What you missed while losing your entire day of productivity to a roguelike game…
- UEFA Champions League roundup: Twente 3-3 Tottenham, Werder Bremen 3-0 Inter, Lyon 2-2 Hapoel Tel Aviv, Benfica 1-2 Schalke, Manchester United 1-1 Valencia, Bursaspor 1-1 Rangers, Barcelona 2-0 Rubin Kazan, FC København 3-1 Panathinaikos.
- Congratulations to FC København, who have become the first Danish club to advance to the knockout rounds of the UEFA Champions League.
- In what’s probably a first, Rafa Benitez has claimed that Inter Milan’s Champions League loss to Werder Bremen was due to their preoccupation with the Club World Cup.
- Inter president Massimo Moratti isn’t having any of that, and has slammed Inter’s performance by calling it “a load of cabbage”.
- Harry Redknapp has vowed to continue Spurs attacking style in the knockout rounds of the Champions League; this might be because he doesn’t know any other way to play.
- Sir Alex Ferguson expects Rio Ferdinand to be fit in time for Manchester United’s clash with Arsenal on Monday.
- Newcastle United are on the verge of naming former West Ham and Southampton manager Alan Pardew to their vacant managerial spot.
- A winding up petition against Plymouth Argyle over unpaid tax debt has been delayed until February.
- The Scottish Premier League is looking at bringing back their winter break after several of their last fixtures were forced to be called off due to snow.
- The Ghanaian FA offices were raided by a joint fraud and organized crime unit yesterday; in possibly related news, Marcel Desailly is no longer interested in managing the Ghanaian national team.
- Flamengo captain Bruno Fernandes was found guilty of kidnapping his girlfriend and attempting to force her to abort a child she claimed he’d fathered. Your move, Joey Barton.
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“Is just fucking run about” or “just fucking give the ball to Bale” a style of play?
Not only is it a style but WHAT a style!