Despite having some of Europe’s biggest clubs vying for his signature this summer, Bayern Munich’s Franck Ribery has managed to find time in his summer schedule to star in a music video for French artist DJ Kore.

With a total lack of imagination, the video for the track “Meme Pas Fatigue” (or “Not Even Tired”) sees Ribery take part in a football match on a dusty pitch in which the French playmaker shows off a variety of skills, his fancy dancing footwork, interwoven with a series of close-ups of Ribery’s famous smile.

Unfortunately, it is hugely doubtful whether Jay-Z or Snoop will be calling up Franck for their next projects.

Franck Ribery’s music video debut can be seen here.

Finding an answer to the above question has so far proved difficult, and hopefully some of our esteemed Scandinavian followers will be able to shed some extra light onto the following incident.

On Saturday in the Swedish Allsvenskan Hammarby beat fifth-placed Trelleborg 2-1 at home, however one particular incident was flagged up as a female pitch invader appeared to walk up to Hammarby’s Maic Sema and show off the Nazi salute right in front of the player’s face.

The episode began after a ruckus on the pitch between two opposing players brought the match to a standstill as the officials looked to regain order. Suddenly, after following the fracas for a minute or so, the cameras changed focus to pick up on what appeared to be female supporter who had managed to invade the turf as she mingled with the footballers.

All of a sudden the female determinately, and without a hint of elegance, began marching towards Maic Sema. Once face-to-face with the Hammarby number 23, the woman purposefully appeared to stand her ground before throwing up only her right arm in what looked much like a Nazi salute. For his part, a dismayed looking Sema stood hands-on-his-hips as he tried to shrug off the unwanted attention.

Eventually a couple of stewards ran onto the pitch to shepherd the woman off the grass. But in a surprising twist, rather than let the law handle the situation Hammerby’s number eight Fredrik Soderstrom decided to get involved by throwing his arm around the woman and jogging with her towards the side of the pitch.

Footage of what appeared to be a Nazi salute in Sweden can be seen here.

(Apologises for the video quality.)

After over two decades of professional football, the fourth of July signalled the end of one of the games’ most charismatic personalities as Colombian striker Faustino Asprilla finally called decided to hang up his boots at the ripe old age of 39.

Asprilla’s send-off took place at a farewell match with the crème de la crème of Colombian football turning out to salute the former Newcastle forward. Amongst his esteemed guests were Rene Higuita, Faryd Mondragon, Mario Yepes, Carlos Valderrama and Adolfo Valencia as well as Brazilian duo Roque Junior and Ailton.

Having played for Parma and Newcastle in Europe, as well as spending time at Palmeiras and Fluminense after his European adventure came to an end, Faustino Asprilla ended his career with stats of 110 goals in 330 club matches together with 20 international goals in just 57 games. Asprilla also managed to play in two World Cups, back in 1994 and 1998.

Highlights from Asprilla’s farewell match, which ended 3-2, can be seen here.

Comment & analysis round-up

Quote of the day: “We have to agree a new European Super League which guarantees that the best always play the best - something that does not happen in the Champions League.” - Real Madrid chairman, Florentino Perez.

Runner-up: “Manchester United do it every year, going to Asia or America to sell their brand. The bottom line is that Celtic is a global football club that does have a lot of supporters in parts of the world. I don’t sit here and stamp my feet and get upset about it… Arsenal never travel in pre-season. They go to Austria every year because there are no time zones to travel through, whereas Man United go all over the world. It doesn’t seem to do them much harm, Sir Alex [Ferguson] would say that to you as they’ve won championship after championship, but you could also argue he’s got two teams of world-class players he can put out at any given time and pick his fixtures.” - Tony Mowbray.

Today’s overview: Amazingly, although not a single hack predicted Michael Owen’s move to Old Trafford until the transfer was already completed, whether through prophecy or some other mystic medium, the whole of Fleet Street now seems to know exactly which pigeonhole to place Little Mickey in at the champions.

Steve Tongue leads the calls that “Owen’s most likely role is that of impact substitute,” while Rob Stewart follows right behind announcing “it has been widely argued that Owen’s role at United will be restricted to more peripheral duties next season. Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov are Ferguson’s first-choice strikers and Owen could be used as an impact substitute in deadlocked games, or as a flat-track bully to convert chances against lesser opponents.”

Challenging the consensus opinion is Nick Townsend. “Sceptics suggest Owen will have to accept the billing of a ‘Tuesday night turn’; that Carling Cups and early rounds of the Champions League will represent his defined casting in the Theatre of Dreams. Like Tevez before him, Owen will not be content with mere bench-warming. Even as a £30,000-a-week bargain he will not dutifully accept a role of ‘impact’ striker. His pride would not allow it.”

The News of the World’s Andy Dunn looks to distract attention away from Owen by printing “Samuel Eto’o will drop his astronomic wage demands to join Manchester United… He would accept a cut-price £150,000-a-week deal that would still make him the top earner at Old Trafford instead of the possibility of mid-table football at Eastlands.”

Sarcastically, Rod Liddle pokes fun at Newcastle’s woes. “I’m thinking of putting a bid in for Newcastle. I have only £400 in the bank right now but that seems to me a realistic estimation of the club’s worth. The temptation is to continue running it as a situation comedy, giving pleasure to millions and millions of people across the world.”

The old chestnut of a European Super League rears its ugly head this Sunday with Ian Hawkey reporting on Florentino Perez’s new proposals. “He insists he does not want to replace domestic competition, just guarantee that clubs such as Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United, Liverpool, Milan and Juventus could rely on participating every season in a lucrative elite competition, no matter where they finish in La Liga, the Premier League or Serie A.” Looking to scaremonger, Andy Dunn contends that “Perez is drawing up plans that would destroy the English Premier League in its current form.”

And keeping with Los Blancos, Paul Hetherington attempts to remove any scent of doubt as he barks “Real Madrid’s stunning summer of transfer business has continued with a £55million-package offer to Bayern Munich for Franck Ribery.”

Onto the Sunday transfer gossip.

Both Paul Hetherington in the Sunday Star and Simon Mullock in the Mirror on Sunday agree that Everton are trying to prise Paul Scholes away from Manchester United.

Almost gleeful on Manchester City’s pursuit of John Terry, Duncan White pens “for the first time since Roman Abramovich took over, Chelsea are getting a taste of what it feels like to be on the wrong side of a club higher up than you in the financial food chain.” The Daily Mail’s duo of Bob Cass and Joe Bernstein join forces to report “Manchester City will make one last effort to prise England captain John Terry from Chelsea with a £35million bid and wages of £200,000 per week.” However Rob Beasley argues that such a transfer fee will prove too little as “Chelsea will only do business at a staggering £45m - and only if Terry admits to the fans he wants to quit Stamford Bridge.”

On the incomings at the Bridge, Rob Beasley announces “Chelsea plan a dramatic move for Real Madrid winger Wesley Sneijder.”

The Sunday Times regurgitate a day-old set of transfer rumours printing “AC Milan have set their sights on Real Madrid striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Sevilla’s Brazil forward Luis Fabiano… Fiorentina have encouraged Arsenal to make a fresh approach for Brazil midfielder Felipe Melo by offering to consider a part-exchange deal.”

In almost a blatant attempt to stir up trouble on Anfield, Joe Bernstein farts “[Javier Mascherano's] attempt to force his way out of Anfield has stunned Benitez, who is also having to reconsider letting Xabi Alonso go to Real Madrid for an inflated £35million.” Looking at the deal from the other end, Chris Bascombe notes that “Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has told the club to go ahead with the pursuit of midfielder Javier Mascherano even though Yaya Toure has signed a new deal.”

Elsewhere, Bob Cass appears to ignore all the facts to invent the opinion that “although Spurs supporters are anxious for transfer action, Redknapp is not prepared to join the transfer market explosion.” And it doesn’t take too long to find another hack who is happy to splash Harry’s cash, Rob Shepherd blurting “Redknapp will launch a £12million bid for the Spanish Peter Crouch. The Spurs boss has lined up giant Athletic Bilbao striker Fernando Llorente to replace Roman Pavyluchenko.”

The People’s Dave Kidd then blows the lid on the real problems at Tottenham - that they have to sell before they can buy. “Tottenham have told rival Premier League clubs they will listen to offers for all but THREE of their squad. The England trio of Jermain Defoe, Aaron Lennon and Jonathan Woodgate are the ‘untouchables’ in Harry Redknapp’s squad as the White Hart Lane chief seeks urgent funds for re-building.”

The original Peter Crouch is also attracting a heap-load of attention this Sunday as Tony Stenson claims that “Fulham are ready to fight it out with Sunderland and Milan for Portsmouth striker Peter Crouch.”

According to Scott Piecha though, the battle for Crouch is over as the beanpole striker “is set to move to Sunderland after Black Cats boss Steve Bruce made a £14million bid that matches Portsmouth’s asking price.”

One striker going nowehere appears to be Arsenal’s Adebayor. Jamie Jackson scribbled in the Observer that “Emmanuel Adebayor has ended a year of uncertainty over his future at Arsenal by committing himself to the club and ending speculation that he would leave the Emirates after three seasons in north London.”

French radio station RMC has reported that Blackburn Rovers have entered negotiations with Paris St-Germain for midfielder Jerome Rothen. Sam Allardyce has reportedly offered the player a three year contract with the fine print still being negotiated.

The 31-year-old midfielder joined the club he supported as a boy after excelling in Monaco’s exciting run to the Champions League final in 2004. At Monaco he became known as France’s left-wing answer to David Beckham.

A left midfielder, he possesses many of the same attributes as Manchester’s one-time wonder. He has an excellent left foot, which is able to guide defence splitting passes and accurate crosses to his strikers and attacking midfielders.

At the beginning of his career Rothen was blessed with pace which meant he could beat defenders on both their inside and outside. However, as age has caught up with him, his speed has declined and he has been increasingly utilised as a central midfielder.

Rothen has never been a prolific goal scorer. The midfielder has only managed to score 10 goals in 135 appearances for St-Germain and whilst at Monaco he bagged 8 goals in 95 games. His record haul is 5 in a season whilst playing as a youngster for Caen, although at every club he has played at he is almost always top when it comes to goal scoring assists.

The left midfielder suffered a loss of form since arriving at the Parisian club. With the departure of the manager Paul Le Guen, Rothen has gone on the record and stated that he feels isolated in the French capital. This dip in form led to a once promising international career stalling, and he has only disappointingly represented France in one major championship during Euro 2008.

Rovers’ fans should be buoyed by Sam Allardyce’s decent record for reinvigorating the careers of older players such as Jay-Jay Okocha, Yuri Djorkaeff and Ivan Campo.

With both the player and PSG stating that Rothen’s time has come to end at the club, a transfer at a low price is extremely likely. It also gives some indication as to what Big Sam’s next moves in the window will be, so expect a forward who excels at getting on to the end of crosses to arrive shortly. Whether it will be Christian Vieri remains to be seen.

Video evidence of Jerome Rothen can be seen here.

Enjoy, or maybe not if you’re a United supporter.