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Crazy World of Football

Bringing you the wackiest stories from the global game



How Will They Line Up? Liverpool v Chelsea

Thursday 18 April 2013, 18:47

The mirthmakers who call themselves The Exploding Heads continue to amuse with their How Will They Line Up? weekend previews. Here's their look at Liverpool v Chelsea... More from The Exploding Heads
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Marouane Fellaini in a chef's hat

Friday 12 April 2013, 14:47

Behold Marouane Fellaini taking part in a Chang Beer cookery class to celebrate Thai New Year (Songkran), 13th-15th April. Click for bigger picture. You know you want to.
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Name the footballing big-heads

Friday 12 April 2013, 13:40

Craig Robinson, who has spent 18 years collecting 5,000 football figurines, has been hired as Head Of Quality Control for a Capital One competition giving 1,000 fans the chance to be immortalised as a...
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FC Santa Claus

Thursday 20 December 2012, 12:25

On a football pitch blanketed with two inches of snow, one of Santa’s elves is attempting to score a goal with an extravagant bicycle kick. The uninitiated spectator might blame such a vision on a potent...
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Edin Dzeko sends a reminder to Man City boss Roberto Mancini

Friday 19 October 2012, 14:22


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I Can't Stop Staring At: This curious Korean tribute to Owen Coyle

Thursday 04 October 2012, 11:10

Gotta love the internet: it allows us to reach across oceans in pursuit of common interests. And to share brilliant things. Like this image which was tweeted to Bolton Wanderers' official feed by Korean...
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MAN CITY UNVEIL NEW BOSS (deal)

Tuesday 02 October 2012, 12:13

No, it's not the end of Roberto Mancini's reign, but the official announcement of a tie-up with popular cloth-floggers Hugo Boss. Cue a photo-opportunity that evidently doesn't, erm, suit every...
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Why Alex Song chose 'Mo Money, Mo Problems' as his Barça theme

Tuesday 21 August 2012, 15:03

We were initially intrigued to hear that to accompany his Barcelona presentation, Alex Song had chosen the Notorious B.I.G.'s Mo Money Mo Problems . It might not seem like the most empathetic choice...
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Iker Casillas squares up to UFC fighter in LA

Friday 03 August 2012, 14:46

Real Madrid's players are currently in Los Angeles as part of the club's pre-season preparations. During a trip to UCLA, they bumped into a 6ft4 Brazilian mixed martial artist, so naturally goalkeeper...
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Man City strip photoshoot: One small problem

Thursday 05 July 2012, 17:01

The latest Man City strips are being released, which means it's time to wheel out loveable Noel Gallagher, who's 5'8", alongside City captain Vincent Kompany, a rather more commanding...
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Pub team vs Euro legends. Not the walkover you might think...

Friday 15 June 2012, 12:19

As the climax to a national pub cup, Carlsberg flew a team out to be managed by Gareth Southgate against a team of legends. Ollie Stretton watched it for FourFourTwo... The competition: the Carlsberg Pub...
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Spot the masquerading Movember men

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 17:40

As Movember draws to a close – quick, sponsor FourFourTwo 's Mo-mob here – we've collated a few top-class top lips (and a few face-fur failures). But can you identify the make-believe moustaches...
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England star hanging out the back of an old banger

Thursday 19 May 2011, 16:01

Look, we couldn't resist it.
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He's gone for the ball, but got the man

Wednesday 20 April 2011, 16:37

Scuse us for being rather juvenile, but to our minds in this 2007 pic it looks rather like Andrew Surman has walloped Richard Chaplow goalwards...
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Your chance to be naked in a football stadium!

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 17:57

On May 11, as the Premier League draws to a doubtlessly dizzying denouement, there will be more than a few arses on show. No, not the fine representatives of the Greatest League On Earth; in Vienna’s Ernst...
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Bulking up with the Dalai Lama of the MLS

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 20:00

Footballer’s blogs are a peculiar business. Back when Crazy World was a lad, information about your favourite player was thin on the ground. The best you could hope for in the seventies and eighties was...
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Violence is Golden, and Sophie Dahl naked

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 16:50

A-G! G-R-O! A-G-R-O! Aggro! Ah, the illiterate, lumpen chanting of Crazy World’s youth. We’d like to say that we’ve grown up and moved on since then. But that would be a rotten lie. And we bet you haven...
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Axis Of Evil threatened by folk ballad

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 16:15

Korea is rapidly becoming Crazy World’s favourite war-torn peninsula. Following news last week that its footballers were deliberately dislocating their shoulders to get out of military service , North...
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Indecent proposals and Drogba binbags: Africa's still crazy

Tuesday 12 February 2008, 10:14

It’s tricky to comment on the African Cup of Nations without descending into cliché. You just had to listen to the patronising babble spouted by pretty much every TV commentator during the tournament....
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How Escape To Victory became reality

Monday 04 February 2008, 18:22

Escape To Victory . Implausible, right? Well, on many levels, yes. There’s the bit where Sly Stallone slips out of the POW camp, is smuggled to Paris, contacts le Resistance, has a cheeky encounter with...
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