Good heavens. We hope you warmed your hands first, Sami! Images via gq-magazin.de.
Avert your eyes, Kickettes! We haven't revealed this much flesh on the site in one go since Tim
Howard was kind enough to get his nekkid on for ESPN, and our server collapsed under the weight of
our rampant lust.
Images: MadridAtleticos.com & Autobild.es.
The Atletico Madrid men were out in full press call-posing force last week, making nice with
their club's newest sponsor, Volkswagen.
After the flash bulbs took a breather, the squad was given instructions on how to activate the
automatic hair gel dispensers that were custom fit to each player's new (free) Beatle.
On the left is Sylvie van der Vaart; on the right is a Barbie in her likeness. Or maybe that's the
other way around. Images via @rafvdvaart
It was only a matter of time before the living Barbie became a real Barbie, wasn't it?
Proud husband Rafael tweeted some pics of the Sylvie Barbie that was unveiled at a toy fair in
Germany today.
Images taken September 2011 in Madrid.
After seeing the latest pics of Xabi Alonso and wifey Nagore shopping at D&G in Madrid, we got
to thinking: have we ever seen Ane Alonso?
Okay, we have. Once. But have we ever seen Ane Alonso as a toddler?
We thought not, which is why we're donating a hi-res version of her to your desktop files and
Tumblr accounts now, Kickettes.
Images: Hola magazine.
As we depart for the local pub, we'll leave you with this: four behind the scene shots of David
Beckham filming his H&M underwear advert for the Super Bowl next month.
TTYL, Kickettes!
The puffy jacket. The slightly askew Yankees cap. The denim nappy. We hope this guy was dressed at
gunpoint. Image via Bafe's facebook page.
If you're going to post images of yourself on popular social networking sites, it's best you
don't accompany each picture with the caption 'Look Of The Day'.
Images: Replay Jeans.
We've been slow to post on the pics doing the rounds of Irina Shayk's Autumn/Winter 2012
campaign for Replay Jeans. Reason being we're conflicted.
Yes, Irina's topless. We can obviously see that. But she's also wearing fingerless
gloves in various colours and textures.
Sport.es reporting that these will be next season kits (Photo:Sport.es)
Sport.es is reporting that they have received "exclusive" images of the new kits for the
2012/2013 season.
We will have to wait and see if this is true.
What do you think?
Mario Gomez with girlfriend, Silvia Meichel. Images: Sky Germany.
Last Friday, the Bayern Munich 'ballers of past and present turned up to celebrate club legend
Uli Hoeness' 60th birthday at an open bar party. Present were Mario Gomez and his girlfriend,
Silvia Meichel. Isn't she just a breath of fresh-faced, normal air, Kickettes?
At the end of the 2011 MLS season, the conventional wisdom was that the images of David Beckham
raising the Anschutz trophy would be his last in a LA Galaxy uniform. Paris St-Germain, bankrolled
with the billions of their Qatari benefactors, were pushing hard for Beckham to join their team and
were willing to pay any price to have him.
Just tweak, tweakin' the hair. Images via Divinity.
He scores lots of goals and lets Jose Mourinho ride him like a pony, but that's pretty much all
we ever knew about Real Madrid's 24-year-old headline stealer.
Recently opening up in an interview, Callejón revealed that his bestie in the locker room is
none other than The Ramos™.
This afternoon is a must win game for Chelsea and it really is as simple as that. We cannot afford
to drop points over the next few weeks as we need to try and close the gap to the sides above us
now in the league.
AVB and his Chelsea players have a job on their hands this afternoon as a rejuvenated Sunderland
side under new man-manager Martin O'Neill travel to the Bridge with nothing to lose and everything
to gain.
Mirror: Why magical FA Cup 3rd Round weekend is still the perfect antidote to New Year
blues
I don't know about you, but each January I find myself poleaxed by the New Year Blues. This
black dog, though, doesn't arrive as soon as the Bank Holiday has ended and work once again grinds
into motion.
John Terry may sue Indian government, should probably focus on more important things...
As if sleeping around and shouting racist slurs weren't bad enough for John Terry's
reputation, it appears the Indian government has been using a blurred image of Terry for
anti-smoking warnings on cigarettes.
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal
By Ref Reviewer 04
Sit down and relax (if you can) for a long ref review. Ref Probert did the game
Fulham-Arsenal.
Before you start reading a warning: this review is based on the images shown from the live
screening. And as our regular readers now we only [.
Premier League: Liverpool v Newcastle in pictures
The best images from Anfield, where Andy Carroll faced his former club Jonny Weeks
View the full story here: The Guardian
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From The Archives: Jon Horner's "A Chelsea Christmas Carol"
Click images to make them larger. Yes, this was done by our brilliant Jon Horner last year.
Yes, it's still relevant (minus Carlo). Sometimes it's nice to reflect on the past year and see
what has changed and what hasn't (even if you're not a Chelsea fan).
In Pictures: The images that defined football in 2011
These past 12 months have given us plenty to talk about with great goals, big embarrassments,
stunning achievements and more – here's some of the most iconic snaps of the year
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Images via tumblr. Cheers to Kat for the tip!
... Olalla Dominguez giving Justin Bieber some serious side-eye?
Yes, Kickettes, it flippin' well is. As most of you are probably aware, the Bieb-u-lator was at
Stamford Bridge the other day for a kickabout with Frank Lampard and Olalla's hubby Fernando
Torres.
Steven Gerrard took an active part in Liverpool training on Tuesday, but Kenny Dalglish is refusing
to put a date on the player's return to action.
Liverpool has been shorn of the services of their captain since he picked up an ankle infection in
October. The Reds have made repeated denials that the midfielder had suffered a setback and he was
pictured working hard in training on Tuesday.
Top 10 players sold too soon Sturridge, Pique, Keown, Adam and more
Click on the images to see the players allowed to leave far too soon
View the full story here: Talksport
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Ashley Cole and his glamorous assistant Carlton make a few notes prior to kick-off. Images via
EnglandFootballersFoundation.com.
Ashley Cole, Jermain Defoe, Carlton Cole, Dion Dublin and Ian Walker were among players who
appeared at the London Soccer Dome last night in support of the England Footballers Foundation's
inaugral 'EFF Charity Cup'.
Images via twitter, AP Photo/Manu Fernandez.
There's a neatly trimmed pattern forming here, gang.
Remember last week, when Cesc Fabregas finally buckled under growing international pressure
(from us, mainly) to cut his monstrous mop? Who was present at the scene? One Gerard Pique.
Sorry for the bad headline, I couldn't resist.
MLS and adidas released images on the new 2012 match ball. Gone is everyone's favorite Jubalani,
replaced by Prime...looks facny. The ball of course has no relation to Optimus Prime...or Rodimus
Prime...I'll just stop
Looks cool I suppose.
England's Euro 2012 base will be ready, say FA
The FA insist that England's Euro 2012 base will be ready on time despite fears over the state
of their Polish base. Fresh images have emerged of the shabby facilities at their training HQ in
Krakow.
View the full story here: The Mail
A news article on 2011-12-05 09:19:53 from: The Mail
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FA confident England¿s Euro 2012 training base will be ready in time
The FA insist that England's World Cup base will be ready on time despite fears over the state
of their Polish base. Fresh images have emerged of the shabby facilities at their training HQ in
Krakow.
Fernando Llorente gave us his best 'come hither' look as he modeled the official suits for Athletic
Bilbao, designed by Fuentecapala. You can drool some more courtesy of the photo shoot images posted
on his facebook page. Image Credit: Fernando Llorente.
2 days in Dubai: 80 great photos
The LFC-Standard Chartered soccer clinics for 2011 came to an end in Dubai this week and we've
got a great selection of images for you to take a look at now on our official Facebook page.
View the full story here: Liverpool FC
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The U.S. men's national team is set to unveil a new jersey during the early parts of next year,
but images are already surfacing as to what it will look like.
According to multiple jersey-related websites, the next U.S. jersey will have red and white
horizontal stripes with a ghost sash going downwards from right to left (just as the current ones
have).
Pictures: Samir Nasri's multi-coloured boxers and the best of footballers in their
pants
There was some colourful language from Manchester City fans last night after defeat in Napoli
left their Champions League campaign in tatters... but nothing as colourful as the boxer shorts
Samir Nasri accidentally revealed while getting stripped to come on as a sub.
By Chris Wright
Down the hatch
Two goals from the excellent Edinson Cavani were enough for Napoli to see off Man City in the
Stadio San Paolo, thus leaving the Premier League leaders teetering on the brink of first-round
elimination.
It now looks for all the world like City will be dropping out and playing Thursday night
football in the Europa League as of next year, that is unless they manage a win over Bayern Munich
and Villarreal take a point or three off Napoli in the last round of group games.
By Chris Wright
Several of Nike's international kits for 2012 have apparently been 'leaked' by a company in
China, and we've snaffled a few photos for you to give the once-over. See what you reckon (open in
a new tab for larger images)...
Any favourites Pies fans?
Images: REUTERS/David W Cerny, via tumblr.
A minute's silence was held prior to Melbourne Victory's league fixture vs. Perth Glory this
weekend, after it was announced that Luca Jones, son of Socceroo's goalkeeper Brad Jones
(above), had passed away.
Luca, who was five-years-old, had been battling leukaemia for eighteen months.
By Chris Wright
David Beckham, to Robbie Keane, to Landon Donovan. Goal. Trophy. It sounds like something from a
ridiculously tawdry soccer movie, but Donovan's goal was enough to snare the MLS Cup in front of a
record crowd at the Home Depot Centre in Los Angeles landing Becks, who had to overcome injury and
illness to play, with his first Stateside silverware in what is looking increasingly likely to be
his last competitive match for the Galaxy (his contract expires next month, after a tour of
Indonesia and the Philippines).
Via Football Shirt Culture (if you squint, you can make out the watermark on the images).
This is supposedly the new Nike USA home shirt, due out next year. What do you think? Good? Bad?
Real? Fake?
I need to digest this for a bit before passing judgment. I think this was the site that leaked
the last set of jerseys, and they turned out to be the real deal.
By Chris Wright
Barring Ethiopa's World Cup qualifier against Somalia later today, the International Break™
is just about done and dusted so we've rounded up our pick of the 20 best stills from the past
fortnight of various footballing action for you to feast your peepers on (open them in a new tab
for larger images).
By Chris Wright
Even Damien Duff can't believe what he saw. No sneaky handballs. No dodgy refereeing decisions.
Just delicious, organic, line-caught wild Alaskan qualification.
Thanks to their stonking 4-0 first-leg victory in Talinn, the Republic of Ireland breezed
their way unencumbered past Estonia with a 1-1 draw in the return-leg in Dublin last night enough
to see Ireland emerge from the play-offs with a 5-1 aggregate winning margin and a spot in the pots
for Euro 2012 safely tucked under their belts.
By Chris Wright
We'll have some proper reaction up once we've cobbled it together later this morning but, rather
than the obligatory draw, a largely second-string England actually beat Sweden for the first time
since the year of our Lord 1968 (13 games if you're counting) at Wembley last night a 22nd-minute
own-goal from centre-half Daniel Majstorovic (with a cunning assist from Gareth Barry) eventually
proving to be the difference between the two sides.
By Chris Wright
We'll have some proper reaction up once we've cobbled it together later this morning but, rather
than the obligatory draw, a largely second-string England actually beat Sweden for the first time
since the year of our Lord 1968 (13 games if you're counting) at Wembley last night a 22nd-minute
own-goal from centre-half Daniel Majstorovic (with a cunning assist from Gareth Barry) eventually
proving to be the difference between the two sides.
Quite honestly, we dread images like this. They only remind us of our continuing failure to cover
South American football in any depth. Image: REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian.
