Soccer Page 321 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Premier League TV Ratings Are Falling Off A Cliff, Too
You’ve no doubt heard that TV ratings for NFL broadcasts are down double digits. So are English Premier League ratings, on both sides of the pond....
Report: Amateur Soccer Player Kills Referee After Getting Red Card
During a soccer match near Tulancingo, Mexico (about 120 kilometers northeast of Mexico City) between amateur sides Canarios-Rojo Gomez and Lindavista, one of the players drew a red card from referee Victor Trejo....
Paul Pogba Finally Played Like Paul Pogba
Most every great player has a signature move, a thing they do to or with or around the ball that immediately clarifies for you that that one of 10 uniformly colored little blurs out there running with the ball is in fact, say, Arjen Robben and not Philipp Lahm. (In that instance, it’s Robben’s dangl...
Bad Soccer Man Bowls Over Ref, Wants To Fight Everybody
What’s the proper response when a referee gives you a dubious red card in a final? If you’re Guarani fullback Ferreira, it’s to shove the referee over, fight half of the players on both teams, and get physically dragged off the pitch by your team....
Liverpool Are Running Riot
On current form, Liverpool are nigh unstoppable. Against Watford today they started their customary six midfielders up front—and two more in defense—and thrashed their opponent 6-1. Liverpool had 17 shots on target, the most in the Premier League in seven seasons, which doesn’t count the three that ...
Fan Runs On Field, Headbutts Official In Algerian Soccer League
There really aren’t too many avenues for fans to express displeasure towards officials. There’s a large vocabulary to express that displeasure—like, any and every obscenity imaginable, to start—but actual methods of expression here are largely limited to just screaming from the stands like an asshol...
Harvard Cancels Men's Soccer Season After More Sexual "Scouting Reports" Discovered
Harvard athletic director Robert L. Scalise says the Crimson men’s soccer season is over after the university discovered more evidence the team continued its tradition of producing “vulgar and explicit” reports on female soccer players’ appearance and sexual appeal through the current season....
Moussa Sow Scores Outrageous Bicycle Kick Goal
Just two minutes into a Europa League group stage clash with Manchester United, Fenerbahçe forward Moussa Sow scored this improbable and beautiful goal. All David de Gea could do was give a rueful little head shake. ...
Bárbara Latorre Scores Barcelona's <em></em>Goal Of The Season For The Women's Team
It’s hard to compete with the likes of Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez, and Neymar when it comes to scoring beautiful goals. Then again, it’s hard to imagine any of those guys to topping the wondergoal Bárbara Latorre scored for the Barcelona women’s team yesterday when she ran past almost literally every...
Cristiano Ronaldo Played Like Shit Yesterday
The most shocking scoreline of yesterday’s round of Champions League matches was definitely the 3-3 draw between reigning European champions Real Madrid and Polish giants (but European minnows) Legia Warsaw. How could a team of Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema, and—above all—Cristiano Ronaldo fail to beat...
Zinedine Zidane's Kid Gave Up A Dumb Own Goal
This here’s Luca Zidane. He’s the teenage son of Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane and he plays keeper for Real Madrid’s youth team. They played Legia Warsaw today, just like their senior side, and Zidane gave up a dumbass own goal in stoppage time....
The Champions League Was Lousy With Great Goals Today
The Champions League is the best collection of great teams and players that there is in the sport. Sometimes, all those great teams and players conspire to do a bunch of great things all on the same day. Today was one of those glorious days....
David Moyes Remains The Saddest Man In Sports
Poor David Moyes. A few short years after leaving his post as longtime Everton manager, Moyes has since flailed in his lone year as Sir Alex Ferguson’s successor at Manchester United, stuck for an even shorter duration at Real Sociedad, and has finally washed ashore at Sunderland. His squad currentl...
Bad Soccer Man Apologizes For Climbing Into Stands To Kick Fan In The Face
This here’s Sebastian Pol. He’s a forward for Chilean side Audax Italiano, and got very mad this weekend after his team lost, 4-1. How mad? Mad enough to jump into the stands and try to decapitate a spectator with his foot....
Neymar Tried To Shove An Opponent Down Some Stairs
Barcelona’s Neymar is probably the most disrespected and detested player in Spain. It’s hard to differentiate cause from effect when it comes to the kicks and insults he is regularly subjected to and his entitled, brash, and showboaty disposition, but the fact remains that many players do not much l...
West Brom Fans Celebrate Their Team's Demolishment With Brilliant Chant
Poor-and-not-very-good West Brom hosted rich-and-extremely-talented Manchester City this weekend, and the game played out just as the two clubs’ payrolls might’ve indicated. But rather than stew in anger during the 4-0 beatdown, West Brom’s fans had a grand old time, as this great chant commemoratin...
Ronaldo On His Biggest Influence (Himself), His Biggest Inspiration (Himself), And How He Craves The Hate
Man, Cristiano Ronaldo sure does love him some Cristiano Ronaldo. From representations of his well-chiseled body to his facially-imprecise but amply-bedicked statue, to a glorified home movie disguised as a feature film, and even to his own, apparently delicious crotch, it’s long been evident that R...
Barcelona Go To The Mattresses Against La Liga Over Bottle-Throwing Incident
This weekend, as you may have heard, some shit-brained Valencia fan threw a bottle at some Barcelona players because he was mad they beat his team. As you also might’ve learned, this was apparently mostly the players’ fault, at least according to such important and powerful figures in Spanish soccer...
Manchester United Avoid Humiliation By Winning A Worthless Manchester Derby
The most interesting part of yesterday’s match between Manchesters United and City—it’s an insult to the proud tradition of the Manchester Derby to use that hallowed moniker when describing an early round match in the most garbage cup competition in Europe, the League Cup—came an hour before the mat...