Spare a thought for Anderlecht goalkeeper Daniel Zitka who - already in a world of pain after breaking his leg - was dropped from a stretcher while being carried from pitch. Zitka fell victim to a clumsy stretcher bearer who lost his footing and took a nosedive towards the turf. The stretcher-bearer then had the cheek to make the most of his own injury!
Check out our top five stretcher incidents here.
Chelsea striker bound and gagged by pink-loving woman
First we had the Pink Panther, now it is the turn of the pink Puma. Hotfooting it into the sports stores in the wake of Nike’s Mercurial Rosa is Puma’s very own pink boot.
The very loose plot which allows them to have a topless Anelka and a woman wearing only underwear and boots is that the Chelsea striker has been taken hostage by a terrorist group in favour of men who wear pink. They are recording a ransom video to Big Phil Scolari: make him wear pink boots or we won’t release him.
Basic defensive coaching tells you to keep your eyes on the ball, but common sense dictates that you should probably have at least half-an-eye maintaining awareness that you are not about to run into any 8ft tall poles. It is a lesson Ignacio Falco of Lees-McRae College learnt the hard way!
When Derby met Leeds in the Carling Cup last night, the fans of both sides realised they had something in common. The self-deprecating Rams and Whites followers joined forces for a stirring chorus of “we’re not famous anymore.”!
In England we call the traditional game of football played on mud ‘away at Wigan’, but in Finland they call it mudball. It doesn’t so much test your technique as your ability to stay afloat. The teams take it very seriously though (well, except for the ones in drag or their birthday suits).
Goalkeeper is not strictly accurate. How about goalgiver?
To be fair to Lyon goalkeeper Remy Vercoutre, the backpass he receives in this video is a bit on the short side. Sadly his sidefooted pass to an onrushing FC Metz attacker is inch perfect. D’oh!
God bless Brazilian footballers. They can’t even score own goals without using more technique and panache than we could ever dream of. Take Cicinho of Roma, for instance. Here he is scoring a 91st minute equaliser for Bologna at the weekend. An outstanding diving header to give his keeper no chance.
You wouldn’t have thought that merely wearing Cristiano Ronaldo’s skintight Nike training gear would allow you to show him up on the football pitch, but Nike see things a little differently. Manchester United kitman Albert Morgan gets a new lease of life when he dons the magic Nike Pro top of Ronaldo.
“Hey, Gennaro. Welcome to goalkeeping school. Lesson one: under no circumstances do you walk across your goalline with the ball in your possession. It’s sort of like doing the opposition’s job for them. Got that?”
Sadly he hadn’t, and this was painfully exposed during Nancy’s Uefa Cup tie with Lech Poznań (apparently it is a football club, not a trade unionist) this week.
For some reason best known to themselves, Standard Liege’s Dieumerci Mbokani and Steven Defour are being filmed on a fairground ride. The happy duo are sharing a joke, which causes Mbokani to lean over and cuddle up to his team-mate. Unfortunately for him, he does this at the precise moment that the safety bars were being lowered. Cue much hilarity as Mbokani battles to get his head released!
