Tamara – rich
Apparently Petra Ecclestone – daughter of Formula 1 chief Bernie – has gone and bought the most expensive home in America for around $80million.
For that you get 123 rooms, parking for 100 cars, a bowling alley, a fruit machine arcade, a barber’s shop, a beauty [...]
Read moreShe just wants to have fun…
The transfer stuff has properly been kicking off during the past few days with silly money being spent on fairly promising young English players and the rumour mill spinning faster with each waking second.
In fact, it’s been so busy that we didn’t [...]
Read moreYou’ll be hearing a lot about this man in the next 20 or so years
Don Balon is a Spanish football magazine with a good line in fate-tempting articles predicting the next generation of world superstars.
Of course, speculating on the potential of young players is a risky [...]
Read moreRomelu scores his 859th goal of the season
Recently, the Daily Mail has got into a habit of picking at random teenage stars prophesied a future greatness by the Harry Redknapp’s Football Manager series, and tenuously linking them to Arsenal.
Today’s Emirates-bound wonderkid is 17-year-old Anderlecht striker [...]
Read moreLukaku – sweet seventeen
As has been made more than apparent to David Beckham, a footballer’s shelf life can be both cruel and brief. Now unwittingly retired from international football, it might be time to take up those acting classes.
All of which leads completely seamlessly to Didier Drogba, [...]
Read moreLukaku – sweet sixteen
Footballers have a fairly swift turnaround, lasting perhaps five years at the top of their game, before eyes start wandering, searching feverishly for their replacements.
Messi is about the forty-seventh “new Maradona”, for a while there Joe Cole was “the new Gazza”, and at one [...]
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