This might be the easiest penalty call of all time. A player in green gathers a rebound off the post with his back to the goal. A player in red then clumsily falls into him from behind, sending them both to ground. With the player in green sitting over the ball, red gets up and starts kicking...
During an illustrious career that has lasted 21 seasons, Mark van Bommel has brought his uniquely aggressive brand of football to PSV, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Milan. Back with PSV this season, the 36-year-old midfielder played his 350th Eredivisie game on Sunday, which turned out to be a...
Juventus beat Inter 2-1 to further pad their lead atop the Serie A table, but just before full time, Esteban Cambiasso made sure they didn't escape the match unscathed. The Inter midfielder planted a lunging challenge on Sebastian Giovinco's ankle and was lucky he didn't break through it like a...
For many years, pitch invaders have been embarrassing slow and uncoordinated stewards with their self-indulgent antics. But now the stewards have developed a weapon that can destroy pitch invaders with terrifying ease and extreme prejudice. He is Super Steward.
Super Steward's talents were put...
Oldham beat Portsmouth 1-0 on Saturday with the game's only goal coming in the 11th minute, but the strangest moment (of any match that day) came in the 50th minute when Pompey defender Sam Sodje was shown a red card for smacking scorer Jose Baxter in the crotch. Twice.
Why Sodje felt this was...
Four months after a Leeds fan hit Sheffield Wednesday's keeper in the face during a Championship match, the attacks of English football fans on goalkeepers continues, this time in League Two. During injury time of Wycombe's 1-0 win at Gillingham, a supporter invaded the pitch and jumped on...
Former PSG midfielder Modeste M'bami got away with goosing Al Nassr's Khaled Al-Zaylai during a Saudi Premier League match. The act was a similar but malicious version of a goal celebration that got a pair of teammates on Iranian side Persepolis banned in 2011.
In the 50th minute of a match...
If there was any doubt that Pepe was the human embodiment of football violence in its most experimental and ever-changing forms, the first leg of Real Madrid's Copa del Rey round of 16 tie against Celta Vigo likely put it to rest. With Celta up 1-0 in the second half (they eventually won 2-1)...
Valencia managed a 1-1 draw against the mighty Bayern Munich despite playing with 10 men from the 33rd minute on. The reason they were a man down for the majority of the match was the reckless play of defender Antonio Barragan, who picked up his first yellow card in the 20th minute and then was...
His penchant for kicking his own teammates is well known, but in PSG's 2-1 loss to St. Etienne Zlatan Ibrahimovic turned his boots of fury on the opposing goalkeeper. PSG trailed St. Etienne 1-0 after a Mamadou Sahko own goal in the 55th minute and in Zlatan's effort to equalize, he deliver a...
Ronaldinho's first visit to Flamengo since he left the club on bitter terms turned nasty in the second half. Flamengo were leading Atletico-MG 2-1 in the 70th minute when Atletico defender Rever whipped around and smashed Flamengo's Victor Caceres across (full-speed replay at 1:06 into the...
Trying to catch a ball and maintain balance in the stands proved too difficult for one fan at a Liga MX match between Morelia and Pumas. As he leaned forward to try and make the grab, he lost his footing and faceplanted into the seat in front of him. He also failed to catch the ball. And the two...
Like the truly dominant creature that he is, Zlatan Ibrahimovic does not waste time in exerting his superiority over whatever herd he finds himself leading. So even though he has only been training with his new PSG teammates for a few days, he has already decided to instill the fear of Zlatan in...
Good sportsmanship is a vital part of any athletic competition. And this is the exact opposite of it. After tripping up his opponent, the player in blue (or teal?) appears to stomp on the downed player's leg while trying to make it look like he was hopping over him. Though the ref blew his...
Riding your bike through a park on a sunny day is usually quite enjoyable, but riding your bike through the part of the park with goals and people passing a football around can have consequences. And the video above features those consequences.
A person on a bike attempts to cut through a kick...
According to 101 Great Goals, the derby match between CFR Cluj and Universitatea was abandoned when things got out of hand after a dubious penalty was awarded to Cluj in the 27th minute. Cadu converted the penalty and went to celebrate behind the goal as Universitatea keeper Mircea Bornescu took...
Increasingly wary of his own teammates since Kaka and Marcelo conspired to trip him, Pepe turned his violent fury on Alvaro Arbeloa during Real Madrid's 0-0 draw against Valencia on Sunday.
Worked into a paranoid delirium when by a tackle from Valencia's Pablo Piatti, Pepe kicked out at...
There have been problems around Europe with fans throwing objects at players and causing injuries, fear or both. But when Spartak Moscow fans hit Dinamo Moscow defender Vladimir Rykov directly atop the head with a snowball last weekend, it didn't seem to cause him either one.
Rykov was walking...
Luke Rodgers evened up New York's conference semifinal against the L.A. Galaxy in the fourth minute of the second leg on Thursday night. A minute later he was booked and two minutes after that, he kicked the ball into the stands in frustration, narrowly missing a woman standing behind the...
A pitch invader was somehow able to casually jog onto the pitch after visiting Steaua Bucharest took a 2-0 lead on Petrolul Ploiesti just before halftime and punched unsuspecting defender George Galamaz in the head. He then took on a group of Galamaz's teammates and got the kicking he deserved...