A Football Report

We’re less than a month away from seeing Rooney, Drogba, Arsene, ‘nando, Deuce, and the rest of the lads of the English Premier League battle it out for glory and money. So here at AFR we’ve decided to announce our official 2010-2011 Fantasy Premier League Challenge. And this year we have prizes, such as an official Premier League jersey, for the winners thanks to the good folks over at SoccerPro and Cult Zeros. But more on that later…

Here are the details as to how to join in on the action:

• First, head on over to the official fantasy premier league website and log in. (You’ll need to register if you haven’t done so before, which takes all of two minutes.)
• Once you have logged in and set up your team, go on and click the “Leagues” link in the left navigation bar.
• Click create/join and in the “join a private league” section enter in code 273254-72821 and click submit. You should now be in the AFR Legends league.

Okay, so want to know the prizes that can be won? Thought so.

• The Winner chooses from SoccerPro’s selection of official soccer jerseys
• 2nd place gets a custom Cult Zeros shirt.
• 3rd place chooses from SoccerPro’s selection of soccer balls of your choice (priced below $25, courtesy of SoccerPro)
• 4th, 5th, and 6th place will receive a $10 Gift Card to spend on soccer gear at SoccerPro

So as long as you keep up with your team, you’ll have a good shot of winning something. We’ve also opened up the competition to our good friends at Football Corner and Yanks Are Coming. Beyond prizes, this league is going to be extremely interactive, as we’ll supply spontaneous fantasy tips throughout the season, fairly competitive, but also a whole lot of fun. I’ve created my team already, “Fabregas’ Firm”, which you can see below. Think you can do better? Prove it.

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Well, Ghana are Uruguay are already through to the quarterfinals, but no one in England cares because Fabio Capello, Rooney, and the rest of the lads take on the Germans tomorrow! It is a match of epic proportions with, uh, quite the history.. Just don’t mention the war! Anyway, the English-German contest calls for an equally epic prediction contest! AFR is giving away a £100 (roughly $150) iTunes Gift card to the winner! It’s like being told, “Well done, son” by Winston Churchill!

This giveaway is courtesy of VoucherCodes.co.uk, who have vouchers for restaurant, high street and online discounts, including Sky Offer Codes.

Here are the contest details! It’s really simple!

 1) Tweet your predicted scoreline and goalscorers @afootballreport. So an example Tweet would be, “England to win 2-0. Rooney and Defoe to score.” The goalscorers are the tie-breaker. You can follow A Football Report on Twitter here. Note: If you don’t have Twitter you can a) create one in 30 seconds or b) email your predictions to contest@afootballreport.com

 2) The iTunes Gift Card goes to the person who correctly (or comes closest to) predicting the correct scoreline. If more than one person guesses the correct scoreline, then the person who guesses the correct goalscorers will collect the card. 

So what are you waiting for? It’s England-Germany! It’s proper football at its best.

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Posted by Eric Beard

We all know the situation. If England win and the United States win tomorrow against Slovenia and Algeria, respectively, then they’re both through to the knockout stages. So we’re having our second Twitter-based prediction competition to um… lighten the mood in the build-up to the emotional set of 90 minutes. Simply follow AFootballReport on Twitter, then tweet @afootballreport your predicted scores of the two matches and, as a tie-breaker, the name of one player you think will score a goal. So an example tweet will be, “@afootballreport England to win 3-0, USA to win 2-0. Rooney to score.” Simple enough right?

 What do you get if you correctly predict the score, you ask? Well, we’re giving away one of SDITH.com’s football shirts. My personal favourite is this Rooney-themed legends shirt, but you can view of the others below. If you have any questions just tweet them at us!

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Predict the score of tomorrow’s USA v England match to be entered to win a twoeightnine designs stylin’ replica t-shirt of the jersey that the United States wore in the 1950 World Cup when they legendarily upset England 1-0. To enter tweet at us (@afootballreport) on twitter with your score as well and follow us and @twoeightnine. Also include the goalscorers in your tweet, we’ll use those as a tiebreaker. 

So an example tweet would be: “@afootballreport England will win 2-0. Rooney and Crouch will score.” Clear enough? Get your predictions in before kickoff, which is Saturday at 7:30 pm GMT (2:30 EST) If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at contact@afootballreport.com.

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Compete with the readers and writers of AFR in our fantasy World Cup league at Fifa.com. The winner of the league will earn a copy of Championship Manager 2010. Other prizes may spring up as the World Cup progresses. So go on, choose your Xavis, your Messis and your Maicons. After the Final on July 11th many of us will be basking in the glory of one of the thirty-two nations, but only one of us will be champion of AFR’s Fantasy World Cup! Try and make your selections before South Africa face off against Mexico on Friday.

To join the league, register for FIFA’s Official World Cup game, choose your 23-man squad, select your starting eleven, then at ‘My Leagues’ enter World Cup Report’s code:

[ 430134-100124 ]

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We received over 20 captions for the picture above this, and most of them were hilarious to read! Once again, we’re letting you guys vote on our top four captions shown below! All you have to do is go on our Facebook page and have your say on whether Brian, Dave, Joshua or Alex has the best caption under our post about the captions! You can have your say until Sunday night (May 30th)! Choose which one of them will win a classy football shirt, thanks to SoccerPro.

 The Top Four

Brian, vote for him here!

Pep: “So Lebron to the Knicks and you to the Red Bulls?”

Henry: “What Jay-Z wants in NY, Jay-Z gets.”

Dave, vote for him here!

Henry: “…So then I did this with my hand and all I could hear was ‘oi lad, thas not fair like’ from that Keane and his mates. Hilarious”

Guardiola: “Haha…we’ve sold you to an MLS side.” 

Joshua, vote for him here!

Henry: “So I just stuck my hand out, knocked the ball down and the rest is history.”

Guardiola: “Is that allowed in the MLS?”

Alex, vote for him here!

Henry: “I asked if I could take Leo with me… but they told me you have to be this tall to play in the MLS.”

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We had a three-way tie for our ‘Top of the League’ Prediction Contest, which asked people to submit their predictions for the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, and the Champions League as a tiebreaker. Instead of just flipping a coin or choosing a random winner of the official jersey supplied by SoccerPro.com, we decided to do something a little different with AFR’s first ever Crossbar Challenge. Thanks to everyone who entered and congrats to our winners Vetricia, Kamal, and Rafal! Vetricia wins an officially licensed soccer jersey, but Kamal and Rafal won official Adidas Capitano balls. The video explaining our Crossbar Challenge is below! If you didn’t win with your predictions, don’t worry, we’ll be back with more contests soon!

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We’re happy to announce that Mark is the winner of the third week, beating out top-class entries from Steve, Chris, and Dominic. Mark will get an official World Cup replica ball!

So it’s time for week four! The rules are the same. The person with the caption of the 

highest class (most creative, funny, etc…) will win a prize (courtesy of the awesome guys at SoccerPro).  All of our favourite captions will be posted later in a separate post, the top four captions will be voted on by you guys on our Facebook page, and the winner of the weekly contest will be announced in a later post.

Captions are due by Thursday (5/27) at midnight! Email them to contest@afootballreport.com.

The best part? Not only will the winner this week win a quality football shirt of $40 or less from SoccerPro’s selection, but all entrants will be sent a code that gives you a $5 discount on any purchase of $25 or more from SoccerPro & a $10 discount on any purchase of $100 or more. The deadline to use this code is June 4th.

And if you use the code in your purchase, email contest@afootballreport.com your receipt from SoccerPro and you’ll be entered in a random drawing to have your purchase of a jersey (of $80 or less) reimbursed.

 So why not save $5 on your country’s team jersey or $10 off a new pair of football boots? Just think of something (anything) brilliant for the picture below! Looking forward to reading all of your captions, and good luck! So… what’s going on in this week’s caption with Thierry Henry and Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola? Try to keep it (relatively) clean!

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We’re happy to announce that Josh is the winner of the first week, beating out top-class entries from Anton, Cathal, and Chris. Josh will get an official World Cup scarf!

So it’s time for week three! The rules are the same. The person with the caption of the highest class (most creative, funny, etc…) will win a prize (courtesy of the awesome guys at SoccerPro).  All of our favourite captions will be posted later in a separate post, the top four captions will be voted on by you guys on our Facebook page, and the winner of the weekly contest will be announced in the next week’s post.

Captions are due by Sunday (5/16) at midnight! Email them to contest@afootballreport.com.

The best part? Not only will the winner this week win your country’s official Adidas Capitano World Cup replica ball, but all entrants will be sent a code that gives you a $5 discount on any purchase of $25 or more from SoccerPro & a $10 discount on any purchase of $100 or more. 

 And if you use the code in your purchase, email contest@afootballreport.com your receipt from SoccerPro and you’ll be entered in a random drawing to have your purchase of a jersey (of $80 or less) reimbursed.

So why not save $5 on your country’s team jersey or $10 off a new pair of football boots? Just think of something (anything) brilliant for the picture below! Looking forward to reading all of your captions, and good luck! So… what’s going on in this week’s caption with Drogba and this panther? Try to keep it (relatively) clean!

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We received over 20 captions for the picture above this, and most of them were hilarious to read! Once again, we’re letting you guys vote on our top four captions shown below! All you have to do is go on our Facebook page and have your say on whether Cathal, Josh, Chris, or Anton has the best caption under our post about the captions! You can have your say until Wednesday night! Choose which one of them will win an official World Cup scarf, thanks to SoccerPro.

 The Top Four

Anton, vote for him here!

Maradona - here is my brilliant plan for world cup domination!

Palermo - you have a plan?

Messi - really?

Chris, vote for him here!

Maradona: Have I ever told you guys about the time when I dribbled past 9 defenders, running 70 yards to eventually score the one of the most amazing goals in all football history?

Messi: Oh brother, here we go again!

Whispers: who hired this guy? 

Josh, vote for him here!

Maradona: “Ah, Leo now I know how to use you with the national squad. We will put you at CB, then you can dribble at every player instead of just the back 4.”

Cathal, vote for him here!

Messi: He looks like he’s been sniffing something again.

Palermo: Yeah Leo, I think you’re right!

Maradona: No boys, it’s my dog.

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Week One of the “What’s Going On Here? World Cup Caption Contest!” was a huge success. We received over 30 brilliant captions, and about 200 of you voted for the top four captions that we selected. We’re happy to announce that Christian Lugo is the winner of the first week, beating out top-class entries from Dominic V, Alyssa E, and Peter H.

You can see all of the best captions from week one here.

 So it’s time for week two! The rules are the same. The person with the caption of the highest class (most creative, funny, etc…) will win a prize (courtesy of the awesome guys at SoccerPro).  All of our favourite captions will be posted later in a separate post, the top four captions will be voted on by you guys, and the winner of the weekly contest will be announced in the next week’s post. Captions are due by Saturday at midnight!

The best part? Not only will the winner this week win an official World Cup scarf, all entrants will be sent a code that gives you a $5 discount on any purchase of $25 or more from SoccerPro & a $10 discount on any purchase of $100 or more. And if you use the code in your purchase, email contest@afootballreport.com your receipt from SoccerPro and you’ll be entered in a random drawing to have your purchase of a jersey (of $80 or less) reimbursed.

So why not save $5 on your country’s team jersey or $10 off a new pair of football boots? Just think of something (anything) brilliant for the picture below! Looking forward to reading all of your captions, and good luck! So… what’s going on here? Try to keep it (relatively) clean!

All captions should be emailed to contest@afootballreport.com

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We received over 30 captions for the picture above, and most of them were hilarious to read! Truth be told, their were some captions that stood above the rest, but we couldn’t pick a winner. So we’re letting you guys vote until Monday night on our top four captions shown below! Congrats and good luck to Alyssa, Christian, Peter, and Dominic for their top class captions! Choose which one of them will win an official World Cup jersey. You can also read all of the honourable mentions after the jump.

The Top Four

(from Alyssa)

Reporter: Frank, in 2008 after the Champions League final in Moscow you called John Terry, “a man’s man.” How is he a man’s man exactly?

Frank: Well, he thinks he’s one of our greatest defenders. You have to admire that confidence. Some say he takes his job a little too seriously because he practices quite a bit.

Reporter: That’s true. Yes, I can see he’s a great tumblr, but he’s also making animal noises at me. Is that what he normally does on the pitch?

Frank: No, no it is not.

(from Christian) 

John Terry - “Frank… He’s soft. Very Soft. Has a nice cotton shirt, but I don’t he is suitable for your interview.”
Frank Lampard - “You’re right John. The shirt may be soft, but the tie doesn’t fit. Fabio has given us his Italian sense of judging on style.”

 (from Peter H) 

 Chelsea’s Frank Lampard lies on the Stamford Bridge pitch, as teammate John Terry attempts to prevent an interview from taking place. Says Lampard: “Yeah, I was just trying to see what it feels like to be John Terry after missing a penalty in the Champions League Final.”

 (from Dominic)

Reporter: Frank, did you know that Capello has banned WAGS from being at the England hotel?

Frank: Oh… I better not share a room with John Terry then.

John Terry (to reporter): I told you not to tell him!

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