Romario Bullies His Way To Reinstatement

Romario, the legendary Brazilian striker who was a living embodiment of the lost art of a prima donna striker who actually delivers, threatened and bullied his way to a successful reinstatement of his playing status after initially banned for 120 days due to failing a drug test after a Brazilian league match playing for his current club Vasco de Gama. Brazil's Superior Tribunal of Sports Justice acquitted him of the charges despite tests showing that he had used a drug which belonged to a category of anabolic steroid masking agents. Romario had argued that the drug was contained in an anti-balding medication that he was using and that the substance itself was not a steroid. Before the hearing, Romario had threatened to retire from soccer and walk away from the sport that he so loved. What is so ridiculous about this verdict is that whether the substance Romario had taken had direct performance enhancing ability or not, the rules clearly state that it was not allowed within the sport and so the right penalty was meted out. Now you will have players who will use these masking agents and then argue the precedence that this case has set. If this was not Romario and just some other unknown player, you would be sure that the guilty verdict would remain.

Manchester United Players Love Prostitutes

After Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand and a whole list of players, Ronaldo seems intent to be top of the list not only for scoring goals, but also for scoring prostitutes. The flying Manchester United winger cum striker was spotted once again hiring and bedding prostitutes, this time in Rome after a recent FA Cup tie, and had 2 in a row to boot, perhaps in line with the number of goals he usually scores per match. Now if he makes hat tricks a habit, would it be three time swopping with friends?

Obviously, his girlfriend and fiance isn't too amused and if not for the money like Rooney's, I suspect this relationship wouldn't last at all. Which girl would want to risk contracting diseases from a boyfriend that habitually sleeps with call girls?

Now the strange thing is that Ronaldo keeps flying each game. It must be the vigour of youth that allows him to have so much energy. Highly doubtful he uses steroids like so many MLB athletes such as presumably Roger Clemens, who's still going at 45. Will Alex Ferguson slap a fine on the young player, or restrict it to a private discussion? After all his hopes of a back to back EPL title and possible second Champions League crown rests on the shoulders of his young prodigy. For all of Ferguson's famed hairdryer treatment, he has been known to show favoritism to his best players. A mix of the hard and soft, if you will.

Of course, this isn't a problem restricted to Manchester United. I faintly remember our own Jamie Carragher who dog pounded one lass many years ago in another famous Christmas party. It's nice he has matured into a proud Englishman but the relative lack of club success at Liverpool compared to Manchester United players might have been a factor. After all, the more you win, the more famous you become, the more popular you are and the more it attracts football groupies. I would understand too why players are more inclined to hire social escorts - the risk of being accused of rape would be much lower since you paid for the romp in bed. And they have loads of cash to spend. Then again, didn't Ferdinand hire for the party?

As soccer players have shown time and again, money corrupts absolutely. Not saying that players from other leagues do not indulge in such escapades but the English Premier League players might learn well to be more discreet. Ronaldo is idolised by millions of youngsters, and not just little boys, but girls swoon over his looks. Such behaviour is intolerable and it is hopeful that Ferguson would do something to right this.

Manchester United Treating Fans Like Idiots

First, there was the Roy Keane prawn sandwich jibe. Now, you have Alex Ferguson comparing the Theatre of Dreams to a funeral parlor. Then one of their fan clubs' leaders accused the club of being a 'police state'.

Why didn't anyone use the appropriate term - Sex Club?

Well, ok, they didn't exactly have the party at Old Trafford. Anyway, after accusations of being a 'police state', a United spokesman has refuted these allegations with the claims that, in four games prior to the Christmas period, there were only a total of 3 fans who were ejected. So, "Any suggestion of an ejection policy for persistent standing is simply not borne out by the facts.".

Yes, and everybody can see the logic behind that argument.

The fear instilled by a 'police state' would have been struck deep into the fans' minds. I would say that with only 3 fans ejected, it obviously shows how fantastic the Old Trafford stewards have been doing their jobs.

Juventus Bribery Scandal? Get Real - They Don't Get All The Calls

I cannot remember how long it has been since teams, players and fans all over the world have attributed Juventus' success to bribing referees and the like for results. Every penalty they receive would be the act of corrupted men in black on the take. With money from the Juventus petty cash kitty. Scandalous revelations and a legal punishment in recent years have also set the club backward and tarnished their name further.

However, this should be changed with last night's game against Napoli. Not only did they end up the wrong end of penalty decisions, those decisions made were downright controversial.

So should we start to say Napoli had done a Juventus?

So Juventus have been proven to have paid referees for decisions to go their way during crucial games. But to label them cheats each time they receive a contentious decision in their favour would be scandalous in itself. Referees make mistakes, and sometimes these mistakes lead to teams losing when they cannot afford to.

The fact is that soccer still is filled with boys playing a man's game. They lose, they cry.