Articles tagged with "red-card"
Has Petr Cech become a bit of a liability?
By Rob | September 26th, 2009Chelsea's 100% record came to a rather abrupt end this afternoon, after a 3-1 defeat at the hands of Wigan Athletic. ...
The Highlights From This Weeks Champions League Action
By Rob | September 16th, 2009God bless Footytube. Honestly, its up there with the wheel in terms of Brilliant Human Inventions. Thanks to that website, I can bring you all ...
Arsene Wenger's Diet Now Consists Entirely of Sour Grapes
By Taylor Rockwell | August 31st, 2009Boom! And a pun to start the week off right! Arsenal Manager Arsene Wenger is alleging that Manchester United are guilty of playing "anti-football" and ...
To Clear Up All the Confusion... (OR: 4 + 2 = 4, and Fredy's NOT Called Up. Probably. Maybe)
By Laurie | August 1st, 2009To clear up a bit of confusion on what I've written here, or what you may have read elsewhere: Apparently the fact that Fredy Montero was ...
Daily Dose 07.22.09
By Laurie | July 22nd, 2009Some news to read as you reflect on the sheer awesomeness of Italian games where somebody (read: Amauri) gets red-carded and there is a ...
Cures for the Post-Match Hangover
By Taylor Rockwell | May 6th, 2009I started to read some bits of news about today’s tie between Chelsea and Barcelona, but I just couldn’t do it. I felt like I ...
Should the right of appeal be introduced to the CL?
By Rob | May 5th, 2009So Manchester United are through to the final of the Champions League after beating Arsenal, convincingly tonight. One United player who won't be lining up ...
Cards Aren't Just For The Pitch Anymore
By chris | April 15th, 2009Melbourne's pubs and hotels, currently dealing with a rash of alcohol-induced violence and misbehaviour, have come to the conclusion that they need to impose some ...
Lampard calls for communication from Ref's
By Rob | February 5th, 2009Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard has spoke out about the referring situation in England at the moment after his red card against Liverpool was rescinded. The ...
Now a two-horse race?
By Rob | February 1st, 2009Liverpool beat Chelsea at Anfield today, a result which sees them move two points behind league leaders Manchester United. Chelsea meanwhile are third, five points ...
Football Pitch Is The New Battlefield
By chris | January 5th, 2009What ever happened to a post-game handshake and pint? A couple weeks ago it was a man, after taking offense to a sending off, returning ...
Pratt Sets New Record for Fastest Red Card
By Daryl | December 30th, 2008That tackle you can see above (update: image has now been removed, but you can see it here) might be historic. It's by Chippenham striker David ...
Joost Volmer Shows Emmanuel Adebayor How To Throw A Proper Elbow
By chris | December 22nd, 2008Big controversy in the weekend's big Prem game. Emmanuel Adebayor, sitting on a yellow, lazily flailed his arm (6:40 above), which graced Alvaro Arebloa, who ...
Midfielder Jan Rosenthal Saves A Penalty
By chris | December 8th, 2008It's not often a field player is forced to throw on the keeper gloves. Even rarer that he has to be baptized by penalty. Once ...
Cristiano Ronaldo Sees Red for a WTF Moment
By Laurie | November 30th, 2008I've watched this video about five times, trying to get inside the mind of Cristiano Ronaldo to figure out WTF he was thinking when ...
Spurs Stun Liverpool With Late Winner! EPL Roundup.
By Rob | November 1st, 2008Chelsea are the new EPL leaders, after Liverpool - who have dealt out their fair share of late winners in recent times - were stunned ...
Roman News; Or, Contemplating A Heroin Habit.
By chris | October 14th, 2008And that's at least how much I'll need. I brace every morning when making my internet rounds to discover that which the worldly gods have deigned ...
Here's a Red Card That Should Definitely Be Overturned
By Daryl | September 18th, 2008John Terry's overturned red card might be controversial, but here's one from Celtic's 0-0 draw with Aalborg that definitely needs reviewing. If you go to the ...
How John Terry escaped a red-card ban
By Jack | September 17th, 2008According to barrister Jim Sturman, via The Times ... "Some people are raging about this, but, as usual, based on a complete misunderstanding," Sturman said. "It ...
John Terry Could Use A Selhurst Park-like Incident to the Face
By Taylor Rockwell | September 17th, 2008Much has been made of the recent decision by the English FA to reverse the red card of Chelsea’s heroic defender John Terry, who has ...
Poll: Should John Terry's Red Card Have Been Overturned?
By Daryl | September 17th, 2008Unsurprisingly, Sir Alex Furious Ferguson is furious about the FA's decision to overturn the red card Mark Halsey waved at John Terry last weekend (see ...
And The Academy Award Goes To...Giacomo Tedesco
By chris | September 14th, 2008In real time it didn't appear Sulley Muntari had even hit Giacomo Tedesco's face, which does appear to be the case from this replay. But ...
Innocent Elbow Leads To Defensive Questions
By Dave Martinez | August 21st, 2008It was bad enough that I found Gabriel Cichero's elbow as innocent as a babies coo, but even the league thinks it was bad - ...
Daily Dose: 08.20.08
By chris | August 20th, 2008Stuff to read while your gun shop gets held up by an 11 year old....... TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, Cinderella story in the making. (SoccerLens) Did Rafa mastermind ...
Cuauhtemoc Blanco is a Bad, Bad Boy
By Laurie | July 9th, 2008VIDEO HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM YOUTUBE BY CENSORS. Rumors all over the place today about Chicago bad boy/Designated Player Cuauhtemoc Blanco assaulting one or more players ...
How To Ruin A Season, by Adrian Mutu
By chris | May 6th, 2008It has been an altogether fantastic season for the Viola, their first with a clean slate after the turmoil of Calciopoli. They've spent most of ...
An Apology for Materazzi (but not from Zidane)
By Laurie | April 9th, 2008Over on my France page, I have a commenter who stops by every month or so to ask, "Has Zidane apologized to Materazzi yet?" ...
Reyna Takes Light Jabs at Arena on FSC
By Dave Martinez | March 28th, 2008Claudio Reyna was featured on the MLS 2008 Preview Show for the Fox Soccer Channel. And boy did he have some interesting things to ...
FIFA 08 Offside Cup - Group Stage OVER. Your Winners . . .
By Dave Martinez | March 26th, 2008Well, the group stages are over. And there have been some great upsets. The round of 16 begins Friday and will last a full week ...
Blackburn 3-1 Wigan: 10-man Rovers Prevail (with highlights)
By Jim | March 22nd, 2008A strong, solid performance at Ewood Park today has given the Blackburn Rovers all three points against Wigan. Rovers got on the scoreboard first with ...
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