news and gossip (tid bits really)
Chatter from the sidelines
- Clarke Carlisle: ‘I stepped in front of a lorry because I wanted to die’ read more.
- Ghana to Buy 80MW of Power From Ivory Coast to Watch Soccer Game for the Afcon semis
- Manchester City hitman will only leave for big club like Juventus, says agent
agents be getting lippy... - Fernando Torres named best January singing 2015 what a time to be alive Question is he club tied to Chelsea or can he play CL with Atléti? Does anyone know?
- Champions League squads: who is in, who is out? interesting
- Benitez to Liverpool? Napoli sporting director resigned to losing Anfield legend Benitez's family still lives in the city, but I can't see him coming back to LFC tbh
- Liverpool record-breaking kit deal announced by New Balance ahead of next season I understand why LFC had to break away from Adidas but... their kits have been fug for years now. This won't change
- Jack Wilshere shisha pipe: Arsene Wenger believed to have taken a dim view of Arsenal midfielder's latest indiscretion Why would you smoke - if you have a profession that's physically demanding as football. Do you need your lungs?
- Antoine Greizmann voted best player for his club in January link in Spanish
- David Moyes: I banned chips at Manchester United as players were overweight yumm chips
- Manchester United’s Ander Herrera due in court day after Newcastle match if found guilty, he could be jailed. I wonder if that's a reason why he hasn't seen much action on the field (apart from LvG's cautious play) is that they're steeling themselves for Herrera's loss?
- Tim Sherwood closes in on QPR job after Paul Clement rules himself out
good on Sherwood. I hope Redknapp never darkens any footballing club's door again - Rangers treated like nursery club as Kenny McDowall says he must obey demands
oy, this is a mess
Mixed Media
Click to viewBarcelona's new ad for Qatar airlines
Afcon Ghana 3- 0 Equatorial Ginuea match report and rest of pictures here
Ghanian fans got pelted
Damn, Grant (coach) what happened to you?
Riot police had to shield Ghanian players because the crowd started to throw things at them
OP: not much news in this part of the world today. Good, I need to catch my breath, tbh. Any broken links, news missed, etc. Leave comment. I still have one more knit hat to do before I get started on mine and then it will be selfish knitting from now on