Pow! Right in the kisser!

Lesson for us: Try to watch more German football - they have cheerleaders.

Lesson for her: Try to watch more German football - it can be very painful to not pay attention.

[The Beautiful Game]

The cheerleader who traded her pom-poms for a life of Waggery

Young dancer Christy Oglevee was earning a fine wage of $75 dollars a week cheerleading for the NFL’s Washington Redskins when she caught the attention of fugly tight end Chris Cooley. The ‘Redskinettes’ aren’t allowed to fraternise with players, so Christy lost her job when they were discovered ‘going steady’, but it was all worthwhile in the end: the pair are now happily married, and Christy has shed her cumbersome maiden name for a much, well, cooler one.

Who produces the world’s finest WAGs - America, or Europe?

After Abbey Clancy’s convincing victory in the transatlantic WAG battle yesterday, the penultimate round sees a former NFL cheerleader take on a TV presenter whose marriage to Rafael van der Vaart was broadcast live on Dutch television…

Round Nine: Christy Cooley/ Sylvie van der Vaart

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More pictures of Cristy here, more of Sylvie here

But it’s amateur hour in California, says Ruud Gullit

In recent weeks, we’ve seen pictures of David Beckham’s Zangief-like beard and love of cheerleaders’ derrieres, but we’ve heard abolsutely nothing about action on the pitch. FYI, the LA Galaxy are still in business, they are currently second in the Western Conference thingy, and Mr B is the club’s third top scorer with, er, one goal in five games.

It all seems pretty unspectacular out in California at the moment, and no one is less impressed than coach Ruud Gullit, who has been caught out by the LA Times telling the British Press about the two-bit operation he is in charge of:

“I’m sure that when people think of the Galaxy the picture that comes to mind is not of our staff making phone calls to friends on Friday to see if they can play in a reserve game on Sunday,” Gullit told writer Brian Doogan. “But, strange as it may seem, this is the reality.”

The Galaxy did not have enough players