What you missed while finding out that Steve Jobs is not a ninja…
- UEFA Champions League roundup: FC Twente 2-2 Internazionale, Werder Bremen 2-2 Tottenham Hotspur, Lyon 1-0 Schalke, Benfica 2-0 Hapoel Tel Aviv, Manchester United 0-0 Rangers, Bursaspor 0-4 Valencia, Barcelona 5-1 Panathinaikos, København 1-0 Rubin Kazan.
- CONCACAF Champions League roundup: Columbus 3-0 Joe Public, Municipal 2-2 Santos Laguna, Monterrey 2-0 Marathon, Saprissa 2-0 Seattle.
- Antonio Valencia will almost definitely miss the rest of the season after suffering a dislocated ankle and a leg break in Manchester United’s draw with Rangers.
- Rangers defender Kirk Broadfoot, who witnessed the injury close-up, had this to say: “I’ve never seen anything like that so close before. You see things like that on television and it’s not good but to see it there in front of you, it doesn’t look nice and I just hope he recovers quickly.”
- Shockingly, the green-and-gold Manchester United fan protest has lost steam.
- Rafa Benitez isn’t surprised that treble-winning Inter Milan drew with Champions League newcomers FC Twente. Oddly enough, no Liverpool fans are surprised at that result either.
- Jose Mourinho disagrees, and thinks that it “should be easy” for Benitez to win titles with Inter after all the work he put in on the team.
- Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov is a bit irritated that Gerard Houllier isn’t actually managing the club yet; Houllier’s current employer, the French Football Federation, has yet to finalize his departure date.
- West Ham manager Avram Grant and defender Tal Ben Haim will miss Saturday’s match against Stoke City in observance of Yom Kippur.
- Fulham are planning on making a move for Crystal Palace keeper Julian Speroni to cover themselves in case Mark Schwarzer leaves for Arsenal in the January window.
- Arsene Wenger wishes that people would just stop trying to tackle his players already.
- Rugby star Danny Cipriani is now training with MK Dons; he’s formerly spent some time with the Colorado Rapids, Reading, and Tottenham’s reserve side.
- FIFA’s new rankings have France ranked 27th; this is the lowest they’ve ever been ranked.
- Diego Maradona wants to manage Portugal.
- River Plate midfielder Diego Buonanotte has been charged with triple manslaughter for being the driver in a December single-car crash that killed three of his friends. Alcohol was not a factor in the accident.
- Toronto FC have fired manager Preki and director of soccer Mo Johnston after Toronto’s 1-0 loss to DC United effectively eliminated them from the playoffs.
- The Colorado Rapids have traded midfielder Mehdi Ballouchy to the New York Red Bulls for forward Macoumba Kandji. Isn’t there a trade deadline in this league?
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I watched the Rangers/Man U match and at first glance, it didn’t look so bad. I then slowed it down and rewound on the DVR and got queasy. That was a brutal injury and when both sets of players are calling for the stretcher: You know it’s bad. The poor lad for Rangers looked absolutely devastated by it.
Sven and Tord for Toronto FC? No? Didn’t think so.
Cipriani signed for the new Melbourne side in Super 15, so unless he finds a release from that deal: He’ll either be playing rugby or getting sued come February. Still, seems his heart isn’t in rugby anymore from all indications.
Tottenham…oh you had it, didn’t you? You had it and you lost it. A draw is good, but not when it could’ve been a win. They’ll be sore over that for a while.
Yeah, at first I didn’t see ANYTHING with that tackle, and did the same thing; the point where you see his foot sideways while his leg’s not turned is particularly gruesome, but I couldn’t tell what the problem was live.