but ended up sitting next to the home team's
coach! Conor Cunningham was outside the stadium in Tallinn when he noticed an open door. Unwilling
to pay the sums [.
Messi clearance After years spent bossing footballs, Lionel Messi finally found out what it's like
when the ball fights back during yesterday's match between Argentina and Colombia. The matchball
smashed into Messi's head from very close quarters with a little guidance from Gustavo Bolívar.
Over the last few years it has become one of English footballs most instantly recognisable
totems of the folly of ego, and now it seems as if The Reynolds Arena currently known as The
Northern Echo Arena which has been an albatross around the neck of the club since it moved into it
in 2003, may finally be play a significant role in the end of Darlington Football Club.
On Goal Scored blog collected 100 football from many football clubs and associations and put it in
one picture to see how the football is depicted in a 100 different way:
Here are some of them, the first ball (from left) is for Chelsea and that was my favorite, it
reflects classic history, authenticity, and heritage for the club, also, remind the English fans
about the ball that were played in 1966 World Cup.
The Philly Soccer Page " The Camden Youth Soccer Club
BE: We have been in touch with the Union several times, but not yet the Independence (next on my
to-do list). In the past, we have had some footballs donated to us from the Union, and Shea Salinas
visited us last year. Wee actually had Roger Torres come out on Saturday to visit, and just go
around talking to the kids, and then sign autographs at the end.
European Championship qualifying group B was a strange one: Ireland beat Armenia who beat
Slovakia who beat Russia who beat Ireland (while poor fourth-seeded Macedonia looked on and
whimpered). The logical progression would have been for a match to be played out between twenty-two
footballs kicking a man around the pitch.
By Alan Duffy
An original illustration of crowd trouble outside Ibrox before Ye Olde Firm Derby of
1501
The good old Beeb report that, according to recently discovered documents from the court of King
James IV, orgainsed football was being played north of the border as long ago as 1497.
UEFA have fined Barcelona £95,000 following two incidents during their 2-0
Super Cup victory against Porto in August last.
The Catalans were punished by footballs governing body for being two minutes later for the
second half of their tie with Porto and because 10 flares were lit by their supporters during the
Super Cup showpiece.
He would've preferred to have 13 players protecting in front of him
International week. Not the easiest of weeks to get by. Especially not after that last result. A
defeat to your most bitter rival is not something that you want to linger in your thoughts. Usually
we'll just have a day or two before to mull over it before the next game.
Berbatov learns 'spare' isn't just an unused sub Manchester United stars Dimitar Berbatov, Ashley
Young and Patrice Evra have been vandalising their local bowling alley in this new viral for
Betfair. The trio demonstrate their unique bowling styles (i.e. they kick footballs down the
lanes).
By Chris Wright
Got a couple of minutes to spare before you split? Then why not enjoy this
little viral of the Manchester United boys (Evra, Berba and Ash Young to be precise) bowling with
footballs while subliminally encouraging the nation to gamble responsibly on behalf of
flutter-merchants Betfair.
Belatedly posting our guide to today's matches to watch. In fact, the first match is already in
progress it's 1-1 at halftime in Eindhoven, where PSV is hosting Ajax:
Sunday, Sept 18
Netherlands, PSV-Ajax 6:30aET (ESPN Deportes, ESPN3.com): We said it last year,
and we'll say it again: if you're only going to watch one Eredivisie match all year, might as well
be this one.
By Chris Wright
Arsenal captains past and present went head-to-head when Cesc Fabregas and Robin van Persie
turned out for Ant and Dec's latest prime-time vehicle 'Red or Black' last night, a gameshow
(apparently, the most expensive British gameshow of all time) that charged the pair with knocking
bits of things off other spinning things with footballs.
By Chris Wright
Arsenal captains past and present went head-to-head when Cesc Fabregas and Robin van Persie
turned out for Ant and Dec's latest prime-time vehicle 'Red or Black' last night, a gameshow
(apparently, the most expensive British gameshow of all time) that charged the pair with knocking
bits of things off other spinning things with footballs.
By Chris Wright
The subject of Pies' Friday afternoon tribute this week just so happens to be one of my all-time
favourites, ever since my grandparents bought me a knock-off 'Batistuta #9′ Fiorentina shirt home
from a market stall in Venezuela (of all places) at the age of ten or eleven.
About two years ago I was first informed of a 16-year-old Belgian wonderkid named Romelu Lukaku.
While I'm not a follower of Belgian football, I must admit I have loosely followed Lukaku's career
having heard of his talent, waiting patiently to receive the news that one of European footballs
giants had put in a bid for him.
League One is the junction at which all of English footballs avenues meet. At one end of the
spectrum are the likes of Charlton Athletic and the two Sheffield clubs, who have fallen from their
once lofty perches and are now trying to figure a way to get back to where they feel that they
deserve to be.
By Chris Wright
Footballs in space? Looks like they've finally located Elano's penalty from the other day.
Anyway, something a little out of the ordinary here on Pies, this 'ere is the 'Soccerball'
nebula that was recently discovered by an amateur astronomer by the name Matthias Kronberger with
the help of the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii.
Dylan O'Neill shares a childhood memory of a fantastic moment in the history of
Irish football. You can follow Dylan on Twitter @Dylan_Oh
I was seven at the time this World Cup rolled around. I'd been extremely excited to find out
that my country was going to be competing at the World Cup when we edged past Iran in the
play-off.
Adidas have agreed a new sponsorship deal with the Argentine soccer team until December
2022, despite the teams early Copa America elimination to Uruguay on Penalties on home
soil. Argentina have been wearing Adidas shirts since the 1974 World Cup where Germany also wore
the same sponsored shirts.
Wherever and whenever I go somewhere and begin to talk to people about football the usual
negative comments about football is given: "Footballs not what it was back in my day" or the new
classic "Footballers are paid too much money". In all honesty it's very true. Modern football is
not a sport nowadays, it's a brand.
Alive and Kicking is a registered charity that operates as a social enterprise.They manufactures
footballs for children, with each ball having a health-related message printed on it to try and
raise awareness about issues such as the spread of AIDs and malaria.
Alive & Kicking Kenya's 2011 road show visited four zones around the sugar town of Mumias in
western Kenya.
In The Stands have got some new friends in Fitbathatba (if you don't get that don't
worry, neither did we its a middle class Scottish joke in case you wanted to know). These chaps
give a refreshingly honest view on football and it's well worth checking out their
site...
In the meanwhile here's a couple of videos that they have created about Owen Hargreaves fitness
videos and Michael Ballack, who apparently farms haddock in his spare time.
Nike T90 Seitiro: Official 2011/2012 football for Premier League, La Liga and Serie A -
originally posted on Soccerlens.com
The new Nike T90 Seitiro footballs will be used in Europe's top three football leagues English
Premier League, Spanish La Liga and Serie A for the upcoming 2011/2012 season.
Nike T90 Seitiro: Official 2011/2012 football for Premier League, La Liga and Serie A -
originally posted on Soccerlens.com
The new Nike T90 Seitiro footballs will be used in Europe's top three football leagues English
Premier League, Spanish La Liga and Serie A for the upcoming 2011/2012 season.
2011/12 footballs: Nike Seitiro - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
The new Nike footballs to be used in the English Premier League, the Spanish La Liga and the
Italian Serie A for 2011/2012 season have been unveiled.
The ball is given the name 'Seitiro'. It looks like the most modern and "firey" design Nike is
given to football.
Football on Mars - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
How would you play football on Mars?
A trio of University of Leicester undergraduates have studied just that, looking at how the
reduced Martian gravity and light conditions would alter the dynamics of a football game.
In what is effectively a very limited (2-page) study, the authors primarily look at how the
reduced Martian gravity and atmosphere would mean that not only 'hit' footballs would travel four
times the distance on Earth, but that the lack of air resistance would reduce the player's ability
to 'bend' the ball.
Liverpool U18s have continued to thrill the people on the Caribbean island of St Vincent after
dropping in on four local schools on Friday morning.
Rodolfo Borrell and his 20-man squad held a Q & A session with star-struck pupils of CW Prescod
Primary, Kingstown Preparatory, St Vincent Grammar and Thomas Saunders Secondary School before
taking to the field to run some fun-filled training sessions.
Adidas promote their predator boot with some crazy ideas...
Here are Van Persie and Kaka kicking flouroscent footballs at people running past them dressed in
strange white uniforms..
.and here's Berbatov doing a Godfather imitation...!
By Chris Wright
In which, during a brief stop-over in London to help flog Adidas's new line of merch like the
good Lord told him to, Kaka takes the opportunity to scotch all those nasty rumours about him
joining Chelsea this summer rumours, indeed, started by his own mother by telling the press that he
is 'going nowhere' this summer.
Saturday 14th May 2011 saw Manchester United overtake Liverpool as the most successful domestic
club in English football history.
In 1990 Liverpool won their 18th title and were sitting pretty on their perch, 13 titles ahead
of arch rivals Manchester United.
19 years later Alex Ferguson and his list of successful players had equalled Liverpool's haul of
18 titles.
I've been avoiding the mess surrounding the Indonesian Football Association leadership row recently
frankly because it's now boring.
For now, FIFA are still threatening to expel Indonesia from their competitions unless they strictly
abide by FIFA regulations, what ever they maybe. Some Indonesians are saying fine, let's drop out,
reform what needs reforming then come back.
Sports parent alert?
What would seemingly be the product of the maniacal machinations of the PR department deep down
seems anything but, and it's quite frightening.
That one year old 'phenom' who can put his toys away, basically? He just signed a ten year deal
with VVV Venlo.
He might not have the job anymore - he may have gone down in one of Australian footballs greatest
TV stoushes with the Foz way back when but the latest Aussie Young Socceroos Coach sees Ange as the
man to guide our young revolution.
Most Aussie fans will smile when they read this I suspect.
Many dream of life a professional athlete and all the perks it offers. Money, fame and success,
if the perception, and though not all make Beckham money, even those on the fringes often live a
very comfortable life.
Not sure how many people dream of running a pot farm (some, surely). Or would choose to arguably
give up the former career for a life of drug dealing and a bevy of "don't drop the soap" jokes.
In the summer of 2009 Juventus proudly unveiled their latest signing, the €25 million capture of
Felipe Melo from Fiorentina. The Brazilian International was one of footballs hottest properties
after an outstanding debut season in Serie A and an excellent Confederations Cup with Brazil. With
Arsenal heavily interested in him it was seen as something of a coup by then Sporting Director
Alessio.
