I’m going to be away for a couple of days (I’m undergoing a cosmetic surgical procedure that will make me look like Sepp Blatter so I can overthrow FIFA from within). With no DT posts to peruse, I have some suggestions on how you can best spend your time during this brief interruption of service.
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.
Ball boys are the worst. Jose Mourinho knows it, Cristiano Ronaldo knows it, and now QPR goalkeeper Rob Green does too.
During QPR’s 3-3 draw at Aston Villa, Green relied on a ball boy behind his goal to do his job and retrieve a ball. But on, his way to it, the ball boy slipped and fell on his backside, but tried to recover by kicking the ball to Green instead of tossing it. Unsurprisingly, Green couldn’t handle it and the ball rolled back towards the advertising hoardings again. This time, the ball boy tried to big-time Green by faking the handoff and then rolling it between the goalkeeper’s legs from handshake distance.
Granted, putting the ball past Rob Green is something many people have done over the years, but this proves yet again that ball boys are a cruel breed.
Previously — Conspiracy Theory: Ball boy cabal determined to sabotage Chelsea
Everyone’s favorite win percentage obsessive, Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood, played an updated version of one of his original hits during his side’s match against QPR when he threw his jacket in celebration of Christian Benteke’s first goal.
The visitors opened the scoring in just the seventh minute, but Benteke equalized in the 10th, prompting Sherwood to express his joy by being unable to wear his jacket for a second longer.
There have been many fashionable trends that have come and gone in the beautiful game: snoods, white boots and failing to shake hands with an opponent are just a few examples. Read more
Joey Barton got himself sent off in the 32nd minute of QPR’s visit to Hull for punching Tom Huddleston in the penis. And that might be the least shocking sentence ever written.
Prevented from overpaying for one of several players he has already signed several times before, Harry Redknapp phoned QPR chairman Tony Fernandes very early the morning after the January transfer window shut and resigned. Not because he couldn’t be the star of deadline day or because are currently second from the bottom in the Premier League table, but because he needs knee surgery. This is his actual reason.
The following is a transcript of Harry’s call to Fernandes.
Manchester United beat QPR 2-0 on Saturday and to add insult to defeat, Louis van Gaal called their hosts “Queens Park Raisins” on television. Neither of these events were Van Gaal’s most remarkable of the day, though. No, that honor goes to his photo op with Little Louis van Gaal…
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.
