Revealed: Manchester's bargain T-shirts plus Balotelli's latest restaurant brawl!

By 3pm

Published 21:02 18/12/11

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Readers looking for a bargain Christmas present are directed to Manchester, where for some reason, these handsome Champions League T-shirts are currently heavily reduced…

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Sadly stories that Mario Balotelli took to Manchester's streets on Saturday night, dressed as Santa and dispensing £20 notes to the homeless, turn out not to be true. Yet the great man had already managed to cause festive city centre hilarity last week.

A couple of days after his training ground clash with Micah Richards, diners in posh eaterie San Carlo spotted Mario in another heated discussion, this time with a fellow customer who turned out to be a United supporter.

How did it all end? The well-fed Red picked up the nearest weapon to hand and slapped Balotelli with it. Luckily for all concerned, it turned out to be a colourful Christmas mitten!

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Why always Roy Keane? The quiet-tempered Irishman has revealed in an interview how he's been spending his spare time since getting the sack at Ipswich and it's pretty much as expected.

Keane outlined how he'd recently gone to watch Wigan v Blackburn "dressed in jeans, cap over my ears, scarf over my chin", bought a ticket on the way in and "enjoyed it, pie at half-time, six goals, no one recognised me, didn't have to make small talk, good day."

Encouraged, he decided to go back to the DW a fortnight later to watch Arsenal but was denied a seat as it was a different category game. "Okay, I said, I'll buy a season ticket. She said it wasn't possible. I said, I think your club is £37m in debt and you don't want my money. I did give her a little bit of lip and she said she would call security. Call them, I said. The security guy came along, put his hands on my arm. Get your hands off me I said. He did. I strolled back to my car and drove home."

Remarkably, Roy is still available for managerial work

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Great idea from Aston Villa - baubles honouring some of the club's greatest-ever players.

No doubt first team coach and 1980s legend Gordon Cowans was delighted when he saw the ones bearing his famous No.10 jersey - until he realised his surname had been misspelled GOWANS..

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