What you missed while 1,250 garden gnomes were getting their Nazi on…
- Oguchi Onyewu’s taken a page from the Lecharles Bentley playbook and torn his patellar tendon; he’ll be out for four months and should be back in time for the World Cup.
- Diego Maradona’s first words to the press after clinching a World Cup spot? “You lot take it up the arse, if the ladies will pardon the expression.”
- David Beckham winning Man of the Match for his 30-minute cameo against Belarus was “like Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize,” according to Fabio Capello. The real man of the match, Peter Crouch, scored a brace in what may give Fabio Capello selection problems at striker.
- Stan Kroenke’s Arsenal stake is now at 28.9%.
- Robinho says that he would really like to play for Barcelona in an interview with the Spanish press that he’ll claim was mistranslated tomorrow.
- According to Peter Storrie, Portsmouth will not be making any moves for Amr Zaki.
- Marcello Lippi is really, really angry with Italian fans who criticized the national team’s 3-2 win over Cyprus.
- Carlo Ancelotti and Jose Mourinho aren’t all that friendly with each other.
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“If anybody has forgotten this, on the field out there were the world champions. That means that we have won a tournament against all of the top nations in the world.”
Lippi continued, but pointed out that it was off the record, by saying “Of course, we played our game and cheated our filthy mustachioed wop asses off to sneak by Australia. And we flopped and dove our way through plenty of other games, too. But because refs are inherently stupid, we got away with it and became world champions.”
So, that’s “good” news about Gooch…I guess.
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