"Brand Beckham" hit by new wave of sex allegations

Beckham: Yet more sex claims

Just months after he filed a multi-million pound lawsuit against American magazine In Touch Weekly over allegations that he had enjoyed a tryst with a £10,000-a-night Bosnian prostitute, David's "brand Beckham" has been hit by a more scandalous claims.

The latest allegations - made by the same celebrity magazine - are thought to have come out in court, as father-of-three Beckham takes legal action against the magazine's German publishers Bauer.

In Touch alleged in September that Beckham, 35, cheated on wife Victoria by having sex with former "high-class call girl", Irma Nici, on at least two occasions, once with another woman joining them - allegations which prompted the former England captain to issue a writ against the publishers, reportedly claiming £16 million in damages for printing the ‘completely untrue’ story.

Now it's thought the publishers have used the privilege of court rule to make new claims, reportedly revealing that they were poised to run a story about a second fling - this time with an unnamed LA-based lingerie saleswoman.

The ongoing headaches for 'brand Beckham' come after a few relatively scandal-free years, following a turbulent year in 2004 when David was accused of having a 'one-night stand' with Malaysian-born escort Sarah Marbeck and - more famously - a full-blown affair with his bisexual former PA Rebecca Loos.

At the time, Beckham dismissed the allegations as "ludicrous" in the case of Ms Loos and "absurd and unsubstantiated" in the case of Ms Marbeck but, perhaps tellingly in the eyes of many, never sued either girl!

Tevez: "Football is all about money and I don't like it"

Tevez: Disillusioned with money in football

Manchester City talisman Carlos Tevez has become the latest big name to put the boot into his money-obsessed sport!

The Argentinian striker - who himself earns a colossal £145,000 per week - claims to be so disenchanted with the state of the game he has vowed to quit within "three or four years." 

“I don’t want to play any more. I’m tired of football but also tired of people who work in football,” said Tevez. “I’m talking seriously. Football is only about money and I don’t like it."

Tevez didn't hold back with his opinions on some of the game's younger players either, saying he would rather punch some of his colleagues than listen to their advice!

"There are so many agents with really young footballers, it's awful as these young players are not interested in winning titles. They only want money.

"Today the young players have no education at all and I don't want to listen to them," said the 26-year-old.

"When I played at Boca (Juniors), when Martin Palermo or Juan Roman Riquelme talked, I listened to them.

"So I don't want a young player to ask me, 'Why did you do that?' in the changing room. I would punch them as I have won 13 titles in my career."

Tevez is not the first Manchester City player to raise the issue of player wages recently, with teammate Kolo Toure - who is believed to be earning closer to £200,000 per week - claiming that many of his team-mates were not training hard enough to justify their salaries and that the club should reserve the right to withhold their wages if the hard yards weren’t being done.

Bent blames Newcastle fans for car attack

Bent: Blames Newcastle fans

Another footballer...another unprovoked attack from rival 'fans'...no doubt a huge insurance bill...and now an unseemly row between cross city supporters on Twitter!

Welcome to the world of Darren Bent!

The £40,000-a-week Sunderland striker claimed that Newcastle-supporting thugs pelted his luxury Land Rover with glass bottles during a shopping trip with friends in the city last week and now war of words has erupted between rival Tyne-Wear fans on the internet.

Bent told his Twitter followers: "So Newcastle Utd fans attack my car with glass bottles today while I'm in a shop. Then proceed to attack it while best friend's girl's in there. Come on now. Bit too far noo?"

He was challenged about why he believed the assailants were supporters of Sunderland's bitter rivals and later tweeted: "Because they were singing 'Newcastle Newcastle' that's how I know."

Northumbria Police confirmed they were investigating a complaint that a glass had been thrown at a parked car.

Bent is one of football's most prolific tweeters, but his habit has landed him in trouble in the past.

He was disciplined by his former club Tottenham Hotspur in 2009 after using Twitter to tell Spurs chairman Daniel Levy to 'stop f****** around' and complete his sale to Sunderland.

And, last year he tweeted that his mother suffered racial abuse in a pub after a Sunderland game.

Bent subsequently closed his db10thetruth account, but later returned to the microblogging service using the name DB11TT.

'Failure' Robbo enjoying the Thail life

Robson: Lucrative salary in Thailand

Former England captain Bryan Robson - a man whose managerial CV contains nothing other than abject failure - is making a good fist of his Thailand 'jolly'!

Signed up on a lucrative four-year-deal by the Thai FA last year, Robson was heavily criticised after Thailand missed out on qualification for the Asian Cup for the first time ever but he has at least seen his side stutter into the quarter-finals of the rather less prestigious Aian Games.

Despite beating a hapless Pakistan outfit, Robson refused to talk to the media after his side could only draw with renowned minnows Oman and the Maldives...before needing extra time to scramble past...wait for it...Turkmenistan!
What an achievement for Thailand - a football-crazy nation with the world's 20th largest population (over 67 million) - to draw with the Sultans and 'oil men' of Oman (population less than 3 million)...before holding the Tuna fishermen and boat-builders of the Maldives to a goalless stalemate - a nation with a population similar to Hull, and where a curious game called 'Bai Bala' (described as 'wrestling tag') is actually more popular than football!

Then to top it all, Robbo's boys managed to squeeze past the impoverished cotton farmers and gas labourers of Turkmenistan (population under 5 million) where falconry and Akhal-Teke horse-riding outshine soccer!
Not that Robbo would need an excuse... but we reckon it's time for him crack open yet another Singha Beer!

Forget wars, Obama and the economy - all hail Phil Neville

Phil Neville: More tweets than President Obama

The World may be paralysed by an unprecedented economic slowdown...wars continue to rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond, while all the time Iran and North Korea steadfastly refuse to curtail their nuclear ambitions.

But what subject dominated Twitter yesterday? ...you've guessed it - Phil Neville!

Yes, the nondescript Everton full-back has gone positively viral, with Tweets concerning Neville outnumbered those about Barack Obama and the midterm elections in America.

Neville became an unlikely internet phenomenon on the back of Gareth Bale's man of the match performance for Tottenham against Inter Milan.
As Spurs fans took to the social networking site to praise their star's display, Everton supporters retorted that Neville had managed to outplay Bale when the two went head to head last week.
And from there, the Neville effect snowballed, leaving many users around the world bemused.
The tweets paid tongue-in-cheek homage to the footballer - whose only noteworthy contribution in 59 England caps was conceding a crucial penalty to Romania at Euro 2000 - with one saying, "The Queen sings God Save Phil Neville" while another tweeted said: "Some people say magicians could walk on water, but Phil Neville could swim through land!"
Despite his moderate ability, Neville has amassed a considerable fortune in the game and recently hit the headlines by appointing upmarket property agents Gascoigne Halman to help try and sell his 4,950 sq ft, three-floor, Hilton Tower apartment in Manchester...dubbed as the "very best apartment outside of London."

Car-crazy Gerrard opts for another Range Rover upgrade

Gerrard: Has bought yet another Range Rover Sport

Only a year after paying a cool £80,000 for a custom-built Range Rover Sport, Steven Gerrard is trading it in for a newer one!

The £100,000-a-week midfielder was one of a host of England players who bought bespoke Range Rovers modified by prestigious British tuning company Overfinch last year, opting to have his shirt number, 8, festooned on various parts of the car’s interior as well as paying a high premium to own set number one of special edition alloy wheels!

Now, the 30-year-old has instructed a Cheshire dealer sell the jet black motor for a car valuation £68,000 - representing a net loss of over £12,000, or in other words less than a days wages for the car-crazy Liverpool skipper!

Gerrard buys a new Range Rover every year and it is believed his new model will come with even more custom-built touches to go with its V8 diesel engine which has 472lb of torque – more than a Ferrari 458 Italia.

Gerrard will be hoping his new vehicle will bring him a change of luck following a wretched last 12 months which has seen him perform dismally in the World Cup, labour in the Premiership with his struggling club Liverpool and fight off salacious rumours about his private life!

The best place to sell a car. 

Savage quits Twitter after wages comments backlash

Robbie Savage: "Footballers worth every penny"

Outspoken former Wales international Robbie Savage has quit Twitter following the backlash to his apparent defence of extortionate wages in football.

Multi-millionaire Savage had enraged fans by claiming all players deserve their mind-boggling salaries.

The Derby County skipper, who resides in a £2.5million mansion in Prestbury, said: “The most common complaint is footballers earn too much.

“It is not our fault that we were good enough to play football and get handsomely paid for it.

“Why is it always footballers who get criticised for the money they earn?

“A top darts player can earn £1m a year. A cricketer £1m for two months, a golfer £7.4m for one tournament, a rubbish boxer £3m for one fight, a sprinter £400,000 for an appearance, a tennis player £800,000 for one week.

“But it’s always footballers who get criticised.”

Savage, who presents 606 on BBC Radio 5 Live, also boasted he did not get Halloween trick or treaters at his door because his driveway was so long no-one would dare walk up it.

Savage's comments sparked a bitter Twitter row with angry fans, who told him soldiers and emergency services staff should be paid more than him. It's this reaction which has forced him to quit the social networking site.

Assou-Ekotto rips into "dirty prositute shagger" Rooney

Assou-Ekotto: Rooney is a "prostitute shagger"

Spurs' Cameroon defender Benoit Assou-Ekotto has launched an astonishing attack on his Premiership peers by basically saying what an ever-increasing number of people are thinking...that many of today's players are "greedy, arrogant, two-faced and take themselves too seriously."

And, in his interview with French soccer magazine So Foot, Assou-Ekotto had some forthright views on Wayne Rooney: “The tendency in football at the moment is that as long as you’re not a prostitute shagger then it’s OK, it’s no big deal," he said. "Wayne’s not very well and it’s a dirty thing for his wife to know he had relations with a prostitute. He was seeing the same bird for seven months.”

Assou-Ekotto, 26, a £3million buy from Lens four years ago, has a history of speaking his mind and was in no mood to hold back when it came to his fellow professionals, saying: "The whole problem with football players is that they really take themselves seriously.

“We kick a ball around and we earn 100,000, 200,000 or even 300,000 euros a week. We don't improve the world. It's not like we invented hot water. We just kick a ball. 

“But sometimes when these guys go out, you'd think they were rock stars. 

“I could understand that you wear dark glasses at night time when you do open-heart surgery and save lives, but not if you're a footballer.

“I'm not in the same world as most of the people in football. I really don't like this world.” Despite his criticisms, Assou-Ekotto concedes that he is only in the game for the money himself: “I understood from a very early age that it didn't interest me to work in an office for 1,000 euros a month, see the same faces every day and work 45 years to buy a house. That's a rather sad life.”
He added: “I was gifted at sports and quickly tried to find a cushy number. And today I have a great job. I work a maximum of two hours a day and I do it to make money, like anybody else in the world.”

Rooney's spend £100,000 on Kai's birthday bash

Rooney Mansion: Hosted £100k birthday bash.

A day after jetting in from their £30,000 'jolly' in the sun in Dubai...Wayne and Coleen Rooney were splashing the cash again over the weekend, this time on hosting a no-expense-spared birthday bash for son Kai on his first birthday.

The Rooneys are believed to have forked out almost £100,000 on the Disney-themed birthday party which took place in a heavily-guarded giant marquee on the grounds of their £4.5m Cheshire mansion.

Wayne and Coleen hired world-renowned jugglers and magicians to compliment a clown and giant bouncy castle at the bash which was attended by a dozens of friends and family who were able to feast on a gourmet buffet washed down with champagne.
Security staff at the Cheshire mansion searched bar staff and waiters who had to hand over mobile phones and cameras.
In September, it was alleged Wayne, 25, had sex with two escort girls, Jenny Thompson and Helen Woods, in a hotel while she was pregnant with Kai.

United veterans eye mega-lucrative Dubai deal

Giggs and Neville: In the money

As the government's austerity cuts start to bite, I am sure it will be a great comfort for the great British public to discover that Ryan Giggs - who is already worth an estimated £27 million - has reportedly been offered a mind-boggling £200,000 a week deal to wind down his career in the Middle East!And that's not all. Apparently, Giggs' fellow Manchester United veterans Paul Scholes and Gary Neville can also expect to receive can also expect mega offers from Dubai clubs teaming with cash!

The Sun reports that top ‘top outfits’ in the UAE league are putting together deals for Giggs and fellow O.A.P.s Scholes and Neville, including Al-Ahli, who are managed by former Leeds and Aston Villa boss David O'Leary and who can also boast Italian 2006 World Cup-winning captain Fabio Cannavaro on their gravy train!

Al-Ahli - who often play in front of sub 1000 crowds - managed to entice O'Leary in the summer but, despite talk of a highly lucrative package, O'Leary is adamant that what attracted him to Dubai was solely "the different culture.

With Giggs, Scholes and particularly Neville all becoming increasingly peripheral figures at United, a place on the UAE gravy train is likely to make plenty of appeal to all three.

Neville even has a property in Dubai and Giggs regularly holidays there.