Denzel Washington’s Equalizer is all about righting wrongs, but this week the crime in question was real instead of fictional, as Italian police seized over 100 grams of cocaine from some of the film’s caterers, Variety reports.
Investigation began after the head of the film’s catering company died suddenly of a heart attack on Monday night. Small packages of cocaine were found among his clothing, sending the police toward the catering company’s hotel rooms. There, police found 120 grams of cocaine, arrested two other members of the catering company on charges related to drug dealing, and revoked a third employee’s driers’ license for possession.
Equalizer 3 stars Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning, who starred together in the Tony Scott-directed film Man On Fire in 2004, …
West Ham manager Sam Allardyce has set his sights on bringing former Hammer Joe Cole back to the east London club.
Cole has been struggling for game time at Liverpool and has only played 45 minutes in the Premier League under Brendan Rodgers, having been brought on as a substitute on three occasions.
Cole endured a similar fate under the Reds former manager, Kenny Dalglish, which prompted him to move to Ligue 1 side Lille for a season long-loan in 2011-12.
Allardyce, though, is surprised by Cole s lack of game time.
You would have thought that Joe would be involved there by now, because of all of Brendan s injury problems and his lack of strength in depth.
But he doesn t appear to have managed to be able to do that there.
Whether we mo…
Ajax midfielder Christian Poulsen has announced his intention to leave the Eredivisie champions at the end of the season.
Poulsen moved to Amsterdam in August 2012, and has helped Ajax claim back-to-back domestic titles.
He has made 42 appearances in all competitions this season, providing an experienced head in an otherwise young midfield for Frank de Boer s men.
The 34-year-old s contract will expire at the end of the campaign and, although the club were keen for him to extend his stay, Poulsen is ready for a new challenge.
It was a difficult decision because I m really enjoying myself at Ajax, he told Ajax s official website. My family also. We think it s a nice club with great people.
We wanted to think carefully about, my decision was taken with my bra…
Spain are the new leaders of the FIFA World Ranking after their successful European Championships campaign. Previous leaders Argentina drop to sixth place.
The Spanish began Euro 2008 in fourth place and gained another 254 points, enough to surpass Argentina, Brazil and Italy and take the top spot.
Italy, who reached the quarter finals at Euro 2008, move up one spot into second place and Germany climb two spots to third place.
Biggest climbers in the top ten are the Netherlands, from tenth to fifth place, and Croatia who went from fifteenth to seventh place.
The top 10 as of July 2nd, 2008
1. Spain 1557
2. Italy 1404
3. Germany 1364
4. Brazil 1344
5. Netherlands 1299
6. Argentina 1298
7. Croatia 1282
8. Czech Republic 1146
9. Portugal 110…
Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper Mitch Langerak is unavailable for Saturday s DFB-Pokal final with Bayern Munich due to a knee injury.
The Australia international has played in three of Dortmund s five games in the competition this season, although he did not feature in the quarter-final with Eintracht Frankfurt or the semi-final against Wolfsburg.
Langerak has been named in Australia s provisional squad for the FIFA World Cup and is in contention to start for his country at the tournament in Brazil next month.
However, the 25-year-old will not have the chance to feature in the DFB-Pokal showpiece at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.
Regular goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller is expected to start, while Zlatan Alomerovic will deputise for Langerak on the bench.
His knee…
Tyrone Mings has no issues with Steven Gerrard s decision to replace him as captain of Aston Villa.
Villa confirmed on Wednesday that John McGinn will skipper the side heading into the 2022-23 campaign, with Emiliano Martinez taking over as vice-captain and Ashley Young named club captain.
Mings had worn the captain s armband since Jack Grealish left for Manchester City last year.
The England international has been a near ever-present in his three seasons at Villa but he faces a fight for a starting spot this term following the arrival of Diego Carlos.
Explaining his decision to change the leadership hierarchy, Gerrard told the club s official website: John has demonstrated that he is ready to take on the captaincy through his performances on the pitch c…