Manchester United won the English title for the 17th time following a thrilling race to the wire with Chelsea. The victory represented manager Sir Alex Ferguson’s tenth league title in all with the Red Devils. The Scotsman took charge of the team in November 1986. Besides the ten championship titles, Ferguson’s impressive list of honours includes five FA Cups, the 1999 and 2008 UEFA Champions League and 22 (!) other titles, including three league titles in Scotland.

Campino, singer with German rock group Die Toten Hosen, had a painful experience recently. The music star, a dyed-in-the-wool fan of English giants Liverpool, fractured a bone in his foot after kicking a bin. Campino got so worked up about the Reds’ exit from the Champions League in the semi-final against Chelsea that he kicked a public refuse container. The kick had little effect on the concrete-encased steel frame of the bin and afterwards even the singer admitted that the kick had been foolish. “Pain and a broken foot in piaster for several weeks,” it read on the website of Die Toten Hosen. “I’m living proof that 45-year-olds can still feel and behave like 15-year-olds,” said Campino of his mishap.

Cartilage damage to the knee has forced Stefan Beinlich to bring down the curtain on his playing career. The captain of relegated Bundesliga team Hansa Rostock told German daily Die Welt “That’s it for me. My knee won’t hold up. I’m jogging again, but for the time being I just want to live a normal life again free of pain”. The former German international suffered cartilage damage and a torn meniscus in his left knee during the 1-1 draw away to MSV Duisburg and had to undergo an operation. Beinlich may well be appointed Hansa’s team manager for the coming season. “We’ve already had conversations about how I could help the club. As yet, however, nothing has been confirmed,” explained the 36-year-old. Beinlich played 288 Bundesliga matches in all for Hansa Rostock, Bayer Leverkusen, Hertha Berlin and Hamburg, scoring 56 goals in the process. He won five full international caps for Germany.