Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has laughed off the latest barb from Ramon Calderon. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA
Sir Alex Ferguson has weighed in once more in the war of words between Manchester United and Real Madrid over Cristiano Ronaldo. The Real Madrid president Ramón Calderón yesterday branded Ferguson as “a bit senile” after the United manager [...]

Cristiano Ronaldo took a full part in training ahead of the Champions League match. Photograph: John Peters/PA
Cristiano Ronaldo returned to full training with Manchester United this morning and will return to the first team squad for the Champions League match against Villarreal tomorrow. The Portuguese forward has not played this season after undergoing ankle surgery [...]

Ronaldo in action for Portugal against Turkey. Photograph: Lee Smith/Action images
The Real Madrid president Ramón Calderón has insisted that his club have nothing to fear from any Fifa investigation into their pursuit of the Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo.
United filed a formal complaint to Fifa yesterday, accusing Madrid officials of attempting to unsettle Ronaldo by [...]

Could this man soon be popping up on Las Ramblas? Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
Enjoy your life while you can as, tonight, the eighth round of Big Brother starts. Please do not swear.
This year’s gormless collection of goons and chumps include a 16 year-old blind boy, a ‘comic’ (we’ll see about that), a US deportee, [...]