Rob Parker | September 24, 2009
Five goals in his first four La Liga games for C-Ron
Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first Real Madrid player ever to score in his first four La Liga appearances - and his did it in style. The world’s most expensive player went on a powerful run from inside his own half before shooting from outside [...]
Rob Parker | July 20, 2009
Spanish club in football equivalent of bullying
Villarreal got their pre-season under way in style or in bad taste depending on you viewpoint. The La Liga side thrashed amateur side Navata 27-0 in a match that has caused outrage among some online fans.
The Yellow Submarine strikers helped themselves to a hatful, with Jonathan Pereira grabbing seven [...]
Rob Parker | June 16, 2009
Italian-American is definitely Italian today
Ex-Manchester United striker Giuseppe Rossi was Italy’s goalscoring hero last night as he bagged a brace to help the Azzurri come from a goal down to beat 10-man USA. That is the same USA where Rossi was born and spent the first 13 years of his life.
I have read some [...]
Rob Parker | April 18, 2009
Villarreal coach was not having a good night
Arsenal may have won the Champions League quarter final against Villarreal on the pitch, but Manuel Pellegrini pipped Arsene Wenger in the least coordinated coach contest. While Wenger’s dancing skills were dubious at best, Pellegrini outdid him by far in the clumsiness stakes.
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Rob Parker | March 2, 2009
The only footballer with a rounder head than Paddy Kenny
You know when you used to get told that if you spent so long staring at the TV you would square eyes? Well, Villarreal keeper Diego Lopez’s mum tried to tell him that if he spent so long staring at footballs his head would turn into [...]
Rob Parker | December 11, 2008
Bhoys benefit from keeper karma
After Artur Boruc’s nightmare against Hibs at the weekend, Celtic proved that what goes around come around. The Glasgow club benefited from some very generous goalkeeping by Villarreal’s Viera, who kindly gave an underhit cross the near-post flick-on it needed to reach Shaun Maloney.
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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 [...]
