The rules have admittedly changed a bit in recent years as unnecessary booing at matches has risen about 1462%, yet the general consensus regarding football fandom was always that a lack of effort rather than a lack of talent was worthy of derision.
And if that is a generally accepted argument for players, shouldn’t the [...]
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Italian football club presidents are notorious for being as hard to please as mother-in-laws, Daily Mail readers and Aston Villa fans (hey, we can’t pick on Liverpool all the time you know!) combined.
Nine coaches have been sacked already in 2011-12 – two before the season even started – and the most reactionary president of [...]
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Involvement with Carlos Tevez has a tendency to bring out the worst in football folk, and even the usually likable Leonardo appears to have fallen into that trap judging by the latest developments at Paris St-Germain.
In response to rumours linking the cashed-up French club with a move for the AC Milan target, their director [...]
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Want to see Cheick Tiote in your club’s colours come January? Well unlucky folks, because Alan Pardew says that it will take something pretty special (are you listening Comolli?) to prise the Ivorian yellow-card magnet away from the Sports Direct Warehouse.
Don’t believe us? Check this out: “To us, he is very, very important and [...]
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Here’s a video of Justin Bieber having a game of soccer with Chelsea players Frank Lampard and Fernando Torres.
Justin – who is the latest in a long line of brilliant Canadian musicians like Celine Dion, Bryan Adams and Nickelback – has been taken for a kick around at Stamford Bridge by Reggie Yates who, [...]
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The Spoiler recently decided to flip through a back issue of Icon, a now defunct magazine once produced by former Spurs chums J. Redknapp and T. Sherwood.
In issue 11, sulkerstar Carlos Tevez, who was then scoring his way through his first season with Manchester United, deigned to try and look hard for the camera [...]
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The Spoiler isn’t lucky enough to be friends with any real footballers but if we could be friends with one, then Darren Fletcher would be pretty high up the list of potential BFFs.
He’s always come across as a very decent chap – as well as a very good player – so we were rather [...]
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It’s not an opinion held widely at Spoiler HQ, but Whiteboard actually quite likes Ashley Cole.
An irrepressible urge to back the underdog stirs a degree of sympathy for a man who has become a national hate figure merely for being driven to distraction by an Arsenal contract offer, cheating on the third best looking [...]
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