Bayern go above and beyond their fans’ giant “Never give up!” tifo message to dismantle Porto

I hate to say I told you so, but I totally 100% told you so. Bayern came back from a shock 3-1 loss to Porto in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal to beat them 6-1 in the second leg (five Bayern goals scored before halftime). This was Pep Guardiola’s plan all along.

Before the match, worried Bayern supporters urged their team to “Never give up!” with a giant tifo at one end of the Allianz Arena, but an hour later their domination of Porto made that assertion look comical. It was so overwhelming that even Guardiola himself couldn’t watch the devastation he had wrought.

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Police officer has a kick around with young Aston Villa fans before FA Cup semifinal

It appears that even the police can’t resist The Magic of The FA Cup as one officer took part in a kick around with a few kids outside Wembley before the semifinal between Liverpool and Aston Villa on Sunday.

Onlookers gave her a cheer and sang “sign her up, sign her up!”

Hopefully distracting people with a demonstration of footy skills catches on as a means of keeping the peace. The guy who filmed this should have been arrested for not doing so in landscape mode, though.

Non-league player sacked after getting caught having sex with fan in the dugout

(Mossleyweb.com/Steve Burgess)
(Mossleyweb.com/Steve Burgess)

Jay Hart, a striker for Evo-Stik Division 1 North (the eighth tier of English football) club Clitheroe, has been dismissed from the club after he was caught and filmed having sex with a fan in the dugout after a 4-1 loss at Mossley AFC. It happened to be Mossley’s annual ladies day at Seel Park, but he definitely took that concept a bit further than was intended.

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Tim Sherwood might be ridiculous like a fox

Tim Sherwood is a silly man. Between the touchline celebrations and outerwear throwing, the self-aggrandizing talk of win ratios, keeping Harry Kane at Spurs and trying to sign Raheem Sterling at 14, the guy mockingly referred to as “Tactics Tim” seems to revel in making people notice him — even if it’s as the butt of a joke. But a curious thing is happening while everyone is making fun him: he’s getting results.

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Arsenal reach FA Cup final on pitiful goalkeeping error

Arsenal required extra time to beat Reading 2-1 in the FA Cup semifinals. Alexis Sanchez scored both of Arsenal’s goals, but the second was a gift that will haunt Reading keeper Adam Federici until he jams a pencil into his ear in a desperate attempt to forget the pain.

Having already made several fine stops on the day to force Arsenal into extra time, Federici let a routine save squirt through his legs. To make it even more excruciating, he tried to make the full-reach, last ditch attempt to pull it off the goal line, but he just couldn’t do it (3:48 into the video below).

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