Spot the Ball went off on international duty last week but failed to report back for training this morning.
So we’ve suspended it for two weeks and fined it two weeks’ wages.
Filling in for it this week is Spot the Footballer, a promising product of the 90minutesonline youth academy.
Witness Barry Ferguson and Alan McGregor sneakily flicking V-signs at the cameras during Scotland’s World Cup qualifier against Iceland on Wednesday.
Benched for the game after an all-night drinking session, the plucky duo set out to exact revenge with this cunning ruse.
Unfortunately, the joke was on them. The pair have been banned from playing for Scotland ever again and suspended by Rangers for two weeks without pay. Ferguson has also been stripped of the club captaincy.
Alan Shearer’s decision to take the reins at Newcastle makes him the 7th member of England’s Euro96 squad to step up into management. Unfortunately for the Toon the omens aren’t good. Every other member of Terry Venables’ squad to try their hand at management has found the going pretty tough at the top.
Perhaps there’s such a thing as thinking too much. From no-nonsense centre-back to reasoned philosopher via Caprice and alcoholism, Adams has won a combined total of 16 games in 75 attempts at Wycombe and Portsmouth.
Crucial International fixtures were being contested across the globe yesterday as nations strived for a spot in South Africa 2010, but nowhere were the stakes higher than here in Seoul as South Korea took on their Northern brothers in a collision at the top of Asian Group B.
Korea is still technically a warzone because the Korean War culminated in 1953 with an armistice, a ‘temporary truce’ before a peace settlement that never materialised. This is why the de-militarized zone along the 38th parallel makes the border between the two nations the most heavily militarized frontier in the world.
The 1st of April has become synonymous with making a fool of those around you, but this year it has been challenged by news of a more serious nature. President Barack Obama was in London for the G20 Summit and it may disappoint some of you to know that was not at Wembley last night. A great shame and a photo opportunity missed I feel; if the world was to combine Obama's stability and determination with Mr Capello's discipline and steeliness, we could maybe find the cure for the global credit crisis.