Bakary Sako and THOSE boots
Wolves player Bakary Sako has taken football boot customisation to a new level for his 100th game with the club.
The winger has had his boots engraved with Swarovski diamonds, including the pattern of the Wolves badge, his signature and the number 100.
A man known for his confidence, Sako recently posted a picture to his Twitter account revealing his customised phone case showing himself celebrating scoring for Wolves.
Quite how these shiny new boots will look after a quick runaround on the Griffin Park turf is going to be interesting to see.
ex-Bee George Saville returns to Griffin Park on Saturday for his first match against the Bees since moving to Molineaux. Nouha Dicko has a hamstring injury and won’t feature. Brentford have no known new injury worries and are expected to go into this match with an unchanged squad
Sako’s boots plus more were discussed by Bees and Wolves fans in the Beesotted Thursday pre-match podcast
Whelan under fire
Wigan chairman Dave Wheelan has been charged by the FA for an “aggravated breach” of FA laws after comments he mad about Jewish and Chinese people in an interview.
Whelan has threatened to quit as chairman of the club if he is found guilty of racism or any discrimination offence.
This all stemmed from Whelan’s controversial appointment of Malky Mackay, who is under FA investigation over homophobic, racist and sexist texts who Whelan appointed after sacking former Bees boss Uwe Rosler.
Whelan has until next Friday to respond to the charges faced against him.
Pele denies morbid rumours.
Away from the championship and Brazilian legend Pele has taken to Twitter to dismiss rumours that circled on Thursday about his health.
News spread throughout the world, into newspapers and major news networks that the former striker was in a critical condition in hospital.
Whilst the global icon was admitted to hospital, he tweeted to let fans know that he wasn’t admitted to intensive care, rather placed in an individual room for “privacy purposes only”
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