The recent Swedish Allsvenskan tie between IFK Gothenburg and Orebro had to be halted after twenty minutes of play, when the referee discovered that IFK shot stopper Kim Christensen had moved the goalposts four inches closer on both sides before kick off.
It’s hard to know which is more ridiculous: the idea that Christensen thought he could get away with it in front of a stadium full of people and TV cameras, or the idea that the Swedish league uses goals that aren’t buried into the ground. Do they fall over when someone takes a hard enough shot at the post?
Swede turned down Premiership glory for, er, Eredivisie glory
Today, Swedish international Zlatan Ibrahimovic finds himself with one of the biggest salaries in professional football, paid by the leaders of Serie A.
However, as a humble nineteen year old at Malmo (the football team, not the range of low cost flat pack furniture), the striker came very close to joining Professor Wenger at Arsenal. Back then, of course, The Gunners were busy winning league trophies, rather than “aiming for third place” (Anelka’s words, not ours).
Ibrahimovic told Eurosport why he chose Ajax instead:
“When I was in Malmo there was someone who invited me to Arsenal to see Mr Wenger.
“And I went there, I saw Patrick Vieira and the other big players who were there and when I met Wenger we spoke a little bit.
“Then I also had Monaco, Ajax and Roma who contacted me. But in the end Ajax were keener. I think it was a better solution for me even if Wenger is doing fantastic job with the young guys.”
Most budding strikers would have found Arsenal to be the better option, but we’re inclined to agree that he made the wise choice in going Dutch. In matches against English opposition, Ibrahimovic is almost always ineffective, perhaps suggesting an incompatibility with Premier League football.
We have all heard of heading for the corner flag to waste a bit of time, but this action (and I use the term loosely) from last night’s match between Swedish sides IFK Norrköping and GAIS (schoolboy snigger) takes the biscuit. With his team 0-1 down in the 89th minute, a Norrköping defender concedes a corner quite cheaply and probably had nightmares about his decision last night. What followed was SEVEN consecutive corners. GAIS had one man in the box and had no intention of crossing the ball. They just wanted to hit those over eager defenders who were encroaching on the corner and never seemed to learn their lesson. “Let’s charge at him faster. Then he definitely won’t kick the ball against us!”
Joining fellow puck bunnies Hilary Duff and Elisha Cuthbert today is Emma Andersson. Her brunette locks may suggest otherwise, but Emma is Swedish, and has forged a successful career in her homeland as a model, chef and TV personality. She is currently engaged to the Detroit Red Wings’ Henrik Zetterberg (whose lumberjack beard makes him unmistakably Swedish) and has moved from the land of saunas and affordable flat-pack furniture to Michigan, in order to be close to her man.
The hopelessly romantic Brazilian found love in Beijing
Tubby Brazilian star Ronaldinho had a relatively unspectacular Olympic tournament, but he made an effort to spice it up by asking 24-year-old Swedish footballer Johanna Almgren to marry him.
The thoroughly romantic AC Milan man popped the question using a translator, but not before attempting to seal the deal with his sexy moves. Spanish rag Marca reports:
“Ronaldinho came over to me, look me directly in the eyes, then took my hand and kissed it. Later on, his interpreter asked me to come up to his room.”
Soon after she declined his kind offer to see his room, Ronny’s translator broke the big news. To find out if blonde Göteborg FC winger Johanna accepted the proposal and to see some pictures of her, read on…
Who produces the world’s finest WAGs - America, or Europe?
This is all getting a bit too easy. For the third day running, Europe’s WAGs have thoroughly embarrassed their American counterparts. Even our burger munching chums across the pond at On205th decided Cheryl Cole was hotter than NBA WAG Eva Longoria by a margin of nearly 90 per cent. So, we go into the fourth day of the tournament with a convincing 3-0 lead.
Today, Playboy centrefold and NFL WAG Jennifer Walcott faces stiff competition from Sweden’s equally-pneumatic Oksana Andersson, ladyfriend of Christian Wilhelmsson…
Enhancing the reputation of Swedish au pairs worldwide
Swedish au pairs are often stereotyped as devastatingly beautiful blondes, who are partial to wearing less clothes than society deems necessary. Former model Elin Nordegren does nothing to dispel this perception. She and twin sister (!) Josefin were working as childminders for Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik in 2001, when she caught the attention of a young man named Tiger Woods. They were engaged in 2003, married in 2004, and enjoying the birth of their first child Sam Alexis Woods in 2007. Poor old Jesper, meanwhile, has had to make do with just one incredibly hot au pair.
WAGs are funny. So tanned, so moisturised, so pretty, but informally ask one if she’s going to remove her top any time soon, and the air will suddenly chill - it’s as if you’ve said something wrong/inappropriate. Weird.
One WAG who isn’t so uptight when it comes to removing clothes, however, is Sweden’s Oksana Andersson - singer, model, resting place for Deportivo’s Christian Wilhemsson. You won’t find her sneering down her nose at the thought of going topless on the beach, and, not only that, but she won’t even dump her boyfriend for making abominable fashion blunders like shorts-with-braces (above). What a gal!
See what happens when Oksana no longer requires the top half of her bikini after the jump…
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