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Wolverhampton Fans Taunt "Know-Nothing" Coach, Leave And Miss Team's Comeback
When you're a football club in the English Premier League, you're not supposed to lose to teams freshly promoted from the minors. That's what the Wolverhampton Wolves with a 3-0 drubbing delivered by QPR in September. And that's what it looked like the Wolverhampton Wolves were about to do against...
Arizona's Referee Streaker Faces Up To 18 Months Of Hard Time
Your morning roundup for Oct. 22, the day we realized Jack Daniel's prices are probably going to rise. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
"City Fans, 10% Off; United Fans, Fuck Off."
Could you tell it's nearly derby day? With City two points clear ahead of Sunday's showdown at Old Trafford, the watering holes of Manchester are taking sides. [Twitter]...
There Was A Perfectly Placed Own Goal In Celtic's Europa League Match Today
"Around the half-hour a long punt by the home goalkeeper, Benoît Costil, was making its way harmlessly through to Fraser Forster in Celtic's goal but Cha Du-ri helped it on then watched in horror as the ball slipped past his goalkeeper and into the net. The South Korean was playing in midfield and...
Soccer Match's "Spontaneous Diarrhea" Stoppage Probably Just About Money
Five players from Hungarian side Kecskeméti TE bolted from the pitch in the 30th minute of a tie game, only to return a minute later. The official reason, as relayed to fans over the PA system: they all had to poo really badly. The more likely reason is that the players were protesting their unpaid ...
This Asian Champions League Semifinal Match Turned Sour After A Guy Got Kicked In The Head
At the onset of this video from Al Sadd's 2-0 win over the Suwon Samsung Bluewings, Choi Sung-hwan of the latter's head gets jacked up. Before trainers can even finish wrapping Choi's dome, Al Sadd scores a goal (at the 1:18 mark). From there, the discord ranges from yappy to shovey until roughly ...
Charlie Davies Sues Nightclub And Red Bull For Car Wreck That Nearly Killed Him
"D.C. United's Charlie Davies is suing the owners of a Washington nightclub and the drink company Red Bull for $20 million, claiming they are responsible for a fatal car crash that ended the MLS player's hopes of joining the 2010 U.S. World Cup team. Davies, now 25, was a passenger in the car drive...
Accuse Someone Of Diving In Greek Soccer And You May Get Pantsed Like This Guy Here Did
Olympiakos defender Francois "Modesto reacted angrily after he was lambasted for appearing to feign injury by AEK Athens centre-half Cala during a Greek Super League clash on Saturday. Cala looked totally bemused as he stood with his black shorts around his ankles, yanking them up as quickly as he...
Soccer Player Apparently Stabbed In Eyeball After Soft Slap To Neck
The business of cataloging awful (and sometimes admirable) injury performances in soccer games is an important one, and we do not take it lightly. Also not apparently taken lightly: Incidental contact to Lille's Aurélien Chedjou's neck. The contact somehow automatically transported to the Cameroon...
Disgraced Ex-FIFA VP Plans To Disgrace FIFA President With "Tsunami" Of Corruption Charges
FIFA, if you are so inclined to take notice, is potentially in the midst of a total organizational breakdown, because we're now hearing what we already knew all along: FIFA is very corrupt. This is a special breakdown, though, because it is one in which the accused person in power attempts to deflec...
No, Marco Fabian, Celebrating A Goal By Mock-Executing A Teammate Will Not Go Over Well In Mexico
Marco Fabian, a midfielder for Mexican Premiera powerhouse Chivas de Guadalajara, scores a lot of goals. Accordingly, Marco Fabian needs to celebrate a lot of goals. On Saturday, for example, he scored a hat trick in Chivas's 5-2 win against Tecos, and had to celebrate three different goals. This,...
Chip Kelly And Erin Andrews Want You To Shut Up When They're Speaking
Your morning roundup for Oct. 16, the day we learned that people can actually be crueler to others than we'd imagined they could. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Watch Manchester City's Mario Balotelli Score On A Wonderful Overhead Kick
This first-half strike in Manchester City's match vs. Aston Villa inspired the commentators to call scorer Mario Balotelli's celebration as "arrogant" and goalkeeper Shay Given reaction as either "leather-footed" or "leaded-footed." Either way, commentator came correct. And either way, Carlos Teve...
Here's Video Of Both Goals From This Morning's Man U/Liverpool Match
Thirteen minutes after Ryan Giggs opened up a hole in the wall wide enough for Stephen Gerrard to put Liverpool ahead 1-0, Chicharito scored a header off a corner to level the match at one. It was his first touch coming off the bench. Great second half. (Ignore 0:57 on in the top video; today's Ch...
The Theme Of Last Night's NLCS Game Was Set When Jerry Hairston Got Bucknered At Third
Your morning roundup for Oct. 15, the day we totally realized that Tums commercial with a randy corn dog is really a work of dong-involved artistry. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....
Polish Ladies Strip To Help Save Their Soccer Team Through Calendar Sales
Klub Sportowy Hutnik Krakow, which plays in the Polish IV League, has financial problems to the tune of going broke in 2010 and almost going broke again in 2011. So, some female fans of the side decided to pitch in and help the cause by posing all sexy for a KSHK calendar....
Are Things Going Any Better For John Henry Over At Liverpool?
It's been almost exactly one year since Henry's Fenway Sports Group purchased Liverpool, so to mark the occasion, Henry agreed to a rare lengthy interview with the Guardian. Both parts are well worth your time, but let's draw out the interesting stuff....
The Peruvian Lady Soccer Fans Are At It Again, And What They're Doing Is Assuredly NSFW
"This is the voluptuous dancer Irina Grandez, who for love of the southern lands Blanquirroja arrived to put all the 'chest' by Peru, which now goes to 'kill' to Chile." [Translated from Gran refuerzo: Irina Grandez llegó a Chile para poner el pecho por Perú">Librero.pe] (H/T Sportsfeeder1)...
Unreal "Death From Above" Goal Is Greatest Moment In Slovenian Sports History
There's plenty of context for midfielder Dare Vršič's injury time free kick goal against Serbia yesterday in 2012 Euro qualifiers, if you want it. Slovenia had never beaten a team from the former Yugoslavia, their historic rivals. The goal continues Estonia's miracle run to the playoffs. But conte...
The Irish Can Still Qualify For Euro 2012 Thanks, In Part, To This Armenian Own Goal
Back in 2009, the Republic of Ireland missed out on a World Cup invitation courtesy of a Thierry Henry handball. That didn't go over very well....