Time for another protest?

I hope the Liverpool squad kept hold of the t-shirts from the Michael Shields protest a few weeks back because, with just a slight modification, they could prove to be very useful over the next few months.

It’s number 32 if you’re buying a Christmas present that will last for about two months

If you thought David Beckham’s loan move to AC Milan was nothing more than a cynical marketing ploy then think again. Here he is being presented with his shirt five days before Christmas ahead of joining the club in January. Hmm…

Milan president Adriano Galliani seems to be licking his lips at the prospect (no doubt Marco Borriello is too!).

You know the game - find the odd one out in the red hat

Did you spot him? Don’t worry if not - that was a tough one, kids. Dimitar Berbatov has been rocking his Steve Zissou look over in Japan. This is how his painstaking process of withdrawal and isolation begins.

New Huddersfield manager’s past fashion faux pas

Since Lee Clark was unveiled as Huddersfield Town’s new manager today we thought we ought to pay tribute to his playing career. Or, to be more precise, the moment he made one of football’s greatest wardrobe-related errors of judgement.

Geordie boy and former Newcastle player Clark took the not-very-well beaten track to Sunderland. But he was still a Newcastle lad at heart, and attended the 1999 FA Cup final wearing a t-shirt bearing the slogan Sad Mackem Bastards. Strangely he never played for Sunderland again…

Best of luck to Lee at the Galpharm Stadium.

Hammers winger forced to promote his own addiction

In these cut-thrust times of economic uncertainty, a Premier League club without a sponsor cannot afford to let little things like irony stand in the way of a decent pay-day. That is why the club has not let the fact that winger Matthew Etherington has a gambling addiction stop them signing a new sponsorship deal with online bookmakers SBOBET.
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Poor old Baggies destined to spend all eternity with plain shirts

Watching West Brom play (and frequently lose) week-in week-out without a sponsor had got us feeling a bit down. The Baggies are propping up the rest of the Premier League table and they can’t even find someone willing to sponsor their shirt while they do it.

Off The Post took pity on West Brom and offered to sponsor them. Sadly our resources don’t stretch to a million-pound contract for the season, but we thought we could help them out with a one or two-match deal and save them the indignity of spending the whole season without shirt sponsorship. The Premier League had other ideas though!
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Pre-match campaign lands Liverpool in trouble

Liverpool seem to have landed themselves in hot water with the FA after a pre-match t-shirt campaign by its players. The authorities are apparently not very happy that the Reds, spurred on by Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher according to the local press, used their Monday night TV slot with West Ham to promote a campaign. A disciplinary charge for the club could follow.

As far as we are aware, the ‘Free Michael Now’ t-shirts were part of an ongoing protest to get a Liverpool fan jailed for attempted murder released from a Bulgarian prison, and absolutely nothing to do with an unrelated protest to let Little Mickey Owen leave Newcastle on a Bosman.

Have yourself a holy yellow card

Steven Pienaar showed that he shares Kaka’s religious views if not quite his footballing prowess by celebrating his winning goal against Tottenham yesterday in a ‘God Is Great’ vest. Kaka famously celebrated winning the Champions League in an ‘I Belong To Jesus’ t-shirt.

We are making the big assumption that Pienaar wasn’t simply trying to impress the Evertonians and it did not say ‘But Big Dunc Is The Greatest’ on the back! We can also assume that God is sponsored by Umbro, God is now commissioning the Everton kitman to spread the word, and that Steve Bennett is going straight to hell for persecuting Pienaar with a yellow card!

Bayern Munich star Franck Ribery reprises his role as the Pink Panther, and this time he is cartoon form.

Liverpool duo show off their boots

If you buy the new Adidas Predator, you too will be able to kick a football at a clay pigeon without the help of any computer tricks whatsoever.