North London proves a little bit too edgy for troubled footballers…

People who survive North London are cut from a different cloth to the average gent. That’s probably why Hleb can’t take it, but the likes of Lehmann, Bergkamp and Amy Winehouse can. They’re just a little bit edgier, and don’t seem to mind that one minute the pavements will be littered with drugs paraphernalia, and the next you’ll be diving out of the way of a speeding Range Rover on a gorgeous cobbled street. It is, in short, testing.

Hence, you’d be hard pushed to find an area in the world that football players seem so eager to escape from - and that includes Wigan.

…is looking at a man pretending to be Amy Winehouse

Boxing legend is still thoroughly alive

It’s no secret that newspapers produce obituaries long before a famous figure has kicked the bucket: Keith Richards has probably had one prepared since 1976, and Winehouse’s is ready to run any time now.

Conventionally, however, publications will wait until the person is pushing daisies. Yet the pioneering folk at the Courier-Journal in Louisville, USA, have gone ahead and pronounced its most famous son, Muhammad Ali, dead.

FYI, 66-year-old Cassius Clay is alive and relatively-well. Nice work, Courier-Journal!

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There could be room in the singer’s life for Martin O’Neill’s side and hard drugs
 

 
Walking train wreck Amy Winehouse is in the papers yet again this morning, this time for sporting a locket with a picture of her banged-up husband in it. But take a look at the other pendant hanging from her toxic neck - is that an Aston Villa crest? Does anybody know what this is or of any connection she may have to the Midlands club?
 
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