Just imagine a situation where he comes home to his stunning lady, drops his boots on the floor and says,”Honey, I want to make underwear for boys.” Really? Anyway, regardless of his motivations for starting the line, the real beauty here is the tweet he sent out last night about a competition for his new CR7 boys underwear.
Remember Harry Wilson? Well his granddad was either a soothsayer, a genius, or a lucky old fool. Grandpa placed a £50 bet on Harry to play for the Welsh football team, when Harry was only 18 months old. Harry’s debut just nabbed his Granddad £125,000 (R1,970,000).
What do Ryan Giggs, Gareth Bale, and Harry Wilson have in common? They’re all football genuises, they’re all from Wales, and none of them have ever played for England. Although, that might change very shortly.
Alex Ferguson has sat down with American broadcaster Charlie Rose for an hour-long interview in which he dishes on his fraught relationships with David Beckham and Wayne Rooney, and Chelsea’s desire to land him as their manager.
Last weekend the 5 – 1 multiple came good and as a result there were a few happy people here at The Compound. This weekend is probably one of the best spreads to date, offering some very interesting options and involves the following matches:
This video takes the saying “desperate times call for desperate measures” to a whole new level. Watch what happened during this Premier League match between Aston Villa and Tottenham on the weekend.
Rugby player, Manu Tuilagi says he’s sorry for playing a prank on British Prime Minister David Cameron. Tuilagi was at 10 Downing Street on Monday afternoon for a visit along with the British and Irish Lions. The group posed for a photo outside the entrance to honour the Lions’ 2-1 defeat over Australia, and Tuilagi pulled this stunt.
Angry mobs of teenage girls everywhere are most likely plotting revenge, because Louis Tomlinson, of One Direction has been injured. Click for more on these dramatic scenes 😉
To celebrate The Football Association’s 150th anniversary, Buckingham Palace will host its first ever football game played on the Royal Household gardens. Rad.
Everything about this story is very sad. In this video you will see an emotional, Turkish football player, Volkan Sen who plays for Trabzonspor FC. He burst in to tears during a match on Monday because fans of his OWN TEAM heckled his dead mother. Wait until you hear what the chairman of the football club had to say.
Earlier this week in the land of the Pols, the defending league champion Legia Warsaw were fined and forced to close down a spectator stand stand for yesterday’s Champions League tie as punishment for their fan’s “racist behaviour” at a match in July. Naturally, the team’s fans responded by basically turning a stand into a glowing hellfire of fury and flares.
24-year-old Gareth Bale will soon be playing for Real Madrid. The world record breaking, €100 million (R1,366,590,600) transfer from the Tottenham Hotspur has been finalized, and an official announcement could be made tomorrow.
What do you do if an opponent kicks the ball away from where you positioned it during a soccer match? You pull down his shorts of course. This is what happened and the referee just looked on.
Soccer star Christiano Ronaldo received some extra love during the final of the International Champions cup in Miami on Wednesday night. The enthusiastic fan interrupted the match between Real Madrid and Chelsea.
An 11-year-old football fan named Charlie Silverwood got way more than he bargained for when he went to watch a game recently. Cristiano Ronaldo hit a free kick during a friendly between Bournemouth and Real Madrid on Sunday, but Ronaldo’s free kick left Silverwood with a broken wrist.
The Haiti-El Salvador Gold Cup took place on 16 July 2013 and the level of soccer could not have been any better. Kidding. Watch the striker miss an open goal.
Real Madrid has dominated European soccer with 32 La Liga titles and nine UEFA Champions League trophies. The football club has seen stars like Raul, Ronaldo, David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane and Christiano Ronaldo walk through doors.
20-year-old Martin Hinteregger, a Red Bull Salzburg defender scored the goal of a life time. The ball was kicked from 60 meters away and had enough power to make it over the goal keeper’s fingers.
Doing a cartwheel followed by a backflip is one way to celebrate your first professional soccer goal. But what this Brazilian soccer player did not bargain for was a sprained knee.
Look, sports brawls are regrettable enough at professional matches, but it’s poor form when community vetted charity games go into the toilet. We’re not sure how the trouble started between Holland and Belgium in this particular game, but the whole thing pretty much concludes with spectators and players punching each other in the mouth. [Source […]
After the performance Will Smith and his son Jaden gave on the Graham Norton show last week, we were convinced that the Fresh Prince icon could do no wrong – UNTIL THIS! Click through to see the video.
If you ever make it over to Thailand, do pop over to the local football stadium to catch the Thai Premier League teams in action. Players tend to remove their pants when celebrating goals.
David Beckham is retiring at the end of his current season at Paris club, Paris St-Germain, where he is donating all his earnings to charity. This guy does things nicely..
Paris Saint Germain (PSG) won the French Championship League for the first time since 1994, and wanted to show off their trophy in the streets of Paris on Monday. But the club’s parade was cut short when fans started breaking car windows, throwing tear gas and lighting flares.
Manchester United’s win over Swansea on Sunday sweetened Sir Alex Ferguson’s departure, and after the match, Ferguson walked onto the field at Old Trafford to address the crowd and thank them, the club and the players for the memories he made while managing the club.
Sir Alex Ferguson will be retiring from football management at the end of the current English football season, his 27th in charge of Manchester United. Under his tenure, United racked up 13 league titles, two Champions Leagues, the Cup Winners’ Cup, five FA Cups and four League Cups. Ferguson, who will remain at the club as […]
Moments after news broke of Suarez biting Chelsea defender, Branislav Ivanovic, Suarez had a new Twitter follower, none other than Mike Tyson. I cannot stress to you enough how awesome this is.
The name Luis Suarez leaves a bitter taste in most South African’s mouths after the 2010 FIFA World Cup. But this time Luis has moved to another level. Liverpool’s “trouble-prone” striker attempted to bite the arm of Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic. Check it out
Like father, like son. Roman Abramovich has obviously been doing something right with regards to raising his crops, so to speak. His 19 year-old son, Arkadiy Abramovich has stepped into the a career in investments, and he’s done it with a great deal of confidence. This week, Arkadiy put his dad’s cash to good use, by buying a […]
Look at this adorable Pine Marten. Just look at it. A match between Thun and FC Zurich in Switzerland’s top football league, a pine marten (a close relation to the weasel) invaded the pitch, running between the legs of players and officials, and bring the game to a complete stand still. The marten had wandered […]