news tidbits
News
- Shocking news on the Romanian sports websites. Former Steaua, Atletico and Rangers defender Daniel Prodan died tonight, aged 44. Shocking. This year is NOT playing
- Morata is injured I don't know how long
- Andy Woodward: ‘It was the softer, weaker boys he targeted’ Footballer talking about the abuse he suffered at the hands of his football coach who then turned around and had a relationship with and married his sister. Trigger warning
- Rakuten sign up as FC Barcelona’s new main global partner Man City supposedly was approached first for the contract- if they'd changed their kit from blue to red
- Rakuten, nuevo patrocinador global del Barcelona more news re: this Barcelona contract - Shakira and Pique know the CEO
- Gerrard in advanced talks with Liverpool has left LA Galaxy and is returning to do coaching badges at their academy
- Ronald Koeman pokes hornets’ nest at Everton with uncomfortable truths Saying that Lukaku will have to leave Everton to fufill his potential and LFC might be title contenders. Also said the reason why he left Southampton was because of a disapointing contract offer
- Wayne Rooney: FA ban nights out for players after England captain issues public apology for 'drunk' pictures the gist of the story is this: Rooney, whilst on international duty crashed a wedding party at the hotel being three sheets to the wind while in the England team kit. Some pictures got posted to a newspaper showing him worse for wear. The FA has had problems with English players on the lash before (Gasgoine comes to mind), and that's been largely curtailed in the latter years. Or at least, players are now savvy enough to go under the radar, like the others who went to a nightclub on the same night - but made sure that they weren't in the England kit, and no pictures were taken, etc. Mourinho (why?) has now waded into the fray saying that the FA shouldn't be allowing Rooney to get drunk. Rooney is an old hand at this mate, if at 31 he doesn't know how to handle himself around alcohol at this stage in his life, he needs the AA not the FA.
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Can't hate, won't hate
In England, there's an annual charity drive for children in need. In schools for one day, children are allowed to eschew their uniform and wear polka dotted clothing. Pudsey (the bear with the scarf over its eye) is the mascot for the charity. You'll probably see a few social accounts of footballers doing this over the next few days
Football is never just a game, to be fair, it's never been
I gotta say, I never notice footballer's partners at all.
Hmmm
Meme
The football starts this weekend!
OP: Done! Cheers, jeers and the rest of it, you know the drill! Can someone do the tags, please? School run!