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Well, it’s nearly Friday night - time for a nice vodka!

Maradona gets up to some tomfoolery

[Dirty Tackle]

Joe Cole under the microscope

[Daily Mail]

Kaka v Ronaldo - style fight!

[Kickette]

Tevez gets the cartoon treatment

[Studs Up]

Beautiful World Cup moustaches

[Pies]

Great World Cup upset remembered

[Caught Offside]

Bad news for Peter Crouch

[Off The Post]

Good… but it’ll set you back a few bob

As expected, the most expensive team seems to be made up of Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Chelsea players, with just Ferdinand from Man United and Eto’o from Inter slightly bucking the trend.

Adebayor from Man City is the most pricey player in the Premier League but is still a couple of million behind the front men, Ibrahimovic and Eto’o, and Ferdinand earns around the same as Kolo Toure, but appears just above him on the list.

Value for money? Or not? Let us know with a comment.

“I’m amazing!”

In the last twenty years or so, England have threatened to produce a “great”. Gazza was alright for a bit, Beckham had the profile, but not the pace. And certain members of the vast Spoiler offices insist that McManaman could have been up there, given the right platform on which to stretch his long, womanly legs.

None of those quite worked out, but, if Ryan Giggs has anything to do with it, the Holy Trinity of Kaka, Ronaldo and Messi will soon be a glorious foursome, featuring his team mate, Wayne Rooney.

According to the Welshman (as reported in today’s Daily Star):

“He is getting nearer that group.”

But what do YOU think? Is Rooney now one of football’s elite? Let us know with a vote and a comment.

Any chance of a repeat?

Now down to a shortlist of five - Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Kaka, Andres Iniesta, and Xavi - the Fifa World Player of the Year is going to be unveiled to a cooing public on December 21st. Just in time for Crimbo.

Of course, having recently snagged the Ballon d’Or, the big money should go on Messi, but it’s not entirely in the bag just yet. According to the stats, only six of the last ten winners have managed to do the Fifa and Ballon double.

Begging the question, who would YOU pick as the Fifa World Player of the Year?

Let us know with a vote and a comment.

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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]

Spain’s first cloned pig named after Real Madrid star

This week, scientists at the University of Murcia produced Spain’s first ever litter of cloned pigs, using the same nuclear transfer technique that brought Dolly the sheep into the world.

Feeling that it would be a little passé to use the names of country western singer with large mammary glands, one of the surviving piglets has been named Kaka.

[El Mundo Deportivo]

The 2009 window deals that were absolutely inevitable

As the transfer window creaks shut for once more, Spoiler correspondent Andrew Brook has compiled a team of players who were always destined to change clubs this summer. And look, he’s done it in a 3-5-2 formation! How fun!

GK - Joe Hart
(Manchester City to Birmingham)
As soon as Manchester City signed Shay Given in January, Hart was destined to leave. Every season a promoted team seems to get a new goalkeeper (Scott Carson to West Brom in 2008, Craig Gordon to Sunderland in 2007) so this was an obvious match.

DF - Joleon Lescott
(Everton to Manchester City)
One of this season’s most painfully long sagas saw David Moyes over take Sir Alex Ferguson as the Premier League’s dourest Scot, and thus by extension its dourest person. Just be thankful that this inevitable deal didn’t drag on all the way to deadline day.

DF - Kyle Naughton
(Sheffield United to Tottenham Hotspur)
Even before Sheffield United failed to secure Premier League promotion, everyone knew one of their ranks would be playing in the top flight this season. Harry Redknapp could not remember which of the Blades’ Kyles he wanted, so nabbed Naughton’s teammate Walker as well, but we all knew which one he meant.

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Can you say “irony”, Dwight Yorke?
[Pies]

FHM trains with Blackburn Rovers. Badly.
[FHM]

Best. Haircut. Ever.
[The Offside]

Cesc Fabregas is winning his fight for fitness for the Manchester Utd game
[F365]

UEFA FAIL!
[Dirty Tackle]

Chelsea make a last ditch £57m bid for Franck Ribery
[Daily Mail]

Kaka ain’t afraid of no English teams
[The Telegraph]

Fiorentina rebuff Chelsea’s advances for ‘unsellable’ youngster Stevan Jovetic
[Goal.com]

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