Good afternoon and welcome to the latest installment of You Write the Caption, the contest where we ask readers to submit their funniest captions to go with the humorous soccer-related photos we find.
Congratulations to SBI reader Blake for winning the last YWTC contest, the Liverpool Lovebirds edition. For his win, Blake will receive a free Navy SBI Mafia t-shirt, courtesy of Objectivo Apparel.
The latest installment of YWTC brings us back to Barcelona's thrilling tie vs. Chelsea last week, and specifically the photo is taken from Michael Ballack's enthusiastic complaints to Norwegian referee Tom Henning Ovrebo.
Here is the photo, along with our own caption suggestion:
Referees: The Other White Meat
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Now it's your turn. Submit your best caption for the photo and we will select the best entries and let SBI readers vote on which one they think is the best of the bunch. The winner of the contest will receive a free Navy Blue SBI Mafia T-Shirt from Objectivo Apparel. If you haven't done so yet, order your SBI Mafia t-shirts today.
Post your captions in the comments section below. Fire away.
Fears erupt after schwein outbreak at Stamford Bridge.
But I wanna be the pretty, pretty princess!!!!!
IT’S NOT A TOOOMOR!
The ref runs for dear life, to no avail, as the ref had to endure something no one should ever experience…Ballack’s attempt at germ-glish
Were you too distracted by the glare off your head to get the call right?
An outtake from the latest in the Bourne Identity series. Here, disguised as a soccer player, Jason Bourne tries to save an innocent ref caught in the middle of the action.
Gimmie that headset! I wanna talk to your boss!
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Tragically for Ovrebo, Ballack finally succumbed to his Transylvanian roots.
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Transcript from referee voice communications:
Ovrebo: Is he still behind me?
Linesman: Yes.
Ovrebo: Okay what should I do?
Linesman: Keep running.
4th official: Actually it’d be kinda funny if you stopped. You could red card him for running into you.
Ovrebo: Interesting thought…
Linesman: No, probably not a good idea, he looks rabid.
HEY WAIT! Didn’t I see you in the MLS?
Miss one more call, baldy, and I’ll show you Michael Phallic!!
Just because no-one listens to Smashing Pumpkins anymore doesn’t mean you have to take it out on ME!
“No call? I thought you were a Quisling!”
You belong in MLS
I’ve been trying to tell you, one million dollars still isn’t a lot of money these days!
Du, Du Hast, Du Hast Mich
Posted by: Pat Pug | May 11, 2009 at 02:56 PM
Instant winner.
By eating your brain, I will then have your power to turn invisible during a Champions League match. Maybe THEN I can impress Hayden Panettiere. Save the Cheerleader, Save the Blues!
“Hey, Vic Mackey. Season 7 sucked!”
“HOW DID YOU NOT GLITTER! MARIAH CAREY WAS AMAZING, SHE DESERVED AN OSCAR!”
Messi and Iniesta have no chance in our deadly chicken fight! NEIN!!!
Hey Tom, have you read Twilight
HEY!!! How did you get your head so shiny???
Chelsea is an English team, not German!
If we weren’t conjoined twins, I’d kill you!
Remember, we invaded you in 1940, and we can do it again!
Ballack auditions for “True Blood” by attempting to suck blood from a referee.
Can you hear me now?
“Michael Ballack didn’t go German. Michael Ballack went Ballack!”
“Whoa-oh, here he comes…watch out Tom, he’ll chew you up. Whoa-oh, here he comes…he’s a man-eater.”
Mmmmm, BRAINS!!!!
Hey sexy, turn around let me lick your forehead 🙂
Michael Ballack prepares to re-create his favorite moment from Mike Tyson’s career.
having little to celebrate at the end of another depressing Chelsea performance, Michael Ballack attempts to lift team spirits by falling in behind the referee and urging Didier Drogba to join his impromptu and ill-advised Samba line.
As he does his best German-tiptoe behind, it is revealed why his name is Ball-lick.
GET IN MY BELLY!
I know the President of Hair Club for Men!
Albeit Macht Frei!
Ballacks!
“When I said stick it up your behind, I didn’t mean mine!”
“HEY! I’m walkin’ here!”
Du, Du Hast, Du Hast Mich
“Atleast Britney waited to shave her head until AFTER she lost all credibility”
Even Hugh Dallas could have spotted that handball
“Norwegian bald heads truly exaggerate my eyebrows”
How many fouls are you going to blow. Wait let me translate, How many fouls are you going to blow, bork bork bork.
“Like a hungry lion prowling they pitch, Ballack stalks his prey.”
Do you understand the words coming out of my mouth?
GET BACK HERE, I wanna give you a hug dangit!
That’s it!! No jersey for you after the game!
“You’re the Worst 3- legged race partner EVER! Slow down I’m full of sour kraut ya know!”
“I’m German! This is how I talk!!”
Wow, I can see the back of my throat.