Category: Nonsense

It’s just another great day at FIFA headquarters and no one is terrified

Hello. I am FIFA director of communications Walter de Gregorio and I am here to tell you that I am very tired and everything is super cool. Yes, the United States Department of Justice and Swiss officials are conducting two separate, but coordinated investigations that resulted in early morning raids which saw FIFA officials being taken from their luxury hotel rooms in Zurich and processed for extradition while documents related to the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were seized at FIFA headquarters, but this is all good for FIFA. All. Good. In the hood.

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DT Exclusive: Sam Allardyce’s Real Madrid job interview

Real Madrid sacked Carlo Ancelotti a mere 24 hours after Sam Allardyce became available. Coincidence? Haha no.

“I’m not suited to Bolton or Blackburn, I would be more suited to Inter or Real Madrid,” Allardyce said in 2010. “It wouldn’t be a problem to me to go and manage those clubs because I would win the double or the league every time.”

The following is a transcript of his job interview with Real Madrid president Florentino Perez. 

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Cristiano Ronaldo hints at starting a farm supply business with Carlo Ancelotti

Since Carlo Ancelotti delivered Real Madrid’s long awaited 10th Champions League title last season instead of this season, club president Florentino Perez is reportedly itching to sack him now. So after Real Madrid’s final match of the season — a 7-3 win against Getafe that left them just two points shy of Barcelona’s tremendous title winning campaign — Ancelotti revealed his feelings on the matter.

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9 secrets of Steven Gerrard’s Liverpool career

Liverpool Echo editor John Thompson presents Steven Gerrard with a picture created by an 8-year-old using Windows 95 on behalf of the media. (@LFC)
Liverpool Echo editor John Thompson presents Steven Gerrard with a picture created by an 8-year-old using Windows 95 on behalf of the media. (@LFC)

After 28 years with Liverpool Football Club from the youth level to being captain for 472 matches, Steven Gerrard is moving on to spend the twilight of his career in the town that produced the Twilight films: Los Angeles. And now that his Liverpool career is just about over, it’s time to reveal the previously untold secrets of his time with the club.

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