Luis Suarez has admitted he dived to try and win a penalty against Stoke in October. The spot-kick was not awarded and the match ended 0-0, but Potters boss Tony Pulis called for retrospective action to be taken against the Liverpool striker. He's now admitted that he did dive. The Uruguayan said: "I don't listen [.
The journey started at 4.30am which is earlier than anyone should ever be made to get up at.
After a quick enough flight from Manchester to Amsterdam for the connecting flight to Norway, we
finally paid attention to the fact our destination airport was Sandefjord, not Oslo. It was fine,
there were shuttle buses outside.
So here we are of a Thursday, most of the working week gone already, and we don't appear to be
any closer to a resolution to our most pressing summer saga: What's going to happen to Nicklas
Bendtner? Will anyone buy Squillaci? Is Arshavin going to stay? Are Chamakh and Park willing to
leave football to set up a novelty cup cake business?
Luis Suarez admitted to calling Patrice Evra a "negro" during an argument in last season's game
between Manchester United and Liverpool at Anfield. After kicking Evra in the knee, pinching him,
and smacking him round the back of the head, Suarez wanted the FA to believe that he was calling
Evra a "negro" in a friendly way, like he would call his black friends back in Uruguay.
You get plenty of drama in the Premier League, but you just don't get amateur theatrics on this level. Walter Knario, coach of Brazilian club Cambre, decided to go all pantomime after being sent to the stands for abusing the ref. Rather than take the dismissal on the chin and head off to find a [...]
John Terry: excellent defender, questionable dude. Innocent (currently), but questionable.
As an important story necessary to keep journos busy from making up too much nonsense in the
summer, the Terry-Ferdinand/Terry-Ferdinand race/Three Lions battles provided ample juice. Alas,
it's over and John has been acquitted of his charges, despite using the Luis Suarez Defense.
Tottenham Hotspur joined the long list of clubs that will be looking for a new manager before
the start of next season. After a successful period at the club Harry Redknapp was sacked as
manager of Spurs. His car window interviews will be missed by the press who loved his "no-nonsense"
style. His popularity with the press is evident from the BBC Match Reports.
TURKISH NATIONAL TEAM COACH ABDULLAH AVCI . (photo by TFF )
After losing first match in the group against Holland on Friday, Turkish National team will face
Estonia in Istanbul,Turkey on Tuesday, September 11th,2012 at 21.00 local Turkey time(2:00 PM
At the press conference today, Turkish National team coach Abdullah Avci said, they respect Estonia
team but they want to win against Estonia.
Following Holland's defeat to Denmark, an interview with Roy Hodgson was showing on BBC1 with
him trying to explain the reasons behind leaving Rio out of his squad.
"No, I don't think it's surprised me," he said. "It's just a pit that the real
story behind it hasn't been told. I picked twenty three players and left Rio out.
That win was too good to just let go after a couple of days; we have been waiting all summer
long for that feeling so this post is unashamedly designed to prolong the crowing.
Yes indeed and why you may ask has the Arsenal laundry service has been cancelled? Because of
all the clean sheets, of course.
That win was too good to just let go after a couple of days; we have been waiting all summer
long for that feeling so this post is unashamedly designed to prolong the crowing.
Yes indeed and why you may ask has the Arsenal laundry service has been cancelled? Because of
all the clean sheets, of course.
Another summer, another saga. Football off-seasons are getting a little tiresome, with the
constant cycle of nonsense speculation, agent-planted seeds, and the oil rich moneybags flashing
their cleavage at their chosen prey of the year. Talk of ambition, talk of 'a new challenge' it is
all just a load of transparent posturing.
My goodness. Who knew that drinking shitloads of rum and bourbon and beer could result in a
*boilk*.
This is certainly new territory for me, I have to say. Anyway, it doesn't matter too much
because it's Sunday and really nobdy should care too much about anything on Sunday other than to
find a place which has slow roasted a beast from the forest, or a field even, and then eating the
living crap out of it.
Oil. It's marvelous stuff, isn't it? Look at JR Ewing. Where would he have been without oil? And
Bobby. He'd probably still have been swimming like a spasticated seal under the water with his
webbed hands and stuff.
It drives the world, literally, and now it's driving football. The investments in football clubs
from people who have made bazillions from oil and the like continue apace.
So we finally had some news about where we are with regards to the club's contract negotiations
for RvP. Van Persie said: "I've thought long and hard about
it, but I have decided not to extend my contract."
So we finally had some news about where we are with regards to the club's contract negotiations
for RvP. Van Persie said: "I've thought long and hard about
it, but I have decided not to extend my contract."
Yesterdays excellent post by weedonald prompted many good comments. One of our overseas
bloggers shard sent this in as a response to that post and he includes his ideas for how the
problem could be addressed.
The question to ask is, why do referees not enforce the laws properly, and if they don't, why
don't their associations sort it out?
AST Meeting With Ivan Gazidis – By JG Oh joy, the Arsenal Supporters Trust will be having their
annual Q&A with Ivan Gazidis and the board this coming Wednesday at the Emirates at 7:00pm. Last
years meeting turned up to be a load of nonsense, the questions Gazidis was asked were for the most
part [.
This is way late to the party, what with Euro 2012 being over near two months and all, but
better late than never and all that nonsense. Some wonderful illustrations from "Lee" on the
inevitability of any major tournament, compiled into one poster. A few examples of the individual
countries tumbling can be seen here.
Want to be like Andres Iniesta? Take a ball everywhere you go including knocking one around
deplaning after a major tournament victory. (Someone's mumbling some nonsense about genetics in the
back.)
After the jump, something a bit more difficult to recreate: 7 minutes of YouTube highlights of
the performance against Italy which sealed his Player of the Tournament award.
The modern football fan has grown accustomed to dealing with hypocrisy and idiocracy from the
governing bodies that oversee the game. FIFA, UEFA, CONCACAF, etc. regularly make poor decisions
and hand out head scratching fines and decisions all the time. The real frustration for me when it
comes to dealing with the chronic nonsense from the alphabet soup on governing bodies is the
feeling that they never seem to learn.
No. No it isn't. (That banner was seen at yesterday's Poland-Russia match. Turns out a great
many of the fans in attendance struggle with geography.)
Russia's on the UEFA naughty list, incurring a fine of $150,000 and a suspended sentence for
Euro 2016 qualifying after some fans attacked Polish stewards on the weekend.
Re-write the football coaching manuals, the Olympic football tournament suggests. Power leads to
glory...not all that tiki-taka nonsense. The United States womens' march to Gold, and the Spanish
men's march to...the airport were the key features of a mostly exciting round of Olympic football
matches.
Re-write the football coaching manuals, the Olympic football tournament suggests. Power leads to
glory...not all that tiki-taka nonsense. The United States womens' march to Gold, and the Spanish
men's march to...the airport were the key features of a mostly exciting round of Olympic football
matches.
Re-write the football coaching manuals, the Olympic football tournament suggests. Power leads to
glory... not all that tiki-taka nonsense. The United States womens' march to Gold, and the Spanish
men's march to...the airport were the key features of a mostly exciting round of Olympic football
matches.
I like to think that this is the very machine that our merry gang of defenders sat down in front of the other day in a bid to fix things defensively. You see, Arshavin, when he was trying to find a copy of his contract in the basement, had stumbled upon it in the storeroom that contains, amongst other things, George Graham's old scarf, a somewhat dishevelled Glenn Helder and Paul Merson's pool cue.
As we'd already seen with the proposed sale of Michael Dawson to QPR, it seems that few players
are safe from AVB's clearout of Harry's men but just who will escape the deadline day cull?
Since the transfer window re-opened in June, the club has waved goodbye to Vedran Corluka,
Steven Pienaar, Niko Kranjcar and Sebastien Bassong.
Welcome to Offbeat Wednesday, where it's all about the Ballers' and their WAGs! This week, read
about Christine Bleakley (Frank Lampard's fiance) and her frustrations, Kaka's Father's Day
celebrations and Gerard Pique and Shakira's reunion in Puerto Rico!
Frank Lampard's fiance, Christine Bleakley seen in a lovely photo shoot above
has declared in an interview that she immensely dislikes the 'WAG' tag and would not like to be
called one, if you please.
Sorry, nonsense headline but I wanted to get Cold and Turkey in the same sentence!
Anyway Galatasary have pulled out from the Java Cup which kicks off on Thursday. And, funnily
enough, it looks like they'll be replaced by another version of the Indonesian national team which
doubles the hosts chances of winning the trophy.
In a world where Spain has won three straight major tournaments on the trot and futuristic
sci-fi nonsense will be determining goals in the coming years, it's nice to know that some things
will always remain even long after death:
So, as you're all no doubt aware at this stage, Robin van Persie released a statement yesterday
in which he revealed, after thinking 'long and hard', that he would not be extending his Arsenal
contract.
And if it were just that, then I don't think anybody would be too surprised or upset this
morning.
Whilst Romeo, Brooklyn and Cruz form some kind of open-mouthed, consonant-loving supergroup, we'd
like to take a minute out of your day to talk about David Beckham's mustache. He's been growing his
five, six and seven o'clock shadows out for awhile, but this handlebar nonsense is a bigger
letdown than waiting months for your favourite singer's [.
Good morning, after 10 days out of the saddle I'm straight back in the game and off the bench to
mix my metaphors.
I am slightly browner than when we last spoke, due to the fact they have this amazing thing in
Spain called summer. The sun shines, it's warm and the sea isn't as cold as a football agent's
heart.
Seattle Sounders coach Sigi Schmid's assertion that U.S. Soccer is on a calculated mission to
halt the Sounders' success in the U.S. Open Cup has made its way to U.S. Soccer's highest-ranking
personnel, and it was not received with open arms.
