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Who says Tevez is under Par?

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The whole Carlos Tevez saga is quickly turning into a farcical situation, with the AWOL player and his club, Manchester City, seemingly growing further and further apart by the day.

However, neither side really seems too bothered by the whole affair. While the Citizens have been dominating the Premier League, Tevez has been enjoying himself back in his homeland.

Indeed, the former United man even entered a  golf tournament for both professionals and amateurs in Buenos Aires, which he won after partnering  golfers Sebastian Fernandez and Andres Romero.

When quizzed about the state of mind of his golf chum, Fernandez said: “He did not say anything about his problems with his club, but I was struck by the peace he had. He plays golf very well.”

At least if his football career permanently grinds to a halt after the drama with City, Tevez might be able to make a few shillings on the golf course.

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The dangers of golf and other perilous stories of salad cream, watching TV and getting married

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Injuries are an occupational hazard of football. A slight muscle pull, an awkward landing on the pitch, or a crunching can all be sources of a spell in the sidelines.

However, there are surprisingly are a wide variety of different ways a football player can end up on the treatment table, as Swansea City defender Alan Tate recently proved.

The club vice-captain was involved in a “bizarre golfing accident” according to a club statement, which revealed that he was a passenger in a golf buggy that lost control on Sunday and left him with a fractured tibia of his left leg.

The injury rules him out for up to six months, but thankfully for Tate’s dignity, he’s not the only player to have come a cropper in odd circumstances.

Dave Beasant

The original safe-hands goalkeeper was allegedly the inspiration for Teflon frying pans and he proved this when attempting to hold a variety of condiments in his kitchen. Unfortunately though he dropped the salad cream and tried to save it from smashing by sticking out his foot to break the jars fall. However, it severed a tendon in his big toe and he missed the start of the 1993/94 season.

Steve Morrow

The year was 1993 and Arsenal would spend the majority of the season playing Sheffield Wednesday, but Steve Morrow wouldn’t feature in the replayed FA Cup Final, despite scoring the winner in the Other Cup. The unlucky 22 year old was hoisted onto the shoulders of Tony Adams after the match to celebrate his sides victory, but the clumsy oaf dropped him and the match winner broke his collarbone, proving that you should never accept a lift from the former Arsenal captain.

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Chubby Kid Celebrates With ‘Truffle Shuffle’ (Video)

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In which a ‘husky’ young Yanklet in the stands celebrates Alex Morgan’s opening goal in the Women’s World Cup final on Sunday evening by bringing the ‘Truffle Shuffle’ all the way back from the 80?s…

If you’re not familiar with the Truffle Shuffle, then we suggest you educate yourself smartish!

Far be it from us to sensationalise these things, but we’re pretty sure that ‘USWNT Fat Kid’ is all set to become one of the defining icons of American culture – like Rosie the Riveter, the Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima and Nick Nolte’s mugshot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouM3YPCgWgU

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Iain Dowie Struggles With The ‘Away Goals’ Rule (Video)

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Despite being paid handsomely (the irony is not lost!) to talk about things, Iain Dowie is a man that cannot actually talk – and, by the looks of things, neither can he think that good about stuff like numbers either.

Schalke whupped Inter 5-2 in Milan last night meaning that, by Dowie’s calculations, the Nerazzurri will need to score ‘seven or something’ in Germany to reverse the thrashing…

Christ! You know you’re in a hole when Paul Merson is correcting your maths.

Video via 101GG.

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Who would be a Sunday League referee?

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Who would voluntarily choose to be a Sunday League referee?

Meet Mo Awill

Childhood is seemingly the defining factor in what position someone ends up spending the majority of their life playing the beautiful game in. The sprinter on the wing, the disciplinarian in the middle and the big lad will play at the back.

These are formulaic standards that characterize most people’s earliest associations with football. For some people though there is a hole in this and it’s referee shaped.

Apparently not fussed by the glory of participating in the match, those who choose to be referees selflessly blend into the background so that law and order can be maintained in sometimes physically passionate circumstances.

The role of referee is in general a thankless one, just ask Mark Clattenburg. One mistake puts your position in the spotlight and the countless correct and acutely well observed ones are immediately forgotten about. After all if a referee has a good game, it isn’t back page news.

If a player makes a mistake though they’re are able to hide behind the potential successes of their team-mates, but a referee has no such safety, as if he makes a mistake he’s alone, often in a sea of disagreeing fans and players.

Thankfully some people are seemingly gluttons for punishment and are willing to accept these pitfalls and voluntarily choose to oversee games of all levels, but why? Mo Awill is one such person.

He isn’t though a Premier League referee, or even a referee in a professional division, he has the most thankless task in football. He’s a referee in London’s Southern Sunday Football League.

To make matters worse, when I go to see him it’s a bleak and cold winter’s day, pouring down with rain and it’s prematurely dark considering it’s only a little after midday.

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