It’s difficult to reconcile the Adebayor in this lovely Radio 4 programme (featured on Speechification) with the one who’s boring us to tears with his story after story about wage-hike demands and doing one to Milan/Barcelona. It follows his ‘Tour of Hope’ to Togo, Nigeria and Ghana, where he goes around talking to kids of [...]

So there’s an Uzbek billionaire trying to get his grubby sausage-fingered mits into the club I love. Outspoken ex-British Ambassador of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, posts some accusations about Usmanov’s past on his website which don’t paint Usmanov in a particularly pretty light. Usmanov’s City solicitors Schillings then bully Murray’s ISP into taking down his site [...]