Top five ways to avoid international duty

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#5 Suck
This is the ultimate catch 22. On the one hand if you suck, then your national team won’t pick you and that means you don’t get pointlessly mauled by…

Blinding hypocrisy

It seems like Arsenal are constantly charged with hypocrisy. Someone breaks a leg at Arsenal and folks immediately point to some poor tackle by some Arsenal player past or present and scream ‘hypocrites! look at how YOU tackle!’ Or as the case with Robin van Persie’s recent statement telling people to shut the fuck up and [...]

Nasri, Rooney, and Walrus, like groundhog day all over again again again

There is precious little actually going on this morning: Wenger spoke to the French press, Wayne Rooney spoke to the English press, and West Ham appointed a walrus. Just like any time anything happens that’s remotely like anything that has happened in the past I guess it’s like groundhog day all over again*.

The big Arsenal news [...]

Barca v. Man U: 5 things you have not been told to look for yet

Messi doesn’t dive

Many column inches have been dedicated to the fact that “Messi doesn’t dive.” To a certain extent this is absolutely true; Messi doesn’t dive because when he has the ball the last thing he wants to do is stop play and take a free kick.

Think about it. When was the last time that you [...]

Fire the torches and sharpen your pitchforks, FIFA allows FFA to use video evidence against “divers”

Wayne Rooney and other well documented serial divers may soon be spending several nervous days after every match looking over their shoulders. Earlier today, FIFA announced that they will not stand in the way of the Football Federation Australia (FFA) or any other football governing body who wishes to use video evidence to retroactively punish players [...]