Tan Sri Anthony Francis Fernandes CBE (also known as Tony Fernandes) is a Malaysian entrepreneur. He is the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd., who introduced the first budget no-frills airline, Air Asia, to Malaysians with the tagline "Now everyone can fly". He has since founded the Tune Group of companies.

Fernandes was born in Kuala Lumpur to a Goan (Indian) father, and Kristang mother, Ena Dorothy Fernandes. He was educated at Epsom College between 1977 and 1983 and graduated from the London School of Economics in 1987. He worked very briefly with Virgin Atlantic as an auditor, subsequently becoming the financial controller for Richard Branson's Virgin Records in London from 1987 to 1989.

Fernandes is the founder of the Caterham F1 Formula One team, which began racing in 2010 as Lotus Racing and raced in 2011 as Team Lotus. In December 2009, Fernandes accepted a "challenge" from Richard Branson, a fellow airline boss and the owner of Lotus' fellow F1 newcomers Virgin Racing. The losing team's boss would work on the winner's airline for a day dressed as a stewardess. Fernandes joked "the sexier the better'. Branson lost but has not carried out the forfeit yet

Feranndes is a West Ham fan and revealed in 2011 that he intended to buy shares in the club however West Ham owners David Gold and David Sullivan rejected his offer and he turned his attention to Queens Park Rangers. Fernandes was unveiled as the majority shareholder of QPR in May 2011, having bought Bernie Ecclestone's 66% share. He was also named as chairman of QPR Holdings Ltd. Fernandes has bought several high profile players as well as manager Harry Redknapp to QPR. These include Joey Barton, Djibril Cisse, Julio Cesar, Bobby Zamora, Shaun Wright Phillips and Park Ji Sung.

Ross Turnbull is an English footballer who plays for Chelsea as a goalkeeper.

Chelsea
On 2 July 2009, Turnbull joined Chelsea on a free transfer, signing a four-year contract. Turnbull announced that he would not sit by as a permanent second place keeper to regular starting goalkeeper Petr Cech and that he would fight for his own first team place. His first involvement in the first team was after being named on the bench for Chelsea's first game of the 2009-10 season against Hull City at Stamford Bridge, which finished 2-1 in favour of Chelsea. Turnbull had a Chelsea reserves debut to forget when he made a series of blunders as the team lost 4-0 to Aston Villa.

He made his first team debut against Bolton Wanderers in the League Cup, coming on for the injured Henrique Hilario after 23 minutes, a game which Chelsea won 4-0. He made his first start in the UEFA Champions League 2-2 draw against APOEL. He made his Premier League debut against West Ham United in a 4-1 win as Petr Cech and Henrique Hilario respectively were both injured. The following Tuesday, he started for Chelsea against Inter Milan at Stamford Bridge, in which he conceded a goal with Inter winning 1-0 but otherwise had a decent performance. He made another Premier League appearance against Blackburn Rovers in a 1-1 draw on 21 March 2010.

He was not part of the matchday squad who defeated Portsmouth in the 2010 FA Cup Final, but still received a winner's medal. He did not play enough games that season to earn a Premier League medal.

Turnbull made his first appearance of the 2010/2011 season when he played in the League Cup third round against Newcastle United as Chelsea went on to lose 4-3. On 23 November 2010, Turnbull made another appearance in the Champions League Matchday 5 group stage against Slovakian side MsK Zilina as Chelsea won 2-1 when they came from a goal down to beat them. For the most part of the season, Turnbull remained second choice keeper behind Cech.

In the 2011/12 season, Turnbull began to get some more playing time. His first appearance of the 2011/12 season came he played in the League Cup third round against Fulham. The game finished 0-0 after extra time, and Chelsea subsequently beat Fulham 4-3 on penalties to go through to the next round. During normal time, Turnbull saved a penalty from Pajtim Kasami after Alex gave away the penalty (which resulted in a red card for Alex). In the penalty shootout, Turnbull saved 2 penalties from Moussa Dembele and Bryan Ruiz. His next appearance in the League Cup was in the last 16 match against Everton. With 58 minutes gone, he conceded a penalty and received a red card. Cech took his place after coming on for Romelu Lukaku and saved the penalty from Leighton Baines.

Chelsea went on to beat Everton 2-1 and go through to the next round. A quarter final appearance followed, and was to be his, and Chelsea's, last in the League Cup as they lost 2-0 to Liverpool. During the match, Turnbull saved a penalty from Andy Carroll, given away once again by Alex. With the 2011-12 Premier League season almost over, Turnbull played the final two league games against Liverpool (lost 4-1) and Blackburn (won 2-1) as Cech was rested prior to the Champions League Final, in which Turnbull picked up a medal as an unused substitute. The game against Liverpool was his first league match in 2 years. His poor clearance led directly to a goal from Jonjo Shelvey.

Fabio Alexandre da Silva Coentrao is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Real Madrid in Spain, and the Portuguese national team. Mainly a left back, he can also operate as a left winger, and occasionally as a central midfielder.

Real Madrid
On 5 July 2011, after extensive negotiations, Benfica and Real Madrid reached an agreement in principle over the transfer of Coentrao, who signed a six-year contract the same day, for 30m. Central defender Ezequiel Garay went in the other direction as part of the deal. Coentrao made his Real Madrid debut in a pre-season friendly against L.A. Galaxy on 16 July 2011, creating an assist for Karim Benzema and also receiving Man of the match honours. His first two official games were against FC Barcelona for the season's Spanish Supercup: in the first leg, he replaced Sami Khedira in the second half of a 2-2 home draw and played as a central midfielder, and he started as left-back in the second match, a 2-3 loss at the Camp Nou.

Coentrao made his La Liga debut on 28 August 2011 against former club Zaragoza, appearing as a central midfielder in a 6-0 away win (90 minutes played). While he played mostly in these positions, he was also deployed by manager Jose Mourinho as a right defender, against Sporting de Gijon on 3 December and against Barcelona the following week.

Fabio Coentrao is one of the best left backs in the current football scene thanks to his solid game in attack, excellent dribbling skills, powerful shot and varsatility, which allows him to play anywhere down the wings. He is very experienced despite his young age.

The first important team he played for was Rio Ave, with whom he made his First Division debut when he was just 16. His excellent performances caught Benfica's attention, who decided to sign him in 2007 and loaned him out to Nacional, notching 16 appearances and 4 goals. Coentrao returned to Rio Ave after a brief spell with Spanish side Zaragoza. His good run in the 2008/09 campaign secured his return to Benfica, with whom he truly blossomed and won his first titles, such as the 2009/10 edition of the league and the 2010/11 Cup of Portugal.

Coentrao first played for his country on the youth national teams, making his first team debut in 2009 against Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Pedro Eliezer Rodriguez Ledesma (born 28 July 1987), commonly known asPedro or Pedrito, is a Spanish footballer who plays for FC Barcelonaand the Spanish national team, as a forward or winger.

Pedro usually plays the ball with his left foot but is actuallyright-footed. He can play on either side of the pitch, and even fit inas a target man. He is excellent at finding the right position and hasa strong shot that is most noticeable from long range.

During the 2009-10 season at his main club, FC Barcelona, Pedro becamethe first player in history to score in six different official clubcompetitions in one season.

Pedro began the 2010-11 season firmly established in Barcelona'sstarting XI. On 29 November 2010, he scored the second goal in a 5-0home win against Real Madrid, with Barca climbing to the first positionin the league. The following month, he netted twice at Espanyol in thelocal derby, in a 5-1 win.

On 20 April 2011, Pedro scored against Real Madrid in the second halfof the season's Spanish Cup final, but his goal was disallowed foroffside, in an eventual 0-1 extra time loss. On 3 May, against the sameopponent, in the Champions League semifinals second leg, he found IkerCasillas' net in a 1-1 home draw (3-1 aggregate win), for his 21stofficial goal of the campaign; in the Champions League final, he openedthe score against Manchester United, in an eventual 3-1 win.

On 5 July 2011, Pedro extended his contract by one year, until 2016.His buyout clause was raised from 90m to 150m Euro's.

Emilio Arturo Izaguirre Giron is a Honduran footballer who plays as aleft back for Scottish Premier League side Celtic and the Hondurasnational team. He has represented his country at the 2010 World Cup andthe 2007 Gold Cup.

Izaguirre started his career at Motagua, where he stayed for sevenyears. In 2010, Celtic spent £600,000 to bring him to Parkhead. Hepicked up four major player awards in the 2010-11 season, which was hisfirst season in Scotland.

Celtic
Izaguirre agreed a four-year contract with Scottish Premier League sideCeltic on 18 August 2010, subject to receiving a work permit. He signedfor an undisclosed fee and was given the number 3 shirt. He made hisSPL debut in a 1-0 victory over Motherwell on 29 August 2010. Izaguirregave a solid performance that drew plaudits from Celtic manager NeilLennon and Motherwell manager Craig Brown. On 19 September 2010,Izaguirre set up Anthony Stokes for the winning goal in a 2-1 leaguevictory over Kilmarnock at Rugby Park. On 30 October 2010, he scoredhis first Celtic goal in a SPL game against St. Johnstone, where heintercepted a back pass then flicked the ball over St. Johnstone centreback Dave MacKay, before slotting a goal under the goalkeeper. The gameended 3-0 to Celtic, with Izaguirre awarded man of the match for hisperformance. In Celtic's 3-0 victory over Rangers on 20 February 2011,he set up Gary Hooper's second goal.

In the 2011 League Cup Final defeat to Rangers, Izaguirre was sent offin extra time for a foul on Vladimir Weiss. On 6 April 2011, he hadanother man of the match performance against Hibernian in a 3-1 SPLvictory, setting up Stokes for the first goal of the game. In the2010-11 SPL season, Izaguirre achieved a clean sweep of availablesenior player awards as chosen by players, organisations and the Celticsupporters. Izaguirre won both the SPFA Players' Player of the Year andScottish Premier League Player of the Year awards for 2010-11. Thejudging panel for the latter award described Izaguirre as a "classact", while Celtic assistant manager Johan Mjallby commented thatIzaguirre could become one of the best players in his position in worldfootball. On 8 May 2011, at Celtic's award ceremony, Izaguirre pickedup the Players' Player of the Year Award. Finally, he was votedScottish Football Writers player of the year, rounding off a highlysuccessful first season in Scottish football for Izaguirre.