What you missed while taking a time out from robbing a house to check your Facebook page…
- Roy Hodgson is claiming that he’s not blowing off the Europa League and that his team selection for the CSKA Sofia match – which features only two regular starters – is going to win because it’s got a lot of international players.
- Petr Cech says that Ancelotti reminds him of Mourinho; this will probably irritate Mourinho somehow.
- Hey, good thing they overturned that Eduardo ban, huh?
- Phil Neville’s going to be out of Everton’s squad until Christmas with a ligament injury.
- Zico, formerly of CSKA Moscow, is now the manager of Olympiacos.
- Xabi Alonso will be out a minimum of two weeks with an Achilles injury.
- Fiorentina have been fined €600,000 over the signing of a teenage player from Le Havre, the same French club that’s complained about Manchester United’s signing of Paul Pogba.
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Adebayor got three matches for the stomp, the “improper celebration” (or whatever they’re calling it) decision should follow shortly.
Also, Darren Huckerby has called it a career after his season-ending hip surgery.
San Jose has announced its intention to replace him with another never-as-good-as-people-thought-he-was English player on the downside of his career.
David Beckham’s already on a team, mate.
Tottenham and San Jose have a partnership…maybe this is a good way to dump Gareth Bale?
A draw at Sofia – I’ll take it! Even if it does inflate demand for Dio Kamara from the Colaship…