Salah poised to break even more of Drogba's records

Didier Drogba would be well advised to stock up on the tissues.

The former Ivory Coast striker joked that he 'wants to cry' as the unstoppable Mohamed Salah closes in on more of his records at an astonishing rate of knots.

'If he continues, he's going to destroy all my records!' said Chelsea legend Drogba in conversation with Mido on Mehwar TV in Egypt.It came after Liverpool's in-form striker Salah recently became the most prolific African player in Premier League history.

Top Premier League scorers from Africa 

108 - Mohamed Salah (Egypt)

104 - Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast)

102 - Sadio Mane (Senegal)

97 - Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo)

95 - Yakubu (Nigeria)

68 - Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon), Riyad Mahrez (Algeria)

62 - Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast)

54 - Kanu (Nigeria)

52 - Efan Ekoku (Nigeria)

51 - Wilfried Zaha (Ivory Coast)

43 - Shola Ameobi (Nigeria), Demba Ba (Senegal), Frederic Kanoute (Mali)

His hat-trick in that 5-0 thrashing of rivals Manchester United at Old Trafford last month elevated Salah beyond Drogba's tally of 104 Premier League goals.

With Salah also on target in last weekend's 4-0 drubbing of Arsenal, the Egyptian star now has 108 in the competition (two for his old club Chelsea and 106 for Liverpool).

Remarkably, Salah became the first ever visiting player to score a Premier League hat-trick at Old Trafford, his treble the highlight of an astonishing scoring run of 14 goals in 10 consecutive matches in all competitions.

Salah looks likely to establish a benchmark for African players in England's top-flight that probably won't ever be beaten even if he barely scrapes into the top 30 of overall Premier League goalscorers.

And the bad news for Drogba, who netted 100 times in his first Chelsea spell and four in his second during the 2014-15 season, is that he could soon be third in this particular list.

Liverpool's Sadio Mane, from Senegal, has also zoomed up on him, reaching 102 Premier League goals after he too netted against Arsenal.

With Mane in sparkling form this season, it's only a matter of time before he moves ahead of Drogba and it could be neck and neck between him and team-mate Salah from then on.

Drogba though may not be too bothered - his tally of four Premier League titles with Chelsea is unlikely to be bettered by either Liverpool star and his legendary status is secure.

French footballer Benzema guilty in sex tape trial

 France and Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has been found guilty of conspiring to blackmail a fellow French footballer with a sex tape.A judge handed Benzema a one-year suspended jail term and ordered him to pay a €75,000 (£63,000; $84,000) fine.

Benzema was one of five people put on trial last month over the attempt to extort Frenchman Mathieu Valbuena.

The scandal has stunned the football community in France and both players lost their national team places.

The case dates back to June 2015, when the two footballers were at a French training camp.

At the camp, Benzema put pressure on Valbuena to pay off the blackmailers, whom he had conspired with to act as an intermediary, prosecutors said.

Benzema has always denied the allegations and insisted he was only trying to help Valbuena get rid of the compromising video.

Kanye West says God will bring him and Kim Kardashian back together: ‘We can be redeemed’

Kanye West has reiterated his desire to reconcile with Kim Kardashian amid their ongoing divorce.

The rapper, who is formally known as Ye now, made a speech about his estranged wife Kim Kardashian and their four children at the Los Angeles Mission’s Annual Thanksgiving event on Wednesday (24 November).

“The narrative God wants is to see that we can be redeemed in all these relationships,” the “Donda” singer said. “We’ve made mistakes. I’ve made mistakes. I’ve publicly done things that were not acceptable as a husband, but right now today, for whatever reason — I didn’t know I was going to be in front of this mic — but I’m here to change the narrative.”