Chelsea have announced that backup goalkeeper Hilario has signed a new one-year contract at the club.

Everton midfielder Steven Pienaar has been charged with drink driving, Merseyside Police confirmed this morning.

Bolton defender Gary Cahill has revealed “the slightest knock” could have proved fatal when he was suffering from a blood clot.

Everton striker Louis Saha has signed a two-year contract extension which will keep him at the club until the summer of 2012.

Sylvan Ebanks-Blake has committed his future to Wolves by signing a contract extension that will keep him at Molineux until 2013.

Bayern Munich general manager Uli Hoeness is insistent the club will not budge on their refusal to sell Franck Ribery.

Lyon have accepted an offer from Real Madrid for striker Karim Benzema.

Sunderland midfielder Liam Miller has been told he can leave the club.

Coleen McLoughlin has apparently sworn to keep her maiden name when she marries her footballer fiance Wayne Rooney.

Newcastle have confirmed midfielder Nicky Butt has signed a contract extension, committing him to the club until the end of next season.

Mark Clattenburg has been suspended from refereeing duties pending enquiries into reports of the official’s alleged debts.

Bolton manager Gary Megson has made his first signing of the January transfer window by taking defender Sebastien Puygrenier on loan until the end of the season from Zenit St Petersburg.

Alex Ferguson believes the “unethical” manner of Mark Hughes’ sacking by Manchester City could help trigger a Devon Loch-style collapse next week that opens the Barclays Premier League title door for Manchester United.

A man has been arrested over alleged threats to a football fan who got a tattoo about the Hillsborough disaster.

Sunderland’s John O’Shea is likely to be fit for the European Championships.

WAYNE ROONEY will travel to Switzerland this week hopeful of having his three-match England ban reduced.

Sprint king Usain Bolt provided the inspiration for Manchester United’s Premier League win over Fulham yesterday according to the charismatic Jamaican.

A MAN has pleaded guilty to blackmailing Coleen Rooney.

OFFICIALS say 121 people were injured yesterday as protesters in Barcelona clashed with police officers clearing a makeshift camp set up as part of a Spain-wide demonstration against high unemployment and other problems.

A GROUP of activists in Paris have emptied their bank accounts after a call by Eric Cantona to protest practices by leading banks.