Are you flagging, son?
No doubt the youth football coaches who had spent their time carefully balancing corner flags upright to avoid the combined effect of a dodgy pitch and gravity were delighted to see Billy Sharp’s bench-press celebration. It starts 25secs into the video.
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Croatian club Medjimurje Cakovec had their goalkeeper booked for removing a cat from the pitch during their match against Sibenik.
Ivan Banovic plucked the feline pitch invader from the field of play and went to release it under a fence behind the goal. As far as we know, the cat lived happily ever after. Banovic, on [...]
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OTP hopes Gareth Evans can sleep at night. This young Bradford supporter put all his faith in Evans and rushed to the front of the stand to get a closer look at his penalty.
But Evans blasted the ball wide of the goal and smack into the youngster, who was sent flying by the wayward effort!
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The rematch is on - just not in the real world
France full-back Patrice Evra has offered the Republic of Ireland a virtual olive branch over the Thierry Henry handball incident. He wants to replay the match on his PlayStation.
Evra said: “Who made the mistake? The referee. When I think that certain politicians want to replay [...]
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NB. Turn your phone off before attending Ipswich press conference
Roy Keane’s latest press conference proved to be rich pickings for the journos in attendance. Not only was he very outspoken in his criticism of the Republic of Ireland’s protests over Thierry Henry’s handball, he also took the opportunity to petrify some of the hacks.
He gave [...]
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Should Georgia get a replay?
Roy Keane reckons the Republic of Ireland could not have expected their game against France to be replayed on the grounds of Thierry Henry’s handball. The Ipswich manager launched a scathing attack against the Football Association of Ireland for their protests following the match, and accused them of hypocrisy on the [...]
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Winger offends his own boot suppliers as he clutches at straws
Damien Duff has claimed that the Republic of Ireland’s controversial World Cup qualification play-off defeat to France was the result of a conspiracy between FIFA and Adidas. The Fulham man, who picks up £100,000 a year for wearing Adidas boots (for now at least), reckons [...]
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The new spaghetti legs
This goalie thought he could give his side, Hartford, the edge in their penalty shootout against Stony Brook Sea Wolves by rolling out his party trick. The crazy keeper cartwheeled back and forth along his goal-line as the opposition prepared to take their spot-kicks.
Unfortunately for him the antics had little effect, and [...]
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Offside and handball, but the goal stands
If I was Irish I would be waking up this morning a very bitter man. The Republic of Ireland had a place at next year’s World Cup snatched away from them by this horrendous piece of refereeing. Despite the fact that two players were offside, at least one very [...]
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