...and as you can imagine, competition is fierce. Check out Mike Werner of Hansa Rostock, to your left. Scare-ree. He looks like a normal human climbed into The Fly machine with a hedgehog. Why are Bild inflicting these gruesome stylings on everyone again? The German paper (now with English language website) is celebrating the launch of [. Click to continue reading...

Well, who saw that coming? Do you think that Sven is sitting there stroking his metaphorical moustache having seen something two years ago that no-one else had.....?

Blackburn 1-2 Arsenal
Fulham 2-0 Bolton
Liverpool 1-1 Man Utd
Man City 0-1 Chelsea
Newcastle 2-0 Hull
Portsmouth 2-1 Middlesbrough
West Brom 1-2 West Ham
Wigan 1-0 Sunderland
Stoke 0-1 Everton
Tottenham 2-2 Aston Villa

and some wildcards from the seemingly forgotten league of European football:

Palermo 0-1 Roma
Genoa 1-2 AC Milan
Napoli 1-1 Fiorentina Click to continue reading...

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"The owner and three other men, including one man named only as PK, downed an amazing 175 bottles of Cristal Champagne — the club's entire stock. They also necked 16 bottles of Dom Perignon, 29 of PJ Fleur Rose and three of Grey Goose Vodka. Click to continue reading...

This promo for the Colorado Rapids on Altitude is classic if for no other reason than Herculez Gomez's 70s pornstar moustache and perm. The Rapids recently traded Herc to Kansas City. I wonder if anybody else in the Heartland is sporting that look. Bow chicka mow wow.... Click to continue reading...

1. Toronto FC finally won a game -- not only that, but it was an away win! And a game they really shouldn't have won at all. They were missing a bunch of players, and they had a grand total of two shots on target -- but one of those was the only goal of the game, a gorgeous free kick by Chad Barrett. Click to continue reading...

Morning all,

it was a real struggle getting out of bed this morning. I was dreaming I was living in Barcelona again and I was sitting outside a bar close to where my apartment was drinking lovely cold bottles of beer in the summer heat. Nothing weird or bizarre happened either.

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Herr Ballack (or should that be Herr Lip) donned this moustache for a Mercedes ad, in which he was cast in the role of intrepid adventurer. Not the first time that Germany's captain has taken the corporate dollar. Watch... Click to continue reading...

Herr Ballack (or should that be Herr Lip) donned this moustache for a Mercedes ad, in which he was cast in the role of intrepid adventurer. Not the first time that Germany's captain has taken the corporate dollar. Watch... Click to continue reading...

Herr Ballack (or should that be Herr Lip) donned this moustache for a Mercedes ad, in which he was cast in the role of intrepid adventurer. Not the first time that Germany's captain has taken the corporate dollar. Watch... Click to continue reading...

Herr Ballack (or should that be Herr Lip) donned this moustache for a Mercedes ad, in which he was cast in the role of intrepid adventurer. Not the first time that Germany's captain has taken the corporate dollar. Watch... Click to continue reading...

Herr Ballack (or should that be Herr Lip) donned this moustache for a Mercedes ad, in which he was cast in the role of intrepid adventurer. Not the first time that Germany's captain has taken the corporate dollar. Watch... Click to continue reading...

Herr Ballack (or should that be Herr Lip) donned this moustache for a Mercedes ad, in which he was cast in the role of intrepid adventurer. Not the first time that Germany's captain has taken the corporate dollar. Watch... Click to continue reading...