• By World of Sport (original post from Yahoo! Eurosport can be found here)

    Robin van Persie intends to snub Manchester United's number nine shirt and stick with 20 - to save fans having to shell out on another kit.

    When Van Persie arrived from Arsenal, the number nine shirt was still worn by Dimitar Berbatov, who did not leave for Fulham until the end of August. Instead, the Dutchman inherited the 20 shirt worn by Brazilian defender Fabio prior to his loan move to QPR.

    Ferguson has offered Van Persie the chance to switch numbers next season. However, the favourite to claim the Premier League Golden Boot prize for the second straight campaign intends to stick with what he has.

    "I think I'll keep it," Van Persie told United Review. "I have the option to take number nine but I don't think I will do that. I'll stick with what is right and what feels good. Also, I don't want to be harsh on the fans who have got number 20 on their kit. I don't want them to have to buy a new shirt.

    "It's been a

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  • 'A Belieber? Who? Me?''A Belieber? Who? Me?'

    David Beckham arrived at Paris St Germain in a blaze of glory when he signed with the Ligue 1 leaders earlier this year, but he saw his halo slip slightly last week when he was sent off just a few minutes after coming on as a sub.

    And now the English veteran's stock in Paris has fallen even further - thanks to his distinctly dodgy taste in music.

    Beckham's hilariously bad selection of songs was revealed by none other than team-mate Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who revealed that Becks's team-mates had a great laugh at his expense after finding his iPod in the changing rooms.

    "We were looking through his play-list in the dressing room — there was lots of Justin Bieber, Jonas Brothers and Selena Gomez," Ibrahimovic said.

    "We were expecting some cool English rock bands and hip-hop.

    "It is nice to know that even David Beckham doesn’t have good taste on everything."

    There's no use Beckham trying to claim that the music was put on there only for his kids, either: his boys, at age 14, 10 and 8, are all

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  • By The Rundown (original post from Yahoo! Eurosport can be found here)

    Jose Mourinho's return for a second spell as Chelsea manager has been shouted from the rooftops for several months, but Friday's papers shouted in their loudest voices yet that the move is happening.

    The Sun even put the story on its front page - their evidence for the story being that Mourinho and Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich were apparently spotted having dinner together at an Italian restaurant on the Kings Road.

    The man himself has distanced himself from the rumours, but considering that he is (a) still under contract at Real Madrid and (b) probably trying to play hard to get to ensure a decent salary, that's hardly surprising.

    Yet while it would be huge fun to see Mourinho back - not to mention making for a string of great stories for us - we at The Rundown firmly believe that the Portuguese boss would have rocks in his head if he were to return.

    Turn the pages to find out why:

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    He can't possibly succeed


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  • Stop focusing on what she’s wearing. Focus instead on her sport, and focus on her as an athlete.

    That’s what Liz Gorman wants.

    The stunning and incredibly fit blonde plays American football in the Legends Football League (LFL): a seven-on-seven, full-contact tackling contest between women dressed in helmets, pads and bikinis.

    Before January this year, the LFL stood for “Lingerie Football League”, and its players wore bras, panties and garters instead.

    “Lingerie was an amazing marketing tool to turn your head and go ‘whoa, what’s that’,” said Gorman, when Yahoo! Singapore asked for her thoughts on the rebranding. “Now, changing it to ‘legends’ will get people to watch the games purely from a football and athletic point of view.”

    Liz Gorman flaunts the LFL's brand new performance wear. (Yahoo! Photo)Liz Gorman flaunts the LFL's brand new performance wear. (Yahoo! Photo)

    But what’s so different about bikinis?

    Gorman, who was in Singapore last weekend to promote the LFL’s broadcast on local cable, pointed out that beach volleyball athletes also don bikinis.

    The 26-year-old New York native declared: “It’s football, regardless of the

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  • 2011 SEA Games Women¹s Singles Gold Medalist Fu Mingtian will be teaming up with one half of the 2012 Olympic duo Shinta Mulia Sari at the Li-Ning Singapore Open 2013. (Li-Ning Singapore Open 2013 Photo)


    [UPDATED 18 May: Singapore's SEA Games champion Fu Mingtian and Olympian Shinta Mulia Sari will join forces on the court for the first time. Other local shuttlers who have confirmed participation include Vanessa Neo, Yao Lei, Danny Bawa Chrisnanta, Liu Yi and Terry Hee.]


    [UPDATED 9 May: China's multiple Olympic gold-medallist Lin Dan; world No. 1 female Li Xuerui and reigning Li-Ning women's champion Juliane Schenk have been added to the lineup.]

    Singapore’s biggest badminton event is back, with its usual promise of top-drawer athletes from around the globe – and more.

    For the first time ever, the Li-Ning Singapore Open, to be held from 18 to 23 June at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, will offer a “Badminton Carnival”, “Corporate League” and corporate box seating.

    The Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) announced these new attractions on Thursday as it aims to up the entertainment value for fans, on top of the stars in attendance at the country’s most prestigious badminton tournament.

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  • By World of Sport (original post from Yahoo! Eurosport can be found here)

    Former Liverpool hero John Aldridge has claimed that Luis Suarez should have won the PFA Player of the Year Award rather than Tottenham's Gareth Bale, because the latter is one of the league's 'biggest cheats'.

    Bale won both the Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year awards at Sunday night's ceremony, while Suarez, who was in the PFA's Team of the Year, was booed by his peers during the course of the ceremony.

    Aldridge's description of Bale as a cheat was based on his reputation for diving, a charge which has also been laid at Suarez's door during the season.

    More infamously, of course, Suarez is now serving a 10-match ban for biting Branislav Ivanovic.

    "It was no surprise that Suarez didn’t win the PFA award after what’s gone on but he would have been my pick ahead of Gareth Bale," Aldridge wrote in his column in the Liverpool Echo.

    "Some will say I’m biased, but over the course of the season I believe

    Read More »from John Aldridge: Luis Suarez should have won PFA award, not ‘one of the league’s biggest cheats’ Gareth Bale
  • Will this be sport’s next great stadium?


    By World of Sport (original post from Yahoo! Eurosport can be found here)

    The Atlanta Falcons of the NFL are building a new $1 billion stadium and it looks like they are going all out to create something unique.

    The company selected to design the stadium, 360 Architecture, have released two potential design concepts call the "Pantheon" and the "Solarium."

    They both feature incredibly funky-looking retractable roofs and a bevy of unique features that range from 360 degree giants screens to "impact seating" – which will see fans' seats vibrate whenever a big hit occurs on the pitch.

    We're just going to say that bit again: the seats vibrate whenever there's a big hit on the pitch! How cool is that?

    Seats that vibrate whenever a big tackle goes in. Amazing!Seats that vibrate whenever a big tackle goes in. Amazing!

    The Pantheon to us looks a bit like Beijing's Bird's Nest Stadium from the 2008 Olympics, though perhaps a Mk II version of that design created by an evil super villain in need of a new lair.

    Whereas the other option, the Solarium, looks like a giant greenhouse of the future built to protect

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  • By The Rundown (original post from Yahoo! Eurosport can be found here)

    David Beckham's sending-off in the closing moments of Paris St Germain's match on Sunday night saw him earn headlines across the world for all the wrong reasons.

    Considering that "Goldenballs" is usually held in the sort of reverence usually reserved for the Queen Mother, it was actually quite refreshing to see Beckham as a bad boy for a change.

    But it's not the first time that the former Manchester United and Real Madrid superstar has had his reputation tarnished.

    Here's our pick of the worst moments of Beckham's career, on and off the field - though it has to be said, even at the worst of times he still managed to have perfect hair throughout.

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    June 1998 - Beckham becomes a national figure of hatred after a petulant kick at Diego Simeone during a World Cup match against Argentina in France. The kick earned him a red card and helped England out of the tournament on penalties.



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    June 2000 - Beckham finds

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  • Open goal, two yards out, she can’t miss! Or can she…?

    By World of Sport (original post from Yahoo! Eurosport can be found here)

    A striker in the Dutch women's top flight has perpetrated a miss that will surely never be bettered (or should that be 'worsened'?) as long as the game of football is played.

    Nicoletta den Ridder was lining up for AC Beerschot against Ajax Ladies this weekend, and as her team trailed 2-0 she looked certain to get them back into the match.

    A shot off the crossbar left the keeper stranded on the turf, with the ball falling straight to den Ridder - who was on-side and literally four feet away from the gaping net.

    We'll leave the video to speak for itself as to what happened next. Suffice to say that even several of the Ajax players looked genuinely shocked and - dare we say it - sympathetic to den Ridder's plight.

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  • Stockholm's Friends Arena was the venue where The Mighty Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a ridiculous bicycle kick against England last November, and fans at AIK's home stadium witnessed yet another beautiful overhead volley on Sunday.

    AIK were drawing 2-2 in the 74th minute of their league tie with Halmstad BK when Nigerian striker Kennedy Igboananike connected with a cross from the right in spectacular fashion. The 2013 Swedish Allsvenskan is only six games old, but this powerful bicycle kick is already being lined up as a goal of the season contender.

    Unfortunately, Igboananike's goal wasn't enough to earn the Gnaget all three points, as the visitors equalized in the 90th minute. Way to put a dampener on things, Halmstad.

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