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This is the house where the stabbing incident took place. This house belongs to Davenport's mother Kim.

Two men have been arrested following the stabbing of Premiership footballer Calum Davenport at his home this morning.

West Ham United defender Davenport, 26, is being treated for serious injuries after being stabbed outside his family home near Bedford.

Bedfordshire police this evening arrested a 25-year-old man in Derby for attempted murder in connection with the assault.

A 19-year-old man, arrested shortly after the incident, is also being held for questioning.

Davenport was rushed to hospital in an ambulance and underwent surgery on his legs this morning. According to Bedfordshire Police his injuries are serious but not life threatening.

Davenport's 49-year-old mother was also treated for injuries.

A police spokeswoman said: “We were called to a house Springfield Avenue, Kempston at around 5am this morning after receiving reports of a person being stabbed. A 26-year-old man was taken to hospital for treatment for serious injuries, which are not thought to be life threatening. This evening a 25-year-old man was arrested in Derby on suspicion of attempted murder and is due to be escorted to Bedford for questioning A nineteen-year-old man was arrested shortly after the incident and is still being questioned at a Bedford police station.”

A neighbor said the assault spilled out onto the street and an area was coned off for forensic examinations. One neighbour said: “The police would not tell us what was going on, but I saw a lot of blood.”

Another neighbor said: “There was some sort of row early this morning. We heard some shouting. He was stabbed in the leg several times.”

A spokesman for West Ham United released a statement this afternoon confirming Davenport had been stabbed.

He said: "We can confirm that Calum Davenport was being treated in hospital on Saturday afternoon after an incident late on Friday night. The 26-year-old defender and his mum both suffered stab wounds at home in Bedford. His mum is recovering while Calum underwent surgery this morning and his injuries were described as serious by doctors. The club's medical team are in contact with hospital staff. The thoughts of everyone at West Ham are with Calum and his family and, due to the ongoing police investigation, no further information will be released at this time."

More info will be here on the blog as soon as it becomes available.

Thankies BBC UK for Images and UK Times

Good Saturday Afternoon! Well, I was looking at results when I came across this story. It is a little shocking to read, but bear with me ok?

West Ham United footballer Calum Davenport is having surgery on both legs after he and his mother were stabbed, his spokesman has said.

Davenport, 26, and his mother are both in a serious condition after being stabbed at their home in Bedford.

Police said the attack happened late on Friday. West Ham said its thoughts were with the player and his family.

The defender and former England under-21 joined West Ham from Tottenham for £3m in 2007.

He had a spell on loan for Sunderland last season and also played for Coventry City.

A West Ham spokesman said:

"The club's medical team are in contact with hospital staff. The thoughts of everyone at West Ham are with Calum and his family and, due to the on-going investigation, no further information will be released."

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WWE Intercontinental Champion Rey Mysterio recently toured Spain where he invited Cristiano Ronaldo, Raul and their Real Madrid teammates to WWE’s upcoming SmackDown and ECW live event in Madrid on Sept. 24.

"It was an honor to be invited to visit Real Madrid’s training ground and meet Raul, Ronaldo, Kaka and all the other footballers that play for such a successful team,” Mysterio said. “I am looking forward to seeing them again in September when I am back in Madrid and to give them a taste of my own kind of athleticism!”

"Rey, it is a pleasure to meet you,” Raul told the SmackDown Superstar. “Thank you for the invite to see you in Madrid. My kids love your show."

Good Friday to you wherever you are. I want to take a sec to thank all the readers that made my last Liverpool post a feature. Thank you.

Now, onto business.

Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has condemned Lucas Leiva's critics after the midfielder earned a call-up to the Brazil squad.

Lucas showed promising form despite the Reds' poor pre-season campaign and continued his form into Liverpool's 4-0 clubbing of Stoke City in midweek.

Brazil manager Dunga has now called up the midfielder for their upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Argentina and Chile in a clear sign of Lucas' progress under Benitez.

Despite the progress, the 22-year-old was still made a scapegoat as Liverpool fell to Tottenham on the opening day of the season, criticism which Benitez is adamant was unfair.

"Lucas has a very good mentality. But for someone of his age to suffer such criticism from the experts on TV is wrong," Benitez claimed. "He is so good but still he was criticised. I do not understand why they do not criticize other players, more senior players, when they do not play well. He is an easy target and maybe they are not brave enough to criticise the bigger players here. But he will have a big season. He was the best player in pre-season and at Spurs, when we did not play well, he was still one of the best alongside Glen Johnson and Pepe Reina. Against Stoke he again showed his quality. He has a very good mentality. He can tackle, win headers and pass the ball. He will make mistakes like anyone, but he is and will be a very good player. I was really pleased for Lucas, in particular, after the win against Stoke and his performance. I have been really surprised at the amount of criticism he has had to cope with from the pundits, the so-called experts. Lucas is still a young player but he has experience. And after the display against Stoke everyone can see, even the so-called experts on TV pundit panels, can see he is a very good player. Hopefully they will now stop using him as a target. He is a very good lad, an excellent professional. I find it hard to understand that if you are an expert on TV, you cannot see these things."

Hello everyone! Good morning! :) Sorry for the lack of writing yesterday. I was ill...it was bad. :( Anyway, today's hunk comes from the land of beer and the Bundesliga! (Also, my family) I am talking about Germany! Today's hunk plays for Werder Bremen of the 1. Bundesliga. May I present to you, the latest addition to the Hunky Brotherhood, Clemens Fritz!!

Clemens here was born on December 7, 1980 in Erfurt, Germany. He plays as a right back for Werder Bremen of the 1. Bundesliga.

Fritz started his footballing career playing for the Regional Liga club Rot-Weiss Erfurt. In the summer of 2001, he joined 2. Bundesliga club Karlsruher SC and scored five goals in 32 games. When he was signed by Bayer Leverkusen in 2003, he was loaned back to Karlsruhe to play first team football. He got onto Leverkusen's first team in the 2003-04 season second half after showing his capabilities for their reserve team. Fritz played 14 more first team games for Leverkusen that season, gaining them a UEFA Champions League place. In 2004, he broke his leg during a pre-season game against Rot-Weiss Essen, ruling him out the entire season. He became a first team regular for Leverkusen until he joined Werder Bremen in the summer of 2006.

Having played for the Germany U-18s and U-21s, Fritz debuted with the senior team in October 2006, in a 4–1 win in Slovakia. In June of the following year, he scored his first international goal, in a 6–0 rout of minnows San Marino.

Fritz was selected in the 23-man squad for the European Championships in Austria and Switzerland in 2008. He appeared in Germany's opening game against Poland, which his team won 2-0. He also appeared in the second game against Croatia, but his team lost 1-2.

There was very little about a possible WAG. I know that he has a girlfriend, so any other info would be welcomed. A pic would reek of awesomeness too! :)

For more on Clemens and to see more pics, please visit his official website

Oh! That looks so painful!! :(

It turns out yesterday’s Rafa has quit rumors were just that: rumors. Benitez re-affirmed his commitment to Liverpool as victory over Stoke left him in a jovial mood. The Spaniard joked that his side were the Premier League pacesetters when it came to getting stitches.

Fernando Torres received 10 stitches to a head wound after clashing heads with Potters’ defender and reported Rafa-target Ryan Shawcross.

Benitez said:

“We are at the top of the table now - for stitches, Carra had 20 on Sunday, Skrtel some more and now Torres, maybe 30 in total - so we are top!“

Responding to yesterday’s whispers that he had walked out on Liverpool, Benitez said the rumors had reached him but there was no truth in them.

He said:

“I was told about the rumors, that maybe something happened here at Anfield, but I will tell the fans I want to stay - my commitment is 100 per cent. If I can improve the squad I will be pleased, but if I can’t then I will stay to try and compete with the squad that we have.”

(Thanks to Rob at Off the Post)

Liverpool have confirmed a deal has been agreed to sign Greece international Sotirios Kyrgiakos, subject to the defender passing a medical.

It was revealed on Tuesday that Reds boss Rafa Benitez had lined up a move for the AEK Athens stopper to provide cover in his back-line.

Benitez revealed after his team's 4-0 win over Stoke City on Wednesday evening that the former Rangers centre-half is heading to Anfield.

Kyrgiakos is expected to arrive on Merseyside before the weekend to undergo a medical and he could be involved in next Monday's Premier League game against Aston Villa.

"We have nearly done the deal subject to a medical," Benitez told the club's official website. "He is a player with experience who can hopefully help us in defence. "He has experience in British football and Rangers. After that with Frankfurt and the national team. He's a good player in the air, strong and aggressive. We were looking for a player with experience. He will have the medical this week, it has to be before the weekend."

Benitez is currently without both Daniel Agger and Martin Skrtel through injury, and started Spanish teenager Daniel Ayala alongside Jamie Carragher against Stoke.

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David Villa and his wife Patricia González are celebrating the birth of their second child, a daughter named Olaya.

Olaya was born yesterday, August 18th, weighing just over 3 kilos. The Valencia website has confirmed the happy news.

To know David, is to love him - especially when you see him with his older daughter, Zaida.

Congrats!!

It's hardly going to put a dent in the billionaire's finances. But he may well be on his way to raising his very own football team as Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich is set to become a father for the SIXTH time.

The 42-year-old's Russian girlfriend, fashion designer and socialite Daria Zhukova, is said to be six months pregnant with their first child. A source said he and Daria - better known as Dasha - 28, are 'ecstatic and excited' at the prospect of becoming parents. Abramovich and Dasha, who have been dating for three years, discovered she was pregnant following a holiday in the Caribbean. Roman, who already has two sons and three daughters with his ex-wife Irina, broke the news to close friends and family last month.

A source told The Daily Mirror: 'They have been dying to tell people the good news but wanted to make sure everything was OK.'

As yet, the couple do not know the sex of the baby, which, friends say, will be born in Moscow and will be brought up a Chelsea fan. The source said: 'They are both ecstatic and excited and can't wait to raise a child together. 'Dasha is so petite it's impossible to notice she has a baby bump, even though she is six months gone.' Mr Abramovich's spokesperson said: 'We don't comment on personal matters.' Roman met the daughter of Russian oligarch Alexander Zhukova at a New Year's Eve party hosted by her father in 2006. But apparently romance did not blossom until he had split from second wife Irina.

Their divorce ended in a record settlement rumoured to be £1.5billion made by Abramovich to the mother of his five children. Former model Dasha heads up her own trendy fashion label, Kova & T, and is a regular on the art scene. She was recently made editor of style magazine Pop and her first edition is due out on September 1. In September, she opened The Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, a gallery of contemporary art in Moscow

Dasha's father is a billionaire who was arrested in Italy years ago for arms smuggling to the former Yugoslavia and spent six months in a Turin jail. He now owns one of the largest villas in Sardinia where he spends six months a year.

(Source Daily Mail, thankies!!)

Good morning to you! :) Today, we bring you a hunk from the land of the rising sun, rice balls, and Tokyo!! Today's hunk recently transfered away from Celtic to join La Liga. Today's hunk....Shunsuke Nakamura!!

Shunsuke here was born on June 24, 1978 in Yokohama, Japan. He is one of the most prominent and successful Asian players to have played in Europe and on 13 September 2006 became the first Japanese player to score in the UEFA Champions League and the second Asian player to do so. He is also well known for his free kick-taking abilities.

He has won the Asian Cup in 2000 and 2004 with the Japanese national football team, and was named Most Valuable Player in the 2004 competition. He has also appeared in the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship, and the 2000 Summer Olympics as a member of the Japanese Under-23 team.

In his first season with Celtic, Nakamura helped the club win the Scottish Premier League and Scottish League Cup. His contributions to the Japanese national football team are represented by 22 goals. His former clubs include Yokohama F. Marinos and Reggina, for whom he scored 38 and 12 goals respectively before moving to Celtic on 25 July 2005 for a fee of around £1.25 million

Many media have speculated that Nakamura returned to his hometown club Yokohama F. Marinos after the four year contract with Celtic. In June 2009, just before a medical checkup in Yokohama, the negotiation broke down due to unknown reasons. On 22nd June 2009, it was announced that Nakamura had agreed terms with Spanish Primera Division side Espanyol. He agreed to join on a two-year contract, subject to a medical examination.

Nakamura married a former Japanese talent in 2004. In the same year, his first son was born. His second son was born on January 15, 2008 in Glasgow, Scotland. Nakamura enjoys baseball, which is the most popular sport in Japan. His favourite team is Yomiuri Giants. He bats right-handed and throws right-handed though he is a left-footed footballer. According to the Evening Times, he is a fan of the Grand Theft Auto and Gran Turismo video games. He has appeared with Zico on the front cover of the Japanese releases of Konami's Winning Eleven video game series (WE 5 WE 9, WE 9: Ubiquitous Evolution and WE 10) in 2001, 2005 and 2006. He also appeared on the front cover of Namco's Football Kingdom Trial Edition in 2004. He is the paid promoter of the Yamada electronics chain. His current boot sponsor is Adidas.

**Any pic of him and his wife would be appreciated!!**