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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I know, the Cassano-National Team debate is getting old and boring. But this was too funny. In the 5th minute of the game yesterday, a fan ran onto the pitch wearing a t-shirt with the Superman logo and with the words "Cassano in Nazionale" (Cassano on the National Team). He jogged around the pitch for a while and then made his way off the pitch and was promptly arrested.

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It's one of the oldest jokes in the book, but it will keep on getting used anyway.� Referees are often the focus of a lot of negative banter including the recent incident in which Alex Ferguson called out a� ref for being� out of shape and unable to keep up with the action.� The refs (in short)� are often called horrible names most of which� I will not even get into.

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Well, you need to know who is going to be your new boss Rafa didn't need his glasses for this one, just a pair of crafty eye holes!

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This photo of Crystal Palace boss saves Rafa Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez escaped an FA disciplinary hearing with just a warning about his future conduct after successfully presenting a picture of Crystal Palace manager Neil Warnock as his defence. Benitez looked to be in hot water for reaching into his pocket and pulling out his glasses after [. Click to continue reading...

The Liverpool manager, Rafael Benítez, has been cleared of two charges brought by the Football Association following comments he made regarding the referee Phil Dowd after Liverpool's 2-1 defeat to Tottenham on the opening day of the season.
Benítez had criticised Dowd for failing to give Liverpool a penalty after Andriy Voronin was levered off the ball in the Tottenham penalty area. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool co-owner George Gillett recently told fan group Spirit of Shankly that Rafa Benitez is the man to blame for the club's underwhelming start to the season. While throwing his manager under the bus may not sound like the classiest thing for an owner to do, it really does make a lot more sense in the context of the full discussion.

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So I'm a couple of glasses in (Cabernet) but the Loko performance tonight was sublime. Marc, Jon, Ronny, Chris A, Chris Re, Chris Ro, Mike K, Mike M, Nick Esp and Benny D and me did the magic tonight. 2-0 and all about the commitment and the toil.
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So I'm a couple of glasses in (Cabernet) but the Loko performance tonight was sublime. Marc, Jon, Ronny, Chris A, Chris Re, Chris Ro, Mike K, Mike M, Nick Esp and Benny D and me did the magic tonight. 2-0 and all about the commitment and the toil.
It was truly hairy chested footie, boiled down, essence like. Click to continue reading...

Ciro Ferrara: are you familiar?

He's the 42-year-old Juventus manager and it looks like he's just plain had enough of Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho and Leonardo getting all the fash-respect out there.

To resolve this situation, he has taken on a moonlighting gig as the face of the brand Re Del Mare.

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Ciro Ferrara: are you familiar?

He's the 42-year-old Juventus manager and it looks like he's just plain had enough of Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho and Leonardo getting all the fash-respect out there.

To resolve this situation, he has taken on a moonlighting gig as the face of the brand Re Del Mare.

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West Ham riot was organised on the web | The Sun |News: "'I've never seen thugs baying like that. There were hundreds - if not thousands. I saw one man knocked unconscious. Another had been hit over the head with a brick.
'The police were outnumbered 20 to one with bottles and glasses being thrown on them. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool boss makes a spectacle of himself It hasn't taken Rafa Benitez long to get back into the swing of his crazy press conferences. Following Liverpool's defeat to Tottenham on Sunday, the Spaniard was asked what he thought of referee Phil Dowd's performance. Benitez reached into his suit pocket, pulled out his glasses, showed them to the [. Click to continue reading...

Italians raised their eyes and their glasses to the sky on Monday as they celebrated the Night of the Shooting Stars,also known as the Night of Saint Lawrence since it falls on his feast day, in the hope that their wishes would come true.Now in its 12th year, Calici di Stelle (Goblets of Stars) will bring about a million people together in over 200 locations to watch the falling stars in this International Year of Astronomy.

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It was roughly one month ago when the Dynamo was looking up at Chivas USA in the points standings. The Goats had more points but it was understandable because they had played more games. If I remember correctly, the Dynamo had two "games in hand" (a soccer expression I dislike, among many others).

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Listen, I know that Arsene Wenger's latest comments about the possibility of bringing players in doesn't look good but I really wouldn't take him at face value for it!
Wenger is not going to let the world know that he wants to make signings because it immediately gives the target's club a leg-up. Click to continue reading...

In yet another reason why the Internet rules, Soul Train has its own YouTube channel.

I can be 98% sure that, in the mid-70s, I was the only boy in my neighborhood who watched Soul Train. Obviously, I had no idea why it was such a culturally important show, and it didn't matter that the dancers or performers looked like nobody I knew.

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Another Nico Dijkshoorn column :-) It just doesn't take off, the star behaviour of our football players. C Ronaldo does it with Paris Hilton. Or did. Which is something that can change within the hour with our Hilton. The walking glasses with titties used up men in the same speed as Click to continue reading...

Morning all!

We have some news today (of sorts)... and I'm not in the best form after having to pay £200 for a pair of glasses, £100 for a graphic tablet, and another £200 for a printer. O, to have the worries of a modern day footballer!Trips to the Emirates before the turn of the year might have to be few and far between.

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You know, I was kind of down on FC Dallas' "Drew Carey glasses night" promotion a last week; I just found it odd that the fashion foibles of the owner of the opposition was made the draw instead of Freddy Ljungberg or something. But hey, they've redeemed themselves though with their excellent Memorial Day promotion: a crawfish boil! Click to continue reading...

That was much better, another defeat would have seen many a Gooner tear shed into pont glasses up and down the country, thankfully a little pride has been restored and we didn't fall apart again at Old Trafford. Overall I thought we were the better side, although we didn't create a massive number of clear cut chances, we had more possession, hustled well in the midfield and defended well on the Click to continue reading...

I have gotten a lot of "hate mail" calling me names, telling me what they were going to do to me, etc from members of the L.A. Riot Squad as a result of the previous article. I found those comments pretty childish and I am sure those individuals do not represent the L.A. Riot Squad as a whole.

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After Saving Private Giraud last week, American Idol was still at seven contestants for Disco Night last night. During which we discovered that Donna Summer recorded at least 43% of all the songs during the Disco Era. Seriously, people. Do you spend more than eight seconds choosing songs?

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Arsenal man should have gone to Specsavers Eboue: No, you don't understand. I want something thicker. They need to be really out there! Optician Perhaps I could interest you in a pair of specs from our paedo range? Arsenal utility man Emmanuel Eboue saw Tuesday night's Carling Cup victory over Wigan approximately three times as big as everyone [. Click to continue reading...