Philippe Mexès and the art of celebrating
Last week's blog was overtaken by the antics and great goals of Zlatan Ibrahimovic. This week his former AC Milan team-mate, Philippe Mexès, popped up to score an equally audacious overhead kick. Mexès' goal is a thing of rare beauty, but he doesn't quite know how to celebrate like Ibrahimovic. Not many players commemorate winning the league by kicking a team-mate on the head. In other post-match interview news, here is Thomas Müller sneaking into shot and waving goodbye to his audience.
Ibrahimovic is not alone in producing odd celebrations. When Seattle Sounders striker Roger Levesque scored against New York Red Bulls last year, he scuba dived off an advertising hoarding to celebrate. Keeping with the nautical theme, here is some line fishing from Icelandic players Halldór Orri Björnsson and Daníel Laxdal. This is how they greet goals in Norwich. Finally, if anyone knows this guy – Exhibit A, Exhibit B and Exhibit C – please have a word.
The managerial merry-go-round in south west London
Poor Roberto Di Matteo. Rafa Benítez will need to work more of his touchline magic to keep Roman Abramovich happy. While on the subject of Chelsea, here's Papiss Cisse's outrageous goal at Stamford Bridge last season.
Mark Hughes would have fared better at QPR if he had taught his team to defend.
The Toronto mayor goes to ground
When Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, took the football field to demonstrate his sporting prowess, he was overcome by his own girth. Ford said later that he had enjoyed "a good workout" and had not been hurt: "I've got a lot of padding here, let me tell you." It's easy to laugh, until you remember who runs London.
In fairness to Ford, even professional athletes struggle to stay on their feet. In fact, it seems that many hockey players can fall over at once with one of them face-planting a camera. At least this guy could smile about it. And, in further defence of the mayor, throwing is not as easy as it looks. Maybe Ford was "anticipating contact".
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