It’s a late entry, but the 2008 Stephen Ireland Award for Most Psychologically Disturbed Goal Celebration goes to Mirko Vucinic for his response to his last-gasp winner against Cagliari at the weekend. The Roma man stripped off his shirt to reveal… another Roma shirt, before whipping off his shorts to parade around in his Y-fronts. And not even a personalised slogan in sight!
Revolutionary set-piece tactics were on display in Serie A this weekend. Catania’s players dropped deep into the penalty area, dropped their shorts to their knees to unsight the goalkeepers and stood back to enjoy as team-mate Giuseppe Mascara popped the ball into the back of the net. Read more »
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.
The Special One gets clippered
Consistency all over, nothing on the wings, and dropping deep up front, it must be Jose Mourinho’s new haircut. The Inter Milan boss has chosen the depths of autumn as the best time to shave his noggin. Expect to see a San Siro sniffle shortly.
The rumours have been about for a week or two, but I didn’t expect them to materialise into anything. AC Milan have announced that they have confirmed an agreement to take David Beckham on loan from LA Galaxy at the end of the MLS season.
Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani said: “Beckham has chosen Milan. He’ll stay here in Milan on loan for a few months. Our squad is ultra-competitive and it will remain this way but Beckham is something different and intriguing.” Read more »
It’s one of those things that seems so trivial when you watch it happen to someone else, and yet there is nothing like losing a tooth to hit a vanity nerve and send even a tough footballer into a state of confusion. Like Juventus’ Zdenek Grygera, for instance.
The artist formerly known as Special One brags about his cash
Inter Milan boss Jose Mourinho offered a mouthy journalist the chance to pick the side to face Werder Bremen in a lively press conference. The hack responded: “I would if you gave me part of the nine million euros you earn.”
Well, Loadsamoney Mourinho was not going to stand for that. He said: “It’s not nine, it’s 11 and with sponsors it comes to 14.” Ouch!
