With those long winter evenings closing in, what better way to pass the time than to snuggle up warm and entertain yourself with irrelevant facts from the weekend’s European football fixtures?
Actually, don’t think about that too much that. Just read the post. Ta.
To date, social networking and football has proved to be little more than a disaster.
Players sharing team information prior to match days, calling fans, critics and each other offensive names and posting pictures of themselves in various states of undress are favoured forms of technological buffoonery, and while we don’t for one minute expect a single good news story to mitigate your loss of faith in young men being able to conduct themselves with any kind of decorum, it might restore the balance a bit.
There are few superlatives you can shower upon Zlatan Ibrahimovic that he hasn’t already liberally bathed himself in.
Still, like everyone else with a vague interest in football and a deadline to meet this morning, we’ll give it a go.
Before we all get too carried away with impact that Thiago Messi is going to have on global football, it should be remembered that Neymar has got a fifteen month start on the NextGen training.
Watch the above video from 4.18 onwards to witness Davi Lucca’s first drag back and feel the panic over future England trophy prospects return with renewed vigour.
In case anyone is unclear on why we think the mainstream football press is utterly out of touch, here’s a photo of Mirror journalist Oliver Holt from last weekend’s Sunday Supplement.
Feel free to engage in provocative correspondence à la Private Eye/Andrew Neill with us regarding this picture, and we will endeavor to re-publish it wherever possible.
Duty to the game and that.
Results. Sarcasm. Finger pointing. Embarrassing stories about betting.
Just the usual really.
We wonder if the rich boys of Real Madrid would be so enthusiastic about receiving free cars as part of the club’s partnership with Audi if they were more relevant to the their sartorial preferences?
It would certainly make the rest of us feel a bit better about our shite cars.
We’re late, we didn’t have time to round up Serie A and we spilled coffee all over the carpet.
Honestly, we’d sack ourselves if there was anyone else to do this.
Until this moment, we thought we could never see too much of Barcelona midfield maestro, Andres Iniesta.
Turns out we can and in this promo shot from Nike’s Winter 12/13 Pro Combat range, we just did.
Where to start?
Unlike Arsenal, we’ll begin at the beginning.
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