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Xavi transfer update, thieving strikers and Gisele Bündchen


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Defending in the Greek Super League is a lot “punchier”
[The Offside]

A glimmer of hope for Scotland as they prepare for Diego Maradona’s Argentina
[chickendinner]

The best ways to watch football online
[Soccerlens]

How to enrage the entire nation of Poland: call their F1 driver ugly
[Grid Crasher]

Vote for your favourite Liverpool shirt of all time
[EPL Talk]

Boca Juniors striker Lucas Viatri has been caught stealing
[Dirty Tackle]

Xavi might not be coming to the Premier League after all
[Footy Latest]

Tom Brady’s WAG Gisele Bündchen is showered in sparks
[On205th]

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Posted: November 19th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey

Gambling Prem stars, Rugby pain and terrible music


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Quiz: Which Premier League stars (past and present) own horses?
[Pies]

Video: Jackass’ Steve-O and Chris Pontius visit Boca Juniors
[The Offside Rules]

Rugby ‘banter’ #76: The testicle twist
[SportsByBrooks]

The NY Post has started a football blog
[NY Post]

Totally random: the best music video you’ll ever see
[YouTube]

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Posted: April 2nd, 2008 by Ryan Bailey

WAG No. 46: Yésica Toscanini


Yet another Sports Illustrated beauty destroys a nuclear family

Yésica Toscanini

The Argentinean tabloids have got themselves all worked up over Boca Juniors midfielder Juan Roman Riquelme and his 21-year-old girlfriend Yésica Toscanini. On the surface, it’s a perfectly normal footballer-model partnership, but the South American rags seem to be picking up on a troubling fact: Riquelme has a wife and three kids, and he has been secretly putting away his new lady since they met during the World Cup in Germany. There are even rumours circulating that he wanted to take Yésica, rather than his spouse, to Villarreal during his spell there. Tsk.

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Posted: March 10th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey

Oh my god! It’s an illegal batgoal!


First recorded sighting of extremely rare event a bit of a disappointment

Spectators at the friendly between Boca Juniors and River Plate in Argentina this weekend can count themselves amongst the fortunate few to have ever witnessed a “batgoal”, in which the scorer knocks the ball over the line while hanging from the crossbar.

An event as rare as a sighting of a rothschildianum orchid in the wild, this batgoal, while not much to look at, was clearly too much for the referee to take in. He swiftly parped his

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Posted: January 28th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey