If you’ve been paying any attention to Avoiding The Drop over the last few days, you’d know we had a little fun with a Champions League Knockout round draw contest. Well obviously the draw was held this morning and of course we have some results for you. Some of you did rather well, and well [...]
Archive for December, 2009
The Champions League Draw Contest Results
Posted in Champions League, Whimsy, tagged Champions League on December 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Fantasy Preview: The Holiday Season is a busy one.
Posted in English Premier League, tagged Fantasy Premier League, Fantasy Preview on December 18, 2009 | 10 Comments »
We’re entering a very busy time in the Premier League right now, over the next 11 days, each team has 3 fixtures and with the busy schedule can come injuries, which of course means you need to plan your fantasy roster right so as not to get bitten by the injury bug. This week alone [...]
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged AC Milan, Alan Wiley, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Club World Cup, David Beckham, Edwin van der Sar, FIFA, Guus Hiddink, Hull City, Internazionale, Jose Mourinho, KILLER JELLYFISH!, Manchester City, Manchester United, Philippe Senderos, Sir Alex Ferguson, UEFA Champions League on December 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What you missed while finding out that jellyfish can survive in Antarctica…
An Update on Seydou Doumbia: World’s Best Striker
Posted in Swiss Super League, Transfer Rumors, tagged BSC Young Boys, Chelsea, Christian Gross, Seydou Doumbia, Tottenham, Vfb Stuttgart on December 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Last season I did a brief little blurb on Seydou Doumbia, the Ivorian striker who was absolutely tearing up the Swiss Super League for Young Boys. In fact, according to IM Scouting, he was the best striker in Europe last season: he registered either a goal or an assist every 46.97 minutes on the field. [...]
The Thursday Challenge: Your Worst Nightmare Edition
Posted in General, The Championship, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on December 17, 2009 | 10 Comments »
As promised, these are going to be difficult. A prize will be sent via email to those with all of the correct answers so that they can keep the prize to themselves if they don’t feel like sharing. After the jump, fuel for every piece of hate mail you’ve ever wanted to send…
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Bobby Zamora, Burnley, Cesc Fabregas, CSKA Moscow, Dutch National Team, Europa League, FC Basel, Fulham, KILLER JELLYFISH!, Manchester United, Paul Hart, Portsmouth, QPR, Uros Cosic, USMNT on December 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What you missed while some Australian kid was getting stung on his tongue by a jellyfish…
Last Call is clearly the only present you need this season
Posted in General on December 16, 2009 | 58 Comments »
Last Call. Another day in the books and another day closer to Christmas. The fifth day of Hanukkah. Wednesday. So you’re here, thanks for stopping by. We’re always happy to have you here. Again, no comment ninjas here, no policies other than do your best to enjoy yourself and don’t be a dick. Since this [...]
The Official ATD Champions League Knockout Draw Competition
Posted in Champions League, tagged Champions League, Knockout Round, We like to predict things on December 16, 2009 | 20 Comments »
As most of you all know, on Friday the draw for the Champions League knockout stages, and since every other website is having their own little pick ‘em (and since we always enjoy trying to predict the future here) we too are having our own little draw. Other sites give out cool prizes and stuff, [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in English Premier League, General, League of Ireland, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, The Championship, The Football League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the best things- seriously!- about doing these challenges is that I learn something every time from the answers people submit. This week I learned that were many correct answers to several of the questions I asked and that I worded the last question rather poorly- more on that after the jump.
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged AC Milan, Anton Genov, Birmingham City, Canadian National Team, Club World Cup, David Beckham, English National Team, Estudiantes, Honduran National Team, Joe Hart, Lionel Messi, Macedonian National Team, Manchester United, Mark Hughes, Match Fixing, Mick McCarthy, Pohang Steelers, Sporcle Quizzes, Texas Rangers, Tom Hicks, UEFA Champions League, USMNT, Wolverhampton on December 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What you missed while performing terribly on this Sporcle quiz…
