I don’t want a slave

Hot on the heels of Sepp Blatter's comments that Christiano Ronald is a ‘modern day slave', football has another. Andrei Arshavin has decided to go on strike because his current club Zenit St Petersburg are pricing him out of a move to Tottenham.

Spurs have agreed personal terms with the player but they will not meet Zenit's ridiculous asking price of over £20m.