Midfielder walks the very fine line between cunning and cheating

In South Melbourne’s recent Victoria Premier League match with stupidly named Sunshine Georgies FC, Brazilian midfielder Fernando de Moraes courteously returned the ball to the opposing keeper after it was put out of play due to injury. Said courtesy didn’t last long, however, as the Brazilian proceeded to chase down his own throw and put in in the net.

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Former Prem star channels his inner Chuck Norris

Robbie Fowler’s North Queensland Fury recently suffered an embarrassing 5-0 defeat to Gold Coast Utd, with four of those goals coming from Shane Smeltz, a man who was playing non league football at AFC Wimbledon not so long ago.

As a means of venting his frustration, the former England star dished out an impressively acrobatic face kick to an unsuspecting opponent. Amazingly, this went unpunished.

[Marca Blog]

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The Russia coach is in talks about succeeding Scolari

Guus Hiddink wants to take charge of Chelsea until the summer as a favour to Roman Abramovich but has no intention of walking out on Russia.

The Dutchman did the same thing with PSV and Australia during the 2005-06 season and managed to win the Eredivisie. It is plausible that he could juggle both jobs because Russia’s only competitive games over the next few months are against Azerbaijan and Liechtenstein. He said:

“I must say that this is an exceptional situation. If it was any other club aside from Chelsea my answer would be a straight ‘no’.

“But Chelsea is different because I have good relations with the owner. So I would like to help them in this situation if I could. But this would only be for the next two or three months until the end of the season.

“I will not leave my job with the Russian national team. It’s out of the question. When I took the Russia job it was a long-term project and I don’t like to leave it unfinished.”

Is this a good move for Chelsea or should they make a permanent appointment? Who will be lined up to take over in the summer? Let us know what you think with a comment below.

UPDATE: The Russian FA have given Chelsea permission to speak to Hiddink about an interim role at the club.

Sydney FC manager gets clattered during heated game

The Kookaburra Kangaroo league brought some thrilling action this week, as Melbourne Victory hosted Sydney FC. The away side went 2-0 up in the first four minutes, but managed to spectacularly throw it away and lose 3-2. Sydney manager John Kosmina was clearly having a bad day, but it got a lot worse when Melbourne star Danny Allsopp took him down in a rather undiginifed manner.

This isn’t the first time Kosmina has taken a hit on the sidelines: in 2006, Kevin Muscat sent the manager tumbling, and received a rather violent retaliation. Check out the video after the jump…

Rugger overshadowed by bizarre rituals

When it comes to entertaining empty stadiums, our antipodean friends are world leaders. Before New Zealand faced Australia in the ongoing Rugby League World Cup in Sydney, the Kiwi Haka was pitted against a traditional Aboriginal war dance, which essentially consisted of a man in a thong shouting things.

After the impressive display, the commentator says “That was better than Billy Idol!”, obviously mistaking Billy Idol for something good.

(In the unlikely case that you deem it important, Australia won the match 30-6.)

[Deadspin]

Say “strewth” to an Australian…

Think of a city in Australia. No, you idiot, not that one, another one. OK, no, not that one either. Stop getting it wrong. Relax. Sit back, close your eyes, and think of another city that wasn’t either of the cities you just thought about. No, not Brisbane! Jesus Christ! Do it again… just do it again. Thought of it? That’s right - Perth! Well done. Perth. Finally!

And speaking of Perth, that’s exactly where Siobhan Parekh comes from, and she’s dating Mark Philippoussis. He was a fantastic tennis player, and had one heck of a serve. Reports suggest that the pair have been keeping each other warm at night since February, and when he’s off having a hit about with his tennis buddies, she likes to take most of her clothes off and have someone take pictures of it.

See what we mean after the jump…