#VoteHenderson for the #FIFA16UKcover and @JHenderson promises to do the @D_Sturridge dance: https://t.co/MFnBXak79y https://t.co/pFLphJO53y
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) June 19, 2015
EA Sports is letting fans vote for the footballer who will join Lionel Messi on the UK cover of FIFA 16, because that’s exactly what fans need: one more thing to fight about on the internet. Read more
Another week, another batch of new shirts. I’m starting to think they keep releasing them just so we can keep filling this space. Yes, that’s definitely it.
French striker Andre-Pierre Gignac has joined Mexican club Tigres, exciting and confusing fans in equal measure.
Norway will face England in the Women’s World Cup round of 16 and in the lead-up to the big match, NRK (Norway’s version of the BBC) produced a mockumentary that sees the players having some fun with sexist stereotypes of the women’s game.
Presented as the players “admitting the truth” to reporter Nicolay Ramm, every asinine opinion of women’s football from physical shortcomings to mental lapses and problematic lesbianism is addressed, highlighting the absurdity of the claims. It’s very well done and definitely worth a watch.
Meanwhile, one Norwegian newspaper is getting serious about the next match…
This is 21-year-old Mitchell Weiser undergoing his medical as he moves from Bayern Munich to Hertha Berlin. Photographs of players in the middle of medical exams before joining a new club are always weird, but this is a whole new level.
The doctor looks like he’s sizing Weiser up for some kind of experimental surgery where he replaces his extremities with live eels and Weiser looks like he has resigned himself to this fate and mentally dissociated from his soon to be dissected body.
Nothing about this is good. Official medical exam pictures need to stop.
Colombia beat Brazil for the first time since 1991, avenging last summer’s World Cup quarterfinal loss with a 36th minute goal from Jeison Murillo in Copa America Group C. But once the final whistle blew, the real fun began.
It started with Neymar kicking the ball at a celebrating Pablo Armero, then lightly headbutting goal scorer Murillo, prompting Colombia striker Carlos Bacca to come charging in and shove him from behind.
Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal, who scored twice in Monday’s 3-3 draw with Mexico, spent his Copa America night off in a hospital with minor injuries after crashing his red Ferrari and getting arrested on drunk driving charges. This was a tremendous disappointment to the tournament’s host nation, especially since Vidal OWNS A LIMOUSINE SERVICE.
Premier League fixtures for the 2015/16 season have been released and to explain the mysterious process, the league’s official website published an interview with fixture list compiler Glenn Thompson. The following is an exact reproduction of that interview.
Clint’s right: Why tear up the record books when you could tear up the ref’s book instead? http://t.co/4lll2eeb79
— Howler Magazine (@whatahowler) June 17, 2015
Fierce rivals Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers met in the fourth round of the U.S. Open Cup and the resulting match surpassed anything anyone could have dreamed up. Read more
Paraguay beat Jamaica 1-0 for a share of the lead with Argentina in Group B and they have goalkeeper Duwayne Kerr to thank. The problem for Kerr: he plays for Jamaica.