Natasha Riggs, the former wife of Ryan Riggs brother, is a woman that causes many eyebrows to rise especially in regards to some of the decisions she makes. Especially when it comes to men or the ability(or lack thereof) to stick to one. She is infamous for having an affair with Ryan Giggs when still married to his brother Rhodri. It was an eight long affair that only surfaced when Natasha heard that Ryan had an affair with another woman. Natasha was very angry and spilled all the dirt to a tabloid revealing the eight year old romp that drew a mile long trench in between the two brothers. Ryan had a history of standing up his brother for his rendezvous but this one was the ultimate betrayal.
Well, it seems that Natasha either has viagra or its equivalent for breakfast, or she has the libido of a whale. It is said that she also had affairs with three other Manchester united players. Namely;Dwight Yorke, Phil Bardsley and Danny Simpson, while they were still playing for Manchester united!!! Really? Is it for the money? I doubt. Because they are not people short on cash. That is why the say money can never buy good morals. Plus she also had an affair with some guy when she run off form her matrimonial home just when the release of the news was fresh and every tongue was waging about them. Even in the midst of all the heat, she couldn’t even lay low? Maybe some people are just wired to do silly mistakes several times in a row before getting to the point where they realize that it is time to seek redemption.
Or maybe she just has a fetish for footballers that sh needs to acknowledge? Well, anyway, she now says that she is apologetic and she wands her former husband back. Rhodri, let me give you free advice. A cat never changes its stripes so run and don’t look back. The past behavior is the best indication of future behavior. Ask Doctor Phil if you don’t believe me. He’d tell you the same.
This will be a jam packed weekend in terms of the things happening. The Safaricom Sevens will be happening and those of you who are crowd phobic can just opt to come to Blanco’s and enjoy the best seats with good food and great ambiance to boot.Then of course there is our very own Kenya Premier League where our favorite teams will be battling each other. Plus there will be formula one and the British Premier League to enjoy too.Take a look at the list of the major sports this weekend. ( the time is all Kenyan time so just show up and enjoy 🙂 )
Friday 21st September
14:25 – 15:55
Rugby
Safaricom Sevens Day 1 – Games 14 – 17
15:55 – 17:20
Rugby
Safaricom Sevens Day 1 – Games 18 – 20
Saturday 22nd September
10:50 – 12:20
Motorsport
Race 1
12:50 – 14:10
Motorsport
F1: Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix Practice Session 3
14:00 – 16:45
Soccer
Barclays Premier League Week 6: Swansea City v Everton
16:45 – 19:55
Soccer
Barclays Premier League Week 6: Chelsea v Stoke City
Rugby
09:55 – 11:25
Rugby
Safaricom Sevens Day 2 – Games1 – 4
11:25 – 12:50
Rugby
Safaricom Sevens Day 2 – Games 5 – 8
12:50 – 14:05
Rugby
Safaricom Sevens Day 2 – Under 19 Girls Final & Sch Main Final
14:05 – 15:35
Rugby
Safaricom Sevens Day 2 – Games 9 – 12
15:35 – 16:45
Rugby
Safaricom Sevens Day 2 – Games 13 – 1
The highlight will be the match between AFC Leopards And Gor Mahia. The ultimate battle will be at 1500 hrs.
Sunday 23rd September
11:00 – 12:00
Motorsport
GP2 Series: Singapore Race 2
14:30 – 17:30
Motorsport
F1: Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix Main Race
14:30 – 17:30
Soccer
Barclays Premier League Week 6: Liverpool v Man Utd
17:30 – 20:55
Soccer
Barclays Premier League Week 6: Man City v Arsenal
There are many non-Manchester united fans who believe that the English Premier League is akin to a secret society with Manchester United at the apex of the hierarchy. In this world, all referees must favour United at all costs especially at Old Trafford. In a sense all referees are ‘initiated’ into this secret wisdom that they must dish out all manner of dubious calls on behalf of Manchester United. Over the years one has lost count of the number of referees who have favoured Manchester United especially at Old Trafford from Gallagher to Howard Webb to Phil Dowd to Mark Clattenburg. The latest initiate to this trend is none other than referee Michael Oliver. Last season, Michael Oliver was perhaps one of the best referees. He was for the most part, fair and he was consistent. On Saturday at Old Trafford, Michael Oliver decided to sell his ‘soul’ like many great referees before him. I am taking nothing away from United who had a brilliant second half performance. However, one can only sympathize with Wigan who for the third or fourth consecutive time at Old Trafford were on the receiving end of pathetic officiating. Michael Oliver awarded an absolutely nothing penalty to Manchester United after Danny Welbeck had dived early on in the game. Several hours later in a match involving Liverpool, Luis Suarez was denied a penalty for a similar dive and also yellow carded. It was interesting to see the pundits in the studio discuss the contrast in decision-making between the two games.
Roberto Martinez, the soft spoken urbane manager of Wigan remarked after the match; ‘I have come to United three times before today and for whatever reason we don’t seem to be measured in the same manner as the team at home.” “The penalty is as bad a decision as you are going to see in the Premier League. In many ways, you feel as though you are fighting against a mountain’. The Wigan manager also took issue with the decision by the referee not to send off Danny Welbeck for a dangerous tackle late in the same game. The tackle was dangerous and needless (because United were four goals up) but the clueless referee decided to give only a yellow card. Anyway at old Trafford the rule book is seemingly out as far as Manchester United are concerned. In the bizzaro world at Old Trafford in the space of four minutes a referee can choose not to dish out a red card while simultaneously giving the most bizarre of penalties. See below as the appropriately named Lee Mason completely messes up a game on behalf of United. Not only does he not send of Rooney, he sends of the QPR captain for a dive by Ashley Young who happened to be offside! To add insult onto injury, Rooney who should be off scores the penalty! That my friend is impunity 101.
As somebody put it, the ref made three mistakes in one. It should have been a free kick for QPR for young’s offside; it shouldn’t have been a red for the QPR captain, young should have been booked for diving. The incompetent buffoons at the FA did in fact after this game refuse to overturn the referees yellow card for the QPR captain despite all the video evidence! Well there you have it. All ‘small teams’ must know their place. The big boys will punch you and take your lunch money and dare you complain. The authorities will side with the bullies! Call it impunity; Call it mobile money to the ref, its beyond pathetic. See below.
Only in this bizzaro world can Wayne Rooney elbow a player and have a brief chat with the ref like if nothing happened! Do you now see why Martinez is so livid? For your information, Rooney only got one yellow card the whole of last season despite his overall play and his penchant for industrial language!
Video is below
I could not agree more with Martinez. Hate Man City all you like but at least their wonderful home record is the product of grit and good football. Sadly with United, the silly decisions by Michael Oliver and others certainly take a sheen over their performances. It also calls into question what the team will do in Europe where such ‘friendly’ refs will not be there to save their bacon. Roberto Martinez is not the only one to complain about the outright bias by referees at games involving United. What particularly galls me is the fact that United have made an art form of ‘robbing’ the weakest of teams in the EPL. As Martinez has observed, Wigan have been on the receiving end of dubious decisions at Old Trafford in recent years as have the likes of QPR and Fulham. One wonders why a team of Manchester United’s quality needs a dubious referee against Wigan of all teams.
In the final analysis, the EPL remains a very interesting league but its refereeing is beyond pathetic. When the weak or ‘myonges’ are always messed up with by the powerful then the league loses its allure. Yes, Barca is favoured but it largely happens in Europe. Barca do not get favoured week in and out against the riff raff of the Primera Liga. Is it too much to ask that United beat the lesser lights of the EPL in a fair manner? A question their fans are best placed to address.
The Draw for the UEFAChampions league group stage was held in Monaco yesterday 30th August 2012. The 32 teams were allocated into four pots based on their 2012 UEFA club coefficients, with the title holders, Chelsea, being placed in Pot 1 automatically. They were drawn into eight groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
In each group, teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays will be 18–19 September, 2–3 October, 23–24 October, 6–7 November, 20–21 November, and 4–5 December 2012. The group winners and runners-up will advance to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams will enter the round of 32 of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League.
A total of 17 national associations are represented in the group stage. Montpellier, Nordsjælland and Málaga are set to make their debut appearances in the group stages.
The final will be held at Wembley Stadium in London.
Below is the complete list of the 2012 – 2013 groupings.
The Champions League group stage draw in full:
GROUP A
PORTO
DINAMO KIEV
PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN
DINAMO ZAGREB
GROUP B
ARSENAL
SCHALKE
OLYMPIAKOS
MONTPELLIER
GROUP C
AC MILAN
ZENIT
ANDERLECHT
MALAGA
GROUP D
REAL MADRID
MANCHESTER CITY
AJAX
BORUSSIA DORTMUND
GROUP E
CHELSEA
SHAKHTAR DONETSK
JUVENTUS
NORDSJAELLAND
This impressive 29 year old footballer is also quite the family man with a wife and two kids. His son Shaqueel and daughter Dina. His beautiful wife is called Bouchra.
He was born to two artistic parents who eventually divorced and he was left to be brought up by his father. His parents wanted for him to become an artist but he did not share their view on life. His interest was in football. Van Persie was also quite the trouble kid in school because he was quite a handful and was mostly excluded from class every day. Maybe his feet were itching o go and do what he was born to do. To play!
After joining Arsenal in England, He settle in an affluent suburb of North London called Hampstead. RVP also had some little controversy when he was sued by the then Miss Nigeria Holland with sexual harassment and alleged rape. He suffered a while under the harsh conditions of police cells until later when the beauty queen wanted to gain some publicity from her allegations. Van Persie later revealed how bad it was to be in the prison system that at some point he passed out from the gruesome conditions.
No celebrity marriage has had its share of tremors and RVP is no different, He confessed to have had an affair, but his lovely wife forgave him. He had the affair with the same woman who pinned accusations on him, Sandra Krigjsman. His recent move to Manchester United has not been without its fair share of drama. His wife Bouchra, was bombarded by hate messages from irate Arsenal fans on her twitter account. They called her a gold digger and the reason behind RVP’s move to Man United. Some even wished her death! But Bouchra had other Arsenal fans who were horrified by the messages send her their support. Talk about standing with her husband in all times! Bouchra is quite the woman
The English Premier league 2012-2013 season has already began and it is too early to judge Robin Van Persie’s Performance. We hope he will give all his critics something to be in awe of and give his new owners a reason to brag about.
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