Category: England

Roy Keane finds a way to put down Ashley Young and offend Chinese people at the same time

Roy Keane is never one to hold back, especially when his former club is the topic of conversation. He demonstrated this yet again when Ashley Young was brought up, since he performed yet another blatant dive during Man United’s 1-0 win over CSKA Moscow in the Champions League.

“I think the guy’s a disgrace,” Keane said. “If he’s a Man United player, I’m a Chinaman.”

That’s Roy Keane, ladies and gentlemen. The only football pundit to casually throw derogatory terms for Chinese people into his Ashley Young insults since your unemployed uncle at that last family gathering.

Louis van Gaal called Chris Smalling “Michael” again

Back in July, Louis van Gaal called Chris Smalling “Mike” during a press conference. With Smalling sitting right next to him. The name stuck for Smalling, who happened to speak about it a few weeks ago.

From the Guardian:

“The players don’t call me Mike, but a lot of the fans do,” Smalling said with a smile after United’s 0-0 draw with Manchester City last month.

“Even if you go to Russia or wherever, it’s ‘Mike! Mike! Mike!’

“It’s going to stick with me forever, that one.”

Well, Van Gaal has only gone and done it again, this time after Man United’s 1-0 win over CSKA Moscow in the Champions. But this time, he’s gone for the more formal “Michael.”

“David De Gea saved us,” Van Gaal said, getting his goalkeeper’s name right. “And after that, Michael Smalling saved us.”

At this point, Smalling should probably just change his name. It’s the only way now.

Greater Manchester, Merseyside police backtrack on failed attempts at Twitter banter

Tweeting is never a good idea and it turns out this is even true if you’re the police. Both the Greater Manchester and Merseyside police departments demonstrated this over the weekend with their now deleted attempts at football related banter.

Following another lackluster performance from Wayne Rooney in Manchester United’s 0-0 draw with Crystal Palace, the weekend tweeter on one of the Greater Manchester Police’s accounts (“DS Dave”) decided to put out a missing persons alert on him…

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Jose Mourinho has “nothing to say” after loss to Liverpool

It started off well enough for Chelsea with Ramires putting them up 1-0 against Liverpool in just the fourth minute, but the quagmire this season has become for the club eventually swallowed them up. Liverpool came back to win 3-1 with their last two goals taking deflections off Chelsea defenders.

This gives Chelsea an astonishing six losses in their first 11 matches — the worst start to a Premier League title defense ever.

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Leicester City had a full blown clean-sheet pizza party

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri said he would fulfill his promise of pizza for all of his players after their first clean sheet of the season against Crystal Palace last weekend and he really wasn’t joking.

On Thursday, Leicester had a full-on pizza party at Peter Pizzeria, where they were able to make their own. And for dessert, they even had Nutella pizza.

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Arsenal’s substitutes for injured players are also getting injured now

It was all going so well for Arsenal. After losing their first two Champions League matches, they bounced back to claim four consecutive victories, including decisive wins against Manchester United and Bayern Munich. This proved enough to restart talk of Arsenal winning the Premier League, but then came their Capital One Cup round of 16 match against second-division Sheffield Wednesday.

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Man United give Wayne Rooney a testimonial and a nudge towards retirement

Manchester United have heeded the calls of supporters and granted Wayne Rooney a testimonial, which has been scheduled for August 3 of next year. The club award testimonials to players who have served for at least a decade, so Rooney’s 11 years puts him in that category, but they usually come before a player leaves the club or retires. Given Rooney’s much discussed poor form of late, that makes the timing of this announcement a bit interesting.

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