Despite starting one of the internet's most enduring memes when he changed into full Chelsea kit for last season's Champions League trophy celebration, John Terry did exactly the same for last night's Europa League final. At the start of the evening, JT looked more suitably dressed to gatecrash a snooker trophy presentation.
Ducky's Note: Keeping with out string of really random posts form here and then here,
Bhavin throws in his hat into the fray with a prediction of the news items that
will make headlines next season. As a Roma (yes!) and Arsenal fan, Bhavin is that guy who became a
goalie for his college team cos he sucked as an outfield player.
There were incredible scenes in the Championship play-offs yesterday. Deep into injury time, Leicester appeared to be heading to Wembley ahead of Watford. With the score at 2-2 on aggregates, the Foxes were already going through on away goals when they were awarded a penalty. Goalkeeper Manuel Almunia pulled off an incredible double save from [.
David Beckham's cameo appearance for PSG for a bit more cameo than intended after the former England captain was sent-off. Goldenballs saw red for stamping on the ground. He went over the ball in a challenge with Evian's Youssef Adnane. Although no contact was made, the ref didn't like what he saw and gave Becks [.
League One side Swindon knocked Stoke out of the Capital One Cup last night, largely thanks to a
hat-trick from James Collins. But that still wasn't enough to please Robins boss Paolo Di Canio.
The feisty Italian celebrated Collins' second goal of the night by calling the striker over,
prodding him in the chest and [.
Mexico came from behind to book themselves a berth in the Olympic final, overturning Yuki Otso's
splendid 25-yard drive by putting the first three goals Japan have conceded in the entire
tournament past 'keeper Shuichi Gonda.
Adel Taarabt is never usually too far away from controversy. QPR fans have to watch his fleeting moments of sheer brilliance sprinkled amid a lot of frustrating and baffling displays. But he can rarely have been quite as frustrating is in the closing stages of yesterday's 1-1 draw with relegation rivals Wigan.
David Banner... uh... Kenny Cooper Leads RBNY to VictoryOn a beautiful mid-summer afternoon
at the Cathedral of Football, the New York Red Bulls got goals on either side of halftime from
Kenny Cooper and defeated their closest geographical rivals - Philadelphia Union - by a 2-0
scoreline. The final wasn't really indicative of the number of chances created in what was a pretty
thrilling, high-tempo match that featured opportunities for both sides and lots of good attacking
play.
After all these years of spending the closing stages of matches berating officials about the lack of/excess amount of injury time, Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has finally found an easier way of ensuring the final whistle blows when you want it to. During last night's FA Cup fifth round victory over Reading, Fergie [.
Robin Van Persie scored an injury time winner as Manchester United clinched a hard-fought 3-2 win
at Southampton. The Ducth striker had missed the chance to equalise with his club 2-1 down as he
fluffed his line from the penalty spot with 20 minutes left but made amend with the clock ticking
down as he [.
Apparently Manchester United is a publicly listed company on the New York Stock Exchange now.
Also apparently, hearing from people who can count beyond 10 in their heads, the IPO itself has
been completely anti-Unitedesque in its performance in Wall Street. It eventually ended up at a
price that would be the footballing equivalent of being relegated after promising to finish in the
top 4.
Manchester United fan, Alex Morgan, scores an injury time winner for USA at Old Trafford.
The game finished 3-3 in normal time after a dubious penalty for USA. In the last few seconds of
injury time, added on to the extra time, Morgan scored the winner to put USA in to the Olympic
final.
A ruddy balls up, I tell you. Just as I was getting into the spirit of making money each week, I got bitten by Lazio's inability to hold on to a half-time lead and Morocco's inability to score against Angola. Still Watford's 4-0 win (I could have been a great deal greedier on that one [...]
This time last season, if Wayne Rooney had been ruled out for a month, we would have been
totally gutted. As well as being the glue that holds our team together, showing great vision on the
attack and working tirelessly to help win the ball back, he also scores a huge proportion of our
goals. He scored a goal in each of our opening two games last season against West Brom and Spurs,
before scoring a hattrick against Arsenal in our third game.
Rep. of Ireland midfielder Conor Henderson scored a stunning 35 yarder as the Republic's U-21
side beat Italy 4-2 despite playing with 10-men after Derrick Williams was sent off in the 37th
minute for a professional foul, but Aaron McCarey saved the resulting penalty.
Anthony Forde was the second Republic player to see red for two bookable offences in the dying
minutes, and Stephan El Shaarawy grabbed a consolation goal for the home side in injury time.
Libya players take unkindly to their injury-time defeat to Algeria in Casablanca in their
African Nations qualifying first leg, should be an interesting return leg in October.
What a dramatic game at St Marys yesterday Southampton taking the lead twice, Robin Van Persie
missing a penalty, before registering his first Manchester United hat-trick in just his second
start for the club deep into injury time it had it all.
szólj hozzá: Manchester City vs QPR 3:1 GOALS HIGHLIGHTS
It took Manchester City just 15 minutes to break the deadlock through Yaya Toure but it wasn't
till injury time that City secured all three points. Bobby Zamora got an equaliser midway through
the second-half but that was shortlived as Eden Dzeko put City back in front 3 minutes later before
Carlos Tevez secured the points deep into injury-time.
English Premier League side Stoke City have announced they have agreed to a transfer fee and
personal terms with Rangers midfielder Maurice Edu.
Edu has been linked with various clubs as he's express an interest to move out of Scotland.
Rangers were relegated to the Scottish Third Division after going into administration and failing
to deal with their creditors.
It was deja-vu all over again for Manchester City as the Premier League champions opened their
title defence with a thrilling win over newly-promoted Southampton. Not only was the score exactly
the same as that never-to-be-forgotten final home game against Queens Park Rangers last season, so
was the scoring sequence, and even the ends they went in at the Etihad Stadium.
Chelsea suffered a first defeat of pre-season on Wednesday night in Philadelphia, thanks to an
injury time winner for the MLS.
Eddie Johnson was the hero with the winning goal in the 91st minute with Chris Wondolowski and
Chris Pontius also scoring for the all-stars, and John Terry and Frank Lampard scoring for
Chelsea.
The Young and talented English man has been out injured for a while now. Just like Aaron Ramsey
had been not so long ago, and I have to wonder what his return will be like.
Most gooners would agree that Jack Wilshere , When fit, Should be one of the first names on the
team sheet.
What would Van Persie's arrival at Manchester City mean for Balotelli, Tevez and co? -
originally posted on Soccerlens.com
After securing a last-gasp Premier League title success last season, Manchester City were
expected to push on and splurge in the transfer market, as they look to challenge on all fronts
next term.
Liverpool and Arsenal on Sunday lunchtime meet at Anfield when both clubs will be looking for their
first Premier League wins of the season and Nuri Sahin could make his debut.
Neither side have yet to collect a three-point haul in the wake of eventful summers, which have set
both clubs into new eras.
Facing their first crisis of the season, Real Madrid responded like champions as they beat
10-man Barcelona 2-1 at the Bernabeu tonight to win the Spanish Super Cup on away goals.
It must have been one amazing pre-game speech by Jose Mourinho as Real Madrid came out of the
gatyes flying and scored two quick goals from Gonzalo Higuain and Cristiano Ronaldo to go ahead 4-3
on aggregate.
Facing their first crisis of the season, Real Madrid responded like champions as they beat
10-man Barcelona 2-1 at the Bernabeu tonight to win the Spanish Super Cup on away goals.
It must have been one amazing pre-game speech by Jose Mourinho as Real Madrid came out of the
gatyes flying and scored two quick goals from Gonzalo Higuain and Cristiano Ronaldo to go ahead 4-3
on aggregate.
Real Madrid followed up a draw in their first match of the season and a 3-2 loss in the first
leg of the Supercopa to Barcelona by losing 2-1 to Getafe. In fact, it was such a bad day for Real
that Fabio Coentrao was shown a red card without leaving the bench and Jose Mourinho said after the
game that the loss was "absolutely deserved.
Oribe Peralta grabbed a brace as Mexico as Mexico stunned Brazil in today's Olympic mens final,
in front of 86,162 fans at Wembley's hollowed turf.
Peralta took less than half a minute to put the Mexican's in front after he took advantage of a
horrendous mix-up in the Brazilian defence before grabbing his second 15 minutes from time with a
bullet header.
What most people don't understand is that home field advantage isn't always about where you
play. Just as often, it's about what you're playing for. And no matter where the games are played,
US Open Cup matches are home matches for the Seattle Sounders, because this is their Cup. It's our
Cup. Sounders players have been stomped, cut, mocked, and bruised for it.
This time Colorado fell behind in the opening moments, immediately tied the match, and then
faded out on Saturday night at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City.
This time the Seattle Sounders were the beneficiaries of this latest loss, but the victors
hardly mattered as the Rapids completed an 0-for-July streak that leaves the team questioning its
ability.
In the wake of Fabrice Muamba's near death experience last year it is obvious that match officials,
already under plenty of pressure, now must keep their wits about them when a player goes down. Is
it genuine or is it another case of timewasting? Decisions must be taken quickly and those seconds
after the player has gone to ground could be the difference between life and death.
In the wake of Fabrice Muamba's near death experience last year it is obvious that match officials,
already under plenty of pressure, now must keep their wits about them when a player goes down. Is
it genuine or is it another case of timewasting? Decisions must be taken quickly and those seconds
after the player has gone to ground could be the difference between life and death.
Finally! We started publishing the odds over a month ago and since then the same roster of 10
playoff teams have been favored to make the playoffs, and by a pretty good margin. In the first
edition I pointed out that the best chance at a shakeup was Columbus displacing Chicago.
Michael Bradley notched an assist in injury time in his Roma debut as the Giallorossi come back
twice to earn a point against Catania in the Serie A opener.
Juventus beat Napoli 4-2 after extra time in the Supercoppa Italiana and the Azzurri were so
upset about the three red cards they were shown near the end of the first 90 minutes that they
walked out on the post-match ceremony. Goran Pandev was sent off for dissent when he argued a
penalty that was given to Juventus in the 73rd minute, Juan Zuniga followed him back to the
dressing room after a second yellow during injury time and manager Walter Mazzerri was sent off for
arguing the first two decisions before extra time.
So pre-season began in earnest yesterday with a 2-1 over a Malaysia XI, although it took a
couple of late goals to do it.
Having gone ahead in first half injury time with a belter of a goal, the Malaysian side looked
fit and determined to cause a 'shock'. We looked very much like a team which was playing its first
real game and although we never really clicked we missed a number of very presentable chances.
(Mattocks' Michael Jordan impression at 6:30 into the video above)
With a mighty leap, Vancouver's Darren Mattocks showed why he's one of MLS's most impressive
talents, scored a late equalizer and gave Toronto defender Logan Emory a headache. It started with
a pretty ridiculous long cross into the box that the 21-year-old Mattocks casually rode an
invisible elevator over both Emory and outstretched Toronto keeper Milos Kocic to head into the net
at the start of injury time.
Scoring twice in the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final apparently made Corinthians'
Emerson Sheik hungry for the taste of human flesh because near the end of the match, he bit down on
an opponent's hand. And he didn't even get booked for it.
After scoring his brace to ensure Corinthians' first ever Copa Libertadores title, Emerson was
fouled by Boca Juniors defender Matias Caruzzo just before injury time and Emerson's response was
to bite Caruzzo on the hand.
