In Soccer News: Same Sh*t, Different Day

It's been far too long since we updated our fine readers on the world of insanity soccer.

Italian police have arrested 66 fans of Lazio, some of them armed with knives, machetes, clubs and knuckle-dusters, in a major crackdown on football hooligans.

Just sounds like your typical Pistons game to me (Thanks, Chris).

And in other soccer news, it seems that some teams have gone from fixing matches behind closed doors to just doing it right out there on the field, I mean the pitch. (Gotta be soccer term-friendly here.) This particular gem took place during a recent game in Cameroon between Bamboutos FC of Mbouda and Federal SC of Noun according to Fecafoot.

With 25 minutes of the second half gone, Federal equalised to make it 2-2, and were threatening to take the lead.

The coach of Bamboutos then called over the opposition captain, Nkoun a Rim, in front of an incredulous crowd.

Shortly afterwards, according to Fecafoot���s website, Bamboutos captain Koss Roger faked an injury.

He was attended by medical official Barthelemy Tchio - who, Fecafoot say, handed over an envelope containing cash in front of match officials and about 1000 fans.

Roger subsequently passed the envelope to Nkoun A Rim, who was then involved in the incident which lead to Bamboutos scoring a third and apparently decisive goal.

Ha. Bill Belichick never did that, did he, haters?!

It's so nice to see that soccer hasn't changed much since we last discussed it. Oh well, at least soccer has David Beckham around to take the focus off all the bad stuff ... doh!!

(ESPN & The Offside)