Footballers Are Idiots

Striker Aleksandr Shirko, who plays for Russian whipping boys FC Shinnik Yaroslavl made the headlines over the weekend for doing what Eric Cantona did 10 years ago.

No, not putting in displays of sheer excellence on the pitch and scoring sublime goals, but getting into the crowd and giving someone a damn good hiding.

Bottom club Shinnik were walloped 6-1 at home against Rostov and the players endured plenty of abuse throughout the match from their own fans.

Shirko obviously took more offence than most and after the match, waded into the crowd to dish out a little Iron Curtain justice.

Watch Shirko wallop some Russian loudmouth

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Not really an “idiot” story as such but rather an example of a German attempt at what we call “humour”.

Werder Bremen goalkeeper Tim Wiese had a small glass bottle with a smashed neck thrown at him during their derby match against Hamburg.

What could have been a particularly nasty incident was played down rather by the man on the tannoy who announched:

“Don’t send Wiese any more drinks”.

Priceless.

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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.

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