Crash killer Hughes in trouble once again!



Lee Hughes: In trouble once again



Notts County have confirmed that bad-boy striker Lee Hughes is in trouble again - this time on suspicion of an alleged sexual assault.

 

A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed the striker has been released on bale, having been taken into custody following the alleged incident involving a woman at the team's hotel in Croydon the night before an FA Cup fixture against Sutton United.

 

A club statement said: Notts County can confirm that the club are aware of an alleged incident involving one of our players at the team's hotel on Saturday, December 3.

 

'As this is a police matter, the club will be making no further comment on this incident.'

 

This latest incident comes seven years after the former West Bromwich Albion player was imprisoned for six years after being found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving on a road near Coventry in his £100,000 Mercedes.

 

Hughes - who did not turn himself into police for 36 hours - was eventually released from prison in 2007 and has been able to pick up the pieces of his football career, first with Oldham Athletic before moving to Notts County in 2009.

 

His arrest comes just a day after another former West Bromwich Albion star, Ronnie Wallwork, was jailed for his part in a stolen car buyer scam!

Former Man Utd ace Wallwork jailed in stolen cars scam

Ronnie Wallwork: Had fallen on hard times

Former Manchester United starlet Ronnie Wallwork has become the latest high-profile footballer to fall foul of the law, having been sentenced to 15 months in prison for his part in a stolen car buyer scam.

The 34-year-old - who was later one of West Bromwich Albion's highest paid players - was found guilty of selling on parts from nicked motors worth around £43,000 whilst working out of a scrapyard in Newton Heath.

After Wallwork had pleaded guilty at Preston Crown Court, judge Simon Newell said: “These were high-value items that were stolen.”

“It seems to me they were taken in a professional and sophisticated way. It also seems clear to me that they were taken to go into the black market either to be sold on or broken down and sold on.”

It's not the first time that Wallwork has made the headlines from the wrong reasons.

In 1998 he received a rare life ban (later reduced on appeal) from the game for grabbing a referee by the throat while on loan to Royal Antwerp in Belgium.

Wallwork also made the news in 2006 when he was lucky to escape with his life after he was stabbed several times with a fish knife, following a violent altercation with his girlfriend's ex at a Manchester nightspot.

It was revealed in court that Wallwork had fallen on hard times since his retirement following a series of disastrous business ventures.

Footballers in the dock over driving offences

Barry Bannan

Not a good period for footballers on the driving front lately!

 

Leading the way is Aston Villa's Barry Bannan who has been disqualified from driving for 18 months following a catologue of offences following a recent motorway smash!

 

The Scottish international was found guilty of drink driving, failing to stop after a road accident, driving without due care and attention and driving on a provisional licence.

Bannan - who earns around £10,000 per week - crashed his Range Rover Sport on the southbound carriageway of the M1 near Watnall, at around 5.30am on October 23, following a night out with friends.

Then there is former England star Paul Merson who has been ­summonsed on a charge of drink-­driving after requiring hospital treatment forllowing a car crash on the M40.

 

It is believed the Sky Sports pundit fell asleep at the wheel of his £40,000 ­Mercedes and collided with an Army truck after attending a Children in Need bash.

 

Meanwhile, Newcastle United's Nile Ranger was has also been banned from the roads for a year and fined £3,300 after admitting drink-driving in his personalised black and white Range Rover in Newcastle city centre at 4.45am.

 

Sell A Car

Man City's financial losses close in on £200 million



Sheikh Mansour: Has spent £800 million



Manchester City have stunned the footballing world by announcing a mind-boggling financial loss of almost £200 million for the last financial year - easily the biggest in football history!

 

The eyewatering figures of £197 - bankrolled entirely by oil-rich owner Sheikh Mansour  - comfortably eclipses the largest loss ever made previously, the £141m by Chelsea in 2005 which represented the second year of their ownership by oil oligarch Roman Abramovich.

 

Mansour has always made it clearhe would spend the fortunes necessary to make City successful, and since June 2010 he has personally poured a further £291m into the club. Added to the £500m Mansour invested up to May 31 2010, he has now spent an unprecedented £800m on the football club, to bankroll the expenditure on transfer fees and wages the club would otherwise not have been able to afford.

 

Unbelievably the figures involved actually dwarf the GDP of many a small country and don't include the estimated £60 million transfer spent on luring Sergio Aguero and Samir Nasri to the club!
Meanwhile, it is believed that Manchester City will escape with just a fine if, as expected, they become one of the first clubs in Europe to break UEFA's Financial Fair Play guidelines.

Needs to sell a car?

Randy Ryan says: "I support Brothers For Life" - seriously!

Jeez. In view of the latest round of revelations about Ryan Giggs colourful private life - namely the fact that he has allegedly been shagging his brother Rhodri's wife senseless for the past eight years - the horny Welsh winger must be now regretting this advertisement, even if it was a piece of commendable work for a South African sexual health organization.

Promoting AIDS checks, Giggs urges the audience to not be a man who is afraid to get himself checked.

 

But, here is the rub; the 37-year-old signs off with the line: ‘I’m Ryan Giggs – and I support Brothers for Life.’

 

You couldn't make it up!

 

The whole sordid saga of Giggs' affair with his sister-in-law Natasha, comes hot on the heels of national news headlines regarding an affair with former Big Brother housemate Imogen Thomas, and an ensuing 'gagging order' placed on the British press.

 

With Giggs' clean-living 'family man' image in tatters, he faces the prospect of losing several hugely-lucrative endorsement deals with the likes of watch firms Sovil et Titus, Patek Philippe, Cyma, and Citizen; as well as Citroen cars, electronics giants Fuji and French fashion house Givenchy.

 

Giggs - known for his love of buying cars - is believed to be worth approximately £34 million, largely on the back of a 20 year association with Reebok which is believed to have netted him around £20 million.

Furious Rooney offers to 'fight' Twitter follower



Rooney: Offered to fight Twitter follower



Wayne Rooney has been caught up in an unsavoury Twitter row after offering to fight a 'fan' who abused him on the social networking site.

In an exchange visible to Rooney's 567,000 followers on the microblogging site, Rooney reacted with fury after being called 'a fat whore' and an 'ugly lil nonse' by a 'supporter' called ‘sam-oldham-LFC’,

Rooney responded by Tweeting:"I’ll put you asleep within 10 seconds hope u turn up if u don’t gonna tell everyone ur scared u little nit. I’ll be waiting."
Earlier, ‘sam-oldham-LFC’ had threatened to smash his head in with a pitching wedge.
When other Twitter users became abusive, the striker called for calm: ‘A bit of banter and people go nuts, chill all people.’

The Manchester United centre forward has courted controversy this season by swearing into a camera during a win over West Ham and appearing to flick a V-sign at Chelsea supporters during a recent win.
Last weekend he shaved all the hair off his chest apart from a number '19' and posted the picture on Twitter after his club won a record-breaking 19th league championship.
Ellis Cashmore, professor of culture, media and sport at Staffordshire  University, warned that even if the exchange was light-hearted, it was ‘imprudent banter and very irresponsible’ for a professional footballer.
"He’s essentially offering him out and, even if it’s said in jest, sometimes that is a tone hard to convey over the web,’ he added. ‘It could incite rival fans.
"But he is a single-minded individual who will just say anything. Tell him to do something and he will do the opposite."
On a more lighthearted note, after a visit to Knowsley Safari Park earlier this month, Rooney Tweeted: “Monkeys all over my car. Kai loved it.” His RS6 Quattro ­escaped ­serious ­damage and he isn't looking to sell a car.

Abramovich’s Chelsea adventure touching £1 billion

Abramovich: Chelsea has cost him £1 billion

New finanacial figures for Chelsea's holding company reveal that Abramovich’s total loans to underwrite the football club are rapidly closing in on £1 billion!

The accounts show that the Russian oligarch had already bankrolled the club to the tune of £740 million by the end of the 2009-10 season BEFORE investing a further £73 million on the double purchase of Fernando Torres and David Luiz in January.

The ever-increasing cost of his Chelsea adventure comes at an expensive time for the billionaire.

He has taken delivery of a £600 million super-yacht, Eclipse, and pledged to help fund the £1.25 billion makeover of Moscow's Gorky Park, including a modern art gallery for Ms Zhukova.

He also paid £25 million for a house in Chelsea's Cheyne Walk, his 11th property. The growing losses are mostly due to players' wages, which rose another £19.5 million, and transfer deals.

Fans have also had to pay spiralling ticket prices, with the best seats at Stamford Bridge costing £75. The cost of merchandise has also soared, with a club shirt costing £47.99.

Abramovich is thought to be the ninth richest person in Russia and the 53rd richest in the world, according to the 2011 Forbes list.

His decision to pay huge wages has created some of London's richest men, including Frank Lampard on £120,000 a week and John Terry on £150,000.

Figures for Chelsea's holding company show that the club was £77.8 million in the red last year - making a mockery of the former chief executive Peter Kenyon's prediction that Chelsea would break even by 2010!

Abramovich won't be able to recoup his losses by selling a car. His taste in vehicles is strangely modest with the most luxurious of his seven listed being a Mercedes S500L!