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Bernie Ecclestone’s turn to stick the boot in! (AP Images)

Bernie Ecclestone has added insult to injury to the global Premier League plans set out by Richard Scudamore. The Formula One billionaire and co-owner of QPR football club says that he could do much better and has even come up with a scheme that he says will make the top four richest clubs even richer!

He proposes a six-match mini tournament involving the ‘Big Four.’ He told the Daily Mirror that:

"The current idea the Premier League is putting forward isn’t very good. They probably wouldn’t find it very easy to convince someone in Singapore to have Wigan playing somebody over there. I can’t see a promoter going for that. But if …

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Will Didier Drogba be protesting about his donner in Athens?(AP Images)

Expect donner kebab sales in west London to nosedive if Greek side Olympiacos turn Chelsea over on Tuesday night.

And the bad news for those Blues fans who enjoy a greasy carved elephant leg in a bit of pitta is that it´s a distinct possibility. The “Bubble and Squeaks” are no mugs at home.
Have you seen that film where 300 Spartans sort out about 10 million Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae? I think it´s called 300 funnily enough. Tremendous stuff. Hard as nails those Greek lads are on their home turf. Didier Drogba, you´re in for a rough night.

In fact most kebab houses I´ve been to at 11.30pm on a Friday …

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Poor turn out at GUKPT in Walsall. (Bodog Beat Image)

It seems like the poker community has its fair share of incurable romantics as only 121 players turned up for Day 1a of the 2nd leg of the GUKPT in Walsall yesterday. A player, who shall remain nameless but whose jumper may explain his attendance at a tournament taking place on Valentine’s Day, said there were only ‘single guys, puffs, and guys whose wives are having affairs’. He declined to comment when asked to which group he belonged but his sweater could happily go all three ways.

The multi-handed action began at 3pm and by close of action, 92 players could have been popping anti-depressants as they had had their chip …

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Who ate all the pies? Not Juande Ramos that’s for sure! (AP Images)

You have to laugh don’t you? The last thing that you’d ever accuse most footballers of being is a bit porky- I mean they have nights of wild sex-filled orgies to attend to (well if the tabloids are to be believed) so we can’t imagine middle-age spread getting in the way of that.

Before you raise your hand in protest and say what about kebab monster Gazza or booze and allegedy sniff-loving Maradona? Yes we know a few have succumbed to the chip pan but surely not these days? And surely noone in the Premier League, right? Wrong! Spurs hard man boss Juande Ramos reckons his team are a …

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Ashley Cole doing it on the pitch for once! (AP Images)

The rather lovely Cheryl Tweedy-Cole has finally decided the fate of her broken marriage to the love cheat and not particularly likeable git that is Ashley Cole. It comes after revelations that he bedded a string of slappers, threw up in cars, beds and the general vicinity of said slappers and then tried to buy their silence.

The first humiliating expose was a 22 year-old saarf London scrubber / hairdresser with bad roots. It was during this liaison that he stopped mid shag to projectile vomit, not quite a Love Machine and what will the neighbours say?

Cheryl has now apparently made a decision on what happens next but is keeping it …

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Sir Alex Ferguson needs to win Saturday’s FA Cup clash against Arsenal. (AP Images)

Sir Alex Ferguson will be simmering like Krakatoa after his boys were beaten at home by Man City of all teams and defeat to Arsenal will see more than eruption of tea inside the Old Trafford dressing room.

Forget about hairdryers, it´ll be flame thrower time if the Red Devils suffer consecutive home defeats.

But in Saturday´s FA Cup clash there will be no remembrance service to distract the players and I would not be surprised to see United deliver one of their best efforts of the season. That should be enough to make the next round.

Fergie´s old foe Arsene Wenger did the double over him last term but …

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Ronaldo’s knee injury grounds him once more. (AP Images)

We may have seen the end of one of football’s greatest ever players. Ronaldo, the leading goalscorer in World Cup finals history, was carried off the San Siro pitch in tears on Wednesday night. He had ruptured the ligament in his left knee.

It is not the first time Ronaldo has suffered such an injury – twice, at Inter Milan, he did the same to his right knee – but then he bounced back to win the World Cup in 2002 with Brazil, and secured a transfer to Real Madrid shortly afterwards.

Now he is 31, and his fitness problems during the first half of the season – he barely played for Milan – …

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