Manchester United fans still smarting from Nani's red card against Real Madrid may wish to look away now.

The Portuguese winger was infamously dismissed for catching Alvaro Arbeloa in the chest with a high foot - but that had nothing on an incident in the Copa do Brasil this week.

ABC striker Rodrigo Silva was making a minor challenge for the ball in midfield when Sport Recife's Ailson came steaming in.

Ailson booted the ball away but his follow-through caught his opponent high on the shoulder, cleaning him out completely.

Remarkably, Ailson was only shown a yellow card for a manoeuvre that

Hold onto your hats: the Special One is back. Well, sort of...

Chelsea fans desperate to see Jose Mourinho return to the club this summer would have had a shock at Fulham Broadway tube after a waxwork of the former boss popped up at the station which serves Stamford Bridge.

The eerily-realistic Madame Tussauds creation was even donning a Chelsea scarf for the occasion and Blues supporters took the opportunity to have their photo taken with their hero.

Surely it's only a matter of time before the real thing is patrolling Chelsea once again.

Jimmy Davis's time at Waterloo Dock AFC (www.waterloodockafc.co.uk)

England's longest-serving football manager is retiring aged 71 after overseeing several trophy-laden decades at the club he loves - but he is not called Sir Alex Ferguson.

Just days after the footballing world watched Ferguson call time on his managerial career, Jimmy Davies will step aside from his post at amateur club Waterloo Dock after a 50-year stint that makes the former Manchester United boss's 26 years look short.

Davies has a lot in common with the highly successful Ferguson even though the worlds of a non-league Liverpool-based club and the serial Premier League champions are poles

You can't get two words out about motorsport these days without somebody complaining that it's all about who has the fastest car rather than who is the best driver.

But while there's a partial element of truth to that, anyone who really knowns their motor racing will be able to tell you that there's an awful lot more to it than that.

And now we have proof.

The proof in question comes courtesy of driver Leh Keen, a racing driver who has finished on the podium at the Le Mans 24hr and won the Grand-Am GT championship in an illustrious career.

He strapped on a helmet camera to give a true

You can't help but feel a bit sorry for referees, particularly in amateur matches.

I mean, really. Who would do it? You've got all the inconvenience of peeling yourself off the sofa on a Sunday morning to get up and out of the house and changed into kit, but none of the fun of actually playing football.

Then there are the abusive players, who seem to believe that abusing and threatening refs - at any level of the game - is a victimless crime. No doubt it's behaviour they've copied from the pros on TV - but while it might be understandable for those whose livelihoods depend on the outcome of

Kevin Durant's back tattoo

You know what it's like getting people in to do work. Will they show up on time? Will they rip you off? Will they end up flooding the kitchen and electrocuting the cat?

But at least when you're getting people in to work on the house, any mistakes they make can be easily rectified. Such is not the case when hiring a tattoo artist, as NBA superstar Kevin Durant found out this week.

The Oklahoma City Thunder star - one of the highest-paid athletes in the world - recently Tweeted a photo of his new back tattoo. It consists of a passage from James 1:2-4 illustrated with a haunting woodcut-style

When it comes to making fans and media alike lovestruck in sudden and spellbinding fashion, Germany's Bundesliga has ticked all the required boxes in this, its 50th season.

Dazzling, attractive, marketable football? Check.

Success on a European platform? Check.

Television coverage on a major British channel? Check.

Endearingly-sensible business model and affordable pricing scale? Check.

Young, dashing, charismatic and perhaps even sexy managers? Check.

Brutal and uncompromising destruction of the previous concensus darlings? Check.

Of course, this checklist has almost entirely been chalked

Bayern Munich would not have brought in Josep Guardiola to replace Jupp Heynckes if they knew they were in line for a historic treble, according to former Bayern director and six-times Grand Slam tennis winner Boris Becker.

Becker lives in London these days, but spent 10 years on the board of the club he has supported since his childhood in an advisory capacity after concluding his glorious tennis career.

Becker has already placed a bet on Bayern beating Borussia Dortmund 3-1 in Saturday's all-German Champions League final at Wembley Stadium as part of an "ambassador" role with an online