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Lionel Messi threw an aggressive headbutt at Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa when the pair squared up after an altercation A melee then ensued as the Argentine grabbed the French defender by the neck and pushed him away They were both separated by Roma's Leandro Castan and referee Javier Estrada Fernandez before being booked Messi then scored seven minutes later in the 41st minute after Neymar had opened the scoring in the 27th Champions League final goalscorer Ivan Rakitic then netted the final goal at the Nou Camp in the 66th minute Barcelona talisman Lionel Messi (right) launched an astonishing headbutt at Roma defender Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa The 28-year-old then grabbed the towering 26-year-old France international by the neck with his left hand and pushed him Alessandro Florenzi was then booked for going cynically through the back of Neymar and Radja Nainggolan made it a hat-trick of cautions for the visitors in the first half when he went into the book for compla...

The Amaju Pinnick led Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation will record another first on Monday, August 17, when Super Eagles’ Head Coach, Sunday Oliseh, will perform the significant ringing of the bell at the closing of business at the Nigeria Stock Exchange. Thenff.com can report that Oliseh will attend the symbolic event at the Nigeria Stock Exchange house in Lagos in company with NFF president, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick and vice presidents Seyi Akinwunmi and Shehu Dikko. “The ringing of the bell at the closing of business at the Nigeria Stock Exchange floor is a very significant event. It means that Corporate Nigeria is warming up to Nigeria football as a result of extensive consultations that we have been making over the past months,” Pinnick said on Wednesday. It is the first time in history that the Nigeria Stock Exchange would offer a Nigeria football figure such a gesture, and Pinnick says it is the beginning of what would turn out to be a wonderful rel...

Rapper 50 Cent filed for bankruptcy on Monday as it was revealed he spends $72,000 a MONTH to live in his lavish Connecticut mansion which has its own private casino, basketball court and nine kitchens. The entertainer has followed in the footsteps of Mike Tyson and two other former owners of the huge property, one of the biggest private residences in America, that none of them could afford to keep. Court papers revealed the star, real name Curtis Jackson, spends a whopping $108,000 on his expenses each month, including $5,000 on gardening alone. Broke 50 cent despite making £185,000 a month from royalties and investments, he still owes his barber, stylist and personal trainer money Get rich of die trying: 50 Cent filed for bankruptcy on Monday, with court papers revealing he spent $72,000 a month on his mansion in Connecticut, including $5,000 a month on gardening  This extravagant home, boasts a number of features including a swimming pool, private...

                        World Footballer of the year and the highest paid football player with an estimated earning of $159.2m, Real Madrid star forward Cristiano Ronaldo can afford virtually anything money can buy- yes, go ahead name it- and he showed it when he gave his agent Jorge Mendes a Greek island as a wedding present, media reports say. As for Ronaldo, its been a way of saying thank you to an ever loyal supportive agent. The Island has not been named but the price goes for around 50 million Euros, reports say. Spain’s Mundo Deportivo website says Ronaldo knows the Greek islands well from holidays. Mr Mendes married his partner Sandra in Portugal on Sunday.                                         Ronaldo acted as best man for Mr Mendes, 49, who is one of football’s most successful agents and run...

                                 Every Arsenal player came in my direction which was the easiest thing to do because I was just there and if other people didn’t come in my direction that is not a problem, not a story and not the end of the world and I gave no more problem on that. I did my job, the job that my club deserves me to do and the status as a manager when I lose a charity shield or any trophy. The warring duo also blanked each other at the full-time whistle but Wenger said: “I shook a few hands after the game but there’s nothing special there.” Mourinho tossed his runners-up medal into the crowd and said: “I threw it to a kid, an Arsenal (supporting) kid. I don’t keep the one (medal) when I win, imagine the ones when I lose. “I think this is a good memory for him. He wins and takes a medal from the loser.”

Mourinho was in typically scathing form when talking about another rival Manuel Pellegrini, the Manchester City boss. On the one hand Mourinho appeared to issue an apology of sorts to the Chilean for getting his name wrong and calling him 'Pellegrino' last season. The reason, explained the Chelsea boss, was that he once worked with a player called Mauricio Pellegrino. I always made a mistake by calling one the other. The last thing I’d do is show a lack of respect, he said. Having presented the olive branch he then withdrew it and accused Pellegrini of being "obsessed" with him. The City boss aimed several digs at Chelsea over the summer, and Mourinho's response was typically haughty. I am always thinking about football but in my holidays I did zero interviews, he said.  You are free of everything, questions, answers, controversy, interpretation, overreaction. Is he obsessed with me? I don’t know. When a manager is on holidays and still thinks about...

Jose Mourinho has signalled the start of hostilities ahead of the new football season, with a brace of warning shots across the bows of two of his main rivals in this year's title race. In an interview with several national newspapers, the Portuguese manager was back to his prickly best, taking issue with Arsene Wenger's complaints over transfer spending and responding to criticism from Man City boss Manuel Pellegrini. "Jose Mourinho has not changed," writes Matt Hughes of The Times. "What you see on the television and the touchline is what you get in the flesh. Mourinho is amusing, scathing, driven and intense, but never mellow." The theme of the interview is the manager's "soaring expectations and intolerance of those who fall short", but his most eye-catching comments relate to his old adversary Wenger, who is poised to mount Arsenal's biggest title push for a decade. Mourinho has shown little respect for Wenger ove...