The theme for today’s linkfest is classic United-related Onion-bag posts. For those of you who have been living in a cave for the last five years, the Onion-bag is a satirical site which turns its gaze to soccer.
Do you remember that Drogba released a rap album? It was awful. But, surprisingly, his freestyles incurred Rio Ferdinand’s rage.
More recently, spectators were shocked when, during the last epic Community Shield battle, Chelsea scored rather than knocking the ball out after an Evra injury. Sir Alex rued the double-standard, pleading for a new double-mistake rule. For the sake of competitive equality, of course.
Long before Rafa-rage stole the Anfield MC mic at press conferences, Houllier stoked the flames of PETA by making kitten-abuse accusations. Okay so that has little to do with United, but is probably my favorite Onion-bag article of all time.
Way back in 2006, Rooney made a miraculous recovery to play for Eriksson’s eternally doomed England World Cup squad. How? Eileen Drewery.
And finally, Eric Cantona gave Beckham a few PR tips on fan-relations.
I did some guestpiecery again this week, with a conventional piece on the upside of Darren Fletcher (yes he has one) for redrants and a less conventional piece on the Ramos-Ronaldo rumor at fistedaway.