Half of the UEFA Champions League semifinals spots are spoken for, and the other two will be
filled today, as Chelsea and Real Madrid look to hold on to their first-leg advantages to complete
what would be a star-studded final four.
Chelsea nurses a 1-0 edge over Benfica thanks to a late away goal from Salomon Kalou in their
meeting last week.
Real Madrid goal-keeper, Jerzy Dudek, will be out for 6 weeks after suffering a broken jaw in
Madrid's 4-0 victory against Auxerre on Wednesday. It was an unfortunate situation for Dudek as the
37-year old collided into an on-coming Roy Contout after clearing the ball from his feet.
Los Blanco's trounced on Auxerre yeseterday after-noon and although the game was said "Not
to be important for Real Madrid", they did not take this game lightly.
A 12-year old girl from Crotone in Italy has been woken from a 15-day coma by the soothing voice
of her idol, one Alessandro Del Piero. That's a sentence that doesn't tend to get used very
often.
Jade fell ill and reportedly slipped into a coma while watching the goals from Juventus' 2-0 win
over Atalanta on January 22nd.
EDINBURGH, Scotland A Scottish soccer club has apologized after a program from a weekend game
featured a photo of Nazi soldiers on the front. In a note on the Airdrie United soccer team's
website, chairman Jim Ballantyne said the wrong photograph was used for the program's front cover.
The photo shows nurses handing out [.
Donating money to charity. A nice gesture to help those less fortunate than yourself. An area which
is free from controversy, surely? Not if you're a footballer it seems.
Yes, the one topic you'd think couldn't possibly lead to footballer's coming under scrutiny has
done just that.
Middlesbrough boss/Pizza Hut advertisement star Gareth Southgate has withdrawn all of Boro's
donations to the nursing charity 'May Day for Nurses' because of the charity's website naming those
players who had donated, and subsequently, letting the public know which players hadn't donated a
days wages.
Soccer uniform Thanks to Dirty Tackle for spotting that the USA appear to have turned up to the
Women's World Cup dressed as nurses. They obviously decided to take Sepp Blatter's advice on sexing
up the women's game on board and have commissioned Nike to produce a nurse's uniform kit. Back in
2004, Blatter said: [.
So we know the record of the team (4 wins, 3 losses, 1 draw including the two "reserve"
matches). It isn't great, nor does it suck. Over a 30 game season it would mean a MUCH worse
defense, a slightly better offense and 48 points on the table.
But MLSpreseason isn't about records, is any preseason?
Some good action over the past weekend. Not a whole lot of change though in the rankings as this is
a ranking system over the course of the season. 1. (2) FC Dallas (36 pt.) - I wonder if this will
stay but the Hoops are one of the best clubs in the league now. A [...]
Coleen Rooney not only pledged to have her baby (due anytime now) naturally, but says she's
doing it on the National Health Service rather than privately. For those unfamiliar with the thrill
of sitting in an NHS hospital waiting room with broken-nose drunks,
chicken-bone-stuck-in-the-throat drunks and other such injured-due-to-intoxication drunks, this is
a truly noble quest.
Coleen Rooney has not only pledged to have her baby (due anytime now) naturally, but also says
she's doing it on the National Health Service rather than privately. For those unfamiliar with the
thrill of sitting in an NHS hospital waiting room with broken-nose drunks,
chicken-bone-stuck-in-the-throat drunks and other such injured-due-to-intoxication drunks, this is
a truly noble quest.
Neymar and Rafael da Silva took their Olympic blood tests in
total relaxation yesterday, as they sat next to each other and enjoyed a chat in the examination
room. Neymar even took a quick peek at his iPhone to see if the contestants on
Big Brother Brasil had sent him a new photo while the nurse inserted a needle into
his arm.
The following is a note from Evan Mundine's mother Frieda that she felt compelled to share after
the article went live. Feel free to send Evan well wishes on Twitter @Bilzy
To All,
We are a true working class family. When our Ev was injured it meant me leaving my part-time job to
care for him and my husband became our full support.
I thought I had read somewhere that FIFA required all venues hosting World Cup Qualifiers to be
sterile for a period of was it 14 days ahead of the game? By sterile I imagine they mean mobs of
white clad nurses swabbing down all the cutlery while big burly geezers in face masks sweep the
urinals of their amassed shit and piss.
This statement appeared on Airdrie United's website yesterday:
Saturday's Match Programme
I would like to unreservedly apologise for the error on our Remembrance programme which resulted
in the wrong photograph being used for the front cover.
The original match sponsor for the game was Network Rail so I decided to base our Remembrance
programme images on wartime trains.
Freddy Adu and Aris travel to Pireaus looking to spark the Martian offense, while Eddie Johnson
nurses a new injury in preparation for national team duty in South Africa.
I thought I would wait until the crises was over and then reflect on our progress in a calm and
dispassionate way. But its not over and there is no sign of the fat lady whatsoever. It just goes
on and on. Harry, having given us hope ,seems to have lost the plot if he ever had it in his
possession in the first place.
