International football week not tickling your fancy? Tired of waiting to see the last minute transfer window signings line out for your team? Well fear not, this week's Football Circus is here to help ease the pain! This week we have stories of physios, tattoos, death threats and disses. So read on for some football-related (albeit just about in some cases) madness!
One Direction to the Physio's Room
Stiliyan Petrov's testimonial last weekend at Parkhead ended up being more than an emotional farewell to the Bulgarian. In fact, it resulted in death threats to Aston Villa's Gabby Agbonlahor from teeny boppers across the globe.
The match was arranged as send off to Petrov who was forced to retire from the game following a leukemia diagnosis. It saw a Celtic XI take on a 'Petrov selected XI' which included former Petrov's former Villa teammate Agbonlahor.
One Direction star Louis Tomlinson lined out for the Glaswegian giants after receiving an invite from Petrov to take part. Tomlinson got more than he bargained for though when Agbonlahor clattered into him, resulting in the singer dropping to the floor like a screaming schoolgirl and clutching his knee. Moments later, still not fully recovered, Tomlinson was shown vomiting. Cue some actual screaming schoolgirls posting abusive message after abusive message on Twitter...
"@gabby_10 This guy hurt Louis knee. I shall hurt your face. I better hear that you apologized or I will find, and I will kill you".
"@Louis_Tomlinson Are you ok?? If he hurt you I promise that I'll kill him!!! No one can hurt my baby!!! Grrr!!"
Sounds like Agbonlahor would have more chance of survival taking on Liam Neeson's character from Taken.
Masseur Incites Mass-Chaos after Double Clearance
Brazil has been the source of manys the Football Circus story and we're happy to say that does not look like stopping any time soon if antics such as what we're about to report continue.
In the last 16 stage of a promotion play-off of Brazil's Serie D, Aparecidence went into their second leg encounter with Tupi with a 1-1 scoreline from the first leg.
The second leg was on a knife edge as Aparecidence looked set to go through on away goals with a 2-2 scoreline. With a minute to go however, Tupi went on the attack and looked almost certain to score only for the Aparecidence masseur to appear on the goalline and make not one, but two clearances!
Enraged with what had happened, the opposition players gave chase to the brave, if foolish masseur, who grabbed his physio kit, jumped over the advertising hoarding and made a quick exit through the tunnel and out of the stadium.
The match continued after riot police had left the pitch and ended a 2-2 draw. Reports in Brazil say Tupi are to appeal the result and we at Football Circus will be shocked if a replay is not awarded.
Fan Gets Tattoo of Touro..Eh?
20 year old Liverpool fan Dan Pearson made the news this week for all the wrong reasons. The Metro reported that the young fan had embarked on a drunken mission to get a tattoo of the name of his club's latest hero, Kolo Toure. All well and good, if somewhat ill advised.
So off he stumbled into the nearest tattoo shop where he gave the tattoo artist his instructions. Unfortunately for young Pearson, something got lost in drunken translation and he emerged from the tattoo shop a while later with 'Kolo Touro' tattooed on his foot.
Toure himself obviously saw the funny side of things, tweeting:
"@JoshKillner: Can't believe @domjpearson made The Metro with his 'Kolo Touro' tattoo. #lad metro.co.uk/2013/09/04/doh..." I will change my name.
Does this mean Yaya will now be the only Toure in the Premier League?
Frimpong At It Again
Two weeks ago we reported on Arsenal's Emmaunel Frimpong and his pimped up car projecting an image of him choking former teammate Samir Nasri. Well it seems, whether the slight on Nasri was in jest or not, that Frimpong has not dropped his apparent vendetta against the Man City star.
This week he has taken to Instagram and uploaded a photoshopped cover of the soon to be released FIFA '14. The amended version of the cover shows Nasri and another of Frimpong's former Arsenal teammates, Alexander Song. The cover also incorporates a picture of a bench, hinting at the relative little game time each of the pair have had at their new clubs since leaving Arsenal.
Frimpong however did at least recognise that he is far from the first name on the Arsenal team sheet himself, with the tagline "FIFA 14 Bench Edition Tagging myself in that still".
Pink to Make Donovan Wink
LA Galaxy striker Landon Donovan lined out for the US national team this week against Mexico and will have been please to have scored the second goal in a 2-0 victory for the US. He will also be pleased and moreso relieved, at the fact that he came through the full 90 minutes with pink eye.
Donovan's pink eye was the source of much talk and ridicule over Twitter throughout the game and thereafter.
Despite the victory and Donovan getting his name on the scoresheet, it's unlikely he'll be holding on to his pillowcase as a lucky charm.
German Physio in need of Physio
Germany took on Austria last Friday in a World Cup qualifier, running out 3-0 winners. But it was not an injury to a player that raised eyebrows after the match, rather a double injury to their physio as he ran on to treat a player.
Physio Karl Eder had ran onto the pitch to tend to Marcel Schmelzer only to fall over enroute from the sideline to the player. In doing so he tore a muscle in his leg. Putting out his hand to cushion his fall, he then broke a finger in an incident that would not look out of place in a sketch show.
The German players themselves would not see Eder suffer though and replicated the treatment he had given them in the past. Philipp Lahm was quick to bring Eder an ice pack while Mesut Ozil and Miroslav Klose led him off the pitch.
Said Eder: "I now have to put into practice what I always tell my patients. Patience is important and you should not expect a lot of progress too soon. The way the players reacted was very comforting".
Italian Football Story of the Week
- Gilardino gets some new Oink
Italian striker Gilardino was in action last Friday for the Azzuri, scoring the only goal of the game in a 1-0 victory against Bulgaria.
However it was more than just his performance that caught the eye. For Gilardino has only gone and got a new tattoo on his arm - of children's cartoon character Peppa Pig.
Footballers have displayed all sorts of tattoos over the years, long before David Beckham even arrived on the scene, but Gilardino's Peppa Pig would certainly be considered one of the more unusual.
The striker has said the tattoo is in honour of his three daughters.
Football Recommendation of the Week
- FIFA 14
Non-Football Recommendation of the Week
- AM - The latest offering from the Arctic Monkeys
No comments :
Post a Comment