Spurs fans have a good reason to boycott social networking site

In addition to owning nearly 30 per cent of Arsenal football club, lovable Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov owns a chunk of Facebook. Digital Sky Technologies (DST) - a company in which the rotund ex-con* has a 32 per cent share - have already invested $200m into the popular social networking site, and are looking to strengthen their grip:

[A further investment] will give DST 1.54 percent more of Facebook, for a total of 3.5 percent of the company. That makes DST-based in London and Moscow-one of the bigger Facebook investors, with a stake larger than one owned by Microsoft (MSFT).

Tottenham fans who like to spend half their day updating banal statuses and stalking ex girlfriends should bear this in mind: each time you log on to Facebook, you are helping to line the pockets of the man who owns your biggest rivals.

*Usmanov has been known to crush websites that make reference to his incredibly shady past, so you’ll have to do your own research on that one.