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Soccer Players + Technology = Hilarious Blunders

Rick Chandler — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:45:25 EDT

This is Ashley-Paul Robinson, a 19-year-old winger for London's Crystal Palace. Like many 19-year-olds, he has a Facebook page. And also like many 19-year-olds, he posted something there about his latest job search. Problem is, it was details of a secret negotiation with another team. Oops.

A footballer has been told to look for a new club after he unwittingly revealed to more than 2.7million people on Facebook that he was in secret talks with a Premier League team. On Saturday, Robinson, from Beckenham, Kent updated his status on the site to say: 'Ashley-Paul is goin fulham on monday. If i pull dis of im on dis ting!!!'

But instead of just being visible to his 198 Facebook friends, he unintentionally allowed the entire London network of the social networking site to view it.

Crystal Palace fans saw the posting and alerted team officials, who were not amused. Earlier today Mr. Paul was released.

We will miss Mr. Paul's presence on Facebook; coming to love, as we have, his dry wit and unique perspective on world events:

Ashley-Paul Is Travling 2 Bath With Fulham Fingers Crossed. (Im lukin 2 Get Sum Tips Of Jimmy Bullard He's ON DIS TING NO HYPE LOL

Footballer Given The Boot... After Revealing His Secret Move To Premier League Club In Facebook Blunder [The Daily Mail]

To Watch Tonight

rickchand — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:40:14 EST

What to watch as Ron Paul sweeps to dramatic victories in every state ...
• College basketball: Michigan at Ohio State (7 p.m., ET); Florida at Tennessee (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN]; Butler at Valparaiso (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2]. Don't forget to Be Bold, Wear Gold.
• The Daily Show: Your most trusted source in fake election news. (11 p.m. ET, PT, 10 C) [Comedy Central]
• NHL: Carolina at Nashville (8 p.m., ET). A rivalry as old as, um ... not even as old as The Simpsons, actually. [Versus]

If Detroit Pitchers Played All Nine Positions ...

rickchand — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:45:32 EDT

We have to agree with Bugs and Cranks: Seeing a truly awful defensive play in baseball is darned near as good as seeing a truly great one. The site's Lead Glove Awards are out, and once again we see Manny Ramirez in a place of honor. A couple of our favorite lines:

• "First base, Dmitri Young, Nationals. With the quickness of a battleship and the coordination of a cross-eyed goose, no manager puts Dmitri at first base if he can avoid it. Don't laugh Brewer fans, Prince Fielder's man-boobs aren't far behind."

• "Third base, Chone Figgins, Angels. He's finally settling into one position to be crappy at instead of sucking all over the diamond. After he fielded 3B at a sweet .878 clip last year, why wouldn't the Angels put him there every day? After all, he can show off his laser-rocket arm he's used to collect 8 outfield assists in the last 5 years."

• "Outfield, Matt Stairs, Blue Jays: Never a master of geometry, Stairs takes terrible angles on fly balls and if a ball would happen to ricochet off a wall, he might never find it. Stairs was used almost exclusively as a DH last season, but apparently the Blue Jays have the same sense of humor as we do."

And the worst fielder of all time? B&C chooses, apparently, Dick Stuart (Pirates, '58-'69). He wasn't called Dr. Strangeglove for nothing. For one thing, he managed to make 29 errors in 1963 ... at first base.

Lead Glove Awards [Bugs And Cranks]