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Football video: Kolo Toure’s bizarre booking against Roma
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... room for Gallas to finish receiving treatment. He said: “I’m always the one that comes last on the pitch and so I was waiting for William. When I came on I didn’t know I couldn’t come on straight away.” But let’s look at this a bit closer… Gallas didn’t pick up a booking because he wasn’t in so much of a hurry and Toure overtook him at the end of the tunnel, which means that yellow card or no yellow card he wouldn’t have been the last one onto the pitch anyway! Video spotted on 101GreatGoals ...
Is there a more superstitious industry than football?
Reuters Soccer Blog —
[image] After a foray into the mix zone after the English League Cup final, the injured Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe replied to one journalist who asked him why he had cut all his hair off . “I had to, I only ever seem to get injured when I have longer hair,” he said. I am neither a hairdresser nor a medical man but I thought this was a bizarre theory, but perhaps a lengthy spell on the sidelines makes you think this way? Defoe’s superstition was the second recent football oddity to have grabbed my attention after Arsenal’s Kolo Toure received an unnecessary yellow card in the Champions League tie against Roma. The Ivory Coast defender failed to ask the ...
