PIC: The West Ham United team coach (and horse) has arrived at @chelseafc for today’s game #19thcenturyfootball pic.twitter.com/qC9FbEvsQX
— West Ham United FC (@whufc_official) December 26, 2014
When Jose “I’ll park the bus whenever I want” Mourinho described West Ham’s performance in last season’s 0-0 draw at Stamford Bridge last season as “19th century football,” it made people’s heads cave in under the weight of the hypocrisy.
Many top clubs have put together special videos for the holidays featuring players singing songs, wearing ugly sweaters and doing a variety of other things associated with the season. But Palermo decided to go a different route with their video and now Christmas will never be the same again.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is not happy. Swedish paper Dagens Nyheter put together a list of the country’s top 150 athletes of all time and Zlatan came in at number two behind five-time Wimbledon winner Bjorn Borg.
When asked about this blatant attempt to anger him, Zlatan did not disappoint.
Well hello there.
I see you’ve caught me trying my hardest at football. Of course, we both know that I’m capable of scoring from this position. And we also both know that when I say that I’m referring to sex. And goals. Because I do both of those things a lot. And no, not just when I’m alone. Ha-HA!
What do you get when you put Iker Casillas or David Luiz in a room with kids who don’t expect to be in a room with Iker Casillas or David Luiz? A pair of delightful videos.
Ivorian striker Dally, who plays for Freamunde in the Portuguese second division, celebrated his 83rd minute goal against Chaves by mooning the opposing fans. This earned him a red card.
The player has since apologized for exposing himself and told the Record that he only did it because some of the Chaves fans were racially abusing him throughout the second half of the match. And if that isn’t justification for scoring a late goal against them and then showing them his ass then I don’t know what is.
Jose Mourinho and Mario Balotelli had their run-ins during their time at Inter and though their relationship suffered for it at the time, it seems that Mourinho can laugh about it now that they’ve gone their separate ways.
In an interview with BT Sport’s Clare Balding, Mourinho tells the story of how Balotelli once skipped a meeting between the two of them so he could attend a Formula 1 event. Mario’s reason for doing this? According to Mourinho, Balotelli told him, “Meetings in your office I can have every day, but Formula 1 is only in Italy once a year.”
Well played, Mario. Well played.
Forget the mistletoe lads? @Official_BRFC‘s Lee Mansell goes in for a cheeky kiss with @GatesheadFC‘s JJ O’Donnell! https://t.co/J3zRnv5neJ
— BT Sport Football (@btsportfootball) December 19, 2014
Bristol Rovers beat Gateshead 3-2 last weekend in a match that included one of the most unusual yellow cards of the season. Minutes after scoring Rovers’ second equalizer in the 68th minute, Lee Mansell went nose to nose with Gateshead’s JJ O’Donnell. But instead of escalating the situation to violence, Mansell kept the spirit of the season in mind and gave O’Donnell an unexpected pair of kisses.
Since Santa Claus has to work on Jesus’ birthday, he decided to take him to the Liverpool-Arsenal match on Sunday. And since Jesus is apparently Brendan Rodgers’ biggest fan for some odd reason, he brought his “Brendan I’ve got your back!” sign to the game.
This proved to be true.
Hours after winning the Club World Cup with Real Madrid in Morocco, Cristiano Ronaldo returned to his hometown of Funchal on the Portuguese island of Madeira for the unveiling of a very…detailed new statue of himself. As you can see, no one was more excited about the unveiling than the statue itself.