This is why you don’t celebrate your club’s 89th anniversary.
Congrats to Zaira Nara who eked out a Golden Rose Ball win over Larissa Riquelme (Borderline SFW, probably not Safe for Wives) [Beauty and Secret]
Well, the Eredivisie is in competent hands now [The Offside]
Mo Edu’s goal from the weekend. Watch the juke move [The Offside Rules]
Is there a Nicaraguan renaissance on the horizon? [IBWM]
Creepy Barcelona puppets [PIES]
Bordeaux get the worst “new Spurs” style kit yet. It’s like Puma want out of their contract with the club [Football Fashion]
Finally:
Goldenmort painting has the cops called on it [Dirty Tackle]
Those Golden Rose Ball nominees give me blue balls.
The Cosmos just got way cooler.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/867893/eric-cantona-back-in-football-with-new-york-cosmos?cc=5901
tno – i may have to move back to ny.
They’re really going big or going home with this cosmos project
Hello Romelu! Why yes, the weather in Manchester is lovely in July.
I actually own the Leo Messi puppet in that link. My girlfriend brought it back from Europe for me as a souvenir this summer.
@ Ryan: Lukaku talking about Citeh now?
l’Arse are getting arsed from the inside: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3359022/Denilson-rocks-Arsenal-by-insisting-Cesc-Fabregas-is-not-a-good-captain.html
@OM: Of course he is. It’s all part of $iteh’s new strategy: if they buy all the forwards, no one else will have forwards. Buy all the forwards—–>?????—–>PROFIT
@ phil: Yeah, loved that piece. It got me wondering–did he say that just recently or was that pulled from the time when Cesc had a Barca shirt pulled on him? As for Lukaku, I would love to see that name on the back of a Spurs shirt instead of Spartak or Citeh.
@OM: With The Sun, who knows. Those quotes could be pieced together from things Denilson has said over the last 2 years. And without knowing what he was asked, there’s no way to know what elicited these responses.
Feel the same about Lukaku, but we cannot compete with the wage packets at $iteh.
@ phil: Regardless, I enjoy the Sun’s timing in releasing that before l’Arse’s FA Cup tie with Dirty Leeds.
I love how Wenger is struggling to find a defender, yet Chelsea are all, “Oh, David Luiz is unavailable? We’ll get Kjaer, then.” And Wenger is struggling over Cahill, Upton, and Per Mertesacker.
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So, to recap:
Chelsea — we’ll buy who we need.
Wenger — Why can’t I get a center-half from SFB, a club from the basement of the Prem, or from a bottom-half German club? Eghck.
@Phil/OM: Apparently the Sun has taken some things out of context (shocking!) but the comments are still rather contentious. See arseblog.com for the story (where it originally appeared).
OM: Belgian media reporting City have agreed an 18m pound deal to bring him in come summer.
Dammit.
The Denilson story reminded me, Balotelli’s given another excellent interview.
For what it’s worth, I’ve just seen that Anderlecht have denied the reports.
That Balotelli interview is pure win. What a character.
@Ryan: I love how he answers the Serie A questions as if the media truly values his expert opinion. Does he now realize that they are just setting him up? Or does he not care?
*…does he NOT realize…
I think he thinks he’s setting them up really.
For instance, not included in the above story but part of the same interview was this gem:
He told Gazzetta dello Sport: “He [Rooney] is a very good player but not the best in Manchester.”
He said: “Do United fans insult me? No, they stop me in the street and say: ‘Mario, come to us’.
He’s the ultimate wind up merchant.