In case you missed it…he did it!#motd#garyspants https://t.co/mk4qbe840i
— Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) August 13, 2016
In December of last year, former Leicester striker and current Match of the Day present Gary Lineker made what seemed like a harmless joke about the likelihood of his old club holding onto first place in the Premier League over the final five months of the season.
Newly promoted shambles club Hull City beat reigning champions Leicester 2-1 to begin the season in the increasingly nonsensical Premier League. To fully understand how insane of a result this is, you need to know a few things about Hull.
Forty six days after announcing his international retirement in the immediate aftermath of missing a penalty in Argentina’s shootout loss to Chile in the Copa American Centenario final, he has triumphantly declared his return, having missed exactly zero international matches.
The U.S. women’s team lost to Sweden and former coach Pia Sundhage in the Olympic quarterfinals, marking the team’s worst ever tournament finish and the first time they have failed to medal at the Olympics. After losing the decisive shootout 4-3 on unlikely misses from Alex Morgan and Christen Press, goalkeeper Hope Solo decided the best course of action was to insult Sweden by calling them cowards.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s new Man United shirts have been flying off the shelves since he officially signed with the club on July 1 and at the Community Shield last weekend, fans excited about his arrival were wearing those shirts. But still they had trouble spelling the name on their back.
Chelsea Fans Channel held a new signings spelling bee for Man United fans outside Wembley, with both Ibrahimovic and Mkhitaryan proving difficult for everyone but one young Leicester supporter.
This exercise is billed as the channel pranking Man United fans, but they seem to be the ones pranking themselves by wearing a name on their shirts that they can’t even spell.
The Premier League season begins this weekend and that means you’re probably creating a fantasy Premier League team for reasons you can’t fully explain. Despite being a decidedly unimportant endeavor, the act of putting a fantasy squad together
Adidas is letting fans create and submit third kit designs for Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Flamengo, Juventus, Milan, and Man United. Anytime you ask people on the internet to design something and then publish the results on your site, you’re asking for trouble and this is no different. Man United’s template seems to be getting the most prank submissions, with dozens of Harambe designs in the gallery (a few of them pictured above), but there are so many more — including one featuring a picture of a guy’s ballsack (which is definitely not pictured here). A sampling…
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has expressed genuine shock that other clubs are not calling him to offer their best players for free.
The undisputed king of this transfer window is agent Mino Raiola. He represents three of Man United’s four signings (Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, and Paul Pogba), including the largest deal in the history of football. And the name of the Dutch firm raking in his cut of all this action? Maguire Tax & Legal. As in the 1996 Tom Cruise film about a sports agent.
Picture of the Day even Superheroes take time out to watch football @nelsonfc1 pic.twitter.com/pn3My3ohUR
— Nelson FC Commercial (@NFCcommercial) August 9, 2016
When Spider-Man attends a match, he sits where he wants. And as we saw during a Sunderland-Man City match back in 2014, sometimes he even invades the pitch. But during a match played by Nelson FC of the North West Counties Football League, he plopped himself down on top of the dugout and no one seemed to mind.
According to the club’s Twitter account, Nelson are the “first English side to defeat Real Madrid away from home.” So there’s your new fact for the day.
