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This headline refers to Juventus, who are known at The Old Lady after their draw with Belorussian team FC BATE.

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  1. angelo says:

    MASTER FAIL

    • Ricardo says:

      Failblog phail. Old Lady = Vecchia Signora (Juventus FC’s nickname). Nedved is the Juventus’ player pictured.

      Sorry for being anoracky and spoil the fun.

      • Ricardo says:

        And it’s not soccer, it’s football (as in ball played with the feet).

        By now you should have noticed I’m European. :-P

        • keithybabes says:

          European fail. Read the subtitle!

        • MadManPirate says:

          The reason American football is called Football is cause when it was originated there where many rules making it so feet where used often ie more often than hands hence the name football

          So know the history of why something is called what it is before taking not so well hidden digs at the country its played in

          Oh And im from New Zealand No where near the states so dont start that crap

          • k@ the custard fairy & IgnoreButton™ says:

            Nah American football is just Rugby with armour! :roll: ;)

            • Daniel says:

              Eh, it’s certainly descended from a game very much like rugby. But Teddy Roosevelt threatened to regulate that if it weren’t made less dangerous, and the end result was the weird thing that we have now.

          • Elitist One-Upper says:

            Uh, American Football has never used feet more than hands. Not even before the inception of the NFL.

          • Born Toby Wilde says:

            It appears that the automatic electronic crap starter’s on the blink. Does anybody have one of those old fashioned hand turned crap starters going?

        • Mr. Obvious says:

          And it’s not football (as in ball played with feet).

          It’s football (as in ball played on foot as opposed to ball played on horseback, as the nobles would play it).

          opps but then again it is soccer.

      • gringo says:

        Master BATE, get it?

        Fail recognition fail imho.\^^

      • angelo says:

        I find it irrelevant that you post a reply on my post saying some BS. We Americans apologize that we forgot Europeans DO NOT have a sense of humor. Cmon man just laugh at the mistake, no need to be a smart ass about it.

      • qbert mcpot says:

        Ricardo you fail, you are abvously unable to master bate at home, as you seem to have missed the fail.

        But it totaly agree with your “And it’s not soccer, it’s football” comment, i think arrogant yanks just want to call it soccer, cos they already have their American Football that they call football for some reason.

        • Daniel says:

          Really, the most popular sport in the world is yank-bashing, isn’t it?

          But there are *many* different football games, not just association football and American football. It isn’t *arrogant* that most association football fans outside of America call their game just “football”, and use some different term for Gaelic football, &c. And it isn’t *arrogant* when American’s call their just “football”, and use some different term for Gaelic football, &c. We talk about American football a h_ck of a lot more than we do about association football or any other football game, so we the first just “football”. You talk about association football a lot more than about any other football game, so you call it just “football”. The name “soccer” wasn’t invented by Americans; we got it from Europeans. And it’s quicker and easier than “association football”.

          You ought to consider whence your inference of peculiar American *arrogance* where there is a symmetry of behavior.

  2. noway says:

    win…

  3. Lionhearte says:

    NOT FIRST

  4. keithybabes says:

    Shame they couldn’t pull it off.

  5. teh cat says:

    say let’s help her?

  6. Aja says:

    Goal unreachable.

  7. guybo says:

    I thought that’s where it was supposed to be done….um…not that i would know…um…what I meanis…um…hey, Colts and Saints in the Super Bowl!!! Wohoo…um…yeah.

  8. Alex says:

    Typical for a football site edited by Americans.. The country has no other styles of humour to fall back on so they always have to result to being crude, because their people wouldn’t understand anything more subtle.

    • keithybabes says:

      Not funny. Why not go to the top of a cliff and toss yourself off?

    • CrazyNewt says:

      This coming from the continent that invented french films, bad teeth, ugly moviestars, hairy women, and european disdain for anything that’s not european.

      • Arthur Eld says:

        As stupid as Alex’ comment was, you top it.

      • JJ says:

        rather live in that continent than in a continent where:
        -people are so fat they constantly are trown in the ocean because they think it was a wale
        -it is normal that everyone carrys guns arround, but not normal if one person wants a decent health care
        -people are so stupid that they build cheap, wooden houses in areas where there are tornado’s?!
        -ow yeah and did a say already americans are fat? they are!

        • Arthur Eld says:

          I sense you’re angry. Wanna talk about it?

          • JJ says:

            Nah! not angry at all! :-D
            I like america.. from a distance:
            -all these things are funny to read (special ambulances for fat people, people who go to coart because ‘they didn’t know cigarettes where toxic’, ….)
            - €>>$ -> cheap sales on the net!!

        • nupshaw says:

          I love how people continue to use horrible stereotypes to hate on people making horrible stereotypes. Your mothers must be so proud of the intelligent children they have raised.

      • Alex says:

        I didn’t know New Zealand had all of those things? Stupid American assumptions…

  9. CrazyNewt says:

    We must learn to master our joysticks like a fisherman masters bait.

  10. it's called football says:

    This one’s old, it’s from last year’s champions league, when juventus drew with BATE Borisov while playing at home. And the title was not on purpose, from what I remember they changed it after a few hours once they realized it.

  11. that-guy-who-captions-stuff-ineffectively says:

    My mastery of BATE is far too incomprehendable for you!

  12. boob says:

    FAIL BLOG take note. its not a fail if its intentional

  13. Chicken_man says:

    Here is a puzzler

    Two old ladies in a bath tub. One says “Where’s the soap?”
    The other one grins and says “Sure does”

  14. Granny says:

    I drew back a stump

  15. Granny says:

    bloody loose kernels again!

  16. ChrisDaTischler says:

    That happens because Americans are not interested in soccer at all…
    Old lady is the name of that team!

  17. fsdfasd says:

    FIRST!11!!1!!!11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!

  18. Granny says:

    first I find out gumtree is not a dating website for seniors and now this! :(

  19. Granny says:

    short of arm, long of genitals

  20. FLELBLUG says:

    failblog fail! They are called the “old lady”.

    FAILZ. ZEE FAILZ. FLAIL. FEIL. FIEL. FLIE.

    • ppg says:

      No, OMG its not like Failblog thought that the title is about grande Paolo Nedved (Pavel Nedvěd if you want to have it in czech original) from Juve or about anybody else, it just candid pun, a wordplay – lady unable to master bate means that she couldn’t come (I hope? – but its definitely about the wordplay.

  21. SinnersInternational says:

    @ JJ

    Thrown
    Whale
    There’s no apostrophe in tornadoes.
    Court

    Please. If you insist on insulting people, don’t embarrass us English people by being unable to spell, punctuate or use the correct grammar.

    It gets a tad embarrassing and therefore your argument is rubbish.

    That’s all.

  22. chandy says:

    to all the americans: stop calling football “soccer” – i don’t call baseball “bat’n'base” either

    • Dr.Marbles says:

      I highly doubt your argument here is going to generate much success in terms of getting all of us ignorant Americans to finally refer to the sport as Football.

      It’s simple – We refer to our Football as just that, and the other sport as Soccer. Europeans (and pretty much everyone else) refer to one as Football, and the other as American Football.

      If I can tell the difference for each sport when reading about it from another countries perspective, then you should be able to as well. Deal with it.

  23. Kurt says:

    Pavel we miss u!! :(
    PAVEL PAVEL NEDVED! NEDVED!
    PAVEL PAVEL NEDVED! NEDVED!

  24. badjoras says:

    ye old lady means Vecchia Signora and not the player in the photo

  25. duhu says:

    I got this one (Master BATE) and I am not a native speaker…

  26. Jennifer says:

    Knowing Goal.com, this is probably intentional

    • Geoff says:

      Yup. Having worked with journalists and sub-editors for a number of years, I know this is the kind of thing the live for.

      Everyone would remember the famous “Keegan fills Schmeichel’s gap with Seaman”.

    • Robert says:

      Hmm, then maybe Goal.com didn’t actually score an own-goal. Or maybe they did after all. :)

  27. jasper says:

    YOU MONGOLS THE OLD LADY IS JUVENTUS’ NICKNAME, NOOBS

  28. pwnnoob says:

    lmfaoooo, i dont get it…do people acually not understand the fail here?…

  29. Jen says:

    But wouldn’t that make Juventus master of their domain?

  30. pwnnoob says:

    headlines a lie. i bet he masterbates more then anybody, just look at his right forarm. Jackshoww

  31. javi says:

    the old lady is the nicname of the italian soccer team juventus the player in the picture is from juventus

  32. Shuenqui says:

    you what would be a nice idea before posting? reading the other posts. Ok we get it. Old lady is a nick name for a team… it could be a name of a beagle or a rare sickness! Its the phrase that matters and the literal meaning that counts! Seriously cant people just look at the picture ,laugh post something random and go on? instead the start a hole discussion about fail or no fail… i bet third word war will start in a blog….

  33. Cyda-Cider83 says:

    Look, I just spent a lot of time reading down through the comments and arguments.

    We all get it, there was a mistake in the typing and it’s being read as ‘Masterbate’. So what?

    And! So what if we Americans called our type of football ‘football’? It’s not like we’re torturing you by calling it that, are we? We’re not stabbing you with it by calling it football.
    And I have got a question for Europeans who gave a hearty argument about this. Why is it so wrong to call football ’soccer’. I used to even play soccer and our team was Team Brazil! I even tried to make my coach call it football instead of soccer. So just leave us alone. We’re not doing nothing wrong by calling sports different names.

    So just grow up, will you?!

    It’s just like being a racist! Judging others by what they look like and not really knowing whats underneath.

    And for all of you who said that Americans are fat! I happen to know a very large amount of people trying to lose weight or have already lost weight.

    So bug off!

  34. Cyda-Cider83 says:

    Please read through what I said before adding (another) smartass comment. Americans aren’t bad.

  35. Juve fan says:

    That was hilarious.

    btw, FORZA JUVE! :)

  36. Mako says:

    It’s not really a fail though, more like a win for a good joke. There’s no way that wasn’t intentional.

  37. I think the pun was intentional, and if it was changed soon after, it was a result of an editor seeing it as inappropriate headline content, rather than seeing that there was accidental punnery involved. Fail on all your houses.

  38. Master_blaster says:

    BATE is a belarian football club…

  39. daddylovesyou says:

    this is a win

  40. Fredrik says:

    I´m European, I got the funny part, I dont mind you calling our football, soccer, I think you do have a bit of a weight-problem in your country but I dont think we should blame it on America though.. We can always blame it on Napoleon or global warming.

  41. theo says:

    -Thank you, Mister bates
    -Bates, Norman Bates

  42. Fernando RedHot says:

    Fail Blog Failed

    Old Lady is the nickname of our big club. Nedved is Old Boy :P

  43. Filipe says:

    Old lady = Juventus nick name ( italian soccer club )

    BATE borisov = Belarusian soccer club

  44. Jon says:

    As someone who writes headlines, I’d wager the writer knew exactly what he (or she) was doing. This is a WIN, not a FAIL.

  45. Stefan says:

    You guys fail, it’s photo shopped.

  46. cipri says:

    juve merda!!!forza inter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  47. cipri says:

    and “soccer” is not a word by the way..it’s football everywhere

  48. Epic xD says:

    Actually Juventus is well know as Vecchia Seniora(Signora) which comes to be Old Lady. There’s no fail here,the truly fail was the guy who uploaded this as an attempt to post,but he failed epicly.
    Bate is a football club. F.C Bate his whole name. No Fail at picture,Fail is the guy who uploaded.

    • Dave says:

      You fail Epic XD. Read the subtitle of the actual image. If you read the very second comment, he did the same exact thing that you did. He mentioned that he made a mistake. So for you…DOUBLE FAIL.

  49. Adriana says:

    bah
    it’s masturbate, not masterbate…


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