Valentine’s Day Special: Top 10 Epic Football Bromances
By Chris Wright
It’s Valentine’s Day, love is in the air, the goose is getting fat, yadda yadda yadda. We thought we’d have a look at some of the greatest, most enduring romances that football has facilitated over the year – because love, in all its forms, is a beautiful thing…
1. Frank Lampard and John Terry
“Oh John, stop it! Of course I didn’t get that tattoo of us across my stomach…”
2. Gary Neville and Paul Scholes
Since his first, unrequited object of desire, David Beckham, moved across the ocean and married his fancy woman in a land far, far away, the Neviller has been forced to patch up his broken heart and move on with the second handsomest fella in the United ranks…
3. Jose Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo
Oh, excuse me. I’ll give you two a minute…
4. Cristiano Ronaldo and Cristiano Ronaldo
One all-encompassing love affair that is absolutely certain not to fizzle out at any point between now and the point that the sun implodes…
*Full-length mirror just out of shot, stage left*
5. Gareth Southgate and unidentified naked chap
Second base on their first date, it must’ve been love…
6. Andy Carroll and Martin Skrtel
Something absolutely nobody wanted or needed to see; the moment that Andy and Martin made their budding relationship public…
Can you pass the eyeball bleach please?
7. Diego Maradona and Colin Farrell
Yep, this happened. One imagines that certain stimulants may have been involved. Both Rohypnol-ed the other and went in for the non-consenting kill…
8. Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher
Never get between Carra and his man – look what happened to Xabi…
He hasn’t been seen since, but several ginger beard hairs were later discovered in the blades of Carragher’s lawnmower.
9. Gerard Pique and Carles Puyol/Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Pique: Putting the ‘camp’ in the Camp Nou since 2008…
“Oh Carles…if you go, where shall I go? What’ll I do?”
Given the sheer number of Pique’s Fleetwood Mac-esque inter-squad bromances over the years, things are either very open or very awkward at Barcelona…
Parting is always such sweet sorrow.
10. Jose Mourinho and Marco Materazzi
When Mou left for Spain, the Matrix just couldn’t go on…
“We need you. Hell, I need you. I’m a mess without you. I miss you so damn much! I miss being with you. I miss being near you. I miss your laugh! I miss your scent. I miss your musk. When this all gets sorted out, I think you and me should get an apartment together.”
Any undying footballing love affairs we’ve missed (there are several)? You know the drill…
Do Arsenal Artificially Enhance The Emirates Atmosphere? – OTP
Big Cup Bullshit – The FCF
Guess UEFA Cup Finalists From Their Shirt – Three Match Ban
20 Damning Steve Kean Quotes – Mirror Football
'Abandon All Hope…' – Sunshine Room
Leaked Blackburn Letter Shows Extent Of Turmoil – EPL Talk
Genius Who Couldn't Exist Today: Dragan Stojkovic – LBITCR
German Philosopher Reflects On Jose Mourinho – Futfanatico
Rule Changes That Could Hand Title To Man Utd – FourFourTwo
Welcome To Posh – Danny Last for IBWM
Bwahahaha..this is hilarious and brilliant.
RVP and Almunia:http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/RVP.gif
More of a lust affair.
Leighton Baines and Steven Pienaar, gloriously reunited after their heartbreaking year apart.
There IS a picture of the two of them holding hands in some romantic embrace after the game at White Hart Lane this year, if y’all can find it.
fernando torres and sergio ramos
suarez and evra – ha ha !
@Charles: Sorry buddy, this is the best we could do…http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/7343444.jpg
“Oooh, get off you!”
David Silva and Adam Johnson tbh. Someone has a cruuuuush.
#10 FTW…the quote from Anchorman sealed the deal
I’m not sure if anyone else noticed, but those ‘Real mens TV’ Tetleys adverts which played in between the AFCON highlights on ITV. The latent romantic tension between the two leads was nothing short of exhilerating.
ibra – abate: http://disinformazia.ilcannocchiale.it/mediamanager/sys.user/170548/ibra_abate_ansa.jpg
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/09Tbcw0cCg1O0/766×575.jpg?fit=scale&background=000000
that middle eastern fella who thought it appropriate have a bum tickle with his teammate that scored… only to result in a ban (ban for life was it?)
No Ser-Nando, Beck-Sillas or Schwein-Ski? Oh sorry, I see, you had to make space for Crispy and himself.
Definitely Fernando Torres and Sergio Ramos. Not even playing for rival teams could keep them apart.
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgc1vtfUgq1qboi59o1_400.gif
There’s much more evidence where that came from.
speaking of zlatan/barcelona’s “very open” policies, there was that reunion of bojan and zlatan before the roma/milan game where i’m pretty sure one touched the other’s junk or something of that sort.
Mikel Arteta & Tim Cahill
or even Arteta and Robin Van Persie
Gigi Buffon and Fabio Cannavaro
BOBO ‘N’ PIPPO 4 EVA!
http://interleaning.tumblr.com/tagged/bobo-n-pippo-4ever
Henry – Bojan
Henry – Eto’o
A lot of hugs & all that …
Arteta and Cahill is a great shout. Cahill was Arteta’s best man at his wedding for Zlatan’s sake.
girls must be throwing themselves at messi valentines day
Frings & Ballack
Wiese & Frings (when Ballack was unavailable)
Trinks & Thy ( youngsters from Werder Bremen)
not to forget Holtby & Schürrle (and a few more of Mainz back in season 10/11, Holtby is quit a slut – hope he continues his slutty ways as Schalke with Papa and Pukkkiiiiiii ;))
Hummels & Höwedes