Football and Social Media

We may have seen Neymar on Youtube loads of times but a lot of us are seeing him live for the first time this Olympics…. and are impressed. Here is a cool video we found showing you how to do some of his tricks

David Beckham, eat your heart out! Watch Giles Yapi-Yapo score a fantastic goal in the third round of the Swiss Cup. As we have touched on before, Youtube offers football fans the ability to see action from countries they may have struggled to have accessed before.

….is for no-one to take it at all! None of these footballers fancied their chances with this free-kick, and so decided to make a mess of things instead.

The world is currently gripped with Olympic Games fever, but next month will also see London host the fourteenth Paralympic games. As part of their build up to the spectacle, the London 2012 Youtube channel released this video of Spurs players attempting to take penalties whilst blindfolded, as featured in the Paralympic five-a-side event.

I love YouTube as they will play the football that you won’t get on Sky, like this.

This clip shows Real Madrid footballers, Xabi Alonso and Sergio Ramos purposely getting themselves booked under instructions from the ‘ Special One’ aka Jose Mourinho. These bookings meant that they both would miss less important games, but then be available again for selection for what is perceived as a more important fixture. Is this cheating [...]

try, try and try again……I guess practice doesn’t always make perfect!

How Nigel De Jong managed to stay on the pitch after this Street Fighter or Mortal Combat style tackle on Xabi Alonso during a world cup game is unexplainable. Shocking refereeing. Thanks to youtube we get to go over just how incompetent Howard Webb can be!

Don’t you just love trips down memory lane. This is when men were men and diving was done properly! Personally i think the tackle was fine….lol

….only joking! But here’s a classic clip proving why you always should keep spares handy. After the game’s orange ball burst during the first half, the teams were forced to continue with a white ball on an equally white covered pitch…