What you missed while analyzing the meteorological issues surrounding the Chilean mine rescue…
- English Premier League roundup: Blackburn 0-0 Sunderland.
- La Liga roundup: Hercules 2-2 Villareal. Had Villareal won, they would have gone to the top of the table for the first time in club history.
- Hull City may be taken over by local Hull businessman Assem Allam.
- Middlesbrough manager Gordon Strachan will hereafter be known as “former Middlesbrough manager Gordon Strachan”.
- Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti may not risk Ashley Cole against Spartak Moscow.
- Yuri Zhirkov doesn’t plan on leaving Chelsea, even though he hasn’t established himself in the first team. In other news, Yuri Zhirkov probably made more this month than you will this year.
- Arsene Wenger hates dirty tackles unless Jack Wilshere performs them.
- Arsene Wenger also believes that it would “an absolute scandal” if Holland calls up oft-injured striker Robin van Persie for a friendly match in November.
- QPR owner Bernie Ecclestone is completely disinterested with his Championship club in spite of the fact that they’re on top of the table.
- Rangers may not be able to afford any new signings in the January transfer window.
- Barcelona midfielder Xavi may miss tomorrow’s Champions League match against Copenhagen as he recovers from tendinitis in his Achilles tendon; I’m not a doctor, but when someone has tendinitis in their Achilles I start thinking that they’re not going to be playing soccer much longer.
- Former Toluca manager Manuel De La Torre has been named as Mexico’s manager for the 2014 World Cup.
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Newly promoted Hercules first beats Barcelona at the Nou Camp, now draws Villareal at home. That’s not a bad way to get 4 points.
Also, I had no idea Trezeguet played for Hercules.
Yep, Treze-goal bagged a goal in the forty-fourth minute before being sent-off just seconds later. A goal and two-yellows in a period of four-minutes.