1. Ask for the cameras to roll.
2. Look over your shoulder at your boys and grin.
3. Make a “It must be something in the water” comment about Calgary.
4. Insert sloppy seconds comment meant for current Calgary player dating Ex - Girlfriend.
5. Walk away.
The man who left his flag down during Robin Van Persie’s tying goal has been left off the list for this weekend’s upcoming fixtures.
Via FIFA.com
FIFA has suspended the Peruvian football association (FPF) with immediate effect from 25 November, in accordance with article 14 of the FIFA Statutes and carrying the sanctions provided for in paragraph 3 of that article, namely: the suspension of all international sporting contact for its clubs, national teams, referees and officials.
Remember that little story that came out a few days ago that attributed some serious quotes to Arsenal Captain and French International William Gallas?
Guess who got dropped for this weekends trip to Manchester Stadium….
Image via Les-Tranferts
The English Football Association has handed down a 3 match ban to Chelsea striker Didier Drogba after he was found guilty of Admitted to a charge of Violent Conduct / Throwing a Missile into the Away Crowd following their investigation over the Coin Throwing Incident.
Manchester United gaffer Sir Alex Ferguson has been handed down a 2 match ban and fined 10,000 Pound by the English Football Association after the fiery Scot admitted to an “Improper Conduct” charge following United’s 4 - 3 win over Hull City on November 1st.
From the Wall Street Journal:
For years, the roughneck fans of the Huracán soccer club often put on more of a show than the players did. Boasting in a fight song that they “root with wine and drugs,” they battled police with rocks, fought rival fans with chains and vandalized everything from cars to bleachers.
But at a recent Huracán game, the tough guys were kept in check by a woman sporting a Chanel handbag. Fabiana Rubeo, a 5-foot-3-inch lawyer, is crusading to teach sportsmanship to the barras bravas, gangs of soccer hooligans who have fueled a culture of violence in Argentina’s national sport…
…But Ms. Rubeo’s hooligan rehab group, called New Horizon for the World, is sparking skepticism, and some ridicule, in this fútbol-mad country…
UPDATE - Things just aren’t getting any better for Clattenburg as Northumbria Police are investigating reports that someone poured a corrosive substance on his 40,000 Thousand Pound Porsche Boxter.
Premiership Referee Mark Clattenburg has been officially suspended from taking charge of Sunday’s Community Shield Match between Manchester United and Portsmouth FC and all other Premiership matches pending further investigations into his alleged debts.
FA and Premiership Official Statement after the Jump…
I’m pretty sure that this will offend A LOT of people, but lighten up and look at it from the creative side of things.
My boy Ian just sent this over from one of his mates. They were at the Welling United v Maidstone match last Saturday when the goalie let in a soft one.
WARNING - Creative Language through a Picture after the Jump…
Peruvian Football Federation officials have announced that Jefferson Farfan, defender Santiago Acasiete and forward Claudio Pizzaro’s 18 month ban has been reduced to just 3 months based on new “television and hotel security information.”
Farfan, Acasiete and Pizzaro (along with forward Andres Mendoza who will have to serve his full 18 month ban) were originally suspended from the Peruvian National Team and fined $10,000 each following an alleged partying incident in Lima after a World Cup Qualifier against Brazil last November.
New information huh? I’ll go with the fact that Peru got blasted 6-nil by Uruguay and 4-nil by Mexico as the main reasons for the FPF’s turn around.
Make sure that tail is tucked securely underneath when you start walking away.
With Farfan now at Schalke 04 in Germany after so much success with PSV and Pizzaro looking to build on a somewhat disappointing 2007/08 Chelsea campaign, you’d think the Peruvian’s might have something to prove after sitting bottom of their group with only 3 points out of 6 Qualification matches.
image via Xptecnologica
