Category Archives: football

Prickly Pear

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

I love the penultimate paragraph of the Guardian’s report on Man Utd’s total failure at Fulham last weekend:
As for Ronaldo, this was one of those wearisome afternoons when he played with the soul of a pickpocket, trying to get opponents sent off, eyeballing the officials, exaggerating injuries – in short, the whole everyone-is-against-me routine. At [...]

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149 Own Goals

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Not posted any of these articles in quite a while, so here’s my favourite of all time. It’s from the Times some time in 2002. The manager’s decision just makes no sense whatsoever!
A worthy world record to hold. Apparently their punishment was quite harsh.

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Footballers

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

‘We got the three points … It was a no-win situation, but we got the win.’
Wayne Bridge, of Chelsea, after winning the Carling Cup.
0_o

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