We start in Lithuania with the owner of Scottish side Heart of Midlothian FC, Vladimir Romanov. While considered a hard-nosed wheeler-dealer in his business life, he is now showing off a more sensitive side of his personality as he prepares to star in Dance With A Star, a ballroom-based celebrity game show on the leading Lithuanian channel LNK. Romanov has teamed up with professional dancer Sandra Kniazevičiūtė and they can be seen training together in an empty stadium in a promotion

Dave Odell rounds up the week's funny football stories Mixed up in Manchester Something of a twilight zone has been set up around Manchester. It has usually been fairly easy to distinguish between Manchester City FC and their local rivals Manchester United FC, right? Well, new City manager Sven-Göran Eriksson was addressing a press conference to welcome new signing Valeri Bojinov, when he turned to the Bulgarian forward and asked: "Why did you want to join Manchester United?" A simple

The new soccer season is upon us with the major European leagues just starting - and the anticipation is bigger than ever before. Will we recognise the players, or even be able to pronounce their names? But there is one thing that will stay the same and has already started in earnest. The Fergie and Jose show Apparently Sir Alex Ferguson was even more red-faced than usual when he explained why he would be absent from the games against Gretna and Dunfermline. Lady Ferguson insisted that he helped