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How happy kids get when they meet their heroes. It was the same for the son of Gabon and Borussia Dortmund striker, Patrick Aubameyang who was the lucky recipient of a freshly worn Cristiano Ronaldo shirt on Wednesday night, never minding the mud on it.

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte is set to carry out a total overhaul of his squad having failed hugely to land his targets during the summer. He landed just one and following the squad's recent poor performance, he is now convinced that the 2015 champions will not rediscover their form.

Premier League stars, Marcus Rashford, Kelechi Iheanacho and Dele Alli lead a host of Europe's young stars who have been nominated for the 2016 Golden Boy award.

So lovely!

It was only two days ago that news broke of England manager, Sam Allardyce and a recorded clip of him offering controversial advise to an undercover group of people. This as well as another allegation leveled against former Chelsea striker, now QPR manager, Jimmy Floyd Hasslebaink was brought to light through The Daily Telegraph and former Manchester United player turned agent Scott McGarvey.

Only Zlatan can. Really, even you would bend over for him to practice after all, he is the terminator, ask Northampton defender Gabriel Zakuani.

The Gunners will wear their away kit despite being at home in the Group A match against the Swiss champions. Here is why...

Someone said "Alex Iwobi has a pretty decent life." Then added, "Actually, scratch that. Alex Iwobi has a disgustingly, amazingly brilliant life." I do not disagree and the pretty reasons are obvious.

The ever hilarious James Corden who is a West Ham fan has come up with another hilarious video. This time as the trainer of Arsenal's multi-million earning first team stars. This was during the Gunners' visit to Los Angeles, Corden took charge of the club and worked on team building, sports psychology and celebrations.

Hollywood A-List superstar Samuel L Jackson is a Red and he has explained why. Jackson, from Washington, starred in The Star Wars fell in love with the city before he became a fan, he has revealed. He made this proclamation during an appearance on BBC Radio 1 on Monday morning.

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Ex-Chelsea and Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba nearly came to blows with fans as his frustrations boiled over.

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has obviously had enough of his defenders to deem them unfit to play for him.

Didier Drogba may no longer be in the premier league but he has found another way of tormenting the Gunners; even from miles away.

Evolution over the years...I must say by the way that he seems to have preferred the bad boy look these days.

James Corden! Oh this guys is such a silly human being. He is the host of Carpool karaoke. The video is from years back but ever still hilarious!

He became football's most popular club owner and pioneered the hefty inflow of cash into the game. But just as some of us have wondered, how did Russian Oligarchy Roman Abramovich settle for a certain Fulham based club in London, that were steadily rising to the top of English football?

On Thursday, the NFF official website published a full list of all 23 players as invited by Rohr for next month’s 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifying Matchday 1 clash between the Super Eagles and Zambia’s Chipolopolo in Ndola. One particular name, Odion Ighalo, has been left out of the side as it coincides with the date for his father's burial.

Arsenal have not beaten Chelsea in the Premier League for five years...

As the entertaining drama at the Etihad continues, Manchester City have somehow exempted Yaya Toure from the club's official team photo for the 2016/17 season. City released the team photo last week. Guardiola and Toure's very vocal agent Dimitri Seluk have been involved in spats in the past weeks and it hasn't been pretty. Read more here .

As the war of words between Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola and Yaya Toure's agent Dimitri Seluk continues, the Ivory Coast international has somehow been exempted from the club's official first team photo for the 2016/17 season.

Five years after he left North London, Cesc Fabregas has his picture hoisted, flying high outside the Emirates Stadium. That is despite the fact that he left the club for his boyhood club, Barcelona, to the satisfactions of fans and to make matters worse, he returned across town to join their biggest rivals, Chelsea.

Cristiano Ronaldo won't be happy with this one look-alike of his -not the one in the photo above. ​A man has been sentenced to one year in a French prison after the victim identified the suspect by fingering the football star. In a very bizarre move, the victim urged police to search for 'Cristiano Ronaldo's double'. According to French paper L’Est Republicain, he told officers what clothes they were wearing, and said that one of them was the spitting image of the Portuguese forward. Albanian pair Tahir Lani and Ndreke Cezmja had been caught while trying to break and enter a house in the French town of Saint-Max, and fled when the owner discovered them trying to open a window. In an even more bizarre move, the defendant's attorney in a bid to get his client off the hook, asked that the Real Madrid star makes an appearance in court to prove that there was no likeness between the two. Thus, rubbishing the victim's claim. Oh man! The story claims t

Former Crystal Palace and Arsenal striker Ian Wright used to smoke cannabis before games during his playing days.

This photo suggets Sturridge's trademark goal celebration has inspired the youngest member of the Kardashian Klan's eyebrow.

Social media is flipping mean! Lol...

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The Chelsea captain who is nursing an ankle injury he suffered last weekend against Swansea shared the photo of his crooked daughter on IG and captioned it with info about the injury. Thankfully, its not so bad for the young footballer. He and his wife Toni have twin kids, Georgie John and Summer Rose.

Just as the game and business of football has continued to evolutionize over the years, so have facilities. In fact, these days, it seems like the competition between clubs has gone beyond the 90 minutes on the pitch and even now the training facilities. As expected, the top European clubs have world class facilities, but who do we rank in the top 10? See the top 10... in no particular order.  Continued from  here ...

The Ghanaian born Germany international shared a photo of the new ink to his over 3.6million followers on Instagram.

Quite some very busy legs...

See saturday fixtires across the top 5 European leagues. Predictions?

Chelsea kicked off the premier league's Matchday 4 with a 2:1 home loss to a spectacular Liverpool side on Friday. The Blues suffered Antonio Conte's first loss as David Luiz made his second debut, conincdentally against the same team and the outcome was the same. A loss.

Here is the meaning behind the crest of the 10 most prominent premier league clubs. Continued from here ... MANCHESTER CITY: The 2013-14 Premier League champions have got a new badge this summer. It has the ship which describes the club’s trading links. The Red Rose is taken from the coat of arms of Manchester. The three blue stripes represent the three rivers; Irwell, Medlock and Irk. And lastly, 1894 represents the year in which the club was founded.

Here is the meaning behind the  crest of the 10 most prominent premier league clubs. WEST HAM UNITED: West Ham have introduced a new crest and it no longer involves showing the castle, which was linked to the Boleyn Ground. The two hammers across each other represent the club’s name and also their nickname as the ‘Hammers’. London is also written in the crest to represent the locality of the club.

We have seen different rules and regulations instilled by football managers, some are 'resonable' while others are off while others are out-rightly so weird that you wonder what it has got to do with the actual art of football. Some managers make it a rule that their players don't smoke as it hampers endurance, others on the other hand may not mind and just let players use their discretion. Here are 10 weirdest bans by football managers in dressing rooms... in no particular order .

Kelechi Iheanacho is reportedly planning to buy his best friend Kingsley Ogbodo, a mansion worth £2million in Manchester to wants to reward Ogbodo for his support and friendship, according to reports on Linda Ikeji's blog.

Just as the game and business of football has continued to evolutionize over the years, so have facilities. In fact, these days, it seems like the competition between clubs has gone beyond the 90 minutes on the pitch and even now the training facilities. As expected, the top European clubs have world class facilities, but who do we rank in the top 10... not in any particular order ?

Can you recognize this United star as a kid? It's pretty eazy peazy! Who would have THUNK he would be what he is today???

Social Media is so unforgiving! Lol...

Oh dear lawd, how we love our stars who love social media. How much more if they are just like every other person, throwing banters, expressing, and interacting the way the wish. That's Chelsea striker, Michy Batshuayi.

The former Sunderland coach is not new to controversies especially when it comes to his political beliefs. This time he has been axed from the couch for it.

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Brazilian football legend Ronaldinho first gained media attention when his youth team won a game 23-0. That wasn't it. IT was that he scored all 23. Here are some famous 5 things you didn't know about the guy I used to dream of as my coach when I was much younger. Lol...

Watford captain and striker Troy Deeney slammed West Ham's Dimitri Payet over the Frenchman's rabona assist last weekend 'disrespectful'.

Madness? Not if you are Neymar and you have a lot already. And you are just 24. The Brazilian wonder kid turned down a staggering £42million contract, access to a luxury private jet and a string of hotels just to join Paris Saint-Germain this summer, reports have claimed. He had been linked with a series of moves over the transfer window, including a strong possible switch to Premier League side Manchester United but even that did not come to pass.

Borussia Monchengladbach will reimburse all away tickets for their postponed Champions League clash with Manchester City.

Happy birthday ex-Super Eagles Captain and Coach, Sunday Ogorchukwu Olise. At 42, he was born on this day, September 14, 1974 in Delta State. Among his successes while representing the country was winning the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Gold Medal and the  African Cup of Nations trophy in 1994.

Barcelona and Brazil striker Neymar has revealed he is set to make a bold leap into the world of music. Neymar, one third of Barcelona's prolific attacking MSN trio alongside Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, has revealed he will post his first track on his official Facebook account on Wednesday.

Young English sensation Marcus Rashford has revealed how a certain former Manchester United  aspiring young player has inspired him. Rashford joined United in 2005 and saw the Portuguese superstar at close quarters during his formative years at Old Trafford.

The duo were filmed having a ball fired at that from a cannon at varying speeds to see if they were able to control it and errm, just know its not as easy as you think. Sanchez's control is SO GOOD it blows his teammates' attempts out the water a lil. Watch below...