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Trundle in four-letter furore
Swansea striker Lee Trundle may face police punishment from the Football Association of Wales after aiming insults at Welsh rivals Cardiff while celebrating his club's Football League Trophy victory on Sunday.
Swansea defeated Carlisle 2-1 in the Millennium Stadium, in Cardiff. Trundle struck a spectacular opening goal, but after the final whistle, he carried a Welsh flag bearing the words "F*** off, Cardiff" and donned a T-shirt on which a cartoon showed a man urinating on a Cardiff shirt. Both the flag and T-shirt are believed to have been thrown to him from Swansea fans. The 29-year-old, born in Liverpool, is eligible to play for the Republic of Ireland.
Rummenigge takes on Fifa
Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has criticised Fifa for not paying the wages of his club's international players while they take part in this summer's World Cup. Rummenigge, who represents Bayern Munich in the G14 lobby group of leading European clubs, also promises to take legal action if Fifa fail to adequately compensate his club for losse while the club's players are on international duty. "It cannot go on," he told WirtschaftsWoche, an economics magazine. "Fifa have set up their statutes in such a way that we, the clubs, must release our highly paid players for free. With these players, Fifa are making billions in turnover with events such as the World Cup and a huge profit, without giving the clubs their fair slice. That is a clear monopoly situation.
"An international player at a good club costs around €7,000 per day. The maths are quite easy - there are 32 teams at the World Cup, all with squads of 23, which makes a total of around 740 players whose salaries FIFA should be paying. The G14 has calculated that FIFA would have to pay around 140 million to compensate the clubs completely. To see why, you just have to look at the damages that have been caused over the last 10 years for clubs who have lost injured international players, which lie at around 600 million."
