On Thursday night, Braga take on AC Milan at the San Siro. Gennaro Gattuso will be at the heart of the Rossoneri’s midfield for the Group E UEFA Cup match, having recently recovered from injury. The Italian bashed his head and dislocated all five fingers of his left hand during an incident in a training match. He also required an operation to repair a broken metacarpus. Who caused this terrible physical damage? Watch the video to find out.
So there you go. Running backwards into a dugout is not good for your health. More football falls onto concrete can be seen here.
Rafael van der Vaart makes a bad situation worse by trying to talk his way out of it.
He should have covered up his nose and pretended to look for the culprit; a strategy which would have created enough doubt to spare him TV humiliation. Remember that Garrincha’s Dog hint the next time you find yourself in an awkward social jam!
A totally different sort of van der Vaart stinker can be seen here.
When you were a kid, did you ever re-fold the paper from a stick of chewing gum and offer the empty wrapper to an unsuspecting friend? I can remember doing it here in Scotland. I expect children play the same trick all over the world. But maybe not in Norway… Watch John Arne Riise on the second row of the Liverpool bench.