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Real Madrid hard-nut Pepe was caught stamping on the hand of Lionel Messi during Real Madrid’s 2-1 defeat to Barcelona in the Copa Del Rey Quarter-Final 1st leg.
The notoriously tough-tackling Brazilian, who has a disciplinary rap sheet longer than Mike Tyson, took advantage of a foul on the current World Player of The Year before cowardly stamping on his hand.
Reflecting on the incident Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney wrote on his official Twitter account: “Pepe. What an idiot. Sometimes people wind u up.”
An unperturbed Messi then set Eric Abidal up for the winner minutes later with ‘Wazza’ then writing: “Haha. That goal serves pepe right.”
Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere also slammed Pepe’s actions as he wrote: “Poor from Pepe!”
Catch the disgraceful act above this coming from a player who clearly has been employed to break the legs of his unbanishable rivals.
The death of long time North Korean leader Kim Jung Il was greeted with shed loads of tears by North Koreans living within the secretive Communist state. Kim Jung Il’s death has also triggered memories of Jong Sae-Te’s heart-wrenching tears before North Korea’s match with Brazil at World Cup 2010.
It was eye-opening stuff and it would be safe to say that Jong Sae-Te’s tears of joy and passion prior to his countries 2-1 defeat to Brazil at last year’s World Cup was the day that the world fell in love in love with North Korea.
Ummmm…on second thoughts…
Tarik Sektioui is not a name familiar to many football fans but the former FC Porto winger scored one of the UEFA Champions League’s all-time great goals against Marseille in 2008.
Needing to win to reignite a stuttering group stage campaign, FC Porto started slowly against a dogged OM side…that was until Moroccan winger Tarik Sektioui took the ball, and ran…and ran…and ran…and ran…all the way past a stranded Steve Mandanda and into the Marseille net.
Stunning stuff and a goal not to be forgotten. Relive the moment from the In The Stands archives.
Former Brazil captain and World Cup 1982 legend Socrates has died it was announced on Sunday morning after a long struggle with intestinal problems as In The Stands salutes a true genius of the game.
Socrates is said to have suffered a septic shock in the early hours of Sunday morning and the 57-year-old died at 04:30AM Brazilian time to the grief of many football fans the world over.
During his illustrious career, Socrates played for Botafogo, Corinthians, Fiorentina, Flamengo and Santos and also won 60 caps for the Seleção – his zenith coming during World Cup 1982 with Socrates himself weighing in with some superb performances.
Catch out the fabulous video lauding the 6ft 4 in genius from Belem.
After the announcement that Alessandro Del Piero will be leaving Juventus at the end of the season In The Stands looks back to some of the finest of the Italian’s goals.
205 goals in 495 matches is a record which must be noted with appreciation especially given that it emerged from Serie A – one of the most notoriously defensive leagues.
From stunning freekicks, luscious curlers, wonderful long distance strikes, awesome assists, it is fair to say the the Juve legend does not do ordinary as In The Stands’ tribute to the 36-year-old Italian proves.
This being so, Juventus’s all-time leading goalscorer has scored some true blockbusters over the past 19 years and In The Stands chronicles some of his finest ones.
Del Piero Goal; Juventus 2-1 Real Madrid, 2008
‘Del Piero destroys Real‘ read the Spanish newspapers as Juventus ripped into Real Madrid in Turin to keep alive their hopes of qualification from the 2008 group stages.
Let me paint you a picture, it’s the 92nd minute, England are down 2-1 to Greece and as it stands our Lions are staring down the barrel of a gun, in terms of qualifying automatically…Step up David Beckham!
Goals don’t get more important than that…6th October, 2001. (8 years tomorrow!)
As a Leeds United fan, this guy is an absolute hero for me. I started watching football just as he was scoring his best goals. Prolific for Leeds and prolific for Ghana, the man, Tony Yeboah
Since beating Germany in the 1966 World Cup final in England, revenge has been taken upon us on four occasions;
1)In the quarter-final of the World Cup 1970 (2-3 after extra-time)
2)In the semi-final of the 1990 competition (on penalties)
3) In Euro 96 (again on penalties).
4)We may have beaten Germany at a poor Euro 2000 in between, but a win for Germany in October 2000, in the last ever match at Wembley, quickly corrected this.
With all this in mind, a 5-1 victory at Germany tasted really, really good. Need I ramble on anymore as here comes the highlights.
This weeks Never Forget is taken from the 04-05 FA Cup and is when Djimi Traoré showed the world how to do the drag-back.
The BBC have some additional advice if you would like to perfect the trick to Traoré’s standard.
Marcelo Salas has retired a the age of 34. The veteran Chilean striker who made his names at clubs such as River Plate and Lazio has decided to hang up his boots after 15 years of professional football.
He finished with a goal scoring record of 155 in 329 league appearances, as well as 37 in 71 international appearances.
Thanks to World Soccer for bringing this to our attention
You know the goal that’s coming up, and boy doesn’t it bring back memories
Yes, it’s that goal, the one where every English football fan on the planet rose from their seat and looked on as our new found prodigy Michael Owen delivered what has to of been one of the greatest England Footballing moments of my youth
(forgetting the result)
Casting our minds back here at In The Stands we remembered a moment that no man should ever encounter. The famous Phil Babb slide tackle on the post, there is only ever going to be one winner…
Remember to take the necessary precautions lads so this doesn’t happen to you, you vs the post, you will never win.
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