He also asks who made the recordings and why they've been made public, questions that interests us too. Our belief was that when Real agreed to pay us silly money for the brat Arsenal figured it was time to drop the action against them. Given that they haven't finished paying for him yet it might be sensible not to rock the boat. After all, the last thing we want is for the transfer be declared null & void so we have to take him back!

See the AS site for today's stories, in Spanish, and babelfish for translation.

To be fair to Martin Bashir (see previous item) he did press Claude Anelka quite hard in last night's interview. I guess no-one told Claude to try the doe-eyed look.