Monday's 2-1 loss to Arsenal was a bitter-sweet night for Angel di Maria. On the plus side, he produced an inch-perfect cross for Wayne Rooney to head Manchester United level. Juxtaposed against that moment of precision, 60 seconds of stupidity saw him heading for a premature rub-down.
In recent months, the notorious owner of Newcastle United Football Club, Mike Ashley, purchased nine percent ownership of the Scottish side Rangers F.C. Although news broke this week that Ashley’s attempted takeover of Rangers has been thwarted, what exactly is going on with this miscreant owner and these historic clubs?
Nemanja Matic didn’t play in Chelsea’s Carling Cup win against Tottenham, but he did don his jersey after the game as he joined his teammates in the post-game celebration. He looked like he played, and then he got injured as if he had, too.
The man obviously needs to score more goals so he can work on his knee sliding technique.
You might want to sit down, Liverpool fans, this is a real heart-stopper. The biggest Liverpool stars past and, possibly, present are about to play the charity match of your dreams. You will be amazed. You will be shocked. Some of you just might be slightly aroused, and we say that because that is a perfectly normal reaction considering the kind of star power that will be gracing the pitch on March 29th.
This past Sunday, Philippe Coutinho’s wonder strike against Southampton won BBC Match Of The Day’s Goal of the Month competition by an unprecedented margin. It was a low point in a year defined by abject despair. It made the uploading of his goal against Manchester City to PornHub look like a tastless joke.
This video made an appearance on the notorious XXX site, PornHub, after someone (presumably a Liverpool fan) uploaded the video under the category “Pure Filth.” It was a fitting, if unorthodox catagorization.
The subject matter of the video is a goal Philippe Coutinho scored this past Sunday that would impress any finger-wagging NFL fan.
The fun of this year’s Premier League has not been the two-team competition for the title. That was largely decided before the season started, when Jose Mourinho signed Diego Costa and brought back Thibaut Courtois. Chelsea blowing their lead now - even reduced to five points - would be stunning.
As Swansea City completed a first league double over Manchester United in their 103 year history, you’d be forgiven for thinking Louis van Gaal was the man most in need of a free-scoring Radamel Falcao. After all, United out-shot The Swans by 18 attempts to 11 on Saturday, yet still left South Wales with sweet FA - and all while the Colombian hit-man sat unused on the bench, looking about as excited as Mitt Romney at a matinée performance of The Book of Mormon.
The Academy Awards Ceremony, one of the biggest, most elite social gatherings in the world, is about to take place. The thought of all that impending pomp and circumstance got us to thinking: what would the Oscars be like if they were given out not for the best in the world of cinema, but for the best in the world of soccer?
What match would win Best Picture? Who would win Best Actor? Would you even want to win Best Actor?
As it turns out no, no you don’t...but you’ll find out all about that soon enough.
Yesterday, Chelsea embarrasesd itself in more ways than one, but the funnier one by far was their bus driver's inability to navigate the narrow runway that leads into the Parc de Princes garage. He thought he could make it, he should have made it, but alas, he could not make it. Behold: