The Spoiler has no idea what is going on here, but Francesco Totti’s mullet is nice
How have Capello’s England done against the world’s best so far?
[Guardian]
Fans of being laughed at should get John O’Shea’s new signature boots
[Off the Post]
Eduardo is tired of collecting splinters on the bench
[Caught Offside]
Remember Freddy Adu? Of course you do. Next, we want to know where Cherno Samba, Tonton Zola Moukoko, Andri Sigporsson and all the other Championship Manager faux-legends ended up
[BBC Sport]
Kaka wants Beckham at WC2010. So he can run rings around him in a quarter-final
[The Sun]
Ben Foster refuses to accept his own rank mediocrity
[Telegraph]
Who will rescue Arsenal star from 1950s time warp?
We all know that Russia is a modern oasis of culture, where misogyny, racism and drunken political violence are a thing of the past.* Despite this, some of its citizens do not hold particularly enlightened views on the world. In his bizarrely-titled book 555 Questions And Answers On Women, Money, Politics, Football, Andrei Arshavin states that women should not have driving licences:
“If I had it in my power to introduce a ban on women driving cars and to withdraw all their licences, I would do it without thinking twice.”
“In my opinion a woman and a man are two absolutely different creatures.”
Female football fans will also be delighted to hear that Arshavin thinks you should leave the cancer sticks alone. ”I dislike women who smoke - and lies,” he said in December. Well put, comrade.
Here’s some more Andrei/ Andrey/ Andriy facts that we learn from this morning’s Sun newspaper:
He was once hit by a car on the way to training, which sent him “ten metres into the air”. [Ten metres? How fast was the car going and how the hell did he survive?]
Arsahvin is obsessed with Football Manager, and likes to play it with English lower division sides.
He is afraid of the dark.
He is also afraid of water - not because of how deep it is, but “the creatures that are maybe hiding in it”.
He has a partner named Julia and a son Artyom. They are not married but he refers to her as his wife. Presumably, she doesn’t drive or smoke.
He has resisted the urge to buy a Range Rover Sport and instead drives a Mercedes GL class.
While British fanatics of the Football Manager computer game series have to make do with a headless figure on the front cover of their addictive hobby, Spanish purchasers are treated to the Columbo-esque stylings of Juande Ramos. Since the ex-Sevilla boss looks likely to face the chop at Tottenham within the next few weeks, British and Spanish gamers will probably be back on a level playing field very soon.
The forlorn figure pictured losing at home to Hull City yesterday hardly represents the pinnacle of his trade at this particular moment in time. Do Spanish gamers know who Phil Brown is? See the intense black-and-white film Ramos made to promote the game after the jump.
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