Players miss penalties all the time, especially those that play for Liverpool, but what makes this a little more embarrassing is Marek Hamsik’s overly contrived celebration for what turned out to be a disallowed goal. The Napoli midfielder was so knackered from running up and down those stairs that he blazed the retake over the […]

I’m not entirely sure why Terek Grozny’s reserve team coaches starting beating the crap out of FC Krasnodar captain Spartak Gogniev following his dismissal for a second yellow card during a reserve team game but they did. Gogniev takes a bit of beating, seems to do little more than defend himself and ended up with […]

This all starts off when Amien’s Jonas Martin appears to gently clip Metz’ Pierre Bouby (I chuckled a little too) around the back of the head. Bouby dropped like the proverbial sniper victim, the players came together for some tame handbags and it all looked to be petering out disappointingly when the benches got involved […]

CRF Cluj’s on-loan goalie Beto is no stranger to the odd gaffe but he manages to prevent a certain goal against Vointa Sibiu with a truly shocking dive, which the twelve year-old referee somehow buys. Probably because he’s twelve. Of course, if he was on my team I’d be secretly applauding his quick thinking whilst […]

It’s hard to imagine any football fan who wasn’t shocked at the news of Gary Speed’s passing. I know I was and still am. My only knowledge of him was restricted to what I saw on the football pitch and in interviews, like most people, but football has the ability to reveal to us the […]

Feckin’ typical this. We do an ad using blind footballers, raising awareness for the sport as well as adding a certain light-hearted charm to the whole affair, and people were up in arms about us ridiculing the blind, which we certainly weren’t. David Beckham does the same thing, minus the humour, and everyone thinks he’s […]

Nearly twenty years of losing World Cup qualifiers came to an end for the worst team in the world after they beat the third worst team in the world 2-1. It turns out all they had to do was recruit a transgender defender. That has a ring to it. Transgender player Johnny ‘Jayieh’ Saelua made […]