Proper sportsmanship and unwritten rules dictate…the complete opposite of this video.
Particularly considering the crushing blow dealt to the Flamengo player as the defender with ups went up…and then came crashing right down on him. Rather impressive, really, and probably rather painful.
Kleber of Palmeiras cares neither for pain nor good sportsmanship – accurate shooting is apparently off the menu as well. Mini kerfuffle ensues.
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Proper sportsmanship and unwritten rules dictate…the complete opposite of this video.
Particularly considering the crushing blow dealt to the Flamengo player as the defender with ups went up…and then came crashing right down on him. Rather impressive, really, and probably rather painful.
Kleber of Palmeiras cares neither for pain nor good sportsmanship – accurate shooting is apparently off the menu as well. Mini kerfuffle ensues.
[101gg]
Proper sportsmanship and unwritten rules dictate…the complete opposite of this video.
Particularly considering the crushing blow dealt to the Flamengo player as the defender with ups went up…and then came crashing right down on him. Rather impressive, really, and probably rather painful.
Kleber of Palmeiras cares neither for pain nor good sportsmanship – accurate shooting is apparently off the menu as well. Mini kerfuffle ensues.
[101gg]
It seems King Kenny has gone on another raid for Newcastle’s promising full back Jose Enrique as he looks to fill out his backline after being unable to tempt Gael Clichy. Rumors have been swirling around a move to Anfield for Enrique since Liverpool legend Phil Thompson spilled the beans on the transfer back in April. Apparently everything was set for him to move immediately after the end of the season, but was put to hold as the Reds thought they might be able to get a better deal for Clichy.
It seems that Clichy was simply not interested in putting on a Liverpool jersey and has opted for Manchester City instead for the absurd bargain of 7 million pounds. Newcastle will be expecting far more than that for Enrique, who cost the 6.3 million pounds to sign, and hold their defense together. He obviously wasn’t a bargain, I’d say they paid 10 million pounds for him at least. Either way, it should be interesting to see if an Arsenal style exodus from Newcastle will now follow after the loos of so many top players. Only time will tell, but one thing seems certain, Jose Enrigue will be wearing the red of the Kop come August.
Written by: Matthew Wall, editor, soccerprose.com
Bet you didn’t wake up and think that you’d spend today watching Owen Hargreaves sculpt his lower halves. Or rather you woke up from that, as it was a nightmare.
Well, it’s very, very real. Owen will likely get another contract elsewhere – local hospital FC or something – but in the meantime, he’s taken to YouTube with his very own fitness channel. Because he’s always fit.
Can we ponder for a moment what form of insanity would cause a person to heed fitness advice from The Most Injured Man In The History Of Sport?
Bet you didn’t wake up and think that you’d spend today watching Owen Hargreaves sculpt his lower halves. Or rather you woke up from that, as it was a nightmare.
Well, it’s very, very real. Owen will likely get another contract elsewhere – local hospital FC or something – but in the meantime, he’s taken to YouTube with his very own fitness channel. Because he’s always fit.
Can we ponder for a moment what form of insanity would cause a person to heed fitness advice from The Most Injured Man In The History Of Sport?
Bet you didn’t wake up and think that you’d spend today watching Owen Hargreaves sculpt his lower halves. Or rather you woke up from that, as it was a nightmare.
Well, it’s very, very real. Owen will likely get another contract elsewhere – local hospital FC or something – but in the meantime, he’s taken to YouTube with his very own fitness channel. Because he’s always fit.
Can we ponder for a moment what form of insanity would cause a person to heed fitness advice from The Most Injured Man In The History Of Sport?
This morning, Terek Grozny, the Chechnyan football club attempting to make waves in the football world, released one of the best official website statements in recent memory, torpedoing their coach in no uncertain terms, declaring if he does not win this afternoon’s game, he’ll find unemployment.
And because that coach is Ruud Gullit, it makes it all the better.
Apparently Ruud has been more interested in the sexy, less interested in the football.
Also: he’s incompetent.
The whole thing is just excellent.
“Today, we must acknowledge that Gullit has not satisifed the expectations of the club’s board,” a statement said.“Gullit’s actions at the helm of the team during this half year shows that he has no basic understanding of his players or his line-up.
“Gullit has to know he has not been invited to spend his time at nightclubs, but rather to work at the football club and, moreover, get a result. Yes, we do not have drug abuse or indecent nightlife institutions, which are aplenty in Holland and Europe…But in Grozny there are all the conditions for people with a healthy lifestyle.”
“For today, head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov is extremely disappointed with Ruud Gullit’s approach to his duties, as instead of working with his sleeves rolled up, considering the team’s tournament position, he has bars and discos on his mind.
“Considering the above, Ramzan Kadyrov sets the task for Ruud Gullit to get three points from the next away game in Perm. Otherwise, Gullit will be dismissed from the head coach position.”
While excellent, and it undoubtedly means this game will be watched…
If you’re looking to win football matches, just don’t hire Ruud Gullit, yeah?
This morning, Terek Grozny, the Chechnyan football club attempting to make waves in the football world, released one of the best official website statements in recent memory, torpedoing their coach in no uncertain terms, declaring if he does not win this afternoon’s game, he’ll find unemployment.
And because that coach is Ruud Gullit, it makes it all the better.
Apparently Ruud has been more interested in the sexy, less interested in the football.
Also: he’s incompetent.
The whole thing is just excellent.
“Today, we must acknowledge that Gullit has not satisifed the expectations of the club’s board,” a statement said.“Gullit’s actions at the helm of the team during this half year shows that he has no basic understanding of his players or his line-up.
“Gullit has to know he has not been invited to spend his time at nightclubs, but rather to work at the football club and, moreover, get a result. Yes, we do not have drug abuse or indecent nightlife institutions, which are aplenty in Holland and Europe…But in Grozny there are all the conditions for people with a healthy lifestyle.”
“For today, head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov is extremely disappointed with Ruud Gullit’s approach to his duties, as instead of working with his sleeves rolled up, considering the team’s tournament position, he has bars and discos on his mind.
“Considering the above, Ramzan Kadyrov sets the task for Ruud Gullit to get three points from the next away game in Perm. Otherwise, Gullit will be dismissed from the head coach position.”
While excellent, and it undoubtedly means this game will be watched…
If you’re looking to win football matches, just don’t hire Ruud Gullit, yeah?
This morning, Terek Grozny, the Chechnyan football club attempting to make waves in the football world, released one of the best official website statements in recent memory, torpedoing their coach in no uncertain terms, declaring if he does not win this afternoon’s game, he’ll find unemployment.
And because that coach is Ruud Gullit, it makes it all the better.
Apparently Ruud has been more interested in the sexy, less interested in the football.
Also: he’s incompetent.
The whole thing is just excellent.
“Today, we must acknowledge that Gullit has not satisifed the expectations of the club’s board,” a statement said.“Gullit’s actions at the helm of the team during this half year shows that he has no basic understanding of his players or his line-up.
“Gullit has to know he has not been invited to spend his time at nightclubs, but rather to work at the football club and, moreover, get a result. Yes, we do not have drug abuse or indecent nightlife institutions, which are aplenty in Holland and Europe…But in Grozny there are all the conditions for people with a healthy lifestyle.”
“For today, head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov is extremely disappointed with Ruud Gullit’s approach to his duties, as instead of working with his sleeves rolled up, considering the team’s tournament position, he has bars and discos on his mind.
“Considering the above, Ramzan Kadyrov sets the task for Ruud Gullit to get three points from the next away game in Perm. Otherwise, Gullit will be dismissed from the head coach position.”
While excellent, and it undoubtedly means this game will be watched…
If you’re looking to win football matches, just don’t hire Ruud Gullit, yeah?
The clothes and kit worn by football players is governed by a section in the Laws of the Game. Under Law 4: The Players’ Equipment, players on a football team must all wear five specific items of clothing. The first is the football shirt, which has to have sleeves although they can be of any length. The second item is a pair of shorts, although goalkeepers are permitted to wear tracksuit bottoms instead. Third are the socks, which must be long enough to cover a fourth piece of equipment, the shin pads. These are to be made of a rubber or plastic material, or something along the same lines that offers a “reasonable degree of protection” from potential injury.
The fifth and final piece of equipment all football players must wear is simply recorded as footwear. Contrary to what you might expect, players do not actually have to wear the studded football boots you see most of them in, although obviously the vast majority still choose to. All players are actually permitted to wear gloves if they so wish, although it’s rare for any player except the goal keeper to do so. Nowadays most goal keepers wear special goal keeping gloves to help them in their position.
In terms of uniformity, all players on the team have to wear the same kit with some minor exceptions such as the goal keeper’s tracksuit bottoms. The captain of the team must wear a small armband in order to distinguish him from his team mates.
The goal keeper is required to wear a shirt that contrasts with other players. When playing another team, Law 4 states that “the two teams must wear colours that distinguish them from each other and also the referee and the assistant referees”. Hence most teams have a second kit in a different colour to their primary one. If two teams playing each other would be wearing similar or identical colours, it is the away team that must change into their alternative kit, hence the term away kit.
A list of those who find it hard to stay on their feet!
The chief executive of the All-England Club says tennis can learn from football in its quest for popularity.
The man who holds the position, Ian Ritchie, believes that tennis can look at how football has taken the world by storm and hope to replicate that.
“I think there is a lot to learn from being exposed to the general activities in football as well as tennis,” Ritchie told Omnisport at the Soccerex European Forum in Manchester on Thursday.
“I think there is a great crossover (between football and tennis) about how things work.”
“The main issue is about how you get a spectator experience working, what are you doing with your sponsors, how is your broadcast arrangements working. All of those are pretty common.”
The All-England Club hosts the annual Wimbledon Championships, one of four tennis grand slams.
Thu 31 March, 2011
When my assistant first mentioned we were to meet The Baggies, I must admit I found myself at a loss. Still, I thought, if the lads at the FA saw fit to allow semi-professional footballers moonlighting as grocery store bag boys to compete, well, who was I to complain? My assistant, though, said it might simply be a nickname of historical import. After telling him in no uncertain terms I would call the police if I ever saw him on my property again, I endeavored to check if his insolence might hold a kernel of truth, getting as far as discovering they began life as The Strollers of all things before tiring from the exertion.
Still, with an original nickname like strollers, one would suppose they weren’t bag boys at the local market. Though it had begun to seem a more nefarious moniker, perhaps. As though it might be a club founded by drug dealers at home strolling darkened alleys in search of customers to sell baggies of illegal poison to. Or they might have been homeless mothers, I suppose. But I do ramble. In the end, I decided to seek out Ethan Dean-Richards, the internet’s most surreal authority on all things West Brom, to see if he might be willing to sit down for a chat about the upcoming match and perhaps do me the favour of explaining this peculiar nugget of nomenclature, amongst other things…
Perhaps I could do you that favour. I won’t, though. Not because I’m looking to preserve the exclusivity of the knowledge and not because I’m looking to subvert the ‘answers’ section of this ‘question and answer’ session, turning the ‘answers’ into self-indulgent piffle. Rather, because if I gave you an answer that pretended to be definitive, it would be a lie. Lying is fun, but I would never lie to the Liverpool Offside. The stories I’ve heard are the same bland ones as everyone else: they’re called the Baggies because:
The men that collected entrance money at the Hawthorns did so using bags–or something like that.
Supporters worked in the local ironworks and because of the intense heat, tended to wear very loose, baggy clothing–or something.
The team wore baggy shorts or shirts for various reasons–or something.
West Brom for life, yo.Moving on, I also understand your stadium is referred to as “The Shrine.” Now, aside from stirring in one’s mind images of internet lowlives building temples to their favourite model or actress or sports blogger, constructing great towers out of candles and pictures and locks of hair all held together by love and various byproducts thereof, it also brings to mind something of the religious experience. Harmonies and chants and the masses joined in hope for some eventual glory as recompense for their betters monopolising the corporeal glory. That sort of thing. So I suppose there might be some singing coming from the stands that those following along would do well to pay attention for, be it for its moving or uplifting or just enjoyably distracting nature?
I enjoy the fact that it’s always appropriate to insult Wolves, whoever the opponent:
“Stevey Bull’s a tatter, he wears a tatter’s hat. He plays for Wolverhampton, ‘cus he’s a fucking twat.”
“Albion ‘til I die, Albion ‘til I die. We’re blue and white, the Wolves are shite, I’m Albion ‘til I die.”
If that’s not wit, I don’t know what is.
Quite right. I think we can all agree the chance to shout “‘cus he’s a fucking twat,” with it being at least somewhat socially acceptable, is a chance that shouldn’t be passed up. Now, I wouldn’t normally be so crass as to trade in the words of those we get our sporting enjoyment on the backs of, but my assistant–while he was still my assistant, naturally–by chance passed along the thoughts of a certain Steven Reid. He’s some player or other for your West Bromwich side, and so doesn’t especially matter. Except that his speech matches–nearly word for word–many of Roy Hodgson’s bouts of verbal effluvium from his time at Liverpool:
“Roy has got big experience and we all know he has managed top clubs–Inter Milan and Liverpool to name a couple. He has great respect from the lads and we’re working day in, day out on shape and pattern… Everyone knows their jobs and their positions, wherever the ball is on the park, and that has shown in the last few weeks.”
Steve Bull, a highly regarded former Wolves player.One can only imagine the dark and perverted arts that devilish manager has employed to brainwash his charges. And while I know our most knowledgeable fans in the world were well above falling for such cheap lies and parlor tricks, he has hoodwinked other, lesser groups of supporters before. One does wonder, then, if the various unwashed who find themselves beholden to your particular stripes have yet fallen prey to his tongue?
I’m out of touch with reality and what ‘real people’ think, but I can offer you what I think of Roy Hodgson. I liked him as ‘That Nice Old Man Who Was Doing Quite Well At Fulham’ but it turns out that’s because he wasn’t doing it at West Brom. Hodgson is about tidy football and getting solid results, but I liked messy football and wonky results. Under Mowbray and Di Matteo, it always felt like West Brom were a bit of an oddball club, and I liked that, now they’re just going to be boring old mid-table muddlers, or worse, Boring Old Relegated Club.
I mean, it was funny when he was at Liverpool, but now Those Jokes I made are looking ill-judged.
Speaking of West Bromwich players, most Liverpool fans will at least be aware of former Red Scott Carson in goal. After all, he did play for ours for a time, and as such if he could pose a threat it only stands to reason he would still be on the payroll. Aside then from the danger a squad full of names as mesmerizing as Gianni Zuiverloon, Peter Odemwingie, Youssuf Mulumbu, and Chris Brunt might distract Liverpool in their preparations, is there anybody you see as likely to pose us a particular problem? Perhaps a 6′5″ behemoth of a center forward your defense can aimlessly punt long-balls to?
Odemwingie is, let’s face it, going to score, and Chris Brunt is good, but Roy does like playing Marc Antoine Fortune up front, so you’ll probably just be dealing with crosses that he gets nowhere near all afternoon. I like it best when Jonas Olsson starts taking long free kicks.
Turdus philomelos. Insert your own joke here.The throstle, mavis, song thrush. Turdus philomelos. Call it what you will, it is but a tiny bird that eats worms and berries and builds its quaint mud-lined nests, and it has been affixed to your badge from the beginning. It also, quite self-evidently, rather pales beside the grand and majestic glory of the liverbird, a mythical icon to swell a man’s breast and make women grow faint. Is it that very pride in being exceptionally quaint that drove your club to seek out your new mid-table maestro of a manager? Was the threat of the likes of Tony Mowbray and Roberto Di Matteo slowly building the club up the table over the seasons as an attractive, footballing side simply too much of an offense for such a mild and unassuming self-image?
Shit, I went and answered this one already in one of my previous answers. Didn’t you just hate that when you did it at school because it made you sure you’d got the other one wrong? Bah.
As a side note, Turdus philomelos beats liverbat every time.
We’ll have to agree to disagree, I suppose. About the latter, obviously, and not the former, though I do find that things go far more smoothly once you decide that anybody who thinks you’re wrong is himself not entitled to an opinion. In any case, as all and sundry well know, a proper Roy Hodgson side sits and waits and keeps its shape, dreaming of clean sheets and famous draws. Attack and attractive football is, of course, completely out of the question. As such, do you expect a gentlemanly nil-nil draw is a realistic dream for his charges? And do you expect to find yourselves as thoroughly bitter and twisted in future years as some of those who follow Liverpool now are?
Liverpool are going to win. Roy knows that, but he’s going to make it utterly painful. It’s going to be 0-1 with the goal coming from a deflected free-kick. I bloody hate football.
Well, there you go, then. I rather expect that however things go on Saturday, there will be face rubbing involved. Also, either way, Ethan will remain one of the best writers on the internets, and when my reciprocal efforts go up I’ll be sure to pass along a link.
Category: Match Previews, Premier League, Special Features
Tags: Batshit Crazy Ramblings, I Can't Feel My Face, Match Previews, Noel's really a bit of a dick, Potentially Foolish Ideas, Premier League, Roy Hodgson, Special Features, Tea and Crumpets, West Bromwich Albion
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