Monday, December 21, 2009

Lazy Links & Randoms

Category: Player News, Randoms, WAG Watch

A quick Xmas party roundup:

1. Arsenal held theirs at Zuma, the yumfest resto in London. Sendy fans, enjoy his hotness and fetching neckwear. (Before you ask, we’ve yet to see any photos of Cesc and Carla.)

2. Tottenham’s fake-out party has left Harry Redknapp fuming.

3. Man United’s party was at Rosso, where the lads handled their booze like men and the women in attendance did not.

4. We incorrectly tweeted that City was having their party on Sunday – it was actually the Sunderland’s shindig held in Manchester’s Living Room , and it was apparently a very rowdy one. We hear that a few of the Man Utd crew headed over for a quick bevvy but then beat a hasty retreat to Club 235 for more liver burning.

5. We also hear that Everton held their party in Alderley Edge this weekend and some of the lads ended up at CandyPants afterwards. Best. Name. Ever. Can anyone confirm? We’re desperate to make some Cahill Candypants wallpaper.
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Birthday boys: Happy 28th to Chelsea’s Ashley Cole and Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema turns 22. Congrats!
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We vote Graeme Souness for the daftest footy statement of the year, but there’s a long list of ‘em to choose from.
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Beware the Lionel Messi bitch-slap. [via Dirty Tackle]
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Stu Holden as an elf. Just go with it.
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John Terry’s officially given the all-clear from Chelsea on his bizarro club tours, but his England captaincy is most def at threat.
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The Beckham brood heads home for the holidays.

17 Responses to “Lazy Links & Randoms”

1. agger♥lover says:

   December 22, 2009 at 14:50

   “the titles still on the cards. until it’s off the cards” phahahahaha!!!!!! lol lamps i always knew you were a thick one… i still lub ya but that was a tad stupid ok no it was a complete ‘no shit sherlock!!!’ moment
2. MissEstonia says:

   December 22, 2009 at 11:26

   Who is that woman in the photo with Senderos? She has amazing hair, I’m very jealous. But her legs are terrifyingly thin. She looks cold as well, brr! I don’t think I could ever go out in the winter with bare legs.
3. LoveLamps says:

   December 22, 2009 at 06:05

   Honestly, I thought this community was about celebrating the beauty of the players and the game and occassional snarking at their WAGs outfits. It’s clearly not the place I first joined and perhaps it’s time for me to go.

   Questioning a player’s ability to lead and his moral character? Wow. “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone. . .” John 8:7.
4. Pamela says:

   December 21, 2009 at 22:01

   Aw, leave JT alone. The only thing he is guilty of is stupidity, and if that was a crime, there isn’t a team in the PL who could field eleven players on a Saturday.

   That aside, some people on here really need to get a grip, get a life, get laid, get the hell off the computer and get out in the real world.
5. kaya says:

   December 21, 2009 at 18:38

   Candpants sounded awesome enough to follow the link. How uber awesome gay. Totally belongs in my hood. Sadly, I doubt I’ll see any footballers in SF.
6. FootballerChick43 - "Mrs.Ballack" says:

   December 21, 2009 at 18:05

   I love Stu Holden so much. Oh my goodness.

   Errr… don’t want to prod my nose into anything, so I’ll resist the urge to comment on anything else.
7. MUfcMarie says:

   December 21, 2009 at 16:29

   There is not one footballer on this earth that I love more than Stuart Holden. Gah!
8. shay says:

   December 21, 2009 at 16:11

   Stu is the cutest elf that ever elf-ed. Let’s go Dynamo!
9. miss_unafraid says:

   December 21, 2009 at 15:35

   Oh, Senderos is so nice and his girl is a cutie…
10. tammyv says:

    December 21, 2009 at 15:12

    Chelsea might forgive him, but The FA and the tax collectors I doubt will be so forgiving.

    Stu and Messi are elfs…

    Candypants is an epic name
11. Boston Red says:

    December 21, 2009 at 14:54

    Obviously The NOTW knew Terry and his man were pulling some shady stuff with the private tours and they moved in to expose it. It’s what they do! They need stories that will sell papers that will make them money so obviously they’re going to report on this and then the WC! The NOTW is not exactly in the business of legit sports writing.

    Bottom line – Terry has questionable moral character and is a product of his criminal parents. Harsh, but true.
12. The Fourth Official says:

    December 21, 2009 at 14:38

    I don’t think the NOTW forced JT to take 10k in cash in a folder, while his unknowing boss sat at a table nearby, without any receipts, and without any paper trail, and with NO charity stepping up (yet) to corroborate that they indeed received the cash.

    No amount of spin by CFC answers the questions that Capello must have at the moment.
13. Sara says:

    December 21, 2009 at 14:36

    Where did you find the Arsenal pictures?
14. The Fourth Official says:

    December 21, 2009 at 14:31

    Well, swell. Nice to know my boys can still get their party on after having their *sses handed to them by Fulham. :-/
15. Elise says:

    December 21, 2009 at 14:27

    Oh Kickette, you’ve disappointed me. Here’s another take, from Daryl at The Offside:

    Is the News of the World Out to Get John Terry or What?

    Big scandally story in Sunday tabloid the News of the World yesterday had John Terry taking £10,000 in cash to give guided tours of Chelsea’s training ground. I’m not going to link to it. You’ll have to find it yourself. Alright, here it is. Just don’t tell them I sent you.

    The paper’s undercover reporters posed as rich businessmen and allege that they paid Terry the money through middleman and ticket tout Tony Bruce.

    Is it just me, or are the News of the World out to get the England captain?

    This is the same tabloid that just over a month ago had undercover reporters pose as coke-heads so they could catch Terry’s father selling them white powder in a toilet. According to the story it wasn’t just any old cocaine either. It was “deadly cocaine”.

    And now this undercover sting story about John Terry himself. What they’ve exposed here has nothing to do with public safety or corruption in football or anything of wider consequence. All they’ve done is cast doubt on Terry’s character.

    The story does mention Terry giving £8,000 out of the £10,000 to charity (the other £2,000 apparently went to middle man Tony Bruce) but doesn’t sound too convinced. It’s also at pains to point out that Terry already earns £160,000 per week and is – according to them – obsessed with money and possibly not suited to the Chelsea or England captaincy.

    I’m sure John Terry’s no angel. But he’s not the devil either. If three idiot businessmen wanted to pay me £10,000 for a quick tour of where I work, I’d probably say yes as well.

    The more annoying thing is the absolute hypocrisy of the News of the World. They’ve spent 2009 selling papers by attempting to destroy the England captain’s reputation, but now they’ll spend 2010 selling papers by supporting England’s World Cup campaign. They shouldn’t be allowed to do both.
16. Venice says:

    December 21, 2009 at 13:59

    Redknapp’s just keeping up appearances for the press, he probably did fine players for the sake of it, but he’s nowhere near as fuming as he’d like the media to believe. There’s no incriminating evidence so it doesn’t seem like it got out of hand, and the team have been quite solid since so a night out together probably did them well, which he’s aware of.

    And there you go, Keane will keep the armband:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/t/tottenham_hotspur/8420933.stm
17. Piquéness says:

    December 21, 2009 at 13:46

    You forgot Iker Muniain’s 17th birthday this Saturday.