11 things we loved this weekend: Milner, Greenwood, Ronaldinho & more

Quick Reads

Planet Football
16th March 2020

We are delighted to announce some actual football took place this weekend.

From brawls in the Copa Libertadores to Ronaldinho bringing joga bonito to a Paraguayan prison, think of this feature as a nicotine patch to distract you from the massive cravings.

We’ve rounded up the best of the action on and off the pitch.

Jordan Henderson

A great gesture.

Brilliant from Jordan Henderson and #lfc players. They’ve contacted ⁦@IanByrneMP⁩ to support ⁦@SFoodbanks⁩ … this from Ian … pic.twitter.com/lGc5tbFj8j

— Henry Winter (@henrywinter) March 14, 2020

Mason Greenwood

Being so good with both feet is no fluke.

Evolution of Mason Greenwood so far 💫

Talent 🔥🔴

[@hshmutd] pic.twitter.com/FwuPBpNV5X

— United Zone (@ManUnitedZone_) March 15, 2020

Bogdan Mykhaylichenko

Some actual football, and a very, very hard shot.

Ronaldinho

The sequel to Mean Machine is going to be excellent.

🇧🇷 The first picture of Ronaldinho playing football in a Paraguayan jail has been released. I still can't believe it. His team won the game 11-2. Ronaldinho scored 5 goals & assisted 6.

Iconic. 👑 pic.twitter.com/IPN4AErAw1

— FutbolBible (@FutbolBible) March 14, 2020

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Your dad is getting incredibly angry about this.

How’s self-isolation going?

Oxlade-Chamberlain:

pic.twitter.com/LfTfUGV2CV

— LFCVine (@LFCVine) March 14, 2020

James Milner

It’s hard to separate Boring James Milner and the real one.

Hey @Alex_OxChambo Barrels of laughs here in the Milner household as well – rationing the tea bags for the week👍👍#crazydays #somuchtogetonwith #notgotthemovestocompete pic.twitter.com/WLDAJjyHOc

— James Milner (@JamesMilner) March 15, 2020

Curtis Good

So good.

Tackle of the season? Or miss of the season? 🤔

An unbelievable moment as Curtis Good somehow prevents the ball from crossing the line!#MCYvWSW #ALeague pic.twitter.com/1qlNywFwBw

— Hyundai A-League (@ALeague) March 14, 2020

Gary Hooper

Nope, we had no idea he’s playing for Wellington Phoenix either.

Copa Libertadores

Never change.

Crazy scenes in the #Libertadores match between Gremio and Internacional as a huge fight broke out! 🤯🤯🤯pic.twitter.com/Ff83hiVsKO

— Goal (@goal) March 13, 2020

Zenit St Petersburg

#Monday

Zenit St. Petersburg fans chanting “We’re all going to die.”
Probably the biggest football crowd anywhere in Europe today. https://t.co/uHYCqyMLNh

— James Ellingworth (@jellingworth) March 14, 2020

Cesc Fabregas

An excellent little story.

View this post on Instagram

So, after a player already told the story to the press of what happened one day in 2018 and many people asked me if it’s true, there we go. Many times for many years after training, I stay a little bit longer to take some penalties. I always made little bets with the goalkeepers to put a bit of spice into the challenge. For some reason, I never really missed one. So one day i got too confident and it got a of out of hand. It was Willy Caballero’s turn and I told him that if he saved it I’d get him a Range Rover. Unfortunately for me, he saved it in front of the whole team so you can imagine how it went… I went from feeling the most confident, to feeling the most stupid guy on earth 😅. Everybody obviously was shouting and laughing that I had to pay my debt. I went to a scrapyard and I found a destroyed Range Rover that couldn’t be used at all for £950 so I said, you know what? I’ll get that. The next day they brought it to the training ground and well… I’ll show you the rest on a video. The lesson of the story is: Don’t bet at all at any cost. @willycaba

A post shared by Cesc Fàbregas (@cescf4bregas) on Mar 15, 2020 at 5:24am PDT