Premier League champs overtake Real Madrid…

Manchester United and Arsenal are the only English clubs to make the top 10 of a list of Europe’s 50 best supported clubs. The rankings, based on last season’s average attendance, are still dominated by German clubs - nine made the top 20.

See the full list after the jump…

Roman Weidenfeller set upon in a restaurant

Those who thought only David Bentley was annoying enough to be attacked while eating in a restaurant will be rocked by news from German paper Bild, which claims that Borussia Dortmund’s goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller was beaten up in an eating establishment last night.

The 29-year-old was enjoying a salad and coverage of the Champions League in an Italian restaurant in Dortmund’s city centre when five men burst in, directing punches at the shot stopper. Weidenfeller said:

“They fought like savages at us. I was able to escape thanks to my good reflexes.”

Mark Hughes’ side get a massive confidence boost in Spain

Barcelona 0/ Manchester City 1
Despite the support of 90,000 supporters and some keerrazzee limited edition shirts, European champions Barcelona lost the annual Juan Gamper Tournament to Manchester City last night.

Bulgarian Martin Petrov proved he is still alive with a first half strike that punished some terrible goalkeeping from a goalkeeper who nobody has ever heard of. Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s immeasurable talents were out in force, but in the end, the overrated Swede was simply too rubbish to put one past Shay Given.

Spoiler bonus: Elsewhere in friendly action, Real Madrid spanked Borussia Dortmund in front of 75,000 fans, but C-Ron failed to get on the scoresheet. Highlights after the jump…

Egyptian actress looking to tie down a Bundesliga star

Borussia Dortmund striker Mohamed Zidan split from his long-term partner Stina just four weeks ago, but has bounced back in spectacular style. The 27-year-old hitman is now engaged to May Ezz Eldin, one of Egypt’s most in-demand actresses. She is the star of Shikamara, and plenty of other films you will have never heard of. 

Georgie Thompson’s German equivalent sheds some layers

Andrea Kaiser is a presenter on German Sports Channel DSF, and the partner of Borussia Dortmund legend Lars Ricken. The good folks at FHM Deutschland thought it would be nice to fly her to Morocco and take pictures of her in her pants, so that’s exactly what they did.

It’s Friday afternoon and you’re already reading a sports blog instead of working, so why not click through to see more sexy shots of Miss Kaiser…

Look, she’s pulling kooky poses! How fun!

Former Borussia Dortmund midfielder Lars Ricken split from his last girlfriend because she grew tired of constantly watching football on TV. Fortunately, he will receive no such protests from his current girlfriend Andrea Kaiser, who is a presenter on German sports channel DSF.

Beckenbauer and Lehmann fail to see eye to eye over dissent issue

After seeing yellow for protesting over an opponent’s feigned injury in a 2-2 draw with Eintracht Frankfurt at the weekend, Stuttgart keeper and perennial complainer Jens Lehmann said the standard of refereeing is so bad he may retire from the Bundesliga:

“There was a situation in which a Frankfurt player feigned an injury so we could not launch a counter-attack.”

“The referee said he had to stop play for the injury and then the man stands up and doesn’t even leave the field to be treated. I told the referee, ‘Look! There he goes!’ and he shows me a yellow card - incredible.

“That was so bad that I may as well not bother playing in future. I did not even say anything nasty to the referee.

“Surely there are better ones. I am sorry, but things cannot go on like this. This is sad for the whole of the Bundesliga.”

Jens is clearly outraged for receiving his third yellow card of the season for dissent, but if Franz Beckenbauer had his way, those cards would have been a different colour. The German legend has told Bild that the Bundesliga

Meet the sexy half of Germany’s latest sporting couple

If you thought Allison Stokke and Melanie Adams were the hottest things to ever participate in the pole vault, then you’d probably be right. Following closely behind, however, is German lovely Lisa Ryzih, who missed out on Olympic qualification by a mere ten centimetres. While her peers were jumping over really high things in Beijing, she was comforted by 19-year-old boyf Neven Subotić, currently plying his trade at Borussia Dortmund.