It’s a fine Scandinavian tradition – fathers and sons playing together in the same team. Arnór and Eiður Guðjohnsen have been the answer to a million pub quiz questions. Now Henrik and Jordan Larsson are set to follow in their footsteps. Henrik is currently assistant manager at Swedish third tier side Högaborgs, where his career started off. Högaborgs though are currently experiencing ... »
The contest is over, the hardest man in football has been found. It’s 51 year-old Bosnian goalkeeper Duško Krtalica. During a game in a Sarajevo suburb, our hero Duško felt a pain in the back of his head. Thinking it was a headache brought on by hitting his head against the goalpost, he played on. Quite well as it happens too, conceding just one goal. After the game, he found his arm was a l... »
Last monday we brought you 5 sports documentaries that you had to watch. Hopefully you had time in your schedule to get to a few of them because now we have five more documentaries for you to take a look at to prepare you for the sporting weekend. You have the balls.ie guarantee that all of these will be worth your time. Marooned Here is part 1 of Marooned, which chronicles Paidi O’Se’... »
Cork City beat Drogheda 1-0 on Friday night thanks to this brilliant goal from Daryl Horgan. If ever a goal deserved to win a game it was this one. »
Tonight la Seleção will take on Mexico in the northern Brazilian city of Fortaleza. It will be the first time the sides have met since Mexico upset the favourites in their bid to finally win the Olympic title last August in London. While revenge for the Olympics will no doubt form the backbone of the match’s narrative, it will also be a chance for Brazil to inflict the sort of pain on home s... »
If you’re an Arsenal fan, you’ll want to get your hands on these Theo Walcott jeans, designed by Gunners fan and artist Duval Timothy quicksmart. With ‘Fly Emirates’ plastered across your crotch and ‘Walcott 14′ astride your arse, you’re sure to be the talk of the town. Unfortunately they aren’t available in the Arsenal club shop (a shocking oversigh... »
The Brazilian World Cup website was today hacked with its content replaced by a video containing graphic scenes of police brutality. There have been widespread protests across Brazil’s largest cities in the last week with one of the key issues for protesters being the lavish spending on stadium projects for the 2014 World Cup. Reports of heavy-handed police tactics used against these peacefu... »
CSKA Moscow completed the Russian double this season, beating Anzhi Makachkala on penalties in the cup final two weeks ago. To celebrate though, Leonid Slutsky’s side decided to take to the Moscow river rather than than the Moscow streets with an open top boat ride from the city centre to the Luzhniki stadium. Sergei Ignashevich used the opportunity to terrorise tourists on other cruise ship... »
Fans’ favourite Joe Kinnear has been teaching football managers everywhere how to make friends and impress people in the last 48 hours with his trademark erudite style and articulate reasoning. In doing so, he has produced some of the finest contributions to what is an already very fat book of British Footballing Quotes of Wisdom. “Cos I only signed the contract last night. So that was... »
Neither Kieron Dyer or Lee Bowyer delivered a clean blow like this headbutt from Volodymyr Lysenko in a Ukrainian Premier League match last week. That will teach Hoverla Uzhhorod teammate Mirko Raicevic never to try that aggressive chest bump again. (H/T Dirty Tackle) »
According to the Daily Mirror, David Beckham was offered a trial as a kicker by an NFL team. This happened just before he decided to join PSG, with whom he won a French title. Even though kickers rarely take hits in the NFL, I just don’t see Beckham as being a real contact sport kind of person. From Mirror.co.uk: A source in Hollywood said: “A couple of scouts felt that David has the potenti... »
Only Wojciech Szczesny’s ridiculously blue attire could take the attention away from his partner’s builder’s crack-style dress. (H/T Andrew Allen) Oi! Sign up to our Daily Transfer Gossip Mailing List »
Joe Kinnear has not yet been confirmed as Director of Football at Newcastle. The frontpage of today’s Newcastle Chronicle says a whole lot about the situation. via Daniel Storey »
You know your legacy in football is a strong one when a piece of your chewed chewing gum can be sold for a reported £390,000. How anyone, bar Damien Comolli, could rationalise spending that much money on something so worthless is beyond me, but the prices of some other Fergie memorabilia is equally perplexing. Fergie’s first team sheet, for a league match against Oxford, is being auctioned o... »
