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
3 games and 2 k lighter is my bet. Yours?
Can’t make that tackle at 4-1 down.
What had started originally as a 15 month ban, then reduced to 9 months on appeal and would have cost Central Coast Mariner and Australian Olympic keeper Danny Vukovic was reduced to only a six month ban by an independent committee that was today accepted by the Football Federation Australia. Vukovic was also fined $10,000 Australian ($9,490 US).
Vukovic was originally given the suspension after receiving a straight red card for “High Five-ing” referee Mark Shields in the final moments of the Mariners 1-nil loss to Newcastle in the A-League Final in February. Vukovic lost his head in a moment after Shields missed Newcastle midfielder James Holland’s handball in the box in extra time which could have allowed Central Coast to even up the match.
Throughout the 14 matches needed for Australia to qualify for the 2008 Olympics, Vukovic had been between the posts for every minute.
When a lucrative contract is placed before you and you sign on the dotted line, how obligated are you?
Yes, contractually you’re obligated to play for the team and do as your told by the coach as you’re probably being well accommodated, but what about teams selling players while their contract is still active and making boatloads of cash on them? Is that loyalty to the player? Or is it just a fact of life, until the player makes new “contract demands” after great performances (ie World Cup, African Nations Cup, Olympics) and then is labeled a prick who needs to shut his mouth and play out the contract he signed?
Argentina National Team and Bayern Munich defender Martin Demichelis was today suspended indefinitely from the team after refusing to move into the defensive midfield role for Bayern Saturday against Energie Cottbus in the German Bundesliga.
Head Coach Ottmar Hitzfeld (who’s done at the end of the season and is being replaced by Jurgen Klinsmann) told the press, “A player can’t state his wishes,” Hitzfeld said. “Until further notice he is suspended.”
image via Diarioepoca
While I always thought that being 6′ 7 1/2″ tall afforded you the ability to just Donkey Kong people, I was obviously wrong as spitting is the way to handle your business in the German Bundesliga.
Nurnberg and Czeh International Jan Koller was suspended for Nurnberg’s next match and fined 15,000 Euro for spitting on Hannover’s Altin Lala in a 2-1 loss.
Spitting? Really? Really?
image via BBC
In the 90th+ minute, Bayern Munich’s combative Dutch midfielder Mark Van Bommel earned himself a red card after arguing, clapping, gesturing and then giving the ref a cross arm (the uck off) behind his back. Now I can understand the frustration that players have with referees, especially when you’re playing below standard at home against a team you should easily beat and you could have gone 6 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga.
Maybe it was a Munich throw, maybe not, but I think Van Bommel definitely deserved this one, if only for getting caught giving him the cross from behind in extra time when it obviously completely unnecessary. It’ll be interesting to see if any additional games are added to his suspension.
Beans can tell you about Van Bommel from their playing days together at Fortuna Sittard.
It was like being back in high school after the teacher caught you flipping him the bird in 9th grade English at Damien High School in La Verne, California and having detention for two months. Damn those Catholic priests were tough.
During last weekends Bundesliga match between Weder Bremen and Eintracht Frankfurt, Brazilian and Bremen number 10 Diego pulled his own momentary Zidane, shoulder charging Frankfurt and Greek National Team striker Ioannis Amanatidis and earning himself an automatic red card and 3 game suspension. He will miss upcoming matches against Dortmund, Stuttgard and Wolfsburg, but will be eligible for Uefa Cup matches against Rangers on March 6th and the 13th.
Damn, Amanatidis went down pretty soft for the tough guy gesturing he was doing to the smallest guy on the field.
