What you missed while learning to make the McRib at home…
- English Premier League roundup: Aston Villa 2-2 Manchester United, Manchester City 0-0 Birmingham City,Newcastle 0-0 Fulham, Tottenham 4-2 Blackburn, West Ham 0-0 Blackpool, Wigan 1-0 West Brom, Wolves 2-3 Bolton, Stoke City 2-0 Liverpool, Everton 1-2 Arsenal, Chelsea 0-3 Sunderland.
- MLS Semifinal roundup: Colorado 1-0 San Jose, Los Angeles 0-3 FC Dallas.
- Gabriel Agbonlahor, Ashley Cole, and John Terry have all pulled out of England’s squad ahead of their friendly with France tomorrow after suffering injuries over the weekend.
- Andy Carroll also looks likely to miss his first England call-up with a damaged groin (insert your own “coke and hookers” joke here).
- Wolves manager Mick McCarthy thinks that winger Matt Jarvis should’ve been called up to the England squad.
- Wayne Rooney could return to Manchester United’s lineup against Wigan on Saturday.
- Glen Johnson wants to leave Liverpool after watching their “boring” play against Stoke City on Saturday. Because, clearly, that game would’ve been more exciting if Glen Johnson were there to set up gold-edged chances for Ricardo Fuller.
- Roy Hodgson claims he’s shutting out the Liverpool fans who are chanting for Kenny Dalglish’s return to management.
- Manchester City assistant manager David Platt has defended Roberto Mancini after Man City struggled to a scoreless draw with Birmingham at home.
- The Guardian on Avram Grant’s relationship with the drop zone: “If Avram Grant were in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, Morgan Freeman’s character would tell him he risks beoming institutionalized.”
- Aston Villa winger Mark Albrighton is being compared to David Beckham because he’s pretty good at crossing a ball.
- AC Milan strier Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a penalty against former club Inter in the Milan Derby.
- Zenit St. Petersburg fans took a cue from Philadelphia Phillies fans and rioted in the streets following their Russian Premier League title win.
- River Plate-Boca Juniors was pushed forward to Tuesday because the Jonas Brothers were playing a concert at River Plate stadium on Saturday.
- France manager Laurent Blanc has bemoaned the lack of great French players for his current squad; unfortunately, the great players that France DOES have are all serving excessive bans for clashes with a seriously less-than-great manager at the World Cup.
LA looked awful last night and hats off to Dallas for taking full advantage of it. Kovalenko should have been sent off, which would have made it worse, but I guess the ref was in a really good mood.
Chelsea, o where art though run of title winning form? Presently, you’re going through a Man City phase. And to Sunderland, job well done there.
It is rather amazing that Avi Grant’s teams spend so much time fighting to be in the league and looking very poor.
If only the Gunners hadn’t cacked against Newcastle last weekend. Looks like everyone’s getting an embarrassing home loss early on.