SON OF SPORTING DIRECTOR OF TAYE TAIWO's FORMER CLUB SHOT DEAD

The son of the sports director of one of Nigeria's Taye Taiwo's former club Olympique de Marseille was gunned down in a suspected gangland killing yesterday.

30 year old Adrien Anigo was killed after being shot as he was getting out of his car in a rough neighbourhood of Marseille.

This is believed to be one of 15 similar killings in the southern city of France this year.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Bruce Rioch, Carlo Cudicini, Tim Henman, Massimo Maccarone, Samuel Peter, Joseph Yobo

Bruce Rioch



Bruce Rioch is 66 today. He is a football manager and former player.

As a player, he made more than 550 appearances in the Football League and by virtue of his father's birthplace, represented Scotland in 24 matches; he became the first Scottish captain to be born in England. As a manager, he has taken charge of clubs in England, the United States, and Denmark. Arsenal is the most notable club he manged where he's the predecessor of current manager Arsene Wenger.

Ryan Babel, posts an image of his topless girlfriend on instagram (PHOTO)

Former Liverpool striker Ryan Babel posted a topless pic of his girlfriend on instagram early this morning. The current Kasimpasa striker is obviously bored in Turkey as he set himself on an attention seeking mission by posting an almost nude picture of his supposed to be WAG. It seemed like mission accomplished for the 26 year old, with his 64k+ followers flooding his page with comments and likes.

Revealed! Floyd Mayweather Jr. Keeps His Money In One Bank Account With $123 Million In It

Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. has a specific fascination with cash.

He has taken video of himself counting $1 million in hundred dollar bills, and posted photos where 50 Cent is balancing bricks of cash on his forearms.

His nickname is "Money," and his apparel business is called "The Money Team" — which also doubles as the name of his entourage.

Venezuela Face World Cup Qualifying Selection Crisis After 20 Members Of 24-Man Squad Struck Down With Explosive Diarrhoea

20 players of the Venezuelan soccer team are suffering from food poisoning. This was announced by Cesar Farias, the Venezuelan coach on a press conference. Nevertheless he is facing the qualification match for the World Championship 2014 in Brazil optimistically.

Jose Mourinho Leaves Real Madrid To Join Fulham On One-Year Contract

Fulham have pulled off a significant coup today in announcing that Jose Mourinho has joined the club on a one-year deal having left Real Madrid in the summer.

Jose Mario Mourinho, the 14-year-old son of Chelsea manager Jose Snr, came to the end of his contract at Real Madrid’s Canillas youth side and, following a successful trial, the young goalkeeper has now joined the Cottagers on a 12-month contract.

Relax Gunners!!! Ozil isn't winning you any trophies.

Throughout the summer, Arsenal fans have been irritated and upset with Wenger due to his failure to sign his reported targets. First it was Gonzalo Higuain, then Luiz Suarez and more comically Wayne Rooney. The Frenchman was window shopping as vigorously as an excited teenage girl. It was amusing really. Wenger's only buys were Yaya Sanogo, a relatively unknown striker from France and old player Mathieu Flamini who was released by Milan. Most Arsenal fans had given up, until transfer deadline day. First it was goalkeeper Marc Viviano then Arsenal and Arsene Wenger shocked the entire footballing world by announcing the signing of Mesut Ozil from Real Madrid for a club record fee of €47 million. It was a shocker!!! Arsenal fans trooped out to celebrate their marquee signing and some fans would have felt their 'In Wenger we trust' banner was finally justified. The Frenchman must have felt a big signing would have appeased his club's angry fans. He was right. However sorry to burst your bubble gunners but signing Ozil aint winning you trophies.

Jay-Z Reportedly Selling His 0.067% Stake In The Brooklyn Nets To New Coach Jason Kidd

Jay-Z had to sell his stake in the Brooklyn Nets in order to become a certified NBA agent when he started Roc Nation Sports last spring.

According to Page Six, he ended up selling that stake to new head coach Jason Kidd.

The stake is worth $500,000, which works out to 1/15th of 1% of the team.

While Jay owned a tiny sliver of the Nets, he was central in the team's branding once it moved to Brooklyn. He reportedly helped design the jerseys and the luxury boxes at the Barclays Center.

This is Kidd's first coaching job after retiring in June.

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Maradona threatens to shut down nightclub if they don’t play more music for him

At 7:00 am, the only thing Maradona wanted to do was keep dancing.

Sadly, the Buenos Aires nightclub hosting his party session was closing up since normal people have things to do around that time of day.

But Maradona - whose night out was reportedly linked to a business conference - does not stand for those types of shenanigans, so he pleaded with the owner to keep the beat alive.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Matthias Sammer, George Boateng, Joseba Etxeberria, John Carew, Filippo Volandri, Nuri Şahin, Franco Zuculini

Matthias Sammer



Matthias Sammer is 46 today. He is a retired German football player and coach who is now working as sport director of FC Bayern Munich. He played as a midfielder primarily as a central midfielder, and later in his career as a sweeper.

Wayne Rooney Provides Proof Of His Fearsome Forehead Gash (Gory Photo – Not For The Faint-Hearted!)

Wayne Rooney has just posted photographic proof of the hideous cut he suffered in training last week on his personal Facebook page in response to the growing number of doubters who seemed to think the Manchester United man was using it as an excuse to drop out of England’s game on Friday.

WARNING: It’s probably too late if you’ve already come this far, but this thing ain’t pretty…and the cut isn’t particularly pleasant viewing either…

Peruvian Keeper Given Three-Year Prison Sentence For Biting Man’s Ear Off

Union Comercio’s veteran goalkeeper, Juan “Chiquito” Flores, wont just stop grabbing the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Just last month, the Peruvian goalie committed one of the worst blunders of all time - where he appeared to be wasting time 5 mins!! into a league match, just for an opposing striker to nick the ball off him, hence tapping into an empty net.

Joachim Wrong, Stefan Kiessling deserves Germany return!

Bayer Leverkusen striker Stefan Kiessling has vowed not to play under current Germany boss, Joachim Low. The forward was the top scorer in the Bundesliga last season but has not featured for Die Manschaft since 2010.

Club forfeit match to protect young players from ‘mental anguish’

Bulgarian third division club Shumen have refused to play top flight Chernomorets Burgas in the round of 32 of the domestic cup to protect their young players from mental anguish.

Shumen were drawn against the Burgas-based side on Tuesday but club president Georgi Georgiev decided there was no need for his team to play against such strong opposition.

"In order not to burden mentally our young boys, the team refuse to participate in the Bulgarian Cup," Georgiev told local media soon after the draw took place in Sofia.

The first leg of the tie was due to be played on September 18 and the return leg on October 23.

The Bulgarian Football Union is expected to give Chernomorets, who are third from bottom in the top division, a walk over although they have not yet made any official comment.

Shumen were once in the top flight and even played in the UEFA Cup in 1994 after finishing fourth in the standings.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Fatih Terim, Raúl Albiol

Fatih Terim

Fatih Terim is 60 today. He's arguably the most experienced Turkish manager of all time, He's the current coach of Galatassaray and the Turkish National team. Terim is regarded as a hard-line motivator whose no-nonsense approach was honed during 11 years as a rugged defender with Galatasaray. His nickname is İmparator, which is the Turkish word for "Emperor". This nickname is also widely used in Italy (Imperatore) to refer to Terim.