Monday Backpasses: I’m a shark
Arsenal play furry dress up. Link courtesy ONTD_FB [Tinypic]
They got to be cuddly today because they’re so deadly on the pitch [SoccerLens]
Eva Roob makes a triumphant return to the football locker room. In lingerie [Dirty Tackle]
LandonPool. Look, after today, could it really hurt? [Avoiding the Drop]
A Brit football writer’s view on naming rights [When Saturday Comes]
Turnabout=fair play (and all that). Patrick Vieira elbows Daniele de Rossi, fracturing his cheekbone. In the process, the Frenchman becomes an American soccer hero [Soccernet]
Dean Ashton is never coming back. :( [Telegraph]
A certain beach ball is going up for auction [Four Four Two]
(Some. By no means all) Old Firm fans are twats [PIES]
Finally:
Why Drogba got carded for allowing himself to take Jonny Evans’ studs to the chest. Take your choice from one of the six possibilities [The Offside]


Comments
You should read the comments about the Jonny Evans-Drogba incident. People are overwhelmingly blaming Drogba for throwing his chest into Evans’s studs. As far as I can tell, they’re serious, too. ManU fans (but not the fine fellows who frequent this here blog) are like right wingers who are incapable of acknowledging mountains of evidence that contradict their narrow world view. Blame Wenger, blame Drogba, anyone but themselves. Fucking morons.
@Goat: i couldn’t figure out if it was serious or a windup. regardless, they are idiots.
Evans should have bought him dinner first. Christ, that was ugly.
All you Liverpudlians, get thee some perspective:
On crises.
And call me a twat, but I actually don’t have a problem with a section of Celtic supporters vocally refusing to honor the British war dead. Go read your Yeats again, or if you need a more modern counterpart:
“We store our sorrows in our jars, lest/the soldiers see them and celebrate the siege…/We store them for other seasons,/for a memory,/for something that might surprise us on the road./But when life becomes normal/we’ll grieve like others over personal matters/that bigger headlines had kept hidden,/when we didn’t notice the hemorrhage of small wounds in us./Tomorrow when the place heals/we’ll feel its side effects.”
I’m truly getting worried about Song’s requirement to play in the ACN. Here’s hoping that Cameroon goes out quickly in the tournament. And he doesn’t contract malaria.
I have to agree with Barry Glendenning on the Drogba challenge, though: the leg twitching was pretty damn funny.
@MH: Agreed. It looked like something out of professional wrestling.
Drogba’s sell job looked like something the Dudley Boys or Shawn Michaels would do. That takes skill.