Rob Parker | June 24, 2009
USA stun Spain to reach Confederations Cup final
Remember we told you that Spain full-back Joan ‘Rivers’ Capdevila had taken a bit of a pop at the USA’s Jozy Altidore? Just to refresh your memory, Capdevila said of his Villarreal team-mate: “Yesterday he sent me a message and told me that we had to be careful. [...]
Rob Parker | June 24, 2009
European champions think they are supposed to be scared…
Spain laughed off a pre-Confederations Cup semi-final warning SMS by attributing it to poor language skills. USA forward Jozy Altidore sent a text to Villarreal team-mate Joan ‘Rivers’ Capdevila urging the hot favourites to watch their backs. Naturally, the Spaniards assumed something had been lost in translation.
Capdevila [...]
Rob Parker | November 26, 2008
There are two people who think any foul on C-Ron is a red card offence
One is Cristiano Ronaldo. The other is Italian referee Roberto Rosetti who dismissed Villarreal’s Joan ‘Crawford’ Capdevila for this pretty routine foul on the Portuguese flyer. It’s a foul, yeah. Give him a yellow card too by all means. But a [...]
