Off The Record
If there’s something that must be said, but cannot be said within blogging / journalistic confines, this is the place to say it. We’ve used this column to poke fun, to provoke and to just say our minds.
Goalkeeper quits match after another ‘YouTube’ moment
It’s more than enough that the world laughs at you while you celebrate saving a shot that still rolls in. So when you make another mistake where you, in face of an innocuous looking backpass that’s looking to be whacked away into the opposition half, dribble, lose the ball, concede, and proceed to throw your…
Who orchestrated the fake Togo – Bahrian friendly?
Reports suggest that Bahrian 3-0 win over Togo in a friendly game wasn’t really a win over the Togolese team. Instead, they were playing a ‘fake’ team, with the official / pre-approved squad list replaced by a new list of players provided by team officials minutes before the start of the game. Bahrain head coach…
What Spurs really paid £8m for…
The end of the Premier League transfer window saw a hurried move by the Dutch play-maker Rafael van der Vaart from Real Madrid to Tottenham. A lot has been said about the pros and cons of this move for both the club and the player but a lot of people have forgotten what you actually…
Football: Best way to spend over 26,000 hours of your life
Did you know? Men spend 25% more time thinking, talking and watching football than loking after children. Men spend more time per week thinking, talking and watching football than they spend on cleaning, washing and ironing. Even in recession, 25% of unemployed Britishers who support a football team would miss a job interview in order…
Theatrics of the modern footballers
Most of the players that hit the deck claiming injury are usually back on their feet and fit enough to complete the match within seconds. That’s what I used to think. A new study revealed that the figure is over 90%. Nothing to surprising indeed. Looking at a sample of ten English Premier League games…
10 ways to tell that the new season is approaching
10 ways you can tell the new season is approaching: A national debate following the national team’s abject failure at <insert tournament here> finishes, a scapegoat is decided upon and abused ad infinitum. Fantasy Football leagues emerge from nowhere, become an obsession for a few hours, and are then quietly forgotten about for the rest…
A Footballer’s Weapon of Choice
This week ‘professional footballer’ Gavin Grant (…yeah, I didn’t have a clue who either) was sentenced to life imprisonment for the shooting and killing of Leon Labastide. You can’t help but feel that the ex Millwall, Wycombe and Bradford striker’s choice of weaponry was a little bit of a cliché – I mean, come on,…
What’s in Dimitar Berbatov’s bag?
This reporter was surprised to turn around and find two of Manchester United’s most cherished players behind her as she chatted with a friendly Nike representative, but pressing her as well was the bag that Berbatov is carrying. Is this a dopp kit dear readers? This is our best bet. We just aren’t going to…
Cesc Fabregas pulls on a Barca shirt. Well, not exactly…
Celebrating their first star over the Spanish emblem last night, Pepe Reina of Liverpool called Cesc Fabregas of Arselona Arsenal for something Spanish. Before Reina was done with Cesc, Gerard Pique and Carles Puyol jumped on him and forced a Barcelona shirt on him. Reina didn’t help but he did make sure that the shirt…
Football Headshots
Headshot is a lethal blow to the head killing your opponent in one shot in real world and video games alike. When it comes to football, headshots don’t cause causalities but it does have the same reaction from the one at the receiving end: falling flat on the ground. Funny to look at, yes but…
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