Excellent List

10 footballers with rather surprising speaking voices

Including the haunting sounds of one of these men

Martin Keown

It’s easy to be thrown by the way a human being talks – after all, someone’s physical appearance or general demeanour can often lead you to make assumptions. The general rule is that big aggressive people have [...]

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Shock Departure

WTF? Has Martin O’Neill actually left Villa?

Has he? Hasn’t he?

Martin O’Neill

The whisper on the grapevine is that Martin O’Neill has fallen out with Randy Lerner, and walked out on Villa, in light of the weekend’s drubbing and a row over money – Lerner wants to cut costs, O’Neill wants to invest in [...]

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Transfer Talk

SWP puts car up for sale “due to moving abroad”

SWP – he’s off, then

Shaun wright-Phillips

If you happen to be an employer, and you’re suspicious that a member of your staff is planning a jailbreak, you look for clues. Are they attending more doctor’s appointments during the middle of the day than you’d expect from a healthy [...]

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World Cup Fever

Capello singles out Walcott and Milner for praise

Walcott – stunned

Theo Walcott

If the rumours are true, then Capello is very much a man in the Rafa Benitez mould when it comes to making his team feel special. So Walcott and Milner could be excused choking on their morning Weetabix, after the Italian paid both [...]

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More wisdom

Well, it’s official, Arshavin does not wear G-strings

Prefers a more gentlemanly underpant

Arshavin

The least surprising news of the day is that Ricky Martin has finally come out of the closet. Anyone with a functioning Gaydar pretty much twigged this information when they first noticed his impressive hip dancing. It’s a depressing truth, but “straights” have [...]

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Transfer Talk

Raul eyes up a summer move to Liverpool, for FREE

Raul – leaving just in time?

Raul and Ronaldo

Amongst the coin-eyed nattering classes there is a saying about how it is much better to leave a party five minutes early than five minutes late. Or something like that. The point being that no matter how great [...]

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