Also appearing on a computer near you…

Today’s link dump will be accompanied by the haunting sounds of Esther Phillips singing a song about drugs. Winehouse, we assume you’re listening…

The frightening truth about lovely steroids

[With Leather]

Pussycat Doll intends to write some kind of song for Hamilton

[Grid Crasher]

Newcastle new boy looks like Liverpool legend

[Pies]

Make money from the art of gentlemanly cricket

[Chickendinner]

Spanish press wonders out loud if the wayward Brazilian had been experimenting with steroids

Reports in Spanish papers over the weekend have attempted to penetrate a little further into the strange tale of Ronaldinho’s visit to a Barcelona clinic under the cover of darkness a couple of weeks ago. Initial reports suggested that he was independently trying to prove his physical well-being to potential purchasers (eg AC Milan) only for doctors to discover he was in far worse condition than anyone had imagined.

Now the rumour mill has cranked out another story, suggesting that his late arrival at the medical facility was due to his consumption of steroids, which were supposed to speed his recovery from a leg injury, but didn’t. Writing in yesterday’s Sport, Jose Luis Carazo says “I am told that in order to show he was in perfect physical condition, Ronaldinho had been taking a powerful nocturnal anabolic formula to improve muscle recovery and performance by up to 250%.”