Alessandro Del Piero has signed a two-year, €2 million-a-year contract with Sydney FC, thus
making the Australian A-League team only the third club side that the Italian footballing demi-god
will have represented throughout his 22-year professional career.
You should see Mariner's back tats!
You can forgive Toronto FC supporters for expecting a bit more of a dog-and-pony show around the
capture of Eric Hassli. It was downright out of character for MLSE not to spend every waking second
promoting the life out of a new marquee name... but it has all been relatively docile.
Annoyed by recent reports of an argument between himself and Milan manager Massimiliano Allegri,
Zlatan Ibrahimovic wasn't in the best of moods following Milan's 2-0 win over Lecce on Sunday in
which he scored the second goal. Zlatan's weapon of choice: hairbands.
From Football Italia:
The striker was giving an interview on the touchline after Milan's 2-0 victory over Lecce and
seemed ill-tempered when talking to Vera Spadini.
This thumb-sucking schmo here is Bournemouth striker Danny Ings, a young'n who's been piquing
the interest of a sizeable clutch of the Football League's bigger names over the past year or so
none more so than Crystal Palace, who lodged three separate bids for the 19-year old over the
course of a 90-minute friendly at the weekend.
I received an update from our Ex-Season Ticket Holder, Paul McGeady. In it, Paul informed me that
United had finally contacted him via a phone call and he explained how it went. With Paul's
permission, here's the email word-for-word and a few of Paul's thoughts. It also includes a
follow-up email from the club after [.
Norwich City saw fit to call in the police the actual bloody police after a 17-year old fan
leaked photos of the club's new kit online on Tuesday night, the day before it was due to be
officially unveiled.
Norfolk Police were called in after IT student Chris Brown slapped a few images of the Norwich
2012/13 kit (here's a hint: it's yellow) on his Twitter account after lifting them from a corner of
the club's official website that was still under construction.
I recently completed a season ticket holder survey for the Philadelphia Union through a link I
received via email. I had participated in all of the previous surveys I had received, believing
that it is important to provide the Union with feedback from customers.
I had assumed, perhaps naively, that these surveys were blinded, i.
Image via Caught Offside. If RvP just met whoever was on the other end of that on-pitch phone call
following his team's tournament opening loss to Denmark, then that really is crazy. We like crazy.
For the second time, Chelsea's John Terry has been stripped of the England captaincy. The
English Football Association confirmed that Terry was informed of the decision by FA chairman David
Bernstein in a phone call Friday morning.
Terry is due to stand trial in July over racial abuse allegations after an incident with QPR's
Anton Ferdinand and there has been mounting pressure within England to remove Terry as England's
captain ahead of this summer's Euro 2012 competition
The FA released a statement on their web site which read:
Following the decision to adjourn the court case against John Terry to July, The Football
Association confirm he will not captain the England team until the allegations against him are
resolved.
"Footballer asked to give up honeymoon for new club."
Admit it first thoughts center around the wife and a reaction worthy of any reality shows in
which a new bride or bride-to-be seem like a good candidate for a rubber room and a key which gets
mysteriously lost for...ever.
Tim Ream was given a choice: sign for Bolton or head off on the honeymoon.
Premier League duo Liverpool and Newcastle are both interested in signing FC Twente striker Luuk de
Jong but neither side has made an offer, according to the player's agent.
The 21-year-old has been linked with a number of clubs around Europe after impressing for Twente,
with Italian side Fiorentina already having declared their interest.
Tim Johnson had just sat down to enjoy lunch with his mother Monday when he got an
unusual phone call.
"It was the weirdest call. He said, 'Can you play soccer in an hour?' " Johnson heard Madison
United Juniors teammate Eric Vivier asking him on the other end. "Landon
Donovan is going to be at Keva.
In an interview with ESPN today, Tim Howard revealed that the decision to not play versus the
Philadelphia Union was "made quite a long time ago."
Everton's starting goalkeeper discussed a multitude of topics with ESPN's Matthew Artus, some of
which included the English Premier League team's friendly against the Union tonight.
Sunday, May 13, 2012. Stoney's Pub, Wilmington, DE. 3:35pm.
In only the third year of the Philadelphia Union's existence, our worst nightmare came true. Our
club lost to the New York Red Bulls at home.
For the crew of hardcore supporters that were at Stoney's, the fact that our side played one of
the better 90 minute matches we had seen in a while and the fact that a group of young guns help
close - playing with 10 men for most of the game - meant nothing.
With a new England manager in place and the captaincy once again up for grabs, Steven
Gerrard has already said that he looks forward to working with Roy Hodgson again even though their
last partnership didn't go so well. The following is a transcript of Gerrard's call to Hodgson just
to remind the gaffer that he would very much like to be England captain.
It's never easy refereeing young kids playing sports uncoordinated, sloppy, and that one
overweight kid who makes a fool of himself tripping over his own calf. Not to mention the parents
who often treat such outings as a hall pass to act like immature college students looking for
fights.
SOURCE: REPUBLICA KATHMANDU, July 6: Expressing dissatisfaction with the All Nepal Football
Association (ANFA) and referee decision, Laxmi Hyundai Manang Marshyangdi Club (MMC) President
Tashi Ghale has threatened to pull out of National League (super-eight round) and also quit playing
professional football.
For the second time, Chelsea's John Terry has been stripped of the England captaincy. The
English Football Association confirmed that Terry was informed of the decision by FA chairman David
Bernstein in a phone call Friday morning.
Terry is due to stand trial in July over racial abuse allegations after an incident with QPR's
Anton Ferdinand and there has been mounting pressure within England to remove Terry as England's
captain ahead of this summer's Euro 2012 competition
The FA released a statement on their web site which read:
Following the decision to adjourn the court case against John Terry to July, The Football
Association confirm he will not captain the England team until the allegations against him are
resolved.
It's like deja vu, all over again John Terry was ditched as England captain this morning. 'Sources
close to the Chelsea captain' said he was stripped of the armband metaphorically, alas at 10am
during a phone call from FA chairman David Bernstein. The decision was made because Terry is due to
stand trial [.
Could this finally be close to completion? More after the jump:
True Blue?
It's been a long-running saga for the past two seasons, but at last we may finally have a major
breakthrough in the transfer of one Romelu Lukaku to Chelsea, after Anderlecht's Chairman and the
player's agent were seen departing The Bridge last night.
Marc Narducci reports in the Philadelphia Inquirer that Tim Howard will not be with Everton when
the club plays the Philadelphia Union on Wednesday night.
Union CEO Nick Sakiewicz said, "We're really surprised. One of the reasons we entertained
Everton's phone call was because of Tim Howard and we were under the impression Tim Howard was
playing.
Spurs' quest for a new goalkeeper may have narrowed down to just two candidates – French
international Hugo Lloris and Inter Milan's Julio Cesar and there are conflicting reports in the
press as to who is the more likely purchase.
Some stories claim that Lloris is the name in the frame and this may have gathered momentum
after Younes Kaboul's comments yesterday,
Steven Gerrard has worn the England armband on numerous occasions, but he will head into Euro 2012
believing, for the first time, he has the authority of a captain.
I know how thrilled he was to receive the phone call from Roy Hodgson confirming he was the choice
to lead his country. I also know how desperately disappointed he felt when the caretaker manager,
Stuart Pearce, decided he would not be given the captaincy in the England friendly with Holland.
There he was sitting on a chair inside the venue hall almost unnoticed when I first arrived at the
Singapore Sports School in Woodlands (which I nearly lost my way because of a misguided information
of an apps on my phone).
You see Brunei DPMM coach Vjeran Simunic (pictured above or left depend on your browser setting)
would normally tucked in his trademark attire entirely in black colour and top off with a black
baseball cap embossed with the DPMM logo on match day.
The fate of Eric Miller's soccer career hung in the balance at just the tender age of five years
old. The deciding factor of one phone call could have made Minnesota, and the nation as a whole,
miss out on one of the most promising young talents in the sport. "I was supposed to play [...]
In which Heerenveen forward Oussama Assaida gets pipped by the offside trap during his side's
3-0 Eredivisie win over Groningen at the weekend and runs through, rounds the 'keeper and flicks a
doozy of a trick-shot into the empty net regardless...
I'm sure I wasn't alone in willing Assaida to fall arse-over-tit there.
We hear a lot of agent babble during the summertime, and as much is to be expected as being
lying sleazebags is in the job description.
This, however, might just go a bit over the top.
However, he signed a new contract in May with a €100 million release clause and agent
Teodoro Fonseca claims Porto are unwilling to accept anything less.
At last we have played some football and wonder of wonders a new wind of optimism seems to be
blowing through the blogs after the most excruciating month of self-flagellation I can remember in
60 odd years following the Arsenal. From learning to read the match reports of Desmond Hackett : he
of the Brown Bowler hat: on the back page of my fathers Daily Express, to watching Nubile young
ladies sensationalise each and every action on Sky Sports News.
