Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba’s young son cried out as he saw him collapse on TV during a football match as he suffered a cardiac arrest. Three-year-old Joshua called out “Mummy, daddy is frozen”, as they looked on helplessly during the live game. The Premier League star remained unconscious for three days following his collapse [...]
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Fabrice Muamba’s son thought his dad was ‘playing’ when his heart stopped – Evening Standard
Posted on 24 April 2012.
That’s my ball! Japanese teenager who lost home in tsunami is ‘delighted’ after Alaskan beachcomber finds his football a YEAR later | Mail Online
Posted on 24 April 2012.
A Japanese teenager who lost his home in last year’s devastating tsunami today spoke of his delight after his football washed up on a remote Alaskan beach 3,500 miles from Japan. Misaki Murakami, 16, came forward to reveal that he was the owner of the ball discovered by American radar technician David Baxter on Middleton Island. [...]
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Football swept away in tsunami to be returned to owner – Telegraph
Posted on 23 April 2012.
Misaki Murakami, 16, is to be reunited with his football after it spent the past year floating across the Pacific Ocean before being discovered by beachcombers along the coastline of Middleton Island. The schoolboy’s full name was spotted written on the ball, along with other messages from his classmates, leading those who found the [...]
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BBC – Call for more heart screenings for people playing sport
Posted on 18 April 2012.
One of Britain’s top heart doctors says he thinks anyone playing sport regularly should be screened for heart defects. At the moment only top flight athletes are forced to be tested. Sanjay Sharma is a professor of cardiology at St George’s Hospital in south London. “We know that one in 300 young people in the [...]
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Talk about embarrassing! Football player’s dad knocks over the school’s $30,000 trophy | Mail Online
Posted on 18 April 2012.
Talk about embarrassing! Football player’s dad smashes school’s $30,000 trophy after tripping on rug By MEGHAN KENEALLY Parents often complain that their children find them endlessly embarrassing. One college student was more likely mortified when his father tripped and knocked over the team’s crystal championship trophy. The Waterford Crystal trophy designed in the shape of [...]
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New York Jets star fathers TEN children with EIGHT different women…just one more and he’ll have his own football team | Mail Online
Posted on 16 April 2012.
As he celebrates his 28th birthday today New York Jets cornerback, Antonio Cromartie, has another reason to raise a glass – he now fathers 10 children. The football star recently had his second child with his wife to add to his brood of nine children from a total of eight women across the country. Cromartie [...]
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Football brings hope to favela youth | Guardian
Posted on 10 April 2012.
For Adriel, a football-obsessed 14-year-old from one of Rio de Janeiro’s most troubled favelas, an opportunity to visit the UK and meet some of his sporting heroes is a dream come true, yet he is remarkably level-headed about it. “This is a chance for me to speak English. I want to learn English so I [...]
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Two PCSOs ban boy, eight, from playing football outside Bolton house after ‘kicking ball too loudly’ | Mail Online
Posted on 04 April 2012.
An eight-year-old schoolboy was banned from playing football outside his home by two PCSOs who claimed he kicked ‘too loudly.’ Bertie Longworth, was quizzed by the officers who took his full name and date of birth, then told his mother not to allow him to play with the ball at the front of their house [...]
Under-8s game in Poland abandoned after crowd trouble – Telegraph
Posted on 12 March 2012.
In an incident that raises the profile of football hooliganism just months before Poland co-hosts the European Championships, drunk fans of Polish first-division club Lech Poznan set off flares and threw streamers in the sports hall that had been hired by a supporters association linked to the same club. “They were drunk, banged drums and [...]
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Liam Wood: Boy, 13, dies after collapsing on football pitch moments after celebrating goal in front of family | Mail Online
Posted on 01 March 2012.
A 13-year-old footballer who died on the pitch just moments after celebrating a goal in front of his family was suffering from a ‘one-in-a-million’ heart condition, an inquest heard. Schoolboy Liam Wood died from an extremely rare undetected heart condition which an inquest into his death heard could have struck at any time. Liam, from [...]
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The seven-year-old boy with such severe narcolepsy that he couldn’t kick a ball without falling asleep | Mail Online
Posted on 16 February 2012.
A boy of seven suffered from such severe narcolepsy that he couldn’t even kick a football without the sleeping disorder causing him to doze off. Reece Williams, who fell over up to 25 times a day and sometimes slept for 23 hours, was finally diagnosed after his father filmed him repeatedly collapsing into slumber. Now, [...]
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High School Football Coach Fired After Nude Facebook Photo
Posted on 15 February 2012.
A high school football coach in Maine lost his job after accidentally posting a nude photo of himself to Facebook. Paul Withee said he intended to send the photo privately to a friend but it ended up appearing on his Facebook page for his entire social network to see. Withee was the varsity football coach [...]
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‘We’d LOVE to have a fifth baby!’ David Beckham says he and Victoria plan to continue adding to their ever-growing brood | Mail Online
Posted on 04 February 2012.
The latest addition to the family is just seven months old but David Beckham is already dreaming of the next. The footballer, who is relishing every moment of having a daughter after three sons, said he and his wife Victoria would love to have more children. The couple are parents to Brooklyn, 12, Romeo, nine, [...]
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Schools in Olympic tickets windfall
Posted on 03 February 2012.
Thousands of schools across the capital today found out how many free tickets they are to receive for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. London schools signed up for the Get Set education programme are eligible for a share of 125,000 Olympics tickets. Around 23,000 tickets have been allocated for events in venues on the Olympic [...]
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Jail for pair who demanded £5,000 from Coleen Rooney to hand back photos of son Kai taken on her digital camera | Mail Online
Posted on 31 January 2012.
Two men were jailed yesterday for trying to blackmail Coleen Rooney for £5,000 to return pictures of her footballer husband Wayne and their son. The photos were on her digital camera which ended up in the hands of Lee Platt after she lost it at a concert. Platt, 29, recognised personal pictures of Manchester United [...]
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How can this boy of four be labelled clinically obese? | Mail Online
Posted on 30 January 2012.
He loves riding his bike, plays football every day and always eats his vegetables. So four-year-old Logan Knowles’s mother was stunned when she received a letter from the NHS saying he was ‘clinically obese’. The letter warned that the little boy was so ‘overweight’ he was at risk of heart disease, cancer and diabetes. At [...]
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Arsenal star Theo: I had to play catch-up at school
Posted on 27 January 2012.
Arsenal and England star Theo Walcott has told how he was forced to catch up at school after reading took second place to playing football. Walcott, 22, said he fell behind and did not start reading properly until he was 10. But he has gone on to write four children’s books as well as his [...]
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BBC News – Teenage footballer dies after scoring goal
Posted on 09 January 2012.
A 13-year-old schoolboy died after scoring a goal during a football match in Staffordshire.Liam Wood collapsed on the pitch just after he had scored a fifth goal for AFC Saints.The match was on playing fields off Cotswold Avenue in Knutton, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, on Sunday morning.Liam was resuscitated by people at the game and was then [...]
Posted in Childhood illnesses, Death and Bereavement, FootballComments Off
David Beckham turns down Paris Saint-Germain for ‘family reasons’ – Telegraph
Posted on 03 January 2012.
“He will not come to PSG,” said the Brazilian, citing “family reasons” for the 36-year-old former England captain’s decision not to relocate from Los Angeles to the French capital. Leonardo’s announcement brings to an end months of speculation linking Beckham, whose contract with Los Angeles Galaxy finished on Dec 31, with a transfer to PSG, [...]
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Wayne Rooney gave my football-mad son the courage to battle cancer
Posted on 30 December 2011.
A schoolboy has battled back from leukaemia with help from his Manchester United heroes Wayney Rooney and Michael Owen.
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Graham Rowntree: ‘I was too ashamed to do the school run after England’s World Cup disaster’
Posted on 29 December 2011.
So, Graham, how does it feel to be the last man standing? There is no answer, but then a smile. “Thanks. I’m so proud,” he finally says. But before pride there was a kind of grief.
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The picture that shows the caring side of John Terry as he poses in Hamleys with a black baby
Posted on 24 December 2011.
This picture shows the caring side of footballer John Terry, who was happy to take some time out of his busy day to pose with a young fan.
Football-style red cards cut classroom disorder
Posted on 19 December 2011.
As the Government has signalled a crackdown on truancy, one head teacher about red cards for poor behaviour and his uncompromising stance on parents who let their children skip school.
Why picking your friends for a playground football match helps them bend it like Beckham
Posted on 13 December 2011.
Children chosen by friends ‘feel indebted and improve their game performance’
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Leeds deaths: football coach ‘killed family before taking own life’
Posted on 13 December 2011.
Football coach Richard Smith from Leeds is believed to have murdered his wife and their two young children before taking his own life.
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Kicking up a fuss, the first female footballers wearing blouses and bloomers who sparked riots when they took to the field
Posted on 09 December 2011.
In buttoned-up blouses and billowing bloomers, they may not look as though they are dressed for the football pitch.
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6ft 6ins teenager from London set to make £14m-a-year deal after being spotted by American football coach…. while playing basketball
Posted on 06 December 2011.
Francis admits he doesn’t know NFL rules – and doesn’t really it either
Boys’ GCSE grades dented by football tournaments
Posted on 03 December 2011.
Calls for earlier exams as study shows boys score own goal by watching World Cup and Euro finals games instead of revising
Posted in Football, Learning, Sport and FitnessComments Off
Gary Speed found dead: family ‘overwhelmed’ by tributes
Posted on 29 November 2011.
Hayden Evans, the late Welsh manager’s agent, reads a prepared statement on behalf of Gary Speed’s family who ask for time “to grieve on their own”.
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Football fan gropes mother-of-three’s breast in drunken game of ‘boob cricket’
Posted on 27 November 2011.
A drunken football fan grabbed a mother’s breast in front of her three children in a busy street while taking part in a game of ‘boob cricket’, a court heard.
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Quarterback Pat McInally’s Winnie the Pooh Collection
Posted on 26 November 2011.
Pat McInally, the first Harvard graduate to play in the Super Bowl, is selling his £2 million Winnie-the-Pooh memorabilia collection. See some of his rare books, prints and toys.
Posted in Football, Media and Celebrity, Time OutComments Off
Port Talbot junior football games allowed to resume
Posted on 23 November 2011.
Junior football games in Port Talbot can resume on Saturday after a two week suspension due to trouble at matches.
Posted in Football, Health, Sport and FitnessComments Off
Having no legs won’t stop me! Girl who battled meningitis makes the school football team
Posted on 20 November 2011.
This is brave little Ellie Challis playing football.
Little Ellie touched the hearts of the world when she took her first ever steps on prosthetic legs after tragically losing all her limbs to meningitis in July 2005.
Posted in Family Health, Football, HealthComments Off
New fathers urged to play greater role in maternity care
Posted on 14 November 2011.
New fathers are to be asked to sleep on fold-out beds in maternity wards and attend antenatal classes in between football matches as part of a Government drive to ease the pressure on midwives.
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Chalk Talk: Cricket makes pupils behave better – the England team should take note
Posted on 10 November 2011.
A new report shows that skills learned on the cricket field can permeate their way back into the classroom.
Leaving football to the boys! Victoria Beckham and baby Harper relax in the shade while Romeo and Cruz enjoy a kickabout
Posted on 01 November 2011.
They’re rarely seen apart nowadays, and yesterday Victoria Beckham and baby Harper enjoyed some girly time in the park.
Posted in Football, Time Out, TV, Theatre and FilmComments Off
It’s not like diving for the ball you know, Jamie! Redknapp gets a lesson poolside from gold medallist Tom Daley
Posted on 29 October 2011.
He may be less than half their age but Tom Daley played the role of teacher when he passed on some of his expert diving knowledge to footballer Jamie Redknapp and comedian John Bishop.
A 1-0 for common sense! Junior football league which doctored results to spare children’s blushes reverses policy
Posted on 12 October 2011.
All results recorded as 1-0, 1-1 or 0-0 as league refuses to record thrashings
Posted in Football, Sport and Fitness, Time OutComments Off
The children’s football league which only lists scores as 1-0 or 1-1 ‘to avoid humiliation after heavy defeats’
Posted on 11 October 2011.
All results recorded as 1-0, 1-1 or 0-0 as league refuses to record thrashings
Posted in Football, Sport and Fitness, Time OutComments Off
Peter Snow: ‘I got caned at school and I caned some boys too… it was simply part of the culture’
Posted on 08 October 2011.
This is me aged about ten at my boarding school, St Andrew’s in Eastbourne. I was in the football team and enjoyed playing, but I wasn’t particularly good.
Posted in Family matters, FootballComments Off
Independent schoolgirls becoming keen on tackling the beautiful game
Posted on 04 October 2011.
Football is now securing a place among more traditional schoolgirl sports, says Gareth A Davies.
Posted in Football, Sport and Fitness, Time OutComments Off
My School Sport: Steve Lewis
Posted on 04 October 2011.
Steve Lewis, Commonwealth Games pole-vault silver medallist, talks schooldays, sport and ‘Superstardom’
Posted in Football, Sport and Fitness, Swimming and Watersports, Time Out1 Comment
Why English football could use a bit of Turkey’s girl power
Posted on 22 September 2011.
Oh, to have drunk in the ambience at Sukru Saracoglu Stadium on Tuesday night. Sadly, I would never have been invited, for the Turkish Football Association had taken the quite stunning step of filling every one of Fenerbahce’s 41,000 seats with women and children.
Posted in Football, Sport and Fitness, Time OutComments Off
Christening guest needed 50 stitches after he was glassed in the face ‘for wearing an orange tie’
Posted on 21 September 2011.
Attack followed misunderstanding over a ‘joke’ about a football strip
Posted in Childhood illnesses, Football, Health, Parents in prisonComments Off
Mother stole £14,000 from junior football team after volunteering as club’s treasurer
Posted on 21 September 2011.
Theft discovered when only left £13.66 in kitty
Posted in Family matters, Football, Just MumsComments Off
Tomboy: Girls will be boys
Posted on 20 September 2011.
What do you do if your daughter asks to use the boys’ loos, or your son wants to go shopping in a fairy dress? Lena Corner gets some gender guidance
Posted in At School, Family, Football, Swimming and WatersportsComments Off
The little team – l’equip petit by el cangrejo
Posted on 09 September 2011.
The YouTube film featuring a kids football team in Spain who can’t win a game, or even score a goal, but win hearts with their attitude.
Posted in Football, Sport and Fitness, Time Out, TV, Theatre and FilmComments Off
‘Teachers should be given shinpads’
Posted on 07 August 2011.
800 pupils excluded every day for attacks on staff
Posted in At School, Football, Learning, TeachersComments Off
Daddy’s home! Steven Gerrard is met by pregnant wife Alex and daughters as he is discharged from hospital
Posted on 06 August 2011.
Steven Gerrard was met by his wife Alex and the couple’s two daughters as he was discharged from hospital this afternoon.
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Football-mad boy, 6, who lost legs to meningitis wants new limbs so he can have his first proper kickabout
Posted on 02 August 2011.
A six-year-old football fan is pleading for help to get a new set of legs – so he can play like his hero Steven Gerrard.
Posted in At School, Football, Health, Meningitis, Sport and FitnessComments Off
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