By Chris Wright
Like all good captains should, Nemanja Vidic was willing to put his adorable elfin good looks on the line against Swansea yesterday when the Serbian centre-half went all JT and attempted to stop Chico Flores' shot with his face and nothing else.
By Chris Wright
By Allah, this Van Persie fella scores some bloody gorgeous goals...
Just can't quite get over how good that sucker was; the floated pass from Rooney, the ground RVP had to make up just to get there, the technique, the connection, the trajectory, Guzan's "WTF" body language after watching it ping past him.
By Chris Wright
HE'S A WRECKING MACHINE!!!
The moment of impact...
Well, that looked a smidge on the painful side.
By Chris Wright
A swathe of 100% Dutch silk from Robin van Persie against Reading last night...
Showboaters of the world take note: No end product = no point.
(GIF: Reddit)
By Chris Wright
We probably don't need to tell you the significance of Super Frank's second goal against Villa today his 203rd for Chelsea since bagging his first in the 87th minute of a 5-1 win over Bolton in December of 2001...
And with that, Bobby Tambling's record was surpassed by a midfielder.
By Chris Wright
He may have scored the goal that made the difference, but Serge Aguero should've seen red for this rather horrible and vindictive stamp on David Luiz's hindquarters...
Get's worse everytime you see it.
Disgusting.
By Chris Wright
With the ball played square and only Hugo Lloris to beat, Ramires done a bit of whoopsie tonight...
PWARP! The FAIL tastes grass-flavoured.
(Via football blogging's GIFmeister General, Feint Zebra)
By Chris Wright
Most amusing moment of Saturday's Premier League action: Sunderland midfielder Seb Larsson putting the willies up his own goalkeeper, Simon Mignolet, by hoofing a unfathomable, massively over-hit 40-yard backpass in the Belgian's general direction...
"Deal with it!
By Chris Wright
David Beckham lives by one rule and one rule only: No touching of the hair or face... AND THAT'S IT!
Here's Beck's superb reaction to Jonathan Ayew's scuffle-based dickheadry in infinite loop form...
Wonderful.
By Chris Wright
It was a nauseatingly mediocre affair settled by a suitably shonky winning goal but, as this was Man Utd-Chelsea, there was still room for some dickish behaviour with David Luiz getting his fellow countryman Rafael sent off late on for a "swipe" in the corner.
By Alan Duffy
In a truly WTF moment, pantomime villain Luis Suarez lived up to his bad-boy image and then some by blatantly attempting to bite Branislav Ivanovic on the arm.
The Uruguayan even has form for this kind of madness, doing it once before with Ajax, but surely this latest piece of nasty and bizarre behaviour could spell the end of his time with Liverpool.
By Alan Duffy
In a bizarrely needless challenge after just 20 minutes, from a throw-in no less, QPR's Bobby Zamora launched a head-high studs-up kick which hits Jordi Gomez in the side of the head. Not surprisingly, the ex-Fulham man was sent off.
The Hoops went on to play well with 10 men but ultimately only draw the must-win game.
By Chris Wright
Chelsea pipped a often risible-looking Manchester United 1-0 to bound into the FA Cup semis (where they'll face Manchester City), with a truly outrageous stretching volley from Demba Ba proving the difference...
May the GIF live on, long after the Youtube video is stripped.
By Alan Duffy
This really is a 100% appalling tackle from Wigan winger Callum McManaman. He may have got a touch on the ball, but the player then launches himself at Newcastle'sMassadio Haidara, catching him right on the knee.
Referee Mark Halsey did look unsighted when the challenge happened and so nothing was given for the assault, but surely the FA can do something in terms of retrospective action?
By Chris Wright
Remember Ian Harte? From 1997? Well he's still playing in the Premier League somehow, for Reading no less, and despite being from a bygone era, he's still obviously savvy to the crazes of today's footballing youth take his attempt at "contact anticipation/simulation" against Villa for example.
By Chris Wight
Bumble bumble bumble *fart*...
Truth be told, Torres had a bit of a stinker all round last night, with the moment he decided to play as an auxiliary Steaua sweeper rather than lashing one home being a personal lowlight...
We still rate Torres rather higher than most but, Christ on a cocktail stick, it's getting harder and harder to defend him.
By Alan Duffy
Fergie was apparently too angry to do the post-match prezzer while Roy Keane thought the referee was right to send off Nani. So here's the infamous, game-chaning challenge by the Portuguese attacker on Alvaro Arbeloa. The Madrid defender's Liverpool credentials are sure to add even more fuel to this particular fire, I imagine.
By Chris Wright
We had a video but it got away, so you'll have to make do with this 'ere GIF of Galatasaray 'keeperFernando Muslera walloping a low clearance off the heels of his own player the poor unfortunate figure of Selcuk Inan and back over his head into a gaping goal to give Orduspor a farcical headstart in the Turkish Super Lig last night.
By Alan Duffy
The former Southampton starlet can do no wrong these days, and at the Boleyn Ground on Monday night, he produced a magnificent strike which secured a precious 3-2 win for Spurs. Champions League football (surely) awaits the Lilywhites next season. But will the G-Man be there to enjoy it with the north Londoners?
By Chris Wright
Chelsea have just eased past Basel and into the Europa League Final (where they'll play Benfica), with the Blues' night capped in supreme style by David Luiz's effortless, pinpoint top-corner curler to put his side 3-1 up...
Just look where that shot ends up.
By Alan Duffy
Arsenal's Togolese sleeper cell is finally activated...
By Chris Wright
Alan's already covered it in his Spurs-Basel round-up, but just in case you missed it here's Gareth Bale's nasty-looking-but-potentially-not-quite-as-bad-as-it-first-appeared ankle injury last night ininfiniteGIF form for those who wish to study a human ankle going all rubbery again and again and again.
By Alan Duffy
He did have a player on the ground in front of him, to be fair, but Scott 'Scotty' Parker really should have done better here than skew the ball wide. The miss proved costly too, with the Lilywhites drawing the game at the Lane 2-2 with Basel.
Enjoy...
(GIF: 101gg)
By Alan Duffy
He did have a player on the ground in front of him, to be fair, but Scott 'Scotty' Parker really should have done better here than skew the ball wide. The miss proved costly too, with the Lilywhites drawing the game at the Lane 2-2 with Basel.
Enjoy...
(GIF: 101gg)
By Chris Wright
Sadly it wasn't to be for Liverpool in the Europa League tonight, despite it looking as if a classic Anfield second-leg comeback was shaping up, there was no "GGGGEEEEEERRRRRRRRRAAAAAAARRRRDDDD!!!" finish against Zenit.
Liverpool bossed the second leg with a tidy 3-1 win but the Russian's were able to hold onto their 2-0 first-leg advantage to go through on away goals, despite it looking fairly hairy for them throughout the last half-an-hour or so.
By Chris Wright
Lyon and coach Remi Garde did an absolute number on Gareth Bale last night, playing deep and dense, shutting him down quickly and suffocating the Welsh whippet in open play yet he still managed to come away with two goals, thanks to a duo of deliciously dipping doppleganger freekicks.
By Chris Wright
Nothing wrong with a grown man styling a young boy's hair every now and then...
(Via 101GG)
"Super Cristiano" by Gonza Rodriguezand Dale con Comba The moment for Real Madrid to rise is here. La Decima is close, and Cristiano Ronaldo has been crucial to the club's Champions League success, snatching one clutch goal after another. The consistency is as impressive as the number of goals being tallied, and now we wait to see if the super number 7 can continue his streak.
By Chris Wright
It's a bit of a shame that it ended up in nothing more than a shanked shot, as Andres Iniesta's silky 'about face' 180° turn against PSG last night was a touch of sheer class...
(GIF via 101GG)
By Chris Wright
Ain't this just the weirdest-lookin' deflection you ever did see?
Anyone out there with a degree in physics/telekinesis explain how the ball can deflect right off the defender's toe and still curl to the left?
Unless, indeed, they playing with a Shoot 5 airflow, and then we understand perfectly.
By Alan Duffy
With the game into added-on time and his PSG side 2-1 up away at Valencia, there was no need for Zlatan Ibrahimovic to get himself sent off. However, the mighty Zlatan lives only by the wonky tenets of Zlatanism, as this little clip shows.
Taking out both Dani Parejo and Andres Guardado, the Swedish superstar was red-carded (for the stamp on Guardado) and will now miss the return leg in Paris.
Flipping Ronaldinho The magic of the man with golden feet and terrible teeth has been captured in flipbook form, and we're still stunned by what Etoilec1 has created. Ronaldinho's finest moments in all their aesthetic brilliance have been condensed to a few sheets of paper, but the final product only blows us away just as much as the original masterpieces.
This is Hadokick-ing and it is brilliant. The KICKTVteam took Hadoken-ing to the next level,and now they're challenging everyone to Hadokick. Weekend project. Boom.
At SXSW? Spend some time with AFR and KICKTV The nerds have united. All those musicians you've never heard of, except for that one band that you vaguely know from college are here. And so are we. This weekend we'll be at Fado representing AFR and Tumblr's football community Tumblr FC at KICKTV's Kegs & Eggs event.
The night Roman returns. By Gonza Rodriguez x Dale con Comba. The Argentine Clausura is in full force, but tonight Juan Roman Riquelme returns to La Bombonera to suit up for Boca Juniors. After a long spell of contemplating retirement, tonight will be the first time JRR is playing in 8 months, and for the occasion our two incrediblejefes capos artists based in South America created something special.
By Chris Wright
After being sent-off against Atletico Madrid last night, Sevilla's Gary "The Pitbull" Medel lived up to his moniker by thrashing several shades of scheisse out of a poor old plastic garden chair that was stood innocently watching the game from the side of the pitch.
By Chris Wright
When Angel Di Maria bobbed past and put Carles Puyol on his arse in the build-up to Real Madrid's third goal in their 3-1 Copa Del Rey victory over Barcelona (Real won 4-2 onaggregate)in the Camp Nou last night, the whole ordeal had a rather negative effect on Puyol's groin muscles.
One final farewell to Beckham From the sponsorships to the movie star lifestyle, David Beckham always seemed on the cusp of his career as a professional athlete being less important than his life on talk shows or in photoshoots.
By Chris Wright
Charlie Adam was in the wars yesterday evening. Having just about come through a leg-breaker of a lunge from Sunderland's Craig Gardner, the Stoke midfielder also got into a bit of a dust-up with an advertising hoarding at The Britannia...
"And I.
By Alan Duffy
Not sure quite what Gareth Barry was trying to do here pass it back to Joe Hart, knock it out for a corner? Poor old Barry had already made an error for Southampton's first goal, but this OG after the break is odd to say the least.
Enjoy...
