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BT Sports Advertisement For The Christmas Fixtures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSk3GFRtoig I stumbled on this advertisement at the Chelsea blog We Ain’t Got No History. Apparently, they can’t take a joke and chose to talk shit about BT Sports because of their #banter. Of course, this is the same community that didn’t want Diego Costa because they thought he was a cunt. This isn’t the first…
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Two Sides to Every Coin
The silence was piercing. It was one of those nights for Arsene. The darkness of the bedroom seemed even more pitch black, Annie laid on the opposite side of the bed, and it seemed more of a chore to close his eyes than a relief. He tossed, he turned, he counted as many Vieira’s…
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Weekend Preview, Round Two
We have a lot of exciting games coming up this weekend in the world of football. I don’t know why that is, but I’m gonna say it’s because stupid international football is back after this weekend to take away all this excitement. (I really hate international week.) Without further ado, let’s see what we have…
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Champions League Play-Off Round Haikus
Maribor-Celtic No Fraser Forster/And Agim Ibraimi’s good/Scots win regardless Red Bull Salzburg-Malmö The Austrian champs/Shall not stand in the Swedes’ way/They’re Zlatan’s first team AaB-APOEL Aalborg must watch out/De Vincenti is in form/For the Cypriots Steaua București-Ludogorets Marcelinho’s brace/Gave rise to dreams of group stage/They’ll be realized Slovan Bratislava-BATE The Belarus club/From playoff round wilderness/Shall advance further Beşiktaş-Arsenal…
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A Fan’s Logic
Sports fandom is a very tricky. You can worship a player one day, and call him a cunt the next. You can pledge your allegiance to a racist, an adulterer or hell even a guy who hangs out with Lil Wayne and you can do it with no problems – all because that guy happens to…
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Revisiting the Daily Mail’s 2014 English National Team Predictions
Last night, during Italy’s 2-1 victory over England (a game more entertaining than many expected), this tweet appeared on the @edizd_ timeline: https://twitter.com/2014WC_Brazil/status/477947107496968192 Needless to say (but I’ll say it anyway), this is pretty shocking. How could an esteemed publication such as the Daily Mail (don’t laugh) mess this up so badly? I don’t know; I’m not in…