Gary Lineker Is Taking A Pounding On Twitter.

Gary Lineker, famous for being one of England’s greatest football players, is taking a royal pounding on twitter and it would take someone completely devoid of any humour not to find it funny.

How has this come about? Well a few years back Gary confessed that during the 1990 World Cup match against Ireland he had a bit of an accident and was caught short while playing, (see video above). This sort of thing happens all the time to sportsmen and Lineker being the consummate professional sorted himself out, by wiping his arse on the pitch, and continued to play.

Somehow 24 years later the incident has come back to haunt Gary with people on Twitter reminding the ex-footballer he touched cloth in front of millions of viewers by tweeting: ‘You shat on the pitch,’ at every conceivable chance they get. Infuriated with their troll-like behaviour Lineker embarked on a mass blocking this week which, as any person with even passing knowledge of the Internet will tell you, never, ever works.

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It’s just never going to stop!

(via Twitter)

 

 

Scots DJ Robin Galloway Pens Open Letter To Usain Bolt.

boltcapeAs the Commonwealth Games enters into the home stretch this week mostly everyone who has taken part, watched or visited Glasgow in the past few days will tell you that the whole affair has been a resounding success.

However for one of the event’s main stars, Usain Bolt, the Games has been a massive disappointment, so much so that he felt compelled to tell a Times journalist that he thought they were in fact ‘shit‘ and not as good as the London Olympics. As a wealthy professional sportsman, who travels the world in tight fitting spandex for a living, it was a move many deemed inappropriate and somewhat disheartening.

Since he arrived in Glasgow, Bolt has carried with him the air of a man who clearly wants to be elsewhere. Shufflling reluctantly into interviews and photo opps, whilst meakly engaging in anemic handshakes with children and officials. To coin a Scottish phrase: ‘His face is tripping him.’

At a recent press conference he laboured through each question like a capricious teenager, but excuses were made and doubts were put on hold, because he is the fastest man on earth after all and we all wanted to see him strike that iconic pose at Hampden. That was until he talked to the Times journalist who he then claimed was a liar for publishing their encounter, before the journalist in question released a full transcript of their brief meeting. Red faces all round for the Bolt management team.

Now popular Scottish DJ Robin Galloway has entered into the affair by penning a very succinct and direct open letter to the athlete, which is currently burning up social network platforms across the Internet, (read below).

A storm in a teacup? Maybe, but then he’s a pro and as Robin rightly points out a role model for millions of kids all over the world, especially those who live in Scotland and are inspired by his achievements, let alone the Games which are happening right now on their very own doorsteps.

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Some Rain Fell At A Football Match.

If you were unfortunate enough to sit through the France v Ukraine Euro 2012 match yesterday you would have witnessed commentators and sports pundits claim that the thunder storm which, suspended play for an hour, was of biblical proportions.

ITV’s Adrian Chiles, once expertly described as ‘a thumb in a suit‘ was on the brink of launching into an end of days rant such was the hysteria surrounding nothing more than some thunder and lightening which lasted only half an hour.

Of course with no actual football to broadcast for a full hour the cameras turned on the fans who, in typical sports fan style, made the most of the short lived inconvenience.

(image via Buzzfeed)

The New York Giants Are All About Fair Play.

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We’ve been watching as much of the Rugby World Cup as we can but with games being shown on TV at stupid o’clock in the morning it’s been pretty tough.

What really isn’t tough is the sorry display above. American Football has long touted itself as the hardest sport around but as rugby fans we feel we have to vehemently disagree and the above footage only serves to strengthen our opinion.
On Monday night the St Louis Rams played the New York Giants and were nearing a touchdown when two Giants players,  Jacquin Williams and Deon Grant, were suddenly shot by an invisible sniper in the stands.

Thankfully they made a full recovery, but not before more time had been added onto the clock.

(via With Leather)

Shakira Gets Excited Watching Barcelona.

Pop singer Shakira is dating Barcelona football player Gerard Pique. Here’s edited together footage of the singer getting all excited/frustrated/angry/happy watching her boyfriend play in the Copa Del Rey final between Barcelona and Real Madrid this week. Do you think she knew she was being filmed?

HMS Friday’s Link Haul

Stuff which what we found interestin'.

Want to know exactly how much the cast of Jersey Shore make a year? Blood will boil! (via Warming Glow)

Marlon Brando penned a rather creepy letter to an air stewardess during a flight in 1966. (via Film Drunk)

Some amazing pictures of celebrities back in the day. (via This Is Not Porn)

We wonder if the same thing happens when you drink the dye.

15 of the best luckiest scores throughout sporting history. (via Bleacher Report)

The weird and wonderful ways in which music f@cks with your head. (via Cracked)

If only all of the Harry Potter films were more like this.

Apparently there is a sequel planned for one of the worst films of all time, thankfully it’s delayed. (via Den Of Geek)

Artist Jeffrey Thomas has created the perfect Twisted Disney Princesses (via Geeks Of Doom)

Author Neil Gaiman has a refreshing opinion on copyright piracy. (via Gamma Squad)

Your morning slice of schadenfreude.

Security Guard Tackles Drunk Fan…With Head.

As the headline describes this is exactly what should happen to every attention seeking inebriated moron who strips half naked and takes to a pitch to interrupt any sport. No tazers, no tear gas, no batons just a good old dose of unecesarry roughness. Talent scouts should be trying to find out the name of that college security gaurd, although something tells us it may be David Dunn.

Mark McGhee Is A Comedy Genius.

The McGhee Facepalm.

Troubled Aberdeen Football Club manager Mark McGhee faced the nation’s press earlier today to confirm that he would be staying on in the job and that his decision isn’t about the money, it’s more down to an issue of loyalty to the club that he…blah, blah, blah and other similar fartblossom mince. But he did unintentionally crack one of the funniest jokes this month.

He said: “It would have been an easy option for me to decide I’d had enough of this. I’ve got a contract and that’s worth money to me.
“I could have taken that and been gone and be sitting with my feet up in Brighton and maybe this weekend fly off to Vegas to my brother-in-law’s for a couple of weeks and wonder how Aberdeen were getting on back home.
“But that never entered my mind.”

We think it just did Mark.


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