Bergkamp Airlines
Yes: here comes everyone. And everyone, these days, is a football journalist. Open the curtains and look outside. That man isn’t a bus driver. He’s a football journalist driving a bus. We all are now.
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*walks away sheepishly*
“The best hat-trick I’ve ever seen” - Leicester manager Martin O’Neill after seeing his side concede 3 Dennis Bergkamp goals (1997)
Mandatory.
(Source: sarcasticgooner)
View Larger The BFG reads the BFG - Arsenal’s Per Mertesacker attends a Premier League Reading Stars event. Central Library, Holloway Road, London, 7/3/2013. Credit: Stuart MacFarlane.
Ronaldo has scored 16 headed goals in the last three years out of a total of 151. And yet it is the headers we tend to dwell on, like a carpenter who spends half an hour gazing with rapt attention at Picasso’s Guernica and comes away muttering that you just don’t get precision dovetail framing like that any more.
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BARNEY
“Awwwwwww.” Sorta.
(Source: ncmckalyjo)
Smiling Nacho
(Source: youtube.com)
Ronaldinho’s first junior team in Porto Alegre was called New Kids, named after 1990s teen pop sensations New Kids on the Block
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Ronaldinho banishes thoughts of James Joyce as a leprechaun | Barney Ronay | Football | The Guardian
Great nugget hidden in Barney Ronay’s (expectedly fantastic) Ronaldinho piece.
When Arsenal Played Long Island - NYTimes.com →
Despite the talent, the visitors lost to the Express, 7-5, themselves playing their first game as a club.
And indoor at that!
