Arsène Wenger has revealed he believes a European Super League could become a reality within the next 10 years. The Arsenal boss, preparing for Tuesday night’s Champions League Play-off showdown with Celtic at Parkhead, believes some clubs will soon become frustrated with the level of financial rewards on offer in Europe’s leading club competition and will look for a way to start a breakaway league. (more…)

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Researchers from the American Chemical Society in Washington have discovered that the practice of consuming cocaine through rolled up paper money is far more than just a cinematic cliché. They found that in big cities in the US, up to 90% of the notes tested positive for traces of the drug.

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Sir Alex Ferguson handed Michael Owen Ronaldo’s old shirt at Manchester United and then declared Old Trafford closed for transfer business.  (more…)

Forbes dropped their “Hip-Hop Cash Kings” calculations today and the list goes just about how you would expect.. ..

The top 3 guys go Jay Z($35m) Puff($30m) and Kanye(25m).. .. Find out the rest of the Top 10 when you keep reading (more…)

It’s not the first time that former Major League Soccer Deputy Commissioner and current Arsenal Chief Executive Ivan Gazidis has brought up the idea of capping the salary system in England, but has revisited the conversation again with the insane amount of money being spent recently by the massive clubs around the world.

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So you wonder what is up with all this news about Michael Jackson and his will, and his trust, and some people wonder why they care about a guy who was supposedly in debt somewhere in the range of $400m. Well, with millions of fans in mourning and so many people feeling the loss of the “King of Pop” there has been a serious impact on the music charts in the last week. There was never any doubt that the guy was talented and there was a little bit of an up tick in people wanting to get close to his music. The results are in from album sales in the U.S. and MJ has the top three slots in the Billboard chart this week and even more MJ related music in the top 50. See what is best and the numbers after the jump (more…)

After seeing their side placed into administration and having incurred the automatic 10 point penalty that comes along with it, Southampton supporters were hoping former Captain / club legend Matt Le Tissier and the Pinnacle Group would be in control of the club by last Friday as their takeover was contingent on the point deduction being wiped away. Unfortunately that didn’t happen and now things are looking even worse.

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Manchester City owner Sheik Mansour is looking at quite an impressive bill after reports coming out of England have put a number on the difference between the costs of Sven-Göran Eriksson squad and the one that Mark Hughes has assembled.

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