Chelsea confirmed the inevitable with a 1-0 win against Crystal Palace to clinch their fourth Premier League title (fifth top division title overall) with three matches left to play. It’s Chelsea’s first league title in five years and first since Jose Mourinho returned to the club last season, bringing an added level of satisfaction.
Fan on mobility scooter invades pitch, helps get Blackpool match abandoned
Guy in wheelchair invades pitch at Bloomfield road 😂 Made my year 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/jaANOvYjcL
— ⒷⓇⒶⒹ (@Brad92Rawcliffe) May 2, 2015
Blackpool fans stepped up their protests against the club’s owners, the Oyston family, by staging a pitch invasion shortly after halftime of the team’s match against Huddersfield Town. And one of those pitch invaders happened to be riding a mobility scooter.
Liverpool fans fly “Rodgers out, Rafa in” banner over Anfield
Copying Man United fans’ “Moyes out” banner from last season, a group of Liverpool supporters arranged to have a “Rodgers out, Rafa [Benitez] in” banner flown over Anfield before Saturday’s match against QPR. It should be noted that former Liverpool manager Benitez is currently employed by Napoli, though he could be out of a job at season’s end.
If superheroes had their own Sunday league
YouTube channel Ronnie Street Stunts released this video a few weeks ago, but if, like me, you’re just seeing it now, it’s worth a watch. The premise is simple: two teams of fictional characters from Superman and Wonder Woman to Super Mario and Hermione Granger play a football match against each other with no superpowers barred.
I think the main takeaway from this video is that Jose Mourinho and Gandalf have similar managerial styles.
Jose Mourinho is taking advice on how to handle Arsene Wenger from Taylor Swift
In the long ago time of last weekend, Jose Mourinho responded to criticism that Chelsea are boring after their scoreless draw with Arsenal at the Emirates by saying that Arsenal going 10 years without a title is what’s actually boring. On Friday, Wenger was asked about this rebuttal.
Future News: Messi announces new baby, Cristiano Ronaldo announces plan for twins
Following Lionel Messi’s Instagram announcement that he and partner Antonella Roccuzzo are expecting their second child together, Cristiano Ronaldo has announced his plan for twins. This would give Ronaldo three children, while Messi would only have two.
Russian defender smashes car into a pole at 105 mph, escapes with minor injuries
Anzhi Makhachalka defender and Russian international Andrey Yeshchenko ran his Nissan GT-R through a roadside electrical pole at 105 mph. Amazingly, he walked away from the crash.
From the Moscow Times:
Miraculously, Yeshchenko is seen in the video emerging from the wreckage. He later attended a medical examination and doctors declared him to have escaped from the crash with minor injuries, the report said.
The footballer was driving at 170 kilometers an hour at the time of the accident, an unidentified police source was cited as saying by LifeNews.
That means Argentine footballer Ever Banega suffered worse consequences when he forgot to set the handbrake on his car and it rolled over his foot than Yeshchenko did after losing control and hitting a pole at 105 mph. I’m not sure if there’s a lesson in that.
Why Cristiano Ronaldo’s petulance doesn’t bother Real Madrid
It’s a now familiar scene: Cristiano Ronaldo’s teammate scores and while everyone else celebrates, he pouts because he felt it should have been him. It happened again when Alvaro Arbeloa (of all people) came sliding in to finish what Ronaldo thought would be an easy tap-in for Real Madrid’s final goal in a 3-0 win against Almeria.
As soon as the ball hit the back of the net, Ronaldo was visibly upset — presumably because he missed out on his 40th La Liga goal of the season to go two ahead of Lionel Messi as the league’s top scorer. He furiously kicked the ball back at the net and shook his head as Arbeloa and Fabio Coentrao embraced behind him.
Real Madrid attempted a double throw-in
Real Madrid experimented with a new technique during their match against Almeria: synchronized throw-ins. Each with their own ball, Fabio Coentrao and James Rodriguez attempted side by side throw-ins at the same time, each targeting Pepe as the Almeria players seemed to say, “That’s not how this works!”
Bayern fans’ tifo turns Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben into “Badman and Robben”
While Bayern Munich’s executives were trying to get Jurgen Klopp to accept their flowers, Bayern’s fans were creating a brilliant tifo display for the DFB Pokal semifinal against Borussia Dortmund.