Armchair sports chat

Another sporting weekend …

Tim — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:05:07 +0000

Don’t you just love Saturdays?

The return of Premier League football after the international break, three consecutive summit finishes at the Vuelta a Espana between today and Monday, the start of the Tour of Britain (Rochdale to Blackpool today), the US Open finals, F1 from Monza for the Italian GP …

What will you be watching?

Filed under: post Tagged: cycling, F1, football, tennis, Tour of Britain, Vuelta

And so the NFL season kicks off: Minneso…

Tim — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:46:08 +0000

And so the NFL season kicks off: Minnesota 9 New Orleans 14

Filed under: status Tagged: Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, NFL

#footballerfilms

Tim — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:25:12 +0000

On Twitter today, there’s a hashtag flying round called #footballerfilms – fairly self-explanatory, I think. (At times like this, don’t you just love social media?)

Here are 50 of my favourites, which have kept me chuckling through the day:

Bendtner It Like Beckham
The Great Train Ribery
The Kuyt Of Monte Cristo
Neville Say Evra Again
The Neville Wears Prada
Citizen Keane
Teenage Mutant Ninja Skrtels
Much Edu About Nothing
Eyes Wide Butt
Best Side Story
Stam By Me
When Barry Met Sally
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Babels
Kenwyne Jones’s Diary
The Modric Reloaded
Shutter Ireland
The Wizard Of Ozil
Starsky And Huth
Gone With The Windass
Cesc And The City
The Shawcross Redemption
Ndlovu Actually
Cascarino Royale
The Magnificent Sven
Nani McPhee
Jurassic Park Ji-Sung
Robben Hood Prince of Greaves
Debbie Does Gallas
Forlan Down
Lord of the Frings
SlumN’Gog Millionaire
A Streetcar Named Desailly
Overmars Attacks
Trading Palacios
Raiders Of The Lost Arca
James And The Gyan Peach
The Chronicles Of Nani-a
Silence Of The Lahms
Buffon The Vampire Slayer
Saving Private Gyan
I Know What Euell Did Last Summer
For A Few Dollar Zamora
Road To Pedersen
Harry Redknapp And The Half-Blood Kevin Prince
A Christmas Carroll
Ballack To The Future
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Kahn
Klose Encounters Of The Third Kind
The Curious Case of Benjamin Buffon
The Phantom Of The Chopra

Filed under: post Tagged: #footballerfilms, Twitter

Champions League draw

Tim — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:32:17 +0000

Champions League group stage draw upcoming at 5pm. Here are the four pots from which the eight groups will be drawn (one team per pot):

Pot One: Inter Milan, Barcelona, Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, AC Milan, Lyon.

Pot Two: Werder Bremen, Real Madrid, Roma, Shakhtar Donetsk, Benfica, Valencia, Marseille, Panathinaikos.

Pot Three: Tottenham, Rangers, Ajax, Schalke 04, Basle, Braga, FC Copenhagen, Spartak Moscow.

Pot Four: Hapoel Tel Aviv, FC Twente, Rubin Kazan, Auxerre, CFR Cluj, Partizan Belgrade, MŠK Žilina, Bursaspor.

Pre-draw analysis here.

Filed under: post Tagged: Champions League, football

Ginger XI

kazzagrace — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:29:19 +0000

Just spotted this on Twitter. The Guardian’s Jonathan Wilson (@jonawils) has posted a Ginger XI and asked for any suggested additions/changes. Anyone have any ideas?

(I have to admit that I don’t know who half of them are …)

Mike Hooper

Wes Brown – Matthias Sammer – Alex McLeish – John Arne Riise

Jimmy Johnstone – Gordon Strachan – Paul Scholes – Alan Ball

Zbigniew Boniek – John Hartson

Subs: David Fairclough, Neil Lennon, Dave Kitson, David Burrows, Steve Sidwell

Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi

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The sporting week in numbers

kazzagrace — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:00:46 +0000

Tim has posted his weekly review of the last 7 days in sport over at The Armchair Sports Fan -> link.

Anything anyone would care to add?

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Just how bad are West Ham?

kazzagrace — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:41:37 +0000

So, Newcastle beat Aston Villa 6-0. And Villa beat West Ham 3-0 on opening day. Just how bad are West Ham?

Their next five games includes against Man U (away), Chelsea and Spurs (both home), unbeaten Bolton at Upton Park next weekend, plus a trip to Stoke. They will do well to have more than 4 points from their first 7 games. Relegation form?

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Arsenal 6 Blackpool 0: match review

Tim — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:33:48 +0000

Here’s a link to my match review over at The Armchair Sports Fan:

http://thearmchairsportsfan.com/2010/08/22/arsenal-and-walcott-bring-blackpool-down-to-earth-with-a-bump/

Filed under: post Tagged: Abou Diaby, Andrey Arshavin, Arsenal, Blackpool, Marouane Chamakh, Theo Walcott, Tomas Rosicky

Aquilani – a busted flush?

Tim — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:29:44 +0000

So Roy Hodgson is open to sending Alberto Aquilani out on loan. Surely this is tantamount to saying he’s not part of his plans, he doesn’t want him, and he is an absolute waste of money that he would like to get rid of for a fair price?

Has there ever been a bigger high-profile bust? 20 million Euros has netted 26 appearances, 13 starts, 2 goals and 6 assists. Not terrible statistics, but he’s hardly been Xabi Alonso either.

Filed under: post Tagged: Alberto Aquilani, Liverpool, Roy Hodgson

Anelka receives 18-game ban from France national team

Tim — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:03:50 +0000

Nicolas Anelka suspended by the FFF for 18 games (how random!), Patrice Evra for five.

Link

France not keen on qualifying for Euro 2012, then …

Filed under: post Tagged: football, France, Nicolas Anelka, Patrice Evra