Former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga has been unveiled as Wolverhampton’s new manager and at his first press conference he got a little carried away while describing the importance of the Championship club abroad.
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Ritchie De Laet wins promotion to Premier League and gets Premier League winner’s medal the very same day
Not a bad day 🏅🏅🎉🎉🎉 pic.twitter.com/Ozt51ISCil
— ritchie de laet (@de_laet_r) May 7, 2016
Saturday was a great day for every member of Leicester City, but for defender Ritchie De Laet, it was doubly great.
Charlton fans hold mock funeral procession, throw beach balls during match in protest against owner
Charlton Athletic beat Middlesbrough 2-0 on Sunday, but the win wasn’t enough to pull them out of the relegation zone in the Championship, nor did it change the feelings of supporters on the current state of the club.
Fan on mobility scooter invades pitch, helps get Blackpool match abandoned
Guy in wheelchair invades pitch at Bloomfield road 😂 Made my year 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/jaANOvYjcL
— ⒷⓇⒶⒹ (@Brad92Rawcliffe) May 2, 2015
Blackpool fans stepped up their protests against the club’s owners, the Oyston family, by staging a pitch invasion shortly after halftime of the team’s match against Huddersfield Town. And one of those pitch invaders happened to be riding a mobility scooter.
Brighton player refuses to let knee injury stop him from doing backflip celebration
We all have certain things that are important to us. Aspects of ourselves that we consider to be the unshakable foundation of who we are as individuals. For Brighton & Hove Albion’s Kazenga LuaLua, the backflip goal celebration is an expression of that. And he wasn’t about to let a knee injury that kept him out for two months scare him off doing it.
The 24-year-old winger scored for the first time since returning from the injury in Brighton’s 2-0 win against Derby on Tuesday and despite his coaches’ disapproval, he celebrated with his backflip.
Derby County partly credit success to a reduction in swearing
Steve McClaren’s Derby County are currently third in the Championship (just one point behind leaders Middlesbrough) and first-team coach Paul Simpson says that the team’s conscious attempt to reduce how much they swear at people has helped them achieve that position. Because they have apparently discovered that most human beings don’t enjoy having curse word shouted in their face.