Sand Man

Robinho puts a beach in the garden of his mansion

Manchester City star brings Copacabana to Cheshire

Robinho’s beach

Foreign Premiership players each have their own way of treating home sickness – Ryan Babel collects clogs, Tim Cahill likes to relax among his stuffed koalas and Cristiano Ronaldo does it with prostitutes.

Robinho has devised his own way [...]

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Cribs

Wayne Rooney’s neighbours hate his hideous mansion

‘Grotesque’ new homes anger toffee-nosed villagers

Rooney’s Place

Residents of a posh Cheshire village have taken time away from their backgammon games, wine racks and learning the Daily Mail by heart to complain about ‘The Rooney effect’, whereby Premiership footballers, almost always from a different part of the social [...]

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