2. Another player being heralded as the next Zidane is gaining some interest, according to goal.com. Nasri and Gago have also been given this lable over the last few seasons, never heard or seen this chap tho…
3. Its not very often that a youtube football based video has a good song to it. Usually they have hellish cheese fest euro rock in the background like the Guano Apes or something, FootballShirtCulture has posted an Umbro video which has a pretty good hip-hop track, shame the vid isn’t too special, not bad but not great, just a bloody slide tackle:
5. And one more vid for good measure. I should have posted about this when it first came out and been cool like all the kids but I was lazy, so in case you havent seen it….. courtesy of FootballShirtCulture again…
Things are afoot here at footballfilter, we have a new sexy content management system which means we no longer have any excuses for making new pages, new team pages or fixing dead links quickly. Basically it means a fool like me can create a team page in about 2 hours now rather than how it was before where deep lines of code had to be dealt with, of which I know nothing about. So hoorah. In the next month or so you will see the fruits of this labour with a lot more stuff on footballfilter.com. More info about that as it comes tho…..
Anyway, the post Xmas hangover is slowly leaving and football news has begun again. Heres some top links I have spotted….
1. Everybody loves goal compilations and here is one from the great 101greatgoals.com, so quality finishes in this compilation and for once the soundtrack isn’t some cheese on toast bollocks gay fest, its actually quite a good tune:
2. Apparently Craig Bellamy might be off to Tottenham - why would they inflict piky dick head scum like him on the club? And he is for the most part rather average…..
4. Now I am not posting this one because I rate it, more because I think the Guardian writers are very lazy and this annoys me, I dont really agree with this posting, take a look and let me know what you think. Personally I think Chelsea need good wingers, its not a case of them having too old players….
1. Straight off is a great blog post from Hasta El Gol Siempre a great South American blog, this post is all about Boca’s latest game which also included a horrendous clash with one player reportedly swallowing his tounge, you can read the report and see the clash on video right here:
2. Next up is something I found via the peeps at The Offside who in turn found it at Kickette - Joey Barton holding a baby - I wish I could compose a witty caption for it but I just can’t - please feel free to post any that spring to mind!
3. Now for a photo I found at Hasta El Gol Siempre’s Flickr pool - Wish I could understand Spanish so I could further explain what the caption under it says, but either way I am more amazed that someone was able to take this photo without someone giving him a slap for getting in the way!
4. Heres a short little thing i got sent in my Youtube subscription this week - Van Persie showing off
5. And finally, Mourinho starts the chat in hesistation of Inter vs Man Utd already; claiming lazy, arrogant Zlatan is better than Ronaldo. Personally I think Inter Milan are light weight and Man Utd will have no problem beating them:
Is it just me or is Lawro’s questionable hair cut becoming even more questionable? The front has developed into something that once could be called a fringe into some kind of blond skunk patch, for want of a better comparison. A scally’s tasche is thicker than the fluff covering his forehead…… unfortunately the following photo doesn’t really do my thoughts justice but you get the idea, just tune into MOTD for the latest lowdown or Mark’s hair stylings; for sure it is one the more important issues in the footballing world today in my opinion. Fuck develpoing grass roots football in England, lets get Lawro a decent and flattering hair cut, whoever is his hair dresser should own up!
Tis been a while but I thought I should get back on it, turns out my original #5 has been sitting in my “drafts” foder for the last 7 days, what can I say I am a pro blogger.
So I don’t know about you but football and football related stories have been pretty tame of late. I don’t really give a shit if Robbie Keane is off or if a completely inexperienced manager like Paul Ince is unsurprisingly getting the sack. I want scandal, which I am afraid I can’t give to you….but I will try.
1. First up is this gem from The Offside, where Napoli owner warns any players of wanderlust to the premier league that the ladies there could do with a douche - Napoli Owner’s Stiff Warning Against Female Genitalia.
4. Another French vibe here. As I don’t pay too much attention to MLS or French league, heres a quick article on the transfer activity behind Standard Liege defender Onyewu, take from MLS blog Soccer by Ives. The American player is set to move to Marseille or Paris St Germain - anyone ever hear of him? French clubs set to battle for Onyewu
Having missed the international games I have spent the majority of my football day keeping in touch with that, but as most of the world saw it, I have had to dig deeper into footballfilter for my top 5 links today…..
3. I am surprised to See Juventus are to move to a new stadium which is only going to be 40,000, while there existing one is only about a 25,000 capacity - anybody else expect a bit bigger for such a well known club?
4. What with Theo out for a fair while Nacer Barazite will come back from his loan spell at Derby and perhaps take over his role for a while according to the Arsenal Young Guns Blog - never heard of him myself and my mate (and co runner of FootballFilter) is a Derby fan….
The great “newspaper” (please note sarcasm) that is the Mirror posted a vid on Jose “losing his rag” today. He really doesnt lose his rag at all but it’s still enjoyable to watch even if he can’t understand a word of Italian. Also it seems the Italians aren’t putting up with his lovable ways. How I miss him…..
2. Have a look at this blog from the Guardian, apparently they are trying to field a team entirely made of retired England internationals for next seasons FA Cup, I think it would be absolutley hilarious, please make this happen!
5. Antonion Cassano is a mentalist, and i love him. He’s releasing a book which could be one of the more interesting reads out there, up with “My Goal”, “Totally Frank”, “Gerrard: My Autobiography” and “Michael Owen: Off the record” - god why are England players such fucking over paid dullards ? Jokes aside, Cassano’s book does look really good, he slags loads of people off and talks about how many girls he’s shagged.
I know I said I wouldn’t be doing this every day but having just watched the Arsenal goals from last night I felt compelled to post that link and thought I may as well add another 4 to it.
1. I hate the ridiculous amount of sucking off that Wenger gets for breeding kids who then whip average teams in the average, not particularly prized Carling Cup, it happens all the time and when it comes to the premiership I haven’t seen them really cut it to be honest, but biased dislike aside the goals are good and every one loves young players coming through don’t they? I saw a great comment by someone while waching these vids which went along the lines of “play the kids against the lower half teams of the table in Premiership and the senior team against the top half” - I think this person might be a managerial genius. Word of warning MightyFootball.com is liable to give you trojans and spy ware, so watch out:
2. We feed peoples’ flickr shots on our site, our top row is our favourite photos of the moment and I have to say a flickr member who goes by the name of “toksuede” has probably taken the best collection of football photos I have seen on flickr and he deserves a shout out for it this Carlos Tevez one a particularly cool one, check out the rest of them while you are there.
3. It’s just a rumour but I think its the biggest one around - Xavi off to Man United. The guy is the absolute schiznit so I would be gutted if he went to United!
4. A favourite site of mine (The Offside) and a lot of truth to be said here - Arsenal’s youth squad should play in the championship, bit like Barca B and Real Madrid B - would be good I feel, especially if they keep up the amount of English players:
To say this blog has stagnated would be a kind way of putting it, I am a busy man, sure, what can i say. However having been reminded of a great idea by the lovely people at The Offside I thought it was high time to get back on it, starting with a regular “Top Links” piece. To say I am going to do this every day, or every week would be a lie! But a certain regularity will be achieved I tell thee! Anyway here they are:
1. Lets start off with some incredibly tenuously classified WAG joy for you from The Spoiler (I say that cause most of the time they feature American Footballer’s wives and girl friends and therefore don’t align with original British idea of a WAG, but still who cares eh?) -
2. Another hyped up teenager “will he make it won’t he?” called Alipio has gone to Real Madrid beating Chelsea to it, found on the Telegraph, but whats more interesting is a video to the right of the report hosted by Omni Sport who basically provide football highlights for websites….check out Wagner Love scoring 4 goals:
3. Check out the highlights from Lecce v Milan from the brilliant MightyFootball.com - BUT BEWARE, got an email the other day from a chap who went to this site and then proceeded to spend a day getting rid of a virus - never had a problem myself but watch out!
5. And finally a nice interesting one for you, Setanta online have done an article on Fabio Cannavaro’s brother Paolo who plays for Napoli - it’s a relatively interesting read and if you like stats you’ll be able to waste a few mins on this:
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