What you missed while redefining the definition of life…
- Europa League roundup: Villareal 3-0 Dinamo Zagreb, PAOK 1-1 Club Brugge, Sheriff Tiraspol 1-1 AZ, BATE 1-4 Dynamo Kyiv, CSKA Moscow 5-1 Lausanne Sport, Palermo 2-2 Sparta Prague, Borussia Dortmund 3-0 Karpaty Lviv, PSG 4-2 Sevilla, Utrecht 3-3 Napoli, Steaua Bucureşti 1-1 Liverpool, CSKA Sofia 1-2 Besiktas, Rapid Wien 1-3 Porto.
- Andy Anson, chief executive of England’s World Cup 2018 bid, has announced that England won’t bid again until FIFA changes the selection process.
- Blackpool’s home game against Manchester United will likely be postponed due to frost as Blackpool’s Bloomfield Road stadium lacks undersoil heating.
- Former Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton believes that Liverpool should consider groundsharing with Everton in a new stadium.
- Chelsea captain John Terry has declared himself fit ahead of Chelsea’s game against Everton tomorrow.
- Manchester United striker Michael Owen is two weeks away from having a healthy hamstring.
- Marouane Chamakh plans on scoring twenty goals this season.
- Valencia winger Juan Mata hopes to make Real Madrid’s week a little more miserable on Saturday.
- Wolfsburg don’t plan on selling Edin Dzeko for anything less than €40 million.
- Bologna have been docked a point for failing to pay their taxes.
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I feel badly for England. You get told you have a great bid and then go out in round one of the vote. I’m sure the BBC reports didn’t help, but everyone already knew what they were reporting: From their actions and all else, you get the impression FIFA are worse than a third world dictatorship in a banana republic. Will it ever change? Doubtful. Unless a government steps up and is willing to do to FIFA what FIFA does to FA’s that are puppets of their own governments, I see no change coming. I hope Russia and Qatar put on an excellent show in their respective years. I hope the action off of the pitch doesn’t murder the action on it. You never know until the games are played though.
Apparently, they had hot blowers running all over Bloomfield Road to try and defrost the pitch. Why not just have Sir Alex give it the hair dryer treatment? I’m sure he could snap it to life.
I think Everton and Pool sharing a ground would make the most sense, economically speaking. In terms of footballing passions, I’m not sure how well that would go over.
Which Chelsea will we see this weekend? The side who rule in the CL or the side of domestic horror. Grant you, injuries have taken a toll. Rather than Terry, they need Lamps more than anything else.
If one were really cynical, one could point out that South Africa, Brazil, Russia, and Qatar all have medias that won’t ask tricky questions like “Hey, where’d all that money come from/go?” Outside of the British press – whom they’ll now claim has an agenda against FIFA – they’ve given themselves sixteen years of controllable propaganda to hide lavish money-grubbing tactics.
Of course, that’s only if one’s being really cynical.
Manchester United striker Michael Owen is two weeks away from having a healthy hamstring.
That could also be written as “Manchester United striker Michael Owen is two weeks away from re-injuring his hamstring.”
Or “Manchester United striker Michael Owen is two weeks away from changing the reason he’s not playing from ‘injured hamstring’ to ‘poor form.’”