After unsuccessfully managing Tottenham Hotspur for 6 hours, coach Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) is back in the states as a commentator.

And he’s just as clueless about the beautiful game as he was when he attempted to be a manager—fortunately, for us, he’s just as hilarious too.

If you missed Lasso’s first foray into football, check out his debut below.

Two intellectual giants and Youtubers, ‘Ivy Kenso’ and ‘Shortshortdi’, battle it out grasping the complex problems of our age.

Like, what’s the correct term to use for football—is it soccer as the yanks like to call it? Or just football? It’s like when Chomsky met Foucalt in 1971 to debate human nature.

It’s pretty much a sports fan’s prerogative to watch the game from the stands and comment about how they could do better than the players. And no more so is that evident than in football—an unwritten rule of spectating is it doesn’t dwindle one bit as you get older, wiser, and perhaps not quite so quick as you once were.

Even in your twilight years you still feel the impulsive need to run onto the pitch, take the ball and slam one into the back of the net with gusto. Because old age doesn’t have to mean you’ve not #Stillgotit

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~Thrifty thinking could be here to stay, new findings show ~

Money worries during the recession have given way to an increasing sense of personal financial responsibility, the findings of a joint report by the government-backed pension scheme NEST and leading research house the Futures Company show.

One of the most significant examples of this trend is the response to the government’s new automatic enrolment workplace pension reforms, with opt out rates significantly lower than many had forecast.

Commenting on the research findings, NEST CEO, Tim Jones, said:
“The recession has evidently changed consumer behaviour and for the first time we can see the impact it’s had on British attitudes as well. Many households are still feeling the pinch and people are worried about the future, but they clearly think tomorrow is worth saving for and automatic enrolment seems to be a welcome helping hand. Although it can be a struggle to find a few extra pounds each month, the money from employer contributions and relief at finally doing something has convinced more people to stick with saving than we ever expected in this economic climate.”

Director of the Futures Company, Andrew Curry, said:
“The experience of living through the economic crisis appears to have had a significant effect on the way people think about spending and saving. The signs are that this will cause a lasting shift in consumer sentiment.”

The report finds:

58 per cent of people in the UK agree that ‘this recession has changed global consumer culture forever’, a shift in attitudes that has affected how people manage their money day to day and how they think about their future.

More than half of British consumers think they’ll never spend money as freely as they did before the recession and more than two thirds now think twice before making even the smallest purchases.

Consumers are half as likely to have unsecured debt as two years ago, they have paid off credit card debts and only a tiny fraction now owe money on store cards.
Consumers today keep track of exactly how much money they spend, regularly use comparison websites to make the most of their money and spend a lot of time shopping around for the best deal.

Long term financial security has also gone up people’s priority lists. Fewer people are confident about what they have set aside for retirement compared to two years ago and a large majority are worried they won’t have enough. If they received a sudden windfall, most people would invest it for the future rather than spend it today.

Of more than 1.4million people who have been enrolled during this first year, just 9 per cent have opted out. A third of those who opted out cited affordability as the reason. 15 per cent said they are saving through other means and 14 per cent said they were too close to retirement.

Of those who have stayed in, just over half say they’ve done so because it’s ‘time to start saving for retirement’ and 48 per cent say it ‘makes financial sense because the employer contributes’. Just 13 per cent said they were too busy to opt out, suggesting this has been an active choice for many.

Nothing beats a kickabout down the local park, jumpers for goal posts and all that. But here “On me ‘ead son!” gets a whole new meaning as these kids show off their ball — and larking about — skills pulling off headshots with great finesse.

It takes a lot of practice to get an aim like that and it takes some dedicated friends who don’t mind suffering from headaches.

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For FIFA 12 EA have added some interesting physics and collision detection. Here’s a compilation of what happens when it all goes hilariously wrong.

This kind of physics defying ridiculousness is probably the only reason I’d play this game…

This cute little kitty managed to find his way onto the pitch as Liverpool were playing at home against Tottenham.

Personally, I think I’d prefer to watch a cat prancing around that soccer players diving and faking injuries. I was rooting for this little guy and secretly hoping he would curl one out.

This is awesome! We caught this unbelievable moment off camera during the filming of Guinness Football Challenge’s new season. African footballing greats Marcel Desailly, Kalusha Bwalya, Jay Jay Okocha and Rigobert Song were just messing around between takes and then this happened…

The question to ask here must be: Is this real or fake, how the HELL did he do that, do aliens exist and are they amongst us playing international soccer? Either way, that was so far beyond awesome it’s in the Twilight Zone.

This guy’s got some sweet skills, so good you’ll want to study the video in slow-motion just to see if he’s got a string attached to that ball he’s so miraculously twirling around his feet.

It doesn’t matter if he’s sitting down or standing up, he elevates kicking a ball to a fine art. AWESOME!