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Gomez and Ozil Strike As Germany Goes Ten Points Clear NNewew VVisionision SPORT Thursday, June 9, 2011 27 Schalke confirms Giggs hits hat-trick chasing Lehmann FOOTBALL Champions League semi- of ‘illicit’ lovers as finalists Schalke 04 have confirmed their interest in former Germany goalkeeper Jens Lehmann following his brief comeback last season new claims emerge with Premier League giants Arsenal. With Germany’s first choice shot-stopper Manuel MANCHESTER Neuer set to quit the Royal Blues for Bayern Munich on A third woman is set to July 1, Lehmann’s name has claim she had an affair featured in Schalke’s plan- with Ryan Giggs that ning. Schalke signed goal- ended only on his wed- keeper Ralf Faehrmann from ding day. relegated German league side In the latest blow to the Eintracht Frankfurt at the end Manchester United star’s of the season. reputation, the unnamed woman is expected to join his sister-in-law Natasha and reality TV Hurting Tiger pulls star Imogen Thomas in branding him a love out of US Open golf cheat. Giggs is already bat- GOLF tling to save his four-year Nowitzki spearheaded the Mavericks rally to tie the NBA Finals heading into Game Five today marriage to wife Stacey Former World No. 1 Tiger and has taken her and Woods, a 14-time major their two children to a champion chasing the all- secret holiday destina- time record of 18 won by Jack tion. Nicklaus, said Tuesday that he The mounting allega- will not play in next week’s tions over his infidelity US Open golf tournament. echo the scandal that en- Woods suffered a sprained gulfed Tiger Woods and All level now left knee and strained left cost the golfer endorse- Achilles tendon in the third ments worth millions of round of the Masters in April dollars. and withdrew in pain from Yesterday, Giggs’s last month’s US PGA Players £20million sponsor Championship after complet- Reebok again pointedly ing only nine holes.“I am failed to express support extremely disappointed that I for him. won’t be playing in the US Open, but it’s time for me to Off pitch hat-trick in NBA Finals listen to my doctors and The third alleged lover focus on the future,” Woods said on his website. claims she had a two- ? DALLAS there, because if he has a ter- year affair with Giggs. rible night, he’s going to get NBA FINALS ‘This was no one-night The Dallas Mavericks used criticised about him not mak- stand,’ a source close to ing shots and not stepping up some fourth-quarter fireworks Game Four result Should Obua be the woman said yester- by an ailing Dirk Nowitzki to in the challenge.” day. ‘The two of them Dallas 86 Miami 83 forgiven or pun- From top: Ryan, overcome Dwyane Wade’s 32- The Mavericks overcame a had a lasting relationship (Best-of-seven series level Thomas, Nata- point performance and defeat 74-65 deficit with a 17-4 run ished for trashing which went on for two 2-2) sha and Rhodri the Miami Heat 86-83 on Tues- to take an 82-78 lead with just the Cranes jersey years. It only came to an Today: Game Five but who is the day to square the best-of-seven over two minutes left, igniting end when he phoned her Miami at Dallas after he was sub- third woman? NBA Finals at 2-2. the capacity crowd of 20,430 at on his wedding day to the American Airlines Center. Dallas got 10 final-period June 12: Dallas at Miami stituted? Type say it was all over.’ With the Mavericks cling- points from a feverish Nowit- June 14: Dallas at Miami Bobby, write your Giggs married in secret in 2007, reportedly zki, including a clutch basket ing to an 82-81 lead, Nowitzki booking a room at the Lowry hotel in Salford down the stretch, to overcome drove to the basket tightly comment, your under another name and inviting only a few a nine-point deficit in the final get out of bed,” said center guarded by Udonis Haslem and name and sms to relatives and friends. eight minutes. Tyson Chandler, who had 13 softly banked in a lay-up with 8338 The third woman and Natasha, the 28-year- The 32-year-old All-Star points and 16 rebounds. 14 seconds left. old wife of Giggs’s younger brother Rhodri, played down his sinus infection “The doctors tried to keep “I was going to play the clock NB: Send before are both apparently preparing to sell their and 101-degree fever, but his (the fever) down and they down, but I saw I had a little Thursday 3pm. stories. team mates did not. couldn’t get it under control. opening there,” said Nowitzki, Available to “The average person has sick “This guy is playing against who had 21 points and 11 Love made in hell days and battling 100-some- the best athletes in the world, rebounds but hit only six-of-19 Airtel, MTN, The unnamed woman’s alleged affair was thing (fever), it’s just tough to and he’s putting himself out shots from the floor. conducted while Giggs was engaged and at Orange, utl and the time of the birth of his son in 2006. Sta- Warid subscribers cey is likely to fear the emergence of further revelations, because at least one other woman is understood to have had a fling with Giggs during that period. The woman is said to have enjoyed a one- Gomez and Ozil strike as Germany goes ten points clear night stand with the footballer after meeting at one of his favourite bars, the Living Room BAKU had enough young talent to comfortably see in Manchester. Euro 2012 qualifier results off Azerbaijan and at 27-years-old, captain It is not known whether she is the woman Germany went ten-points clear at the top of Azerbaijan 1 Germany 3 Philipp Lahm was the oldest German on the who reportedly tipped off Natasha a few their Euro 2012 qualifying group on Tuesday Belarus 2 Luxembourg 0 pitch. weeks ago, saying: ‘You’re not the only one as stars Mario Gomez and Mesut Ozil netted BH 2 Albania 0 “Hard to believe that at 27, I was the oldest who’s been sleeping with Ryan.’ in a 3-1 win over minnows Azerbaijan. San Marino 0 Hungary 3 out there, but it shows the depth of young It has emerged that apparently Giggs spoke Now only a mathematical chance remains Sweden 5 Finland 0 talent we have in the squad,” said Lahm, who to a former Manchester United teammate of Joachim Loew’s side failing to qualify was winning his 80th cap. about his private life. for next year’s finals, to be hosted by the “After all, it is 24 days since the end of the Real Madrid star Ozil opened the scoring In an interview with a Russian newspaper Ukraine and Poland, as they picked up their German league season and the players are at with half an hour gone at the Tofik Bakhra- in spring 2003, Andrei Kanchelskis said seventh straight win in Group A. their limits. mov Stadium when he latched onto a loose Giggs had complained ‘he can’t change his “I must pay the team a big compliment, I “Azerbaijan defended well, so ultimately, ball in the penalty area and curled his shot bachelor’s life’. think we have put in a great season,” said I’m very satisfied.” around diving goalkeeper Kamran Agayev. ‘“I’d like to”, he told me. Loew, who enjoyed his 47th win from 68 Despite coming to Baku, near the Caspian international as coach. Sea, with a depleted squad, the Germans still AFP.
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