Category Archives: Its a funny old game

Stories and comments from around the football world

Zip it Arsene

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Perhaps it was a beautiful metaphor for Arsenal’s lack of zip in recent times, but Arsene Wenger’s wardrobe malfunction sure was amusing.

Captured by ESPN, scandalously no-one made the ‘can’t get it up’ reference or remarked on Steve Bould’s professionalism as he desperately ignored an old man struggling with a zip, a problem that five minutes later he was still having an issue with.

Bless him, it’s almost poignant to see a once great man unable to carry out the most menial of tasks.

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One unusal injury

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Footballer’s aren’t renowned for being the cleverest folk, but York City’s Matty Blair might have just taken the biscuit for getting the stupidest injury – he has been ruled out after being hurt by a training ground dummy.

Blair had to go to hospital for stitches after falling over into a mannequin set up for the players to dribble round.

His manager Gary Mills told the York Press the following:

Matty Blair got tackled by a mannequin and ended up with a gash in his knee. He stumbled into it after tangling with Michael Potts and had to have a good few stitches in his knee.

I think he’s the first footballer ever to be injured by a mannequin and he’s had a fair bit of ribbing but he will be fine for tomorrow.

Now I hate footballer ‘banter’ more than the next man, but Blair deserves all the bullying he gets from his team mates.

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Luis Suarez a diver?

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Liverpool striker Luis Suarez might have a reputation as a diver, but at least he usually commits to it. During yesterday’s match against Stoke he looked like a seven-year-old child attempting his first belly-flop at the deep-end.

You could argue that presenting footage in GIF format necessitates going to ground in installments, but this takes the biscuit.

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ESPN get it wrong!

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The USA national team would struggle to match Spain at the minute. Hell, any team in the world would struggle to match Spain at the minute.

So imagine the surprise of broadcaster ESPN to find that the southern state of Georgia were giving the World and European champions a run for their money.

They proudly displayed the stars and stripes next to Georgia’s name, even after Spain took a 1-0 lead.

Alas, it wasn’t the home state of Ray Charles and Hulk Hogan taking on Xavi and co but the former Soviet state, some 6,000 miles away.

Tbilisi mistake to make.

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Celtic players Post-It prank

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It must be pretty easy being a Celtic player right now. With the league title in the bag before a ball was even kicked (I’m not being presumptuous, look at the odds), it gives them time to play some elaborate pranks on their team mates.

Joe Ledley and Kris Commons have both seemingly used their recent time at training wisely, covering tea mate Mohamed Bangura’s car almost completely in coloured Post-It notes. The photo above (tweeted by Commons) shows the Audi from the front, whereas Ledley’s effort shows the personal touch on the back windscreen.

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