Soccer Player Gets Death Threats For Injuring Wanna Be Soccer Player

((HT: Fox Soccer/BT Sport))

Charity matches are what charity matches are...

The opportunity for wanna be's and never were's to match their egos with the abilities of actual soccer players...

Celtic and Stilyan Petrov each put sides together for a charity match at Celtic Park...

Gabby Agbonlahor challenged One Direction's Louis Tomlinson for the ball and...

Here's the play...


Now, Agbonlahor is getting death threats on the Twitter for the tackle... and, admittedly, the HQ has BARELY heard of One Direction...

This, we can file into the "Get A Life" file...
Like, yesterday...

OSG Prem: Wigan Gets 3 Points, But That's Not What We're Talking About...

((HT: SkySports))

It's not the Arouna Kone goal that gave Wigan some space between themselves, Reading, and QPR in the Premier League relegation battle that everyone is discussing... it's the Callum McManaman tackle on Haidara that set off every Newcastle person known to man at the end of the first half...


Referee Mark Halsey didn't see what happened, so McManaman didn't even get a yellow card...

And that upset Newcastle Manager Alan Pardew at the end of things...
((HT: BBC))


HQ still waits on the extent of Haidara's injury... and, maybe, a call from the FA to McManaman

Soccer Injury: Ankles Don't Turn That Direction

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ooooffff....

That's about the only thing we can say about this video from a French Soccer match.

Jeremy Clement is now out for the season after absorbing this sliding tackle from Valentin Eysseric early Monday afternoon.

Because our French...well, kinda sucks, we aren't exactly sure of the team names here, just that the video was pretty darn bad.

Take a look: (don't look too long)