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Carlos Tevez has had a slow, gentle start to the season, much like the rest of his teammates. 8th place after 7 weeks is a little lower than they’d like to be, as is Tevez’ strikerate of 1 goal in his first 9 games for the Red Devils in 2008/09.
And yet, as with most things Mancunian, they have a tendency to even out over time, and you just know they’ll be fine. Despite the endless fun we poke at their underwhelming campaign to date, but we know they’ll get back on track, charming their way into the title hunt. Heck, they’ll probably win the whole thing.
For Carlos Tevez’ brother, it’s another story entirely. Being arrested for attempted robbery will do that to you.
From the Daily Mail:
“Juan Alberto Martinez, 29 - the United and Argentina star’s older half-brother - reportedly was part of a gang of four masked men who attacked a security van at a service station.
They allegedly threatened the guards and ran off with their weapons and cash boxes.”
Martinez, the older half-brother to Carlos T, ended up with a ton of empty boxes and was eventually arrested in Buenos Aires, while the rest of the gang was rounded up in Cordoba. Interestingly enough, the gang had another lad connected to Tevez: his half-sister’s boyfriend.
There’s not much to make fun of here, as invariably these stories come up every once in a while and remind us that yes, there’s more to life than soccer. Of course, Carlos isn’t implicated or involved in any way, but it’s hardly the sort of family matter you wish to be dealing with, is it?
After all, they’re hosting West Bromwich Albion this coming weekend!
Written by Darkvader on October 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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Nothing will ever be simple for the Hicks family in Liverpool. They were welcomed with the same cautious enthusiasm that met soldiers in Baghdad square (well, we’re led to believe so anyway), and now, they’ve been exposed as rather insidious and dishonest since then.
Liberators on one hand, now they’re the dismal status quo holding us back.
Well, it seems like even a monumental win over Manchester United this weekend STILL couldn’t buy them some second-hand goodwill.
Tom Hicks’ son, Alex Hicks, thought that a night on the town would be a bit of fun, although a drunk American outside the Cavern Club is going to draw some attention, especially when traveling with a small cadre of minders and bodyguards (Rule #1: no matter how restless and crude the natives appear to be, treat interaction with them as something more relaxed than an anthropological journey).
Back at the hotel, a fight broke out, and his bodyguard punched out a security guard and spent the night in the clink.
From the report:
“Witnesses said alcohol and cutlery were hurled out of an upstairs window to the street below. A drunken fracas is believed to have revolved around Alex Hicks and his group of friends.”
He was charged with assault and sent on his way, but it is yet more bad press for the already embattled Americans in charge at Anfield. At least Gillett has been seen at some games recently! He even tried to sing along with You’ll Never Walk Alone!
Still, it’s worth noting that the incident took place at the Hard Day’s Night Hotel, the recent downtown development of a Beatles-themed hotel. There’s an All You Need Is Love joke in there somewhere…
Written by Darkvader on September 18th, 2008 with no comments.
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I’m saddened by what’s going on in my hometown, but it appears we’ll never shed our stereotype of being droll, perm-wearing thieves. The news this morning is that Everton fans have added another scalp to their lucrative LFC burglary scheme, adding new Red Robbie Keane to their list.
While he was on international duty with the Republic of Ireland, thieves managed to crack into his downtown penthouse apartment and escape with an expensive watch, some jewelery, and a smug sense of satisfaction.
Blue bastards.
But seriously, was the doorman asleep? Did the robbers give him a comfortable chair to relax in while finishing his shift?
Whatever happened, it’s now the 7th (7th?) LFC player to be robbed while playing away from home. No wonder we play like shit away from Anfield: too much worrying about whether their BMWs are going to be there when they get back!
In the spirit of the stereotype, I might as well post this video. Then it’s back to Chelsea jokes.
Written by Darkvader on September 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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(I WISH this story was going along those lines…)
Well, naughty in the sense of embezzling money to fund after-school soccer activities. Then this story warrants such a headline!
From the shore of Australia, we find this wonderful gem:
“NURSES have demanded their union chief resign after the union sponsored his daughter’s soccer team with funds from their membership fees.
The NSW Nurses’ Association donated $5000 to the Hills District Women’s Football Club, which has the Beaumont Hills Lady Hawks in its ranks. One of the team’s star strikers is the daughter of Brett Holmes, the association’s general secretary.
The sponsorship deal was funded from the Nurse Power Fund - a financial reserve raised through member contributions.”
Oops. Now I’m all for parents supporting the extra-curricular activities of their children, but surely this goes a bit too far?
Understandably, the nurses are pissed:
“RPA emergency nurse Cate Cunningham said nurses felt “disillusionment and disgust”.
“When we heard at Thursday’s branch meeting our fighting fund money was being used to sponsor a women’s football team we were speechless. Then on Friday, news filtered through that it was Brett Holmes’s daughter’s team,” she said. “I can’t tell you how angry and upset we all are. This has never been reported to members.”
Mrs Cunningham said the branch meeting had been held to address the union’s willingness to fritter away valuable workplace entitlements in exchange for a “pissant pay increase” of 7.8 per cent over two years.
“We were all sitting there, wondering how on earth our union could have left us in such a mess … then it was casually mentioned a women’s football team had been kitted out with cash deducted from our own wages,” she said.
The sponsorship was approved at the association’s council meeting on November 29. The successful motion read: “The NSWNA contributes $5000 in sponsorship to the Hills District (Female) Football Club for the 2008 year from the Nurse Power Fund.”
The message here is simple: don’t join unions. That 5-minute addition to your lunchbreak is definitely nice, but it gets ugly when you suddenly find your dues paying for knee-high polyester socks and half-time oranges.
Perhaps the best quote was saved for last, from the guilty party himself, chairman Brett Holmes. When quoted that he was going to defend the $5000 outlay, he had this beauty:
“We have a turnover of $24 million. We can’t go to our members about every dollar spent.”
Indeed Mr. Holmes, indeed. Good luck with finding a new job… hopefully there’s some money to be made in the selling of 2nd-hand football equipment until an HR executive comes-a-knocking.
Written by Darkvader on August 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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A top South African female footballer was attacked, stabbed, gang-raped and killed two weeks ago in her hometown of Kwatema. While there is a good possibility that this was a random attack, many locals and activists are convinced that she was targeted. Why? Because she was a
known lesbian.
Details (I cannot promise they will not be stomach-churning) after the jump.
Eudy Simelane was 31 years old, and a couple of years removed from her time on the national squad of South Africa. She was returning from a night out with friends when set upon by at least 5 teenagers. After the rape and murder, her body was left out in the open air. Five men have been arrested and charged with the crime.
On the surface, this may appear to be a random attack. It is difficult to hear about South Africa in the news without being told of its crushing poverty, the tensions that brings and high crime rate. So why are so many people convinced this was a focused attack on a lesbian? Well, it seems that one of the arrested was Miss Simelane's neighbor. Couple this with the information that lesbians in the area where Miss Simelane lived may have to endure "corrective rape", and the probability that her rape, at least, was not random goes up immeasurably.
"Corrective rape", as you may have guessed, is when a man rapes a lesbian believing that the experience will cause her to "be cured". In a country that has an HIV prevalence rate of 21.5%, such beliefs are deadly. Scarily, the rate of this disgusting and deadly crime is on the increase.
A quick search on the deceased turns up a host of sites that are following the news of her death closely. Many of these sites point to a movement, Campaign 07/07/07, dedicated to bringing notice to the world of the natures of the crimes against lesbians in South Africa. If this is something you can support, I urge you to look here. It's not the prettiest website, but it will give you the information you need.
Written by Darkvader on May 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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