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Kit Parade: Seville

April 5th, 2007

Here is the Seville shirt, sort of. This is the Seville shirt minus the sponsor’s logo of 888.com, just the way Fredi Kanoute intended it. So just to clarify, when Seville take to the pitch against Spurs tonight they will be wearing this shirt complete with artistic brushstrokes and 888.com sponsorship. You can click here [...]

WAGs & Babes

Sexy World Cup 2006, part 2: Brazil

April 5th, 2007

A YouTube montage of hot Brazilian babes today, made up of photographs taken at the 2006 World Cup, to follow on from the German honeys we posted earlier this week. Because a World Cup is nothing without Brazilian babes in the crowd.

Man Utd

Haiku Corner: Paul Scholes, master tackler

April 5th, 2007

Ginger prince bends like Bamboo in the summer wind. Can’t tackle for shit.

Kits & fashion

Shopping basket: Unfair Play League t-shirt

April 5th, 2007

In football, as in life, unfair play is much more entertaining than fair play. The Devil has all the best tunes, and the best footballers too. To celebrate this fact, Pies strongly recommends that you invest in this brilliant Unfair Play tee. Three cheers for diving, simulating, waving imaginary cards in the ref’s face, over-the-top [...]

Fulham

Blog of the week: FulhamUSA

April 5th, 2007

FulhamUSA, the website for Fulham’s supporters’ club in the States, is a great read, even if you’re not a) a Fulham fan, b) American, or c) both. I discovered it after clicking on a link to an entertaining interview with Eric Wynalda, a former striker for the Americn national team (he’s the all-time leading scorer, [...]

Man Utd

Champions League review: Roma 2:1 Man Utd

April 5th, 2007

Man Utd have a job on to progress to the semi finals. They got the crucial away goal that Fergie demanded, so even though they lost I’d say they have a marginally better chance than Chelsea of making the last four. A 1-0 win at Old Trafford will be enough. After Paul Scholes was sent [...]

Chelsea

Champions League review: Chelsea 1:1 Valencia

April 5th, 2007

Pick that out! Great strike by David Silva, followed by a typical ‘hoof it up to Drogba’ reply by the English champions. Valencia now have the edge in the tie; Chelsea are far from out of it, although they do need to score in Spain. Afterwards, Jose Mourinho said that “normally the team that plays [...]

Miscellaneous

Italian youngster Stefano Napoleoni nutmegs himself

April 5th, 2007

Stefano Napoleoni obviously has a little way to go before his dribbling skills are quite up to Cristiano Ronaldo’s standard. The 20-year-old Italian – who plays in Poland for Widzew Łódź – gets his feet in a bit of a tangle before tripping over here. Bad karma for that offensive ponytail? [Rob Parker]

Chelsea

Jose Mourinho has plans for Champions League semi-final… he’s going to watch the wrestling!

April 5th, 2007

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has announced that he has already made plans to take his children to watch WWE wrestling if his side fail to make it to the Champions League semi-finals. The Special One – adopting his usual calmness in the wake of last night’s 1-1 home draw with Valencia – claimed he would [...]

Man Utd

Italian police in heavy-handed attacks on English football fans shocker (Roma vs Man Utd)

April 5th, 2007

When trouble kicks off at an English side’s European away match, the one thing you can always be sure of is that an army of baton-wielding uniformed thugs looking like Star Wars Stormtroopers’ navy blue cousins will be around to crack a few heads open. Look how effectively this prostrate Manchester United fan is subdued [...]

Man Utd

Classic Moment: Manchester United v Juventus, 1999

April 4th, 2007

Back in 1999 Manchester United were facing Italian opposition in the quarter-finals of the Champions League on their way to the Treble. Now it is Roma, then it was Juventus. Here is the first leg from Old Trafford. [Rob Parker]

Lookalikes

Lookalikes: Graham Rooney bags his own Coleen

April 4th, 2007

Remember Graham Rooney, star of the TJ Hughes commercial and Wayne’s little brother? Well, if making a few bob by being a cheaper-to-hire version of Wayne seemed cheeky, Graham is now parading around with his very own Coleen. Carly Gardiner, Coleen’s cousin, is the other half of this (even more) downmarket match-up. Watch this space [...]

Miscellaneous

THE VOTE Should players be allowed to deliberately get themselves booked to avoid untimely suspensions?

April 4th, 2007

So Dirk Kuyt (pictured, left) reportedly got himself booked deliberately during last night’s Champions League walkover, by failing to retreat for a free-kick. This means the Dutch striker will now serve a one-game suspension in the second leg of the virtually-dead Liverpool v PSV rubber and thus be free to play in the CL semis. [...]

Kits & fashion

Free Becks (Keep Posh) t-shirt

April 4th, 2007

A new range of t-shirts (and loads of other merchandise, including mugs, calendars, button badges and even a kitchen apron) has been launched Stateside, urging David Beckham to break free from the shackles of Victoria. The ‘Keep Posh’ message is to us in the UK, apparently. ‘Fraid not people – we’ve been looking forward to [...]

WAGs & Babes

WAG of the week: Michaela Henderson-Thynne (WAGS Boutique star)

April 4th, 2007

Name Michaela Henderson-Thynne. Ooh, posh name! Nationality British WAG of… Middlesbrough & England left winger/Steve McClaren pet Stewart Downing. Michaela, a 21-year-old law student who loves to shop, met Stewart four years ago when they were introduced through her cousin. Aw, sweetness. Hang on a minute, news is reaching us that the couple has recently [...]

Miscellaneous

Tattooed Leeds Utd & England fan. Did I say fan? I meant to say nutter…

April 4th, 2007

I’m sure this Leeds & England fan is a lovely chap – great with children and animals etc. – but he is also one scary-as-hell customer. Can’t put my finger on why – perhaps it’s the red-eye? [Via The Offside]

Miscellaneous

Kit Parade: Valencia

April 4th, 2007

It will be seconds out at Stamford Bridge this evening as Valencia Amateur Boxing Club take on Chelsea in the Champions League quarter-final. The Spanish outfit will be boxing out of the white corner. Their Nike-manufactured shirt is pretty basic with just the orange and black trim and red Toyota logo providing a bit of [...]

Liverpool

5 Conclusions: PSV 0-3 Liverpool

April 4th, 2007

1 There are few sights in football as beautiful as a confident Peter Crouch doing his thing. It’s like watching an excitable baby giraffe taking its first steps. 2 Nicely bobbling ball, 25 yards out: John Arne Riise is the man you want! 3 We stuck our necks out after the last round and said [...]

Miscellaneous

Champions League review: AC Milan 2:2 Bayern Munich

April 4th, 2007

The German giants have the edge at half-time in this quarter final, thanks to two precious away goals. Milan thought they’d won it with a typically dubious ‘home’ penalty six minutes from full time, until Daniel van Buyten’s injury-time equaliser rather tipped the balance towards Munich. (Owen Hargreaves had a fine game in Munich’s midfield.) [...]

Liverpool

Champions League review: PSV Eindhoven 0:3 Liverpool

April 4th, 2007

The Reds looked great in yellow last night, beating PSV 3-0 away from home to virtually assure themselves a place in the Champions League semis, against either Chelsea or Valencia. As professional as Liverpool were, the Dutch side were very, very poor – on last night’s evidence you’d say they’d struggle to avoid relegation in [...]

Miscellaneous

HolloWatch: Ian Holloway gets angry with Plymouth squad and starts eerily talking about himself in the third person

April 4th, 2007

Plymouth boss Ian Holloway was understandably not best chuffed as his side were thrashed 4-0 by Burnley last night. Ollie resorted to talking about ‘Ian Holloway’ in the third person as he read the riot act to his squad. He said: “There are some massive decisions to be made involving the whole squad. The only [...]

Miscellaneous

Billy Connolly on the Old Firm

April 3rd, 2007

[Rob Parker]

WAGs & Babes

Sexy World Cup 2006, part 1: Germany

April 3rd, 2007

A cheaply assembled YouTube montage of German babes, made up of photographs taken at the 2006 World Cup. And what could be better than that? (A: the Brazilian babe montage, which we’ll post tomorrow…)

Miscellaneous

Pies vs Lawro, Premiership predictions: the result

April 3rd, 2007

SATURDAY Liverpool v Arsenal Lawro: 2-1 Pies: 1-0 Actual: 4-1 Bolton v Sheffield Utd Lawro: 2-1 Pies: 3-1 Actual: 1-0

Miscellaneous

Win £100 of Amazon vouchers

April 3rd, 2007

Fancy snagging £100 in Amazon.co.uk vouchers just for mouthing off for five minutes? You could treat yourself to a pile of gorgeous coffee table books, some DVDs (Gazza’s Greatest Goals, perhaps) or whatever else takes your fancy, just for filling out a few questions. Shiny Red – a partnership between the Shiny Media founders and [...]