ENGLAND star Ruben Loftus-Cheek is a leccy blighter after surviving three lightning strikes. The first knocked out the security alarm at the Chelsea midfielder’s £1.8million pad during a storm. Days later another strike zapped an outbuilding housing his gym, sparking a fire which took crews six hours to put out. And it emerged the 21-year-old, […]
THEY played the Benny Hill theme tune to entertain the crowd when a bunch of school kids staged a race around the perimeter of the Wembley pitch. Yet so farcical was the gap in technique between England and their illustrious visitors that they probably ought to have played it during the match. Jake Livermore will […]
YOU would not have put much money on a second successive Wembley goalless draw. Yet Neymar and the rest of Brazil’s stars arrived at Wembley but could not find a way past Gareth Southgate’s side in a friendly which featured a terrific atmosphere. There were not too many chances but Southgate will have been happy with […]
ENI ALUKO should be invited by the FA to help it set up proper grievance procedures. That was the claim from sports minister Tracey Crouch as she appeared in front of the same committee of MPs which roasted FA chiefs last month over the Aluko fiasco. An independent investigation found the Chelsea striker had been […]
MAN United star Luke Shaw played a blinder — crashing his Range Rover into Phil Jones’s £200,000 Bentley. Shaw, who only passed his test a year ago, reversed his £100,000 car into his team-mate’s. The embarrassing shunt happened at the Premier League club’s Carrington training base after a 2-0 win away at Swansea. Shaw, 22, […]