One from the readers this - cast your mind’s back to last season’s Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.
Botafogo player William became infamous for a ridiculous penalty kick during a match against Fluminense last September.
William alleged that he had noticed that opposition goalkeeper Diego had already predicted where he was going to place his penalty, so he attempted to change his aim in the middle of kicking the ball.
Following the farce which saw a ball boy’s goal being given, South America continued it’s idiotic attitude to football by employing the Budwesier “Added Time Multiball” gimmick.
In the last minute of an Ecuadorian league match between Deportivo Quito and LDU, a corner was awarded but Quito keeper Daniel Viteri still has a ball in his hands.
What follows is almost unbelievable. The corner is taken with a second ball and Viteri tries to shoot it out of the air with the ball he is still holding.
To make matters worse, a goal is scored, it stands and LDU earn a 2-1 victory.
Those hot heads from South America love a good ruck, especially with players of their own team.
Supporting the boys when the chips are down is not the done thing in Brazil, as Cortiba players found out at an airport as they returned home from a defeat at Ceara.
Television pictures showed chaotic scenes as the players were met by furious fans as they entered the arrivals hall.
Witnesses claimed that several players and club security men hit back at the fans while rubbish bins were tossed around the hall.
The melee went on for several minutes before police brought the situation under control.
A Brazilian referee amazingly awarded a goal scored by a ball boy to allow Santacruzense snatch a last minute 1-1 draw in a regional state tournament in Sao Paulo.
A Santacruzense player shot narrowly wide and the ball boy returned to the pitch with the ball at his feet. However, instead of giving it to the goalkeeper, he cheekily tapped it across the line into the net.
Unbelievably, despite there being almost 10 seconds between the shot going out and the boy nudging the ball over the line, female referee Silvia Regina de Oliveira, the first woman to have refereed in the Brazilian Championship, awarded a goal amid furious protests from Atletico Sorocaba.
She did not see the goal herself but apparently based her decision on the lineseman, so he obviously wasn’t paying much attention either.
“I should have trusted my own vision” Oliveira said, as she anticipated a deluge of ironic television advertisement offers from opticians and corrective laser surgery specialists.
You don’t say, love. This sort of idiotic behaviour truly defies belief but you can watch it yourself courtesy of the wonderful YouTube.