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World Cup widows to pick sexy elevenMarseille retailers have hit on a novel way of trying to attract local women shoppers back to the centre...

World Cup widows to pick sexy eleven

Marseille retailers have hit on a novel way of trying to attract local women shoppers back to the centre of town in the wake of the violence involving England fans last weekend. Advertising boards around the town will show 11 men8217;s bottoms in underpants. The posters encourage shoppers to return to the stores in the old port area of the town by offering 2,000 tokens worth eight dollars to women who pick the sexiest 11 of the 704 players at the World Cup.

Great cooks of France8230;

Gastronomes in the diners8217; paradise of Burgundy are protesting against the choice of US fast-food chain Mcdonald8217;s as the officials World Cup restaurant. A group of them got together and stuck up thousands of posters that said 8220;to the great cooks of France: can we allow French cuisine to be represented by Mcdonald8217;s before billions of television viewers?quot;

In the dumps again

Barely had he been given a suspended sentence for taking potshots at journalists with an Airrifle than Diego Maradona was back in the news for reportedly splitting with his wife. Germans to screen film GERMAN television is to show the controversial American film which threatened to lead to the pull-out of the Iranian team after it was shown by a private French channel 8212; three days before Germany play Iran.

The Iranians were upset at the recent airing of Not without my daughter, the true story of American Betty Mahmoody, who married an Iranian and went to the country with her husband and daughter. Suker talks, for moneyDAVOR Suker, Croatian star who isn8217;t too happy about attention from Japanese media, reportedly agreed to see some Japanese journalists for a fee of 1,000 dollars.

Daddy Okacha!

Nigeria8217;s Jay-Jay Okocha, involved in the move for the decisive goal in their 1-0 World Cup win over Bulgaria on Friday, revealed his wife Nkeche was about to give birth. Monaco8217;s Victor Ikpeba scored a 27th minute goal to earn Nigeria a second roundspot for their second successive World Cup.