Chelsea's Didier Drogba, right, throws a coin back into the crowd after scoring against Burnley during their Carling Cup match at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea's Didier Drogba, right, throws a coin back into the crowd after scoring against Burnley during their Carling Cup match at Stamford Bridge.

Police investigate Drogba coin throwing incident



LONDON // London Metropolitan Police are investigating an incident involving Chelsea striker Didier Drogba who threw a coin back into the crowd during the League Cup loss to Burnley at Stamford Bridge. "We are investigating the incident as a whole, a police spokesman said. Its obviously very early stages at the moment." Drogba had gestured to Burnley fans while celebrating his first goal of the season. The Championship club won 5-4 on penalties after the fourth round tie ended 1-1 following extra time.

"I tried to celebrate the goal and I received some things at me, he told the Chelsea website. "The big mistake I did was to throw it back so if someone was hurt I just want to apologise for it. This is not something I should show in a football match. "It was an incident in the heat of the moment and I regret it. It was just a mistake and nothing more." An FA spokesman said the governing body would issue a statement later today.

*Reuters

Quick pearls of wisdom

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Distributed denial-of-service: Floods systems, servers or networks with information, effectively blocking them.

Man-in-the-middle attack: Intercepts two-way communication to obtain information, spy on participants or alter the outcome.

Malware: Installs itself in a network when a user clicks on a compromised link or email attachment.

Phishing: Aims to secure personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.

Ransomware: Encrypts user data, denying access and demands a payment to decrypt it.

Spyware: Collects information without the user's knowledge, which is then passed on to bad actors.

Trojans: Create a backdoor into systems, which becomes a point of entry for an attack.

Viruses: Infect applications in a system and replicate themselves as they go, just like their biological counterparts.

Worms: Send copies of themselves to other users or contacts. They don't attack the system, but they overload it.

Zero-day exploit: Exploits a vulnerability in software before a fix is found.

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