Author: Brooks Peck

Cristiano Ronaldo gives each of his teammates a personalized Bulgari advertisement

Continuing the seasonal good will started by Pepe earlier in the week, Cristiano Ronaldo has given each of his teammates a personalized Bulgari Diagono watch worth €8,200. The back of the watches feature the words “La Decima” to mark Real Madrid’s historic 10th European Cup earlier this year, the player’s name and, most prominently, Ronaldo’s CR7 mark. Just so his teammates don’t go thinking it was James Rodriguez who did this.

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DT Exclusive: Jose Mourinho responds to Alan Pardew’s claim that Arsene Wenger is better than him

In a recent defense of Arsene Wenger, Newcastle manager/troll king Alan Pardew declared that the Arsenal boss ranks higher than Jose Mourinho on the list of the best manager in Premier League history (all 22 years of it!). Though this is not an entirely unreasonable assertion, it is one that Jose Mourinho would almost certainly disagree with. So we asked him. Except, you know…not really.

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The power, the fury and the hugs: Zlatan’s return to the Camp Nou in pictures

Like a tornado of bitterness and resentment trying to disguise itself as a friendly typhoon, Zlatan Ibrahimovic returned to Barcelona on Wednesday with PSG for the Champions League match that would decide the winner of Group F. Though he only spent one season with Barca, the events of that period were the basis for the most vitriolic passages of his autobiography and wounds that seem to still haven’t totally healed four years later. And so, all eyes were on Zlatan during the match. Just as he likes it.

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QPR’s lip sync video will make you want to cancel Christmas

This video of QPR players and coaches lip-syncing to Slade’s “Merry Xmas Everybody” sums up the whole club rather neatly. There are so many clowns that they make Joey Barton look like the only one who is sane and self-aware…which is a chilling thought.

Be sure to stick it out for Harry Redknapp’s grand finale. It will ensure you have jowly night terrors instead of sugar plums dancing in your head.

Pele jokes about playing for Brazil at the Olympics, Brazil wishes he wasn’t joking

Pele recently spent a few days in intensive care following complications from a urinary tract infection that afflicted him after surgery to remove kidney stones (interesting fact: Pele had one of his kidneys removed near the end of his playing career). The 74-year-old Brazilian legend has since been released from the hospital and took the opportunity to reassure the public of his health. And declare his availability for the 2016 Olympic team.

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