Big day for Robinho. The Crown Prosecution Service (British cops, I guess) cleared the Manchester City striker of serious sexual assault charges stemming from a January 14th incident at a Leeds nightclub.

How do you say “whew” in Portuguese?

Tags: manchester city, robinho

Well, I’m gobsmacked. Chelsea captain/England skipper John Terry’s mom and mother-in-law got pinched for stealing around 800 GBP worth of clothes and food from UK shops Tesco and Marks and Spencer. That’s a lot of HP Sauce.

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Chelsea FC, Inter, AC Milan and Club America will be coming to the U.S. this summer for a six-city exhibition tournament called the World Football Challenge. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited (and already have tickets to the July 21st Chelsea vs. Inter game at the Rose Bowl).

Here’s more on the event from SiTV.com

Tags: AC Milan, Chelsea FC, Club America, inter, world football challenge

“First this Brazilian soccer phenom goes on television, lies and retracts it, and now Eric’s secretary is in a coma.”

Well, not exactly, but at a private function in Sao Paulo, the legendary Pele apparently did call fellow Brazilian footballers Ronaldo and Robinho uhhh…coke heads. But now the former New York Cosmos forward denies the incident ever occurred.

Very sneaky, Pele, very sneaky (God, I have to stop with the Adam Sandler movie references).

Here’s the full story from ESPN.com

Tags: Brazil, pele, robinho, ronaldo