Ribery meets long lost brother!

Sports In Shorts can sensationally reveal that the long suspected lost 'third Neville brother' is none other than Bayern Munich's face for the radio Franck Ribery!! (pictured above using the photo he provided to www.Lovematch.com).

When the boys were babies, parents Neville and Mary Neville realised they couldn't cope with 3 boys who all had that 'lost vacant look!', so they offered the worse one up for adoption. A French family took the young boy and they named him Franck, and he grew up not knowing he was adopted, in rural France.

The Neville boys Dad, Neville spoke to Sports In Shorts after Wednesday's Manchester United game with Bayern Munich. ''It was a huge shock to find out that the little lad we let go as a baby is Franck Ribery!. If we'd known he was going to be the talented one, we'd have given away Gary or Phil....and kept the skillful one, It's too late now isn't it...... to take him back I mean!?!''.

You can tell it's him though, he's got his mothers scar and everything!!'', Neville added.

Gary, Phil (who had gone to Germany with Dad Neville) and Franck had an awkward meeting after the game, with Gary saying ''Soooo.....you like football then?'', Franck replied ''Yez, I like le football very much!''. ''Me and Phil like defending...don't we Phil!?'' Gary said with authority ''Ummm yeah!?!'' a be wilded Phil added before saying ''Wait Gaz..... which ones defending again?''. ''Shut up Phil....don't embarrass us... Dad, Phil's embarrassing me!'' Gary whinged, before Ribery went on to say ''Defending!?, non, I prefer le attacking and le scoring of le goals''.

There are no further plans for the boys to get together, with Ribery telling friends he feels hanging around with the Neville lads may make him hated at every ground he plays at......even when he's at home!.

Ji Sung Park boldly goes where no South Korean has gone before!

Manchester United's South Korean midfielder Ji Sung Park (above) has recently revealed the secrets to his footballing success.

Last week Park spoke of how his mum Maureen used to feed him 'frog juice' when he was little, to help build him into the 5ft 6'' man he is today. But this week he has revealed that his Dad, Dave had an even more profound effect on his life!.

Speaking to Sports In Shorts Park explained how. ''My Dad wanted me to have success in life but also with humility, which is why he taught me the ways of the 'Vulcan's'!.
He made me watch every episode of Star Trek and every film they made.......even that dreadful Wrath Of Khan rubbish!, and I soon realised that I wanted to be just like Mr Spock!.

Not only was he clever but he had special powers as well, I haven't discovered my own special power yet but Dad says it could be any day now!. So when I'm not in my Man U top, you'll always find me wearing blue, that's why I always play better when we're away!....plus I never say 'goodbye', I always say 'live long and prosper' and I got my hair done just like my hero too!''.

Park isn't the first sportsman to emulate their favorite film star, Eric Cantona famously played out a scene from 'Karate Kid 5 - Selhurst Park Showdown' in 1995 when he got sent off for Man Utd against Crystal Palace. As he walked past a well wishing fan on his way to the tunnel, Cantona got the wrong end of the stick with what the fan was saying and flew at the poor man 'leg first'.

David Platt is a fan of the film 'Super size Me', and can be found at fast food joints near any ground he is working on for Sky Sports as he tries to fatten himself up for Christmas!. Our reporter caught up with David last Sunday in Burnley when he said, ''Can't talk....eating....are you gonna have those chips?''.

Bad things come to Lewis Hamilton In 3's!

McClaren's second best driver Lewis Hamilton has had a week he would like to forget about, with 3 things going wrong for the ex World Champion!.

Firstly, on the Thursday before the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, the young British driver was caught speeding in his hire car on the streets of the city.
When asked his name, Hamilton said he was called 'Jenson', however a quick witted policeman was suspicious of this as the name on the helmet of the driver said 'Lewis Hamilton', it also had Hamilton's name splashed on the side of the car, all this in addition to Hamilton's photo on the bonnet of the car did not fool the arresting officer James Kilbride, who arrested Hamilton for speeding and impersonating a decent driver.

Secondly, in the main race on Sunday, Hamilton only finished in an embarrassing 5th place with his teammate and rival Jenson Button winning to take maximum points. A despondent Hamilton said after the race ''It's not my fault it's my teams fault...I'm the youngest Formula One champion ever, so it's highly unlikely to be my fault....It's their fault, It's them cos they didn't make my car faster than the other ones.......how can I win if it's not faster!!....derrrr''. He was then asked how the relationship was between him and his compatriot Button? ''Button's not better than me!?!'' Hamilton quipped back to the asking reporter.

The final act of bad luck to fall on young Lewis was perhaps the most important and serious of all. His mum phoned him on Sunday night to say that Blockbuster Video had been in touch saying their records showed that he still had a VHS copy of Driving Miss Daisy borrowed 7 years ago. The fine has amounted to £65'000 if settled immediately, but a source close to Hamilton has it that he has 'no idea' where the video is.

He did comment on the video to a passing reporter today however, saying ''I don't feckin believe it, what else is gonna go wrong!!?!, it wasn't even that good....someone told me it was about cars and shit......but there wasn't even a single car chase!!.....rubbish!''.