The Things These Minnows Will Resort To
Just to start off by capping off last weekend, I entirely forgot to mention that the first of the 78 times Celtic and Rangers play this season occured on Saturday. Rangers won 3-1 with a brilliant double damage role.
Then I knocked over the Dungeon Master's shield in a fit of rage. :)
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And now on to games that actually matter outside of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Ireland that are happening throughout this busy week.
Tomorrow the Champions League starts up again with the aggregate winners advancing to the tournament proper (I've never understood why this part is just qualifying but there's a lot of things I don't understand). The storylines of this two days of fun have been gone over ad nauseum (but yes Everton is toast). But there is one story I think I touched on that I want to revisit.
Last April, Jermaine Pennant then sort of a Birmingham City player (on loan from Arsenal) and now completely Birmingham City player became the first person in the history of the Premiership to play under police custody (being forced to wear an electronic tracking device during the Brummies match against Tottenham.
Well in that case he fit right in since half the fans of Birmingham City have to also wear police issued ankle bracelets as well. He was just one of the masses. :)
A similar event is occurring in the Champions League as Ardian Gashi of Valerenga (from Norway) is being released from police custody (also on a driving charge though speeding in this case and not drunk driving) to play against Belgium side Club Bruges. It's similar to the Pennant incident in that he's being released four days early after serving nearly his complete jail time. Is someone in the prosecutor's office a Valernga fan? The world may never know.
Gashi won't have to wear an ankle bracelet. Unless he really wants to. I mean some players might want to wear them for good luck or something. ;)
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On a much sadder and more important note, Rangers match against Anorthosis Famagusta has a footnote of importance. Famagusta's captain Niko Nikolaou lost four members of his family in the tragic plain crash in Athens last week.
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Anyway, back to the goofy and funny. Borussia Dortmund became the second big club casualty in the club cups around Europe losing to Eintracht Braunschweig (a third division team) in the first round of the Germany Cup 1-2.
Alright, who put those stories next to each other? Swear to fate, I'll have their head on a platter? Oh yeah, it was me. Um, never mind.
So, back to the story. This match was actually marked by a giant power outage that left the eventual winner's home grounds dark for 13 minutes. What the other news sources won't tell you (because, well, they take more pride in reporting the truth) is that during said outage, the home team snuck in Bayern Munich and switched kits with them.
Oh, those sneaky third division German sides, is there nothing they won't try?
Cologne (or Koln as they're known in the league, but with those two little funky dots) were actually the first big team knocked out as they lost to Kickers Offenbach 1-3. What I want to know about this match is who let the USL Board of Directors decide the names of lower division Germany teams? Seriously, it's not a good idea.
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Which brings me to the last story. The Carling Cup starts tomorrow. Well, technically it started today as Southampton beat Southend 3-0,
The bigger news about the Saints is that according to Yahoo, they applied for additional uranium concessions in Niger. Now that's one hades of a transfer. Didn't we go to war over something like that? I mean is there nothing these Colaship sides won't do for a little advantage?
Oh wait, nevermind that's Southampton Ventures, Inc.
Anyway, there are some fascinating matchups in the first round of the Carling Cup tomorrow. Here are the highlights:
o Yeovil at Ipswich - if you've been paying attention you know why. ;)
o Luton at Leyton Orient - the high flying Colaship newbies play the last team to lose in the lower league (any of them).
o Swansea at Reading - a Colaship duel. Reading should demolish the Welsh side but anything's possible at this stage of the competition.
And 26 others all for the low price of you're not going to see them anywhere since, HELLO, there are Champion League matches going on. :)
Then I knocked over the Dungeon Master's shield in a fit of rage. :)
---
And now on to games that actually matter outside of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Ireland that are happening throughout this busy week.
Tomorrow the Champions League starts up again with the aggregate winners advancing to the tournament proper (I've never understood why this part is just qualifying but there's a lot of things I don't understand). The storylines of this two days of fun have been gone over ad nauseum (but yes Everton is toast). But there is one story I think I touched on that I want to revisit.
Last April, Jermaine Pennant then sort of a Birmingham City player (on loan from Arsenal) and now completely Birmingham City player became the first person in the history of the Premiership to play under police custody (being forced to wear an electronic tracking device during the Brummies match against Tottenham.
Well in that case he fit right in since half the fans of Birmingham City have to also wear police issued ankle bracelets as well. He was just one of the masses. :)
A similar event is occurring in the Champions League as Ardian Gashi of Valerenga (from Norway) is being released from police custody (also on a driving charge though speeding in this case and not drunk driving) to play against Belgium side Club Bruges. It's similar to the Pennant incident in that he's being released four days early after serving nearly his complete jail time. Is someone in the prosecutor's office a Valernga fan? The world may never know.
Gashi won't have to wear an ankle bracelet. Unless he really wants to. I mean some players might want to wear them for good luck or something. ;)
---
On a much sadder and more important note, Rangers match against Anorthosis Famagusta has a footnote of importance. Famagusta's captain Niko Nikolaou lost four members of his family in the tragic plain crash in Athens last week.
---
Anyway, back to the goofy and funny. Borussia Dortmund became the second big club casualty in the club cups around Europe losing to Eintracht Braunschweig (a third division team) in the first round of the Germany Cup 1-2.
Alright, who put those stories next to each other? Swear to fate, I'll have their head on a platter? Oh yeah, it was me. Um, never mind.
So, back to the story. This match was actually marked by a giant power outage that left the eventual winner's home grounds dark for 13 minutes. What the other news sources won't tell you (because, well, they take more pride in reporting the truth) is that during said outage, the home team snuck in Bayern Munich and switched kits with them.
Oh, those sneaky third division German sides, is there nothing they won't try?
Cologne (or Koln as they're known in the league, but with those two little funky dots) were actually the first big team knocked out as they lost to Kickers Offenbach 1-3. What I want to know about this match is who let the USL Board of Directors decide the names of lower division Germany teams? Seriously, it's not a good idea.
---
Which brings me to the last story. The Carling Cup starts tomorrow. Well, technically it started today as Southampton beat Southend 3-0,
The bigger news about the Saints is that according to Yahoo, they applied for additional uranium concessions in Niger. Now that's one hades of a transfer. Didn't we go to war over something like that? I mean is there nothing these Colaship sides won't do for a little advantage?
Oh wait, nevermind that's Southampton Ventures, Inc.
Anyway, there are some fascinating matchups in the first round of the Carling Cup tomorrow. Here are the highlights:
o Yeovil at Ipswich - if you've been paying attention you know why. ;)
o Luton at Leyton Orient - the high flying Colaship newbies play the last team to lose in the lower league (any of them).
o Swansea at Reading - a Colaship duel. Reading should demolish the Welsh side but anything's possible at this stage of the competition.
And 26 others all for the low price of you're not going to see them anywhere since, HELLO, there are Champion League matches going on. :)
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