What you missed while hanging out on an air conditioning duct…naked…
- Ryan Giggs wants to manage the Welsh national team.
- Nine red cards were issued this weekend in the Premier League, which Fox Soccer says is a record (I’m not sure what the previous record was).
- Liverpool have serious injury concerns about Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard, Alberto Aquilani, Glen Johnson, Albert Riera, David Ngog, Fabio Aurelio, Nabil El Zhar, Martin Skrtel, and Daniel Agger. In other news, the “Season’s End Party” has been moved to next Thursday; in spite of all that, Pepe Reina’s planning on signing a contract extension.
- Tottenham have lost Sebastian Bassong for five weeks to a hamstring injury, while Arsenal have lost Nicklas Bendtner for four weeks to a groin injury.
- Birmingham City 0 – 0 Manchester City; that’s Manchester City’s fourth straight draw.
- CSKA Sofia have suspended nine players for an undisclosed offense that was probably going out drinking the night before a match.
- Ajax beat archrivals Feyenoord 5-1 after Feyenoord was reduced to nine men.
- Benni McCarthy wants out of Blackburn in January.
- Johann Cruyff has been appointed as the new manager of the Catalonia national team.
- Daniel Alves will be fit in time for Barcelona’s midweek Champions League meeting with Rubin Kazan.
- Phil Brown has received the “full support” of new Hull City chairman Alan Pearson.
- Wayne Rooney’s wife is due to have their baby any day now, which is disrupting Rooney’s training schedule a bit.
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Kai Wayne Rooney? I’m not in any way clairvoyant, but I do not see higher education in this child’s future.
Hey! What’s wrong with the name “Kai”?!
Absolutely nothing if you’re not English or are a character in a Harvest Moon game.
Also if you’re a Finnish indoor soccer player or a member of a monastic order of warriors from a series of Choose Your Own Adventure fantasy books.
Not that I’d know anything about either, of course.