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Chelsea fans see what your new £600m, 60,000 seater stadium will look like

Chelsea Football Club have submitted plans of their new 60,000 capacity stadium to the Fulham and Hammersmith council. The stadium will still retain the name Stamford Bridge and will cost an estimated £600m. Included in the application are plans to build a club shop, museum and a separate restaurant/cafe zone.

If Chelsea are given the go ahead by the council to build the stadium, construction could begin as early as May 2016, with the club vacating the premises at the end of the 2016-17 season to play home matches in London's Wembley stadium.

Ronaldo, Messi, Luis Suarez & Neymar top UEFA Team of the year 40-man list

Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid alongside Lionel Messi, Neymar, and Luis Suarez all of Barcelona are the headline nominees of this year's UEFA Team of the year. Barcelona won the Champions League, LA Liga and Cola del Rey last season hence the high number of nominees from the club.
Only two British players namely Gareth Bale and Joe Hart made the list.

Andy Murray pauses mid-match against Rafael Nadal to give himself a haircut...

The Tennis player stopped mid-match against Rafael Nadal at the ATP World Tour Finals yesterday Wednesday, November 18, to give himself a haircut. He retrieved a pair of scissors from his bag and started snipping at his hair. Lol

Speaking to reporters after the match, he said "I don’t know why such minor things make such a big deal with you guys. I had some hair in my eye and I just wanted to get rid of it. That literally took two seconds. That was it. It was nothing to do with next week or anything to do with the outcome of this match."

50 Cent Clowns Ronda Rousey On Floyd Mayweather’s Behalf

Last night, the sports world was shocked and entertained by Ronda Rousey’s stunning defeat to Holly Holm.
A big part of what makes Rousey such a popular figure is her big mouth, and one of her favorite verbal targets has been Floyd Mayweather.
While Money has yet to comment on what happened last night, 50 Cent was more than happy to jump in and speak for his on-again-off-again buddy.



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Now if Fif wanted to go full savage he could have added that he had to type up a response for Mayweather because, you know …

Andre Ayew, Yaya Toure and 3 others nominated for BBC African footballer of the year award

Swansea City forward Andre Ayew was on Saturday morning named as one of five players shortlisted for the prestigious 2015 BBC African Footballer of the Year award and this year it seems he is the overwhelming favorite for the award. Algeria's Yacine Brahimi, the 2014 winner, is on the shortlist along with Gabon's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Ghanaian Andre Ayew, Senegal's Sadio Mane and Yaya Toure of Ivory Coast.

The winner will be decided by African football fans, who have until 18:00 GMT on 30 November to vote for their choice. Andre Ayew won the award in 2011 with Yaya Toure also winning it in 2013.

The eventual winner will be announced on December 11 2015.

Cristiano Ronaldo says he has women in his life who know about each other

Cristiano Ronaldo has admitted that he has 'a few' women in his life currently but is in the process of working out which one is the best for him. The Portugal and Real Madrid forward said this while speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show to promote his new film.

Ronaldo, who split from long-term girlfriend Irina Shayk almost a year ago hasn't had a girlfriend, just females that take care of his needs. When asked by Ross whether there was "someone special" in his life, Ronaldo replied: “A few."

He admitted that the women in question are aware of each other, and added: I need to figure out who is better.”

Ronaldo is now rumoured to be dating Italian model and actress Alessia Tedeschi but the 30-year-old Portugal captain also claimed that while he had little problem meeting members of the opposite sex, finding people he wants to start a relationship with is really difficult.

“Well, it’s not easy. Seriously speaking, it’s not easy. I know 50 per cent they approach just for interest, it’s normal, not just me but all the people who are famous they have these kind of problems. "But in another way, I think I’m a confident guy, I’m tall, I have my own teeth, I have a nice body so I think the other 50 per cent it’s because I have great qualities too.” He added.

Former basketball player murdered after picking up man from gay dating app

Michael Wright, 35, a former University of Arizona basketball star who was drafted by the NY Knick
14 years ago, was found dead on on Tuesday November 10th in Brooklyn, N.Y and police say he was murdered. Police say they suspect that he was killed by a man he picked up on a Gay dating app, Grindr. He was shot in the head inside his Lexus Suv. He was found with his body was covered in black garbage bags.

Prince Ali Al Hussein, Jérôme Champagne and three others make FIFA Presidential candidates list

The Ad hoc FIFA Electoral committee this morning have released the list of five candidates for the FIFA Presidential election slated for February 26, 2016 to replace suspended president Sepp Blatter.
Musa Hassan Bility has been disqualified from contesting and surprisingly no African makes the list. Read FIFA's official press release after the cut...

"On 9 November 2015, the  AD-hoc Electoral Committee declared five candidates eligible to stand for election to the office of FIFA President."

" The election will take place at the Extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich on 26 February 2016.  

The candidates admitted and declared are:
• HRH Prince Ali Al Hussein
• Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa
• Jérôme Champagne
• Gianni Infantino
• Tokyo Sexwale

"Pursuant to FIFA's Electoral Regulations and the FIFA Organisation Regulations, the investigatory chamber of the Ethics Committee conducted integrity checks on the candidates."This two-step process involved first creating detailed reports of risk-relevant information relating to each candidate." The integrity check included a review of corporate records, litigation cases, bankruptcy proceedings, potential regulatory actions taken against the candidate and a review of media reports concerning potential red flags (fraudulent behaviour, match manipulation, human rights violations, etc.). Each candidate was then asked to comment on the content of the detailed report produced. "

"The final integrity check reports and the comments submitted by the candidates were provided to the members of the Ad-hoc Electoral Committee and evaluated to determine whether each of the candidates fulfilled the requirements for the presidency as outlined in the FIFÀ Statutes and Regulations. "

"The Ad-hoc Electoral Committee did not admit the candidature of Musa Hassan Bility, in view of the content of the integrity check report relating to him. For reasons of protection of personality rights, the Ad-hoc Electoral Committee – while it has explained its considerations in detail to Musa Hassan Bility – will not comment publicly on the specifics of its decision."

"The decisions of the Ad-hoc Electoral Committee on the eligibility of candidates may be appealed at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne. "

 ""The committee will continue to supervise the electoral process to ensure that each candidate complies with all applicable FIFA regulations and provisions leading up to and during the Extraordinary FIFA Congress in February."

Porn website Pornhub lists Cristiano Ronaldo as its most searched footballer

Porn website Pornhub yesterday revealed the list of footballers that rank high on searches made by its site visitors. Cristiano Ronaldo might be surprised some porn addicts search him up online according to the porn website. Despite none of the footballers involved having ‘personal’ content hosted by the website, Ronaldo triumphs over David Beckham for the 'crazy' title. Messi is third. Neymar & Robert Lewandowski makeup the top 5. Rather surprising, Wayne Rooney made the cut.

Chelsea loses again!

Chelsea yesterday evening lost 1-0 to Stoke City at the Britannia stadium and are now languishing close to the relegation zone. For a team who won the premier league last season this is the most contrasting of tales. The Blues, with embattled manager Jose Mourinho serving a stadium ban, enjoyed the better of the game in the first period, but failed to take any of the chans that fell their way.

And Austrian forward Arnautovic made Chelsea pay nine minutes into the second half when he volleyed expertly past Asmir Begovic on his return to the Britannia Stadium.

The victory was, of course, not without its controversial moment; Loic Remy found himself clipped by Jack Butland as he rounded the Stoke goalkeeper five minutes from time. Instead of going to ground, the Frenchman opted to stay on his feet and, off balance, tried to score, to no avail. Referee Anthony Taylor, in initially allowing play to continue, decided against awarding Chelsea a penalty.

An international break looms, the traditional sacking window for Premier League owners, and Jose Mourinho will have to wait to see whether Roman Abramovich considers him fit to continue when we resume.

On Saturday he wasn’t there of course, banned for his rant at referee Jon Moss two weeks ago but his presence was everywhere, from the Mourinho masks to the loud support from the Chelsea travelling fans.

Footballer Frank Ribery to sue CNN for $1.5m over image rights infringement with cryotherapy photo

France and Bayern Munich midfielder Franck Ribery is seeking $1.5 million in damages from US cable news channel CNN for using his image in a story about the death of a woman in a cryotherapy chamber, his lawyer said on Friday. 

CNN ran a story last month,exactly on October 28 about the death of Chelsea Ake-Salvacion, a 24-year-old American woman who was found dead in a cryotherapy tank in a Nevada spa.

CNN used a photo showing Franck Ribery's head while the footballer used a similar machine, which many high-level sportsmen often do. An error on the cable network's part, as they immediately took down the picture and post but that was not enough to stop people from noticing.

"It results from this publication that the photograph of Mr. Franck Ribery has been associated to a woman's death related to the cryotherapy treatment," Ribery's lawyer Carlo Alberto Brusa said.

"Mr. Franck Ribery, a world-famous professional soccer player and former member of the France national soccer team, has never given his permission and consent to the use of this photograph -- and therefore of his image -- related to the aforesaid publication."

Brusa said the use of the photo was an "illegal association, which constitutes an infringement of the personality rights and the French image right, is a wrongdoing for which you are responsible and which obliges you to repair all the damages suffered by Mr. Franck Ribery and his family following this morbid publication and the public reactions provoked".

Yesterday, Serena Williams got on social media to do a little bragging.
The night before she was on a date with who appeared to be Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian (Sorry, Drake), when a cell phone thief struck and grabbed her device off of the table. So the tennis star chased him down, out of the restaurant, and got him to return her phone. Or so she said in a Facebook post which a lot of folks were skeptical of:

It turns out she was more or less telling the truth — save same stylistic exaggerations — as video of the theft and Williams’s reaction has been released.
Bottom line, if you are going to steal a phone from a girl, you should find one smaller than Serena Williams.

"i'm tired of all the Messi comparisons"- Ronaldo.

Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo is tired of comparisons with Barcelona rival Lionel Messi and understands why some people must dislike his personality or the ways he sees football. Speaking ahead of the release of his personal film "Ronaldo", the FIFA World Player of the Year told Reuters TV that he is "not a fake person."

"I have my style, he has his style, his own style," he said of Messi, his greatest rival. "We have to respect that people compare all the time. And it is normal, we are compared since we are babies, I don´t mean me and Messi but all the persons in school. Who is more clever, who is more fast, it´s normal, it´s part of the life.

"It does not surprise me any more but some times it makes me tired because it´s always same thing and they still repeat and repeat, one year, another year, every year."

Critics say the Portugal forward's celebrations sometimes have an air of arrogance or egoism about them. Added to the fact that Ronaldo is never shy to show his muscles or make defiant gestures after scoring. He startled the audience at this year's World Player of the Year award by bellowing "Sim" (yes) into the microphone after he was announced as the Balloon d'or 2014 winner.

Asked why people may dislike him, Ronaldo said:

"Maybe the way I am, my personality, the way I see football. I´m not a fake person. It´s normal, it´s part of the business. No one can control that,"

Ronaldo's film, due to be released on Nov 9, depicts the striker as a family man and shows how he lives on and off the pitch.

In a separate interview with the BBC, Ronaldo described himself as "unbelievable on the pitch."

"I don't need to say 'I'm in the history of football, I'm a legend'. The numbers say everything," he said.

"I have to say to be in my shoes is not easy. But I'm not complaining. I just want to say that. I feel happy. All this happens because of a reason. The reason is I'm unbelievable inside the pitch."

"This is why the people have so much interest on me. So it's as simple as that. I'm good, I'm happy, I'm motivated all the time. I'm very professional and I want to carry on like that."

Real Madrid defend their own

For the past week there have been speculation and rumors about Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema about a sex tape extortion with fellow french man Valbuena... His club(Real Madrid) came to his defense yesterday as the president of the club released a press statement defending the french international.

Van Gaal vexed by misfiring Man United

 

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal admitted to concerns about his team's goal-scoring problems after they were bundled out of the League Cup on penalties by second-tier Middlesbrough.

The Premier League giants contrived to fail with three of their four attempts in Wednesday's 3-1 shoot-out loss, with England internationals Wayne Rooney, Michael Carrick and Ashley Young all unsuccessful.

He said "In football, all that matters is a goal and we have failed to get one in two straight games and that is disappointing". I wonder what his next move would be....