This is Chelsea’s home kit for the 2016/17 season. It features “tonal lions” on the shirt. It looks like something Hugh Hefner would wear to bed.
I guess Adidas decided that since Chelsea sleepwalked through much of this season, they might as well be dressed appropriately for it.
Legia Warsaw beat Lech Poznan in the Polish Cup final, which is wonderful for them, but I’m pretty sure the apocalypse happened before and during this match. Watch:
Bayern Munich’s elimination from the Champions League semifinals by Atletico Madrid ensures that Pep Guardiola will not win a European title for the German club before he joins Man City next season. Though Guardiola has won five other trophies in his three seasons with Bayern, this comes as a terrible disappointment to him. Thankfully, his fellow managers have reached out to him with their comforting words.
When we last saw Zlatan Ibrahimovic conduct a job interview on behalf of the vitamin drink he promotes, he asked a very nervous prospective hire who his favorite footballer was. The guy was smart/scared enough to say it was the massively egoed superstar sitting across from him. But Nicole from Finland is far braver.
After being told by everyone all season that he’s having a party, Jamie Vardy decided to do just that for the Chelsea-Spurs match that would prove to be the final result needed to confirm Leicester’s Premier League title. And as a result, we get this brilliant celebration video.
Spurs hadn’t won at Stamford Bridge since 1990, but they had to do just in order to prolong their slim title hopes for another week. They seemed destined to do just that when they took a 2-0 lead over Chelsea jsut before halftime. But then the longstanding animosity between the two clubs boiled over and Spurs did what they do best: implode.
A missed penalty against Frosinone brings Mario Balotelli to 16 straight appearances without a goal. Once automatic from the penalty spot, even Balotelli’s greatest strength seems to have disappeared as he has only scored one Serie A goal for Milan all season.
Fellaini elbows and then punches Huth.
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— Football Expose (@FootballExpose) May 1, 2016
Marouane Fellaini delivered his 1,872nd elbow to an opponent’s head (which entitles him to a free small coffee!) as Man United hosted Leicester City. Though Fellaini’s elbow didn’t seem to hurt Robert Huth’s jaw of steel, the German defender did give Fellaini a taste of his own medicine with a hair pull.
The Great Arsenal Civil War of 2016 eclipsed the club’s match against Norwich as fans took the battle from the outposts of YouTube, Twitter, and Starbucks across north London to Emirates Stadium itself. An organized Wenger Out protest was met by a pro-Wenger resistance force while some highly paid men in kits ran around a bit.
Brendan Rodgers is rumored to be headed to Celtic or back to Swansea next season, bringing an end to his, erm, colorful time off since getting sacked by Liverpool last October. So he’s getting into fighting shape by boxing with a new trainer who has demonstrated that he is either making fun of him or is just as oblivious as Brendan himself with the Instagram post above.
In the video, Rodgers trains with boxing gloves in an empty garage with Kanye West’s “Power” serving as the soundtrack. The ferocious look in his eyes tells you he’s imagining either Jurgen Klopp or Mario Balotelli as he goes to town on his trainer’s punch mitts.
Anyway, this has been your regular update on what Brendan Rodgers has been up to. Sadly, there isn’t going to be a sequel to Being: Liverpool about the last six months of his life.
