What you missed while the harsh reality of super sizing was becoming clear…
- FA Cup roundup: West Ham 5-1 Burnley.
- John Terry has urged Chelsea to “man up” and actually play like professionals in an effort to save Carlo Ancelotti’s job. In case you were wondering, the money line on Copenhagen winning today is +468, which – given Chelsea’s current run of form – seems like a great bet.
- Chelsea are also hoping that Fernando Torres can start scoring sometime soon.
- In other Champions League news, Manchester United will be without Rio Ferdinand and Ryan Giggs when they play Marseille
later todaytomorrow. - Manchester United will also be without Anderson, who will miss two months while recovering from a knee injury.
- Manchester United’s shirt sales may have dropped by as much as 10% due to the success of the “green and gold” campaign against the Glazers.
- Carlos Tevez’s agent has revealed that his client wouldn’t mind playing for Corinthians.
- Arsenal midfielder Samir Nasri has put contract renewal talks on hold until the end of the season.
- New Liverpool striker Andy Carroll could debut this weekend against West Ham…because, really, the Liverpool medical staff is topnotch when it comes to handling recurring muscle injuries and nothing at all could go wrong from bringing him back early.
- Aston Villa midfielder Barry Bannan doesn’t want to be loaned out anymore.
- Plymouth Argyle have been assessed a ten point penalty for entering
relegationadministration, which drops them to the bottom of the League One table and almost definitely guarantees that they’ll be relegated. - New Roma manager Vincenzo Montella will focus more on the psychological side of management than on the technical or tactical side.
- Club Brugge have sacked goalkeeper Stijn Stijnen after he was linked to an internet smear campaign against fellow Club Brugge goalkeepers Geert De Vlieger and Colin Coosemans.
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Stijnen got sacked? how weird… for starting a smear campaign? whaaat? is he running for a public office in that goal or something?
ManU play tomorrow, not tonight.
And Plymouth Argyle got assessed a 10 point penalty for entering administration, not relegation.
Can you imagine being penalized for being in the relegation zone? That’d be like a super-high interest payday loan where no matter how well you played you couldn’t climb out.
or kinda like how Blackpool were fined for being poor earlier this year.
I am so sad for Argyle. I like that club a lot and it looked like they were on their way with their promotions of past years, but they hit the Championship and that seemed to be their kryptonite. I hope a new owner or cash infusion is found as I would be well and truly sad if they were wound up. Such is the business of football these days though…
Speaking of the business of football: Fans have the power to support via their wallets and the fans spoke against the Glazers. I don’t understand how a group that did so well with the TB Bucs could have gotten it so wrong with Man U. This seems like a no brainer and apparently they have no brains for football…not that we ever thought that was a requirement for ownership (Hicks/Gillette anyone?)
Yet another reason to dislike Tevez (other than his ugly mug and moodiness). His “agent” is the infamously slimy Kia Joorabachian, who just so happens to be the former owner of Corinthians (as well as the sole source for all of Harry Harris’ crap reporting for ESPN – per ATD expose last year). FIFA need to ban this creep.