What you missed while wondering who would visit a place where the main attraction is swimming with jellyfish…
- Your Europa League octofinal roundup: Hamburg 3-1 Anderlecht, Atletico Madrid 0-0 Sporting, Lille 1-0 Liverpool, Benfica 1-1 Marseille, Rubin Kazan 1-1 Wolfsburg, Juventus 3-1 Fulham, Valencia 1-1 Werder Bremen, Panathinaikos 1-3 Standard.
- Peter Storrie may still be fired by Portsmouth’s administrator…but since he tendered his resignation last week, that probably won’t really bother him that much.
- Didier Drogba beat out Samuel Eto’o and Michael Essien to win the African Footballer of the Year award.
- Chelsea reserve keeper Ross Turnbull will play tomorrow against West Ham.
- David Villa will probably miss Valencia’s weekend match against Barcelona.
- Rafa Benitez is confident for Liverpool’s return Europa League leg against Lille, saying that the club “can beat anyone on a good day at Anfield.” Insert your own punchline in the comments.
- Robinho doesn’t really want to leave Santos when his loan spell is up.
- Chinese officials have been sent to ominously named “reeducation camps” in an effort to eliminate corruption from the Chinese league.
- Sam Allardyce doesn’t like Rafa Benitez.
- Arsene Wenger is not interested in managing Real Madrid. So don’t even call him, guys, he’s not into you. Seriously.
- John Terry is confident that Chelsea will knock Inter out of the Champions League next week.
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