It’s about time some regular features starting appearing on this website, so starting today the Lunch Time Sports Round Up will hopefully become a daily feature. This is of course subject to how much time I have at work, and whether or not my boss is behind me, but I will do my best to keep you updated on the goings on of the sporting world all in one place.
Today’s episode includes a fat old English soccer player being linked to a move to Manchester United, the Champions League Results from last night, more news on Tiger Woods (but only because you can’t go anywhere on the internet without seeing him these days) and some other random crap I found. Enjoy!
Judas to become a Devil
Without a doubt the rumour of the day is that Sir Alex Ferguson, manager of Manchester United, is interested in signing Sol Campbell in January.
Sol is available on a free transfer after walking out on his contract with Notts County after just one game.
Both The Sun and The Daily Mirror claim that Sir is after the 35 year old English centre back.
- Sol with his Notts Jersey, seems he was already looking on to better things
There is no real indicator of fit he is, or indeed if he is even still any good at defending as he hasn’t played competitive football since leaving Notts.
He has been linked with every club under the sun, from Newcastle, to Arsenal, he has been training with them post-Notts, to Tottenham, who never have more than one fit centre back, and now to Manchester United.
The unfortunate thing though is that this is almost certainly a false rumour. A knee-jerk reaction to Manchester United starting their Champions league game last night with Michael Carrick and Darren Fletcher in the centre of defence.
Campbell’s reputation in the footballing world isn’t what could be described “angelic”. He is known amongst Spurs fans as “Judas” after walking out on the club to move to their biggest rivals, Arsenal. He also has a bit of a reputation for letting his contracts lapse, which means the club he moves to doesn’t have to pay a fee for him, so he can get higher wages. He also walked out on a five year contract with Notts after one game.
So he will probably fit in at United, who in the past have had the likes of Roy Keane, walked out on Celtic as a player and Sunderland as a manager, and Eric Cantona who fly kicked a fan.
Cantona: Campbell's rolemodel at United
But my opinion, as with much of the footballing world’s I’m sure, runs along with the gossip columnists at Football365.com, that put the story under the headline “The Please Let This Be True Gossip”.
Champions League Part 1
Staying with football the first half of the last round of group matches in the Champions League was played last night. This means we now know the first bunch of teams to have qualified for the next round are, and more importantly the ones that didn’t.
Bayern Munich saw Juventus relegated to the Europa League by beating them 4-1, a victory inspired by a penalty converted by the Munich goalkeeper, Hans-Jorg Butt, I’m not kidding. About the goal or his name. FC Bordeaux qualified top of group A, with Bayern Munich, which goes along nicely with their top position in the French league, but no-one cares about them, their French.
Hans-Jorg saving a penaly Butt last night he scored one
Manchester United qualified from group B easily, after beating Wolfsburg 3-1. CSKA Moscow will be joining Manchester from this group, but only if they can explain why two of their players failed drugs tests, presumably, “They just wanted to get high” won’t be explanation enough.
Hat-trick Hero
AC Milan and Real Madrid qualified from group C, beating out FC Zurich, and Marseille. Boring, predictable.
Group D was even worse in that it was decided before last nights games were played. A 3-0 win for Porto over Athletico Madrid wasn’t good enough to overtake Chelsea, who could only manage a home draw against APOEL Arzsdn, or something.
Athletico Madrid’s performances have been so consistently poor this season that they finished last in their group, below APEFL Afdsg, or something, and won’t even make the Europa League.
The list of huge clubs to have failed to qualify so far: Juventus, Athletico Madrid and of course Liverpool.
“God Bless Tiger Woods”
The words of Yahoo! chief executive, Carol Bartz.
He comments further, “This week we got a huge uplift: Front Page, News, Sports, Gossip. He just filtered through the whole place. It is better than Michael Jackson dying; it is kind of hard to put an ad next to a funeral.”
Nike: Just Stop It
So basically his two favourite things in the world are people dying and divorce. Nice guy.
Tiger has of course been in the news since he crashed his car on November 27 and has since had what have to be the worst few weeks of his life, involving a possible split with his wife, her moving out and his infidelity.
The infamous crash
And to compound it all, Woods’ mother-in-law was in hospital yesterday, but has been released and everything seems to be okay. With the mother-in-law at least.
On the plus side, maybe, the ultimate playboy, Hugh Hefner has come out in support of Tiger. How Ellen, Tiger’s wife, will view this is another issue entirely.
A Little with Bat and Ball
England feel South Africa are theirs for the taking in the upcoming Test series between the two countries, despite the fact that they are currently struggling in their warm up game against the South African Invitational XI.
Will England be to good for them?
The ICC are considering scraping the home and away rule for future test series, to open up the calendar a bit. This will allow National cricket councils to arrange more tests for series with “icon” status and give them more room to decide who and when they play.
The Rest
Craig Bellamy and Vladimir Weiss of Manchester City have swine flu. I wonder if they caught it from each other.
Sick as a pig
The New Zealand rugby coach is pleased with their year end tour, even though a leading journalist in New Zealand still claims that the Springboks should be considered number one, although the rankings disagree.
Australia have named an unchanged side for the third test, despite struggling to a draw earlier this week.
Italy Coach Nick Mallet believes that despite victories by France and Ireland over the Springboks and All Blacks in the recent tours the Southern Hemisphere are still the top dogs in rugby.
Like some Americans: Still believes in the South
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So, is there more excitement on or off the field? It looks like pre-game broadcasters finally have something interesting to say.
Carol Bartz is a woman, retard.
sorry
its now fixed
Carol Bartz is a hate monger, a greedy whore, and a chink fucking monster. Carol Bartz is leading Yahoo down the path to annihilation, which was started by Jerry Yang. Have you ever considered that the ugly old hag Bartz is married to a chink named Marr and also replaced a chink named Yang? She is chock full of chink shit. Why in hell would someone put a vicious old turd like Carol Bartz in charge of a men’s room? That is what Yahoo is now, a dirty men’s room with smut written all over the walls. Carol, try pissing in the latrine with your filthy man-prick. Yahoo is one chink company that even your chink-loving self can’t rescue. Why don’t you get surgery on your defective brain since you already got it on your witchy face and cellulite body?
I was dissapointed with the last Arsenal game the other week, id love it if we can get the points up and stay first in the league, Come on you reds!