I’m sure you have heard about Coke Zero – Wayne Rooney’s Street Striker show. We also showed you the little stunt Rooney pulled where he’s dribbling (kind of) through a bunch of randomly rolled tires (if not, click here). We got hold of more of the clippings of the show.

Soccerlens now presents, behind the scenes of Coke Zero – Wayne Rooney’s Street Striker:

A short and fun interview with Rio Ferdinand and Wes Brown, courtesy of talksport.

Did you know that Wes Brown was playing for United back in 1999? The lad gets very little credit for all the hard work he puts in.

So where do you see Rio in 6 months?

Make sure you listen to this week’s Soccerlens Podcast that discusses Henry’s handball and a lot more.

…Or at least if you had just read the reactions from the fans and trigger-happy journalists, you’d think this is what Henry had actually done:

On a serious note, the ‘victims’ – the Irish team – have been refreshingly objective about the situation and have laid the blame squarely on the horrible refereeing and to a much lesser extent on their own poor finishing as the real reasons why the French and not the Irish are headed to South Africa.

The Irish team and management have pointed fingers at FIFA, at Blatter, at Platini – but not at Henry (who to his credit admitted that he had handballed but defended himself by saying that he’s ‘not the referee’).

This is the same Thierry Henry who dove twice in the 2006 World Cup – during the second round game against Spain when his dive led to the free kick that led to France’s comeback in that game, and during the semi-final against Portugal where his dive led to France’s only goal and thus a place in the finals (1, 2).

Once in the final, there was a Malouda dive that helped France score the first goal of the game. And yet, because France had been the underdogs in that campaign (beating Brazil in the quarters, no less)…the Italians ended up being demonized as cheats.

It’s France’s turn now. Whenever the underdog gets cheated there’s always a huge uproar – the joyous David v Goliath narrative is broken and all hell breaks lose.

But when the big dog gets cheated – which happens quite a lot in football – it’s met with a ‘you deserved it’ attitude that is completely at odds with calls for ‘better refereeing’ made the last time around.

Hypocrites, the whole lot of them – fans and journos.

Credits: DangerHere.com for the video.

What you’re going to see is something that I just can’t find the words to describe. Just watch it yourself:

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Elizabeth Lambert is a college football defender playing for New Mexico in the Women’s Mountain West Conference college tournament. In the game against Bringham Young University (BYU), things got a little rough with Elizabeth. Things got so rough that she earned the nickname Elizabeth “cheap-shot” Lambert. Seriously, words can’t describe what she has done. So, here’s the video of the event:

Watch the video here:

That’s just disgusting. Number 1, that’s a college level match and you don’t need to harm your opponents at that level. Number 2, what happened to the referee and the linesmen? The only acceptable answers for not showing the red card to Elizabeth will be a physical inability to blow… the whistle, that is. Blind will do too.

This is surely something that needs to be looked in to and serious action taken against the players and the officials involved.

Real Madrid 1-0 AC Milan (Raul)

Real Madrid 1-1 AC Milan

Real Madrid 1-2 AC Milan

Real Madrid 2-2 AC Milan

Real Madrid 2-3 AC Milan

Manchester United produced an efficient and controlled performance at the Luzhniki Stadium to beak CSKA Moscow 1-0. Injuries, weather and a plastic playing pitch meant that United were always going to play controlled rather than expansive football, but all the players did their jobs well (with Fabio particularly impressing from full-back).

The goal came late in the second half as Valencia put away a sharp chance to get the win and give United 9 points from 3 games.

Barcelona 0-1 Rubin Kazan

Barcelona 1-1 Rubin Kazan

Barcelona 1-2 Rubin Kazan

Liverpool 1-0 Lyon

Liverpool 1-1 Lyon

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Liverpool 1-2 Lyon

Soccerlens is excited to present a brand new feature – a video show reviewing the weekend’s big stories from Europe’s top football leagues.

Andy Brassell – of World Football Phone-In fame (on BBC 5 Live), author of All or Nothing: A Season in the Life of the Champions League, a seasoned journalist contributing to UEFA’s Champions magazine, Skysports.com and portugoal.net amongst others and a DJ – hosts the new show and will cover the major talking points from the weekend’s action.

We’re proud to have Mr Brassell onboard again – Soccerlens Podcast listeners will remember that he was a guest last season – and hope that the show will be a regular feature of the site.

Please give your feedback in the comments and remember – this is Episode 0. We’ll be improving and refining the show in the coming weeks, so go easy on criticising the technical aspects of the show

Subscribe to the Soccerlens YouTube channel to get weekly updates on Andy’s show.

Andy Brassell is a freelance writer/broadcaster who has travelled all over Europe covering the game, and who has contributed to the likes of When Saturday Comes, ESPN Soccernet and portugoal.net as well his fair share of DJing in the UK and France.’ All or Nothing: A Season in the Life of Champions League, which is out through Trafford Publishing, can be purchased on Amazon.com.

Make sure that you also visit the All Or Nothing TV website – where’s you’ll find more videos reviews by Andy.