General Football 2013

[ChesterDave]

hahaha. 1.20 Zlatan eat your heart out

[baitman]

hahaha. 1.20 Zlatan eat your heart out

i was just about to post something about that 1:20 goal then saw your post Dave. it was a peach.

[little dave hedgehog]

[Leyton388]

Nice photoshop.

[Gibbo]

A rapid Vienna fan enjoying the Austrian Budesliga trophy!

[Leyton388]

Pc brigade will be all over that. They'll be inquests galore.

[Fernandinho]

Having watched that Lithuanian video seeing the keeper score the rebound from a penalty he took...

What would happen if a defender got to the ball before the keeper taking the penalty and the keeper who took the penalty dived on the ball... yellow or red? Considering there are all the way down the other end of the pitch but there isn't likely to be a defender past the half way line....

[ChesterDave]

Correctly it should be a yellow. Red has to be denyimg an obvious goalscoring opportunity. With the other team not being in possession of the ball, 90 yards to the other goal, and 10 defending players between the ball I cant see it clear enough to warrant a red card

[Fernandinho]

that is what I was thinking. You could only imagine the uproar from it though. The team who had defended the penalty would be in meltdown.

[Shaggy]

Look at Jamie Pollock now!

[Vermilion]

Ha! Look at Danny Murphy!

[Chazza]

And Colin Murray

[Red_Polo]

Pc brigade will be all over that. They'll be inquests galore.

Really? Don't see how it relates to political correctness. It's all gone a bit Stewart Lee.

[Boogs]

Look at Jamie Pollock now!

He's 39!

His career began at Middlesbrough where he played as a defensive midfielder. He left Middlesbrough in 1996 joining Spanish side CA Osasuna. After failing to make an impression in Spain he returned to England, signing for Bolton Wanderers. He later played for Manchester City, a team which then fell into what was then Division Two. Pollock scored a bizarre own goal in the penultimate game of the season, against Queens Park Rangers, where he flicked the ball over an opposing player before sending a looping header over his own goalkeeper. The own goal condemned Manchester City to relegation to the third tier for the first time, whilst keeping QPR in the division. As a result, a group of QPR fans thanked him by voting him the "most influential man of the past 2,000 years" in an internet poll, where "Jesus came second, apparently."

[Vermilion]

Premier League - Di Canio hits back at O’Neill over ‘charlatan’ claims.

Paolo Di Canio has hit back at Republic of Ireland manager Martin O’Neill after the Irishman accused Di Canio of being a “managerial charlatan.”

The Italian replaced O’Neill at Sunderland back in March, but was relieved from his duties in September after a poor start to the season.

Sunderland collected just one point from their first seven games and lay bottom of the Premier league table before Di Canio was sacked.

O’Neill, who has since been named as the Republic of Ireland manager, launched an attack on the Italian earlier this week, branding him “a managerial charlatan.”

Di Canio, however, has hit back at his predecessor, stating that he managed to rescue a club that was “already sunk.”

"I don't know if he knows the meaning of this word charlatan. Probably I can teach him, even if I am not English.

"I respect the opinion of manager Martin O'Neill but the fact that he spoke after six months - not straight away - proves what kind of level he is. He is not very big.

"A charlatan is a manager who spends £40m to be a top 10 club and then sees the club sink into the relegation zone."

The 45-year-old also responded to criticism from former Sunderland players, whose fitness levels he described as “pathetic.”

"I had players who told me they had cramps from driving the car," he said.

"I had three players with injuries in the calf after 20 minutes of a game. Six different players with problems means they were not fit."

Di Canio also stood by his criticism of defender Phil Bardsley who posted a tweet which appeared to mock Sunderland following an opening day defeat to Fulham.

"At the beginning of the season, he made tweets celebrating the defeat of the club that pay him," the Italian added. "A person at the club came to me and said 'we want to fine him', and I agreed.

"He was celebrating, that is the worst treason for the people next to you. It is clear that he tried to destroy his career on his own."