The Red Card

A look at the lower depths of global soccer: fights, riots, sex scandals, hooliganism, match-fixing, diving, bad haircuts, ronaldo's transvestite prostitutes, and other associated tomfoolery...

what assholes…

Chelsea have already booked their hotel for this season’s Champions League final in Rome. (Daily Star)

have to win in france, fuckers.

things i can do to get my mind off of the election results

thehairdryertreatment:

watch the champions league game and hope liverpool looses

read general assembly disarmament resolutions and amendments

fuck around on google reader, but only in my music and sports folders

eat green and black’s dark chocolate

cheer the ill maxi rodriguez goal that just went down (fuck you liverpool)

think of that smoking sicilian wag featured on the spolier’s wag gallery

read the nyt sports section (maradona on the front page!?!?)

try to understand this iverson-to-the-pistons trade

consider which lineup and formation man u should employ against celtic

read ‘the bottom billion’ book i keep avoiding

look forward to playing soccer tonight after work

read high-level statements on the food crisis

memorize un acronyms

curse chelsea

figure out which albums to review next

think about my duty free johnnie green, grey goose, and french absinthe

laugh at jamie carragher

consider how awesome rachel maddow is

read the spokesperson for the sec-gen’s noon briefing

read up on the humanitarian situation in the congo

brew another cup of yerba mate

consider the limitation of peacekeeping mandates

shed a tear for tevez

write stupid lists

yes, this man is the new coach of the argentinian national team.

yes, this man is the new coach of the argentinian national team.

william gallas, smoker.
not able to defend against long throw-ins from newly promoted sides.

william gallas, smoker.

not able to defend against long throw-ins from newly promoted sides.

Nuns buy shares in Croatian soccer club

BELGRADE, October 22 (RIA Novosti) - A group of Croatian Benedictine nuns have bought shares in a leading Croatian soccer club, the Vecherniy List paper said on Wednesday.

The 19 nuns, from a convent located some 150 km (93 miles) away from the coastal city of Zadar, bought 50 shares worth around $4,500 in Hajduk Split, the nine times champions of Croatia.

The club recently became a shareholder company. The purchase made the nuns one of the club’s top 20 shareholders.

I think Sepp Blatter is in danger…or has reached a point now where he is being mocked within the game. Whether he is getting too old, I don’t know. But things can happen to people in power. Look at some of the despots in Africa.

Sir Alex Ferguson


thehairdryertreatment:

Berbatov is a genius…

Roman Abramovich, who came to public attention in Britain when he bought Chelsea in 2003, made his fortune in post-Soviet Russia. He became involved in oil export deals and in 1995 entered the ranks of the super-rich when with Boris Berezovsky he took over oil company Sibneft for a fraction of its market value. Abramovich gained increasing control over the business and got most of the money when it was sold in 2005 for £7.5bn. More recent acquisitions include stakes in Russian steelmaker Evraz Group and a piece of the UK mining company Highland Gold. Since buying Chelsea, in a deal worth £140m, he is thought to have invested £578m in the club. He has an interest in art and was revealed as the buyer of Lucian Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (£17m) and Francis Bacon’s Triptych (£43m). He is 15th in the Forbes rich list, with £14.6bn.

yossi benayoun levels latvia’s coach during the israel-latvia wc qualifier.

clean challenge? looks like it.

becks and a bunch of pale english tykes celebrate the wonders of fish sticks.

becks and a bunch of pale english tykes celebrate the wonders of fish sticks.

liverpool’s ryan babel is, apparently, a dutch rapper when he’s not riding the pines.