Humor

For the second straight year — after 19 straight seasons in the Champions League — Arsenal is plugging away on Thursday nights in the Europa League. As someone who enjoys watching the Gunners, I’m kind of loving it.

While I would probably prefer to watch Arsenal on Tuesdays or Wednesdays back in the Champions League, facing teams like PSG and Barcelona instead of Sporting and Qarabag, Arsenal in the Europa League is so much more fun this year for one reason and one reason alone: Univision Deportes. 

It’s the greatest club competition in the world, but sometimes even the best footballers make mistakes. In the case of these Champions League fails from Wednesday, very bad mistakes. 

Some of the best teams with the best players in the world took the pitch for Champions League group stage matches on Wednesday. A few of them showed they can be no better than your average Sunday league player with these shocking Champions League fails.

Despite thousands of signatures mustered in support, we won’t be seeing a Harry Maguire 50 pound note anytime soon. 

I know, very sad.

Last month, with the Bank of England decided it would introduce a new design for the £50 note. Spearheaded by soccer writer Jonny Gabriel, a campaign quickly picked up steam to put a picture of Harry Maguire, shirtless, riding an inflatable unicorn, on the £50 note. 

It would be a stretch to say that Inter Milan’s match against Lazio was a nail-biter of any kind as the Nerazzurri cruised to an impressive 3-0 win against the home side in Rome on Monday night. Don’t tell that to the wife and agent of Inter’s star forward Mauro Icardi, though. For Wanda Nara, the game was anything but comfortable.