Footballer has decent taste in music shocker! Now here’s something I didn’t expect to come across while perusing through the morning’s papers. While most footballers confess to an affinity with bland hip hop and R&B artists, it seems that the best of the lot, Lionel Messi is a big fan of Mancunian rockers Oasis and wants them to reform to play a celebration party for the Argentinean squad if they win the World Cup.
The Star tell us that Messi (pictured with Liam Gallagher above) was blown away by the band after being forced to listen to them by Argentinean team mate Carlos Tevez.
“Ever since he has been playing in Manchester, Carlitos has told me how great Oasis wasâ€, said the little genius. “On the plane on the way to the World Cup, Carlitos made me listen to their first two albums. I have to say I wasn’t expecting much but it is some of the best material I have ever heardâ€, he added.
Messi said that the team have pledged to try and get the feuding brother Gallagher brothers to get back together and play for them should they be victorious in South Africa and added that money would not be an issue.
“We have agreed that if we win the World Cup we want to fly them over to Argentina for our celebration party. We just need them to name their price.â€
I don’t think that would be too much of an issue Leo, I’m sure they’d be, as Liam might say, ‘mad for it’.
It’s all going Pete Tong for Tiger Woods lately I’m afraid. Fresh from startling revelations about his private life and his subsequent loss of form on the golf course, today’s Irish Daily Mirror reveals that his upcoming divorce from Swedish wife, Elin Nordegen is set to cost Tiger a cool €600 million.
The payout puts other celebrity divorces, such as the €400 million reportedly paid by Mel Gibson to his ex-wife Robyn or the €140 million Tiger’s buddy Michael Jordan forked out to his ex-missus Juanita, in the shade. As part of the deal, Elin is said to be forbidden from signing any book deals or giving interviews to the press about the breakdown of the couple’s marriage.
In fairness Tiger, what could she tell us that we don’t already know?
