I'm not overly keen on criticising our own players but sometimes it's hard to avoid it. I got a lot of stick for criticising Cristiano Ronaldo last season but it's rare that I would really lay in to one of our own players.

I'm afraid I have to get something off my chest today though.

Rio fucked up massively a few years ago and I was more than happy to voice my dislike of him.

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Earlier this week, Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov made a bid for control of the New Jersey Nets, which plays in America's professional basketball league, the NBA.  If accepted, Prokhorov would join rapper Jay-Z, who has a minority stake in the team and is seeking to move it across the Hudson River to his hometown of Brooklyn.

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John Terry has a history of yob-like behaviour, and last week he made (arguably) xenophobic comments about 'foreign mentality' being to blame for increased cheating in the English football. Is someone who holds such repellent views fit to captain England?
In the past, Terry has:
* Allegedly urinated on the dance floor at Chelsea's Christmas party
* Urinated in a pint glass whilst standing on a bar. Click to continue reading...

Mexican youngster lies on floor to minimise vomit trajectory Juande Ramos' nutritional expectations for his squads are notoriously strict, so perhaps that explains why one or two Spurs players had lost track of their alcohol threshold when Harry Redknapp sent them out for a good old-fashioned Christmas party. Click to continue reading...