The Daily Mail are claiming Premier League clubs have been leaving the well-being of their multi-million pound stars in the hands of a Serbian housewife who locals describe as ‘looking like Morticia Addams’.
Since her cover was blown by Robin van Persie on Tuesday, Mariana Kovacevic has gone into hiding, leaving the world’s press (and Serbian health officials, who have no record of this horse-guts operation existing) camped outside her clinic in New Belgrade, waiting for her to get back:
Within five minutes of each other Arsenal’s Van Persie left in one direction, while Liverpool pair Glen Johnson and Fabio Aurelio arrived from the other. By last night it appeared that Kovacevic may have already moved her placenta supplies and massage table elsewhere.
Whose dugout would you like to see the Portugeezer rock up in?
Over the weekend Jose Mourinho took a break from bullying football’s favourite pensioner and being told what to do by Samuel Eto’o, to confirm what we all already knew - he wants a Premier League comeback sooner rather than later:
I love Inter and would love to build for the future here. In fact, I am doing it now because I am not a selfish coach and I’m thinking about the future in terms of youth development and the age structure of my first team.
But Italy is not the country for this. England is the country — and my football is English football. I am ready for the next phase of my career — I want to work with a different perspective.
Hopefully we’ll be bored to tears by events at Anfield tonight
Nine successive Liverpool home games in the Premier League had featured at least three goals prior to the 2-0 win over Manchester United 15 days ago. Here’s why we’re hoping that the flood is about to be followed by a drought…
» The last three meetings between the two sides have all featured under 2.5 goals, with just three goals scored in total during the encounters. Incidentally, Liverpool won none of them.
» Premier League games this season have averaged 3.03 goals a game but Birmingham’s have featured the fewest of any top-flight club, with just 20 in 11 matches - 1.82 a match.
» Liverpool’s is among the highest because of their goal-heavy clashes with Stoke, Burnley and Hull but three of their last four have failed to breach the 2.5 barrier.
You can find odds of 2.28 (almost 13/10) on Betfair that there will be under 2.5 goals in tonight’s game.
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