What you missed while vacationing at Jellyfish Lake…
- Sepp Blatter has confirmed that the FAI has asked that FIFA make Ireland the 33rd team at the World Cup. Roy Keane presumably has something ironic to say about letting go.
- Zlatan Ibrahimović scored about two minutes after coming on in Barcelona’s 1-0 win over Real Madrid; Madrid was unable to equalize, in spite of the fact that Barcelona was down to ten men for most of the second half, because Carles Puyol is the best defender to ever play ever.
- Javier Mascherano’s irritated that his opening strike against Everton in Liverpool’s 2-0 Merseyside Derby win is being chalked up as a Joseph Yobo own goal.
- Sergio Campana, the head of the Italian player’s union, has requested that the upcoming Juventus-Inter game be called off if racist chants are heard from the crowd; Juventus played a closed-door match last season after their fans racially abused Mario Balotelli.
- Arsene Wenger feels that referee Andre Marriner was wrong to rule out Andr(ei)(iy)(ey) Arshavin’s goal in Arsenal’s 0-3 loss to Chelsea. If they weren’t so busy being smug, Chelsea would probably point out that Marriner denied Anelka one of the most stone-cold penalties I’ve ever seen in the first half, which makes the “robbed by Marriner” tally a 1-4 win for Chelsea.
- Mark Hughes isn’t afraid of getting sacked by Manchester City even though he’s failed to win any of his last seven matches. Another way of putting that: Hull City have picked up more points in their last six matches (9) than Manchester City have (6). The comparison’s worth mentioning because those two teams drew 1-1 on Saturday.
- Bayern Munich aren’t interested in Ryan Babel. Damn.
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