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England lost their first game at the 2014 World Cup 2-1 to Italy, and don’t they just know it. First Mario Balotelli told cameras the score at full-time with his fingers: Days later, as the team travelled, a young boy pulled the same trick, as you can see above. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain filmed the moment and didn’t seem to take it to heart. But then, how upset can you be when the...
Published: June 17, 2014
Steven Gerrard has recently joined Instagram, and the England captain has finally got a method of recording what the kids might call his “classic bantz.” England’s masseur Paul Small, who Gerrard also knows from his time at Liverpool, turned 50 today. And there’s only one proper way to celebrate such a momentous landmark: Tie him up to a plastic chair and throw him in...
Published: June 14, 2014
James Rodriguez had just put the seal on a spectacular afternoon’s work for Colombia in their 3-0 win over Greece in Group C when he made a bit of a mess of his celebration. Rodriguez clearly wanted to leap over the fence but was told by a steward that wasn’t going to be an option and backed out before he could complete the move, with his team-mates helping to pull him down on the right...
Published: June 14, 2014
Players missing the World Cup due to injury is one of those painful but inevitable realities of sport, but Radamel Falcao has made the best of it and gone to Brazil to watch his Colombia team-mates. The striker could not recover from a major injury on club duty with Monaco in time for the tournament. But as you can see from the tweet above, he got on the plane to Brazil with his wife, put his...
Published: June 14, 2014
Colombia’s World Cup campaign got off to a dream start when Pablo Armero managed to poke a goal home against Greece just five minutes into their opening game in Group C. And for the rest of the world it was great news, because what followed was a pretty spectacular dance celebration. Another view of the celebration can be seen in Vine form from ESPN: It’s not the first time they’ve...
Published: June 10, 2014
England fans are used to worrying about injuries in the build-up to World Cups—with the angst over David Beckham‘s metatarsal bone still as fresh as ever in many people’s minds. So when the top trend on Twitter suggested that Wayne Rooney was out for six weeks, you’d have been forgiven for thinking the worst. However, it was all a trick, with rumours of his demise greatly exaggerated. The...
Published: June 10, 2014
Argentina’s sleeping arrangements for the 2014 World Cup have surfaced on Twitter, and it shows that Lionel Messi and Sergio Aguero will be room-mates during the tournament. Many of the team will be earning more than £100,000 a week while playing for their clubs, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have to share a twin room. Messi and Aguero together is a formidable front line...
Published: June 10, 2014
Twitter has got into the World Cup spirit by unleashing “hashflags” for the 2014 tournament in Brazil. Each of the 32 teams have their own national flag if you refer to them by a three-letter hashtag, adding a little bit of colour to tweets during the World Cup. We’ve compiled the full list so you can use them in your own tweets (don’t forget to add @br_uk to your Twitter follows...
Published: June 9, 2014
Felipe Massa and Sergio Perez were involved in a huge final-lap incident at the Canadian Grand Prix, but Sebastian Vettel could easily have been the third person to have his race ended. As this Vine replay of the incident shows, Massa lost control after colliding with Perez and slid in front of Vettel on his way off the track. Vettel finished third, while Perez and Massa have spent the hours after...
Published: June 9, 2014
Sergio Perez and Felipe Massa‘s Canadian Grand Prix came to a devastating end when the pair collided on the final lap, but since the incident, both parties have taken to social media to plead their case. Stewards investigating the incident blamed Perez, handing him a five-place grid penalty for the next race in Austria, as per James Galloway and William Esle of Sky Sports. It’s a view...