Another week, another Chelsea player being naughty. This time it’s their battering ram striker Didier Drogba who’s setting a bad example to the kids, receiving a £565 fine and three penalty points after driving around without insurance. Oh, and one of them driving license things.

For us ‘normals’, the TV just tells us to buy stuff we don’t really need. Less normal people claim it tells them to burn things and stuff. For Rio Ferdinand, the television tells him he’s England captain.

“The team hasn't been briefed on anything. We haven't spoken to the manager, he hasn't spoken to the players, he does it a certain way.

We have to wait until we go with the squad. I found out I was captain from the TV.”

Talking to investors at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, EA Sports big cheese Peter Moore has hinted that this year will see the company’s big franchises like FIFA and Madden move toward digital distribution and subscription plans.

Extraordinarily, going into administration didn’t stop Portsmouth from thinking that offering financial advice to their fans on their website was a good idea. Pompey’s “PFC Financial Services” division was apparently set up to give “everyday financial products and solutions that our supporters and families have need for.” Like Portsmouth branded credit cards. For reals.

Sports Interactive and SEGA have released the free data update for FM 2010 on PC and Mac that includes all the transfers and managerial changes up to the end of the January transfer window.

Download the update here. See the full details of what the patch does here.

It’s coming home, it’s coming home, it’s coming… to Lincoln. The Coca-Cola FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour will visit 33 countries in 2010, giving fans the opportunity to see the authentic FIFA World Cup Trophy first hand. Currently in Honduras, the tour will make it’s only stop at a UK football ground at Lincoln City’s Sincil Bank ground on 12 March, where the lucky fans will see it paraded around before their game with Hereford.

We don’t know what Rafa Benitez did to upset the Romanians so much, but they laid into him pretty hard in the press conference ahead of Liverpool’s Europa League match against Unirea Urziceni in Bucharest.

According to a ‘source’ close to the player, presumably not John Terry, Wayne Bridge is so devastated by his ex-Chelsea team mates affair with his former partner, Vanessa Perroncel, that he’s close to pulling out of England’s World Cup plans as long as Terry is in the squad. You really know you don’t get on with someone when you’d miss out on playing in the greatest sporting competition in the world just to avoid spending time with them.

Just when Owen might have thought he had written off his World Cup chances a little prematurely, Fabio Capello has gone and done it for him. Talking to Gazzetta dello Sport, the England manager praised Owen as England’s best goal scorer but ruled him out as long as he’s warming benches.

According to an Old Trafford ‘source’, Sir Alex Ferguson has banned his youth team players from wearing anything other than traditional black football boots.

“Sir Alex doesn't like young players to get ahead of themselves. He thinks their feet should be on the ground.”

The decision might seem a little over the top from the Manchester United manager, but it makes sense to encourage youngsters to focus solely on their football.