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Andy Johnson was earned not to incite fans of former club Everton by kissing the Fulham badge on his Fulham jersey at Goodison Park. Fulham boss Roy Hodgson was anxrounding to avoid the controversies surroundings badge-kissing incidents involving Wayne Rooney, when the returned to Everton earlier this month, and Newcastle’s Joey Barton, at Sunderland. “The days of badge kissing at Fulham died with the likes of Johnny Haynes and Jimmy Hill. I’m surprised if fans want to see it. I expect every Fulham player to have nothing but the club in his head. He doesn’t need to kiss the badge to show me that.”

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A security ring was thrown around Lewis Hamilton as he took part in Sunday’s decisive Brazilian Grand Prix. An exclusion zone was set up around the Briton’s hotel in Sao Paulo’s Morumbi district with fans, reporters and staff being prevented from approaching the driver. The move came after more the 16,000 racist messages against Hamilton were posted on a Spanish website called “Burst Hamilton’s Tyre”. Supporters of local Ferrari star Felipe Massa were also believed to have been ready to bombard Hamilton with nuisance phone calls at his hotel. A rowdy reception from the 70,000 crowd in the last race of the season was the least of Hamilton’s concerns. Interest was so intense that touts changed 150 weekend tickets

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Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has been cautioned for spit-pen a groveling apology to his victim. The Manchester United ace finally said sorry when he attended a police station in central London. Rooney spat on Lee Simmon’s back as he left a restaurant in the capital with wife Coleen. Rooney was first quizzed the day after the incident on July 29 but was not arrested. He said he spat on the ground outside the Hakassan Chinese eaterie. But saliva on 21-year-old Simmon’s clothing matched Rooney’s DNA, the Sun reported

<!– /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:”"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –> It appears a number of skeletons are tumbling out of the Stanford cricket series whose billionaire promoter as been under the media scanner for various acts, including cosying up to wives and girl fiends of England players. It appears now that Stanford’s website falsely claims that Prince Edward bestowed honour on him. “He was presented [with] this honour by His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Ear of Wessex,” states the website. Stanford accepts a knighthood in 2006 but not from Prince Edward. However, The Mail on Sunday reported that the Prince had nothing to do with the honour and that it was not approved by the Queen. His knighthood was bestowed in 2006 under an Antiguan law that allows its politicians to draw up an annual honours list

In a gesture to support social cause, the Olympic medalist Vijender launched two social campaigns “Tree Plantation” and Save Girl Child” have on Thursday on the occasion of his birthday. Vijender who celebrated his 22nd birthday visited the local temple of Goddess Durga and offered prayers. “I felt really good. I got a lot of respect from people here. I have come for blessings of the Goddess. I hope the Goddess blesses me to perform well,” said Vijender, “I have planted a tree on my birthday. I felt really good. Everyone must plant a tree. We all must also start a mission against female foeticide as well. Planting a tree will make the environment green and reduce global environment green and reduce global warming,” said Vijender.

Golfer Vijay Singh’s three victories this year at the age pf 45 has given all middle-aged golfers hope, says Phil Mickelson, who has no plans to hang up his clubs yet given he is only 38. Fiji’s Singh worked hard on his fitness during the off season and it paid dividends with wins at the Barclays, the Deutsche Bank Championship and the FedEx Cup. It propelled him to third to third place in the World Golf Rankings behind Tiger Woods and Mickelson, and he now has 56 career and 40s to see what he has done,” Mickelson said, “With his success many players my age and older been given a newfound lease of life.”

A handful of critical National Football League games loom this weekend but none figure to have the impact of Monday’s Pittsburgh at Washington match up thanks to the “Redskins Rule” of US politics. For 17 consecutive US presidential ballots, the outcome of the Redskins” last home game before Election Day has been an accurate predictor, some even fancifully claim the true decider, of who will win the White House. If the Redskins win, the incumbent party in the White House wins the subsequent presidential election. Should the Redskins lose, the party holding the presidency loses. With that in mind, Democratic hopeful Barack Obama figures to be supporting the Steelers, 5-2 while Republican John McCain would be hoping for the Redskins, 6-s, to carry the night.

A Greek footballer committed suicide by jumping off a clip after being on Wednesday, the Athens News Agency reported. Police said 25-year old midfielder Yiannis Kosinatis, who had psychological problems recently, was found dead in the mountainous Profits I1ias Koskinou area and had left a suicide note explaining his actions. The news of Koskiniatis’ death was not made known to Diagoras players until after their 3-2 Greek Cup defeat to Greek first division champions Olympiakos. A full investigation was being carried out by local police; ANA said, Local press reports said Pavlos Dermitzakis, coach of second division side Diagoras, had told him to report back to the hotel. Instead, Koskiniatis went to the mountainous area and jumped off a cliff, where police found the body and the note.

There has been a lot of speculation in the press about our relationship. There were stories about us not being together,” Neha Dhupia told People magazine recently in an interview with regard to her long time mate and squash professional Ritwik Bhattacharya. Ritwik said this is the right time to talk about their relationship, adding, “People who needed to know always knew about out relationship. Also, now we are more comfortable with each other.” The couple also shared aspects of their journey together, of how they saw each other through tips and downs, wins and losses, sickness and health. Although they have been an item for long, they had always been somewhat less forthcoming on their relationship till now 1

The game Far Cry 2 with its unique African jungle setting, amazing graphics, seven different vehicles to pilot (including a hand glider), tons of different weapons and realistic looking bushes is a top-notch shooter game. Coming to the story line, caught between two rival factions in war-torn Africa, you are sent to take out ‘The Jackal,’ a mysterious character who has rekindled the conflict between the war lords, jeopardizing thousands of lives. Choose from a wide range of weapons to make your way to your primary target. Meet the flight head on with your machine gun, go berserk with your machete or make stealth kills as a sniper, this first person shooter offers the best game play experience. I give this game a nine on ten.