Sports news in brief

Football
world cup qualifying
Ireland lost to France in a controversial manner with Henry having his 'Hand of Frog' moment..
in other matches Russia were shocked by Slovenia and failed to qualify...Algeria also booked their place in the world cup as did Portugal,Uruguay and Greece..
Qualified teams:Portugal,Greece,France,Slovenia ,Algeria and Uruguay

Tottenham can't stop bragging about their momentous victory..they took celebration to a whole new level..i entered their website and this is what i saw...

this was not the end as they also have the match on dvd!!!come on its not as if you have won the championship...you have just won a single match against a weak team...its no big deal..somebody must explain this to the team management...

Cricket
Aussie speedster Mitchell Johnson has said that his poor run of form during the summer's ashes series was due to the argument he had with his mother...
every aussie likes to blame his mother...shane warne blamed his for getting caught while using drugs...don't they have anything else to complain about like our cricketers do...
"we were busy following Guru Gary's advice on K-sutra" or "the dog ate my ball"..
they have to be creative with their excuses !!

Meanwhile it is illegal in North Korea to watch a live football match during the world cup in 2010..this announcement was made by their supreme leader Kim Jong -iL...
apparently they know their football team is going to get @#%^&$ in every match and so the new rules...wish they could do that to cricket in India..
we will never have the disappointment of seeing our men in blue crash out of high profile events..

Hand of God-Part 2

Thierry Henry denied the Irish their rightful place at the world cup through his now infamous "hand of god "controversy or rather the "the hand of frog"...

Henry for his part has admitted that it was an intentional handball..he has also asked Fifa to replay the match..
strangely this appeal came after Fifa said that it won't allow a rematch at any cost..henry has admitted that he thought about retiring after the controversy...


well well look who's showing his true colours...
this is a more appropriate game for henry...
he also got an award for his outstanding skills in the field...


man of many talents one might say..!!

Football news in brief

Who says women can't play football..?Elizabeth lambert a women's soccer player displayed some aggression on the field to prove that women also can play dirty..


i will never ever play ball with her!!!

Maradona banned!!
Argentina coach Diego Maradona was banned by Fifa for two months for using abusive language with the reporters after his team's victory over Uruguay..he was also fined more than $24,000 for his behaviour.. i don't think anyone should be punished so heavily for a little bit of swearing..
this was what he said-"%u#k it and keep on %u#king"..

Chelsea have the blues..
chelsea's injury list seems to be growing by the day..first bosingwa then ashley cole..now it seems that Drogba and Lampard are also on the injury list..
Drogba was declared fit by the chelsea team medic's but his national team Ivory coast medics found out that all was not well with the star striker..so now it's official Ivory Coast has better health care facilities than England...
Lampard too is injured allegedly after travelling in a substandard plane from england to Doha...
he maybe out for 4 weeks or more..

Arsenal too are having injury problems with most of their strikers injured..Van persie is the latest to join the list..he was injured in a friendly vs Italy..here's an image of the talented van Persie trying to tackle himself..


current Spur's and ex-chelsea goalkeeper carlo Cudicini has managed to finally end his career.. well almost..the italian who was suffering from a back injury decided that zooming at Mach speeds in his BMW superbike wouldn't be a problem..well unfortunately he crashed and was fighting for his life..thankfully he has recovered and will play soon..but his heroics has been deemed as a breach of contract by his team management and his career remains uncertain..

France-Ireland diplomatic row

Football really brings the best and worst of people ...this letters were 'supposedly' communicated between the french and irish diplomats over the playoff in ireland...
originally posted on" irish soccer insider blog"

Sports news in brief

Football
Germany's goalkeeper Robert Enke died a tragic death..apparently he commited suicide by throwing himself in front of a train..the german international who has 8 caps was assured of being 1st choice goalkeeper in next year's world cup..he was recovering from injury and hence not playing in the friendlies this week..

Cricket
India lost the 7 match series 4-2 to australia with the last odi being rained off..Australia had a lot of injury problems with 6 of their regulars and some of the replacements flying back home..but the world champions displayed good cricket and the required determination against an overrated and under performing indian team..
indian team coach Kirsten reportedly advised his players to again indulge in k-sutra to fight off the disappointment..the players did take the advise with the captain leading the way..
shane watson was the man of the series for his all round show..maybe someone needs to keep their eyes on appropriate balls!!..



Tennis
Belgian tennis stars Yanina Wickmayer ,the us open semifinalist, and Xavier Malisse were banned from all tennis tournaments for 1 year by the Flemish Doping Tribunal (VDT)..this is because they failed to give their whereabouts when asked by the anti doping agency..they did not fail the test they just didn't tell the authorities where they were ...this will have a serious impact on the career of the 2 'supposed' cheaters..
Well some players even after failing the tests are let off because they kissed the wrong girl(richard gasquet) or by lying to the federation(andre agassi)...but the 2 banned players didn't have any silly reasons to say like my dog ate my homework..when will they learn?lying always pays!!!