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Tag: Dirty Tackle
Pep Guardiola wants 100% possession, has lost his mind
At a certain point, legendary business tycoon and aviator Howard Hughes went from thinking it was pretty great to be clean to urinating in jars and wearing tissues boxes as shoes. There’s a line there, between keen interest and crippling obsession, and in his own way, Pep Guardiola might be in the process of crossing it.
DTotD: Russian futsal player throws ball and a punch at referee
Frustration can get the best of anyone and one Russian futsal referee found out that adding to it for another person can be dangerous.
Our series of unfortunate events begins with a player getting knocked down by an opponent. The referee stops play and awards the ball to that opponent’s team, since the player in yellow fell on top of the ball and appeared to touch it with his hand. This ruling did not please the player in yellow, so he threw the ball at the official’s head. The official then showed him a red card and so the player in yellow punched the referee in the head.
The lesson here? If you’re going to show a red card to a player who was willing to throw a ball at your face, you better duck immediately after doing so.
This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events.
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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.
Jose Mourinho just wants to win so young Chelsea fans don’t get bullied
Chelsea finally won a match, beating Dynamo Kiev 2-1 with a superb Willian free kick in the 83rd minute. It was a win Jose Mourinho desperately needed, as reports of him only having a match or two left before he gets sacked intensify. And though fans at Stamford Bridge chanted his name and showed their support for him throughout the game, Mourinho made it clear afterwards that his thoughts are with the kids in this difficult time.
Said Mourinho (via the Telegraph):
“It’s easy for kids to go to school in a Chelsea shirt when Chelsea win every match. It’s not easy for 11 or 12-year-old kids to go to school with a Chelsea shirt when Chelsea are losing matches, when probably they are bullied by other kids whose teams are winning.”
With Arsenal losing 5-1 to Bayern, it’s probably not the Chelsea kids who have to worry about getting laughed at this week.
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.
DT Exclusive: What Cristiano Ronaldo whispered to Laurent Blanc
Cristiano Ronaldo whispered something to PSG manager Laurent Blanc after Real Madrid’s 1-0 Champions League win, prompting widespread speculation as to what he could have said. DT’s lip-reading experts have closely examined the footage and determined that it can only be one of the following phrases…
Cesc Fabregas “mini revolt” story illustrates problem with anonymous sources in football
On Monday, The Secret Footballer, an unnamed professional player who was originally a Guardian columnist and is now the proprietor of an independent website and peddler of books, declared that Cesc Fabregas is leading a “mini revolt” at Chelsea.
Barcelona players dumped fake blood all over Getafe bathroom
Following Barcelona’s official apology for their costumed players interrupting a Getafe player’s post-match press conference on Halloween, it has now been revealed that they also dumped a bunch of red paint all over the dressing room bathroom, according to AS.
Of course, given Gerard Pique’s propensity to bleed, there’s a good chance it wasn’t all paint…
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…