De Bilde In The Dog House
Belgian striker Gilles De Bilde missed a football match due to a family bereavement. Doesn’t sound too unreasonable you may think, until you learn the bereavement was to mourn the loss of his pet dog!
Former Sheffield Wednesday and Aston Villa forward De Bilde, who had an unremarkable scoring record in the Premiership, now plys his trade for rock-bottom KVC Willebroek-Meerhof in Belgium’s third division.
His side went down 1-0 at Geel, their third defeat in three matches since the season began, while he blubbed over the sad loss of poor Rover. Only in football could you get time off for something so trivial. Idiots.