Articles tagged with "sepp-blatter"
Daily Dose 10.08.08
By Laurie | October 8th, 2008Some news to read as you steal $19,000 worth of bras: How to make your national team? With black magic, of course (mCalcio) Financial crisis hits ...
Who Needs News When You Can Just Make Stuff Up?
By chris | October 8th, 2008Have you ever known that the percentage of outlandish news and rumors seems to spike during international breaks? You know, stuff like finding Cesc & ...
Daily Dose 08.02.08
By Daryl | August 2nd, 2008Something to read while you put some clothes on... Jewell or Belichick: Which sex tape is worse? (Dave's Football Blog) A surprisingly convincing argument for 3-6-1 (Gramsci's ...
Daily Dose 07.13.08
By Daryl | July 13th, 2008Something to read while you video yourself getting struck by lightning... OM fans trying to buy back Drogbacite! (Marseille Offside) Man Utd: defining hypocrisy? (101 GG) Sepp = ...
Could Sepp Blatter Have Said Anything Sillier?
By Daryl | July 13th, 2008If you though Sepp Blatter's "modern day slavery" quote was ridiculous, wait til you see what he's saying in our latest football comic from Chris ...
Blame Blatter, Not C-Ron
By Daryl | July 13th, 2008Now we've all had time to recover from Sepp Blatter comparing Cristiano Ronaldo's five six figure contract at Man Utd to modern day slavery, it's ...
The Daily Dose 07.11.08
By Laurie | July 11th, 2008Some news to read as you kill your drunken husband with a folding couch: If this is modern slavery, then the line to get shackled up ...
Oh the humanity!
By j | July 11th, 2008Throwing caution to the wind and turning aside the kindly words of dear Sepp Blatter and the worldly advice of Cristiano Ronaldo, young Daniel Sean ...
I'm A Slave 4 U
By Ale | July 11th, 2008So everyone's in an uproar the past few days about FIFA president Sepp Blatter likening Manchester United's treatment of Ronaldo to that of a "modern ...
Blatter Putting Calls In For Plan B
By chris | July 10th, 2008While most people will gawk at Sepp Blatter putting his foot in his mouth yet again, the head cheese at FIFA actually said something yesterday ...
The ramblings of a madman (Blatter, not me.)
By Rob | July 10th, 2008Sepp Blatter has described footballers on long-term contracts as "like modern slavery". I'll let you read that back. Players like C-Ron, earning Millions of pounds ...
FIFA Says "Screw the EU, We're Voting for 6+5"
By Laurie | May 30th, 2008FIFA met this week and took some important votes on several key issues. The one that could have the most impact on the ...
6+5 and why we have to stop it
By Rob | May 30th, 2008Sepp Blatter got one step closer to getting his controversial 6+5 policy implemented by 2012, after a FIFA congress voted a landslide in favour of ...
Sepp Threatens to Suspend Iraq
By Ian Rose | May 25th, 2008Considering all the horrible things that have taken place in Iraq over the past five years and before, administrative suspension probably isn't the biggest worry ...
Sepp Blatter Thinks Too Many Brazilians are Playing for Other Countries
By Laurie | May 16th, 2008It's not just foreign players in clubs that worry FIFA President Sepp Blatter. It's also the foreign players in national teams. His biggest ...
The Big Downside of 6+5
By Daryl | May 9th, 2008Yesterday, I posted about Sepp Blatter's determination for 6+5 (no more than five foreigners on any team, but you know that by now, right?) and ...
TFC- Daily Dose Question 6 + 5 = ?????
By nicholas | May 8th, 2008If you have been a regular reader of my little blog, you will have no doubt know where what my opinion is on the whole ...
Scudamore Running Scared of Blatter's 6+5
By Daryl | May 8th, 2008Seems unfair to blame one man for everything that's wrong with an entire league. But I'm going to do it anyway, because chief exec Richard ...
English FA Show Sepp's Suggestion the Red Card
By Daryl | March 18th, 2008You thought the debate about Martin Taylor's punishment for his tackle on Eduardo was over? Think again. FIFA were recently sniffing around the case, with ...
Forum Poster "Leaks" The Champions League Draw 90 Minutes Before It Happens
By chris | March 14th, 2008This is so ridiculous it's borderline laughable, but the facts are coming through and they're looking quite tempting. An internet poster on the Liverpool Echo ...
FIFA Giving The Old F-U To F-U-N
By chris | March 9th, 2008For the second time in two weeks, a Serie A player scored a decisive goal in a game, took his shirt off to celebrate and ...
Scudamore Fears the Wrath of Sepp
By Daryl | February 27th, 2008Premier League supersuit Richard Scudamore and his plans to play Premier League matches on the moon (I forget the details) took yet another step backwards ...
Now Everyone Hates the Premier League
By Daryl | February 15th, 2008Things are looking worse and worse for the Premier League's plans for a moneyspinning international round. The plan already got the middle finger from Asia, ...
Six Plus Five = One Happy Sepp Blatter
By Daryl | February 6th, 2008We've been hearing about the six plus five rule for a while now. If you're not familiar, the proposed rule would mean every starting eleven ...
Welcome to Work, Fabio: You're Doomed (And it's Wenger's Fault)
By Martha | January 7th, 2008Practically every English paper today is celebrating Fabio Capello's official first day in charge of England with stories of the woe ahead for the national ...
Beckham Says It's Not the Foreigners' Fault
By Laurie | November 25th, 2007(First, a disclaimer: I'm really not all that strongly against quotas for foreign players in Europe. My reasons are purely selfish: If quotas ...
Blatter: Foreign Money good, Foreign Players not so much
By Bob | October 5th, 2007Once every month, FIFA Czar-for-Life Sepp Blatter wakes up, rubs the sleep out of his eyes, leaves his gold-platted Swiss cave, and shares his views ...
FIFA Asked to Uncover Lingering Tevez Transfer Mess
By Nick | July 18th, 2007Goodee. Well not actually, but it's about f*cking time this mess gets sorted out. I hardly reckon I'm the only United fan on planet Earth who's ...
The World Cup won't be held on Mt. Everest
By Bob | May 29th, 2007FIFA officially opened its new $196 million headquarters in Zurich on Tuesday in a fierce rainstorm, both literally and figuratively. Said Czar-for-Life Sepp Blatter: ...
FIFA to try out Four Linesmen System
By Bob | May 2nd, 2007With the exception of a certain octogenarian, we all know that is tough out there for referees. The game is played at such a ...
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