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Non-Football Story Of The Day
'A naked man found wandering in a forest in Germany was actually a monk who had mistakenly nibbled on some hallucinogenic berries, reports there said. A hiker discovered the nude, incoherent monk in some wilderness near Unterwössen, a Bavarian town near the Austrian border, on Sept. 6, European news website The Local reported. The fried friar was scraped-up and disoriented, and refused the hiker's offer for help. Police officers eventually tracked him down and took him to a local hospital, where he was treated for exposure. He was later identified as a monk from Traunstein, a town about 30 minutes to the northeast. He had been biking and camping in the countryside when he mistakenly ate some poisonous berries, which induced an LSD-type trip and led to some partial paralysis, The Local reported. Authorities weren't sure what happened to his clothes' - NYDailyNews.
Jimmy Hill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hill
Statue
Sculptor Nicholas Dimbleby was commissioned to build a statue of Hill at a cost of £150,000. The statue is located at Coventry's Ricoh Arena ground and was unveiled by Jimmy Hill in person on 28 July 2011.[6]The money to build the statue was raised from public donations. Other former Coventry City legends, who played for the Sky Blues in the 1960s during Hill's 6 year term as manager, were there too for the short unveiling ceremony, including Bobby Gould, John Sillett and George Curtis, all of whom went on to manage the club in the 1980s.
[edit]Footballing legacy
He has a reputation as an all-round innovator in football: as well as helping to get rid of the maximum wage, he commissioned the first all-seater stadium when at Coventry, and has been credited with the invention of the 3 points for a win system, which was pioneered by The Football Association in 1981, and was credited with the idea of using the first panel of football pundits for the 1970 World Cup.
[edit]Public image
Jimmy Hill has become a cult figure, with many British comedy shows parodying his personality and prominent chin. He was a regular character called 'Knobchops' in the comedy series Stella Street(impersonated by Phil Cornwell). Hill is routinely drawn into panels of various Viz comic strips, typically in locales which the real Hill is unlikely to frequent.
He was also spoofed in The Goodies episode "2001 & A Bit", and parodied himself with appearances in both Monty Python's Flying Circus (dressed as Queen Victoria) and Harry Enfield and Chums.
Hill's large chin was referenced by popular British schoolboy slang in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, with the phrases "Jimmy Hill!", "Itch my chin!" and "Chinny reckon!", accompanied by the exaggerated stroking of an imaginary lengthened chin, being used to convey the expression of mocking disbelief.
Jimmy Hill has been immortalised in the Scottish football chant "We hate Jimmy Hill, he's a poof, he's a poof". He had become unpopular with Scotland fans, better known as the Tartan Army, for describingDavid Narey's goal against Brazil in the 1982 World Cup as "a toe-poke" during the BBC's live coverage. He did apologise for this on BBC Scotland TV coverage of the World Cup in France 1998.
One of Hill's more light-hearted football moments took place in 1972. Arsenal were hosting Liverpool at Highbury on 16 September, when linesman Dennis Drewitt pulled a muscle and was unable to continue. FArules state that the match could not be completed without a referee and two linesmen, so the game was in danger of being abandoned. The matchday announcer put a message over the loudspeaker asking if anyone was a qualified referee and would volunteer to run the line. Hill was a qualified referee and had been at Highbury that day as a spectator. He quickly donned a tracksuit before stepping in for the injured Drewitt.[7]
Hill is also well known for his ability to make ‘Colemanballs’ statements such as:
“I would undoubtedly pick him in the next England squad if I was the England manager and he wasn't actually Bermudan.”
“We're not used to weather in June in this country.”
“They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it.”
"That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh men, three fresh legs."
"If England are going to win this match, they're going to have to score a goal."
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'A man who admits cooking and serving his own severed genitals to paying diners in Japan has been handed over to prosecutors on an allegation of indecent exposure, Tokyo police said on Tuesday. Criminal papers against the 23-year-old man and three other people who helped organise the event were sent to the Tokyo district public prosecutors' office, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said, without naming them.
'But police did not question the dishing out of the genitals, possibly because there is no law against cannibalism in Japan. The man had earlier identified himself as Mao Sugiyama and an "asexual" illustrator' - News 24.
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Quote Of The Day
"He ate ice cream for breakfast, he drank beer for lunch, when he was injured he blew up like a whale. But a player? Oh, beautiful. Beautiful" - Dino Zoff genuinely brings a tear to our eye when discussing Paul Gascoigne.
Non-Football Story Of The Day
'A US grandfather wrestled with an alligator after seeing his pet dog being dragged into the water in the animal's jaws. Stephen Gustafson said he took a "flying leap" on to the creature's back to save his West Highland Terrier, named Bounce. The 66-year-old was trimming branches on an oak tree outside his home in Lake County, Florida, when the gator attacked his dog. "She let out a really high pitched, what I call 'yelp,' and I looked up and the gator had her in his mouth and was taking her far out," he told Fox News. "I knew if I needed to react, it had to be quick. I saw the dog moving into the water and ran down the short hill in my backyard and just took a flying leap and landed flat on the back of the alligator."
'Mr Gustafson said the tussle lasted about 30 seconds before he was able to free Bounce - after which the gator went for his hand. "We were all under water," he said, "My main objective was to get the dog to the surface for air. (The alligator) didn't bite (my hand) and hold. It was more of a snapping. He went to bite again and his jaws came close but I grabbed his jaw and pinned it shut." The alligator eventually swam away, but was eventually trapped and is being preserved for Mr Gustafson's family. "It's going to be an heirloom for future generations to see what their crazy great-grandfather did," he said' - Sky News.
Runner-Up
'A drunken woman stole a passenger ferry on the River Dart and shouted 'I'm Jack Sparrow' and 'I'm a pirate' as she drifted away from police on the shore, a court has been told. Alison Whelan, 51, had been on a two-day bender drinking Lambrini and eating hallucinogenic plants when she sought late-night shelter with a companion on the Dart Princess Passenger Ferry. When police arrived to speak to her she unmoored the 45ft vessel from the Kingswear pontoon and set off up the river. Magistrates didn't see the funny side of her hour-long drunken escapade - which left several boats damaged and involved 30 members of the emergency services landing the tax payer with a hefty bill - as Whelan was sent to jail' - The Herald Express.
This has been watched by over 200 million people
Users have complained about the quality of satellite images in the new software (bottom)
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Non-Football Story Of The Day
'A man who admits cooking and serving his own severed genitals to paying diners in Japan has been handed over to prosecutors on an allegation of indecent exposure, Tokyo police said on Tuesday. Criminal papers against the 23-year-old man and three other people who helped organise the event were sent to the Tokyo district public prosecutors' office, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said, without naming them.
'But police did not question the dishing out of the genitals, possibly because there is no law against cannibalism in Japan. The man had earlier identified himself as Mao Sugiyama and an "asexual" illustrator' - News 24.
http://www.football365.com/mediawatch/8094820/Mediawatch
Quote Of The Day
"He ate ice cream for breakfast, he drank beer for lunch, when he was injured he blew up like a whale. But a player? Oh, beautiful. Beautiful" - Dino Zoff genuinely brings a tear to our eye when discussing Paul Gascoigne.
Non-Football Story Of The Day
'A US grandfather wrestled with an alligator after seeing his pet dog being dragged into the water in the animal's jaws. Stephen Gustafson said he took a "flying leap" on to the creature's back to save his West Highland Terrier, named Bounce. The 66-year-old was trimming branches on an oak tree outside his home in Lake County, Florida, when the gator attacked his dog. "She let out a really high pitched, what I call 'yelp,' and I looked up and the gator had her in his mouth and was taking her far out," he told Fox News. "I knew if I needed to react, it had to be quick. I saw the dog moving into the water and ran down the short hill in my backyard and just took a flying leap and landed flat on the back of the alligator."
'Mr Gustafson said the tussle lasted about 30 seconds before he was able to free Bounce - after which the gator went for his hand. "We were all under water," he said, "My main objective was to get the dog to the surface for air. (The alligator) didn't bite (my hand) and hold. It was more of a snapping. He went to bite again and his jaws came close but I grabbed his jaw and pinned it shut." The alligator eventually swam away, but was eventually trapped and is being preserved for Mr Gustafson's family. "It's going to be an heirloom for future generations to see what their crazy great-grandfather did," he said' - Sky News.
Runner-Up
'A drunken woman stole a passenger ferry on the River Dart and shouted 'I'm Jack Sparrow' and 'I'm a pirate' as she drifted away from police on the shore, a court has been told. Alison Whelan, 51, had been on a two-day bender drinking Lambrini and eating hallucinogenic plants when she sought late-night shelter with a companion on the Dart Princess Passenger Ferry. When police arrived to speak to her she unmoored the 45ft vessel from the Kingswear pontoon and set off up the river. Magistrates didn't see the funny side of her hour-long drunken escapade - which left several boats damaged and involved 30 members of the emergency services landing the tax payer with a hefty bill - as Whelan was sent to jail' - The Herald Express.
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Ig Nobel honours
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A UK/US team that came up with an equation to predict the shape of a ponytail has earned itself an Ig Nobel.
Psychology Prize: Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan (Netherlands) and Tulio Guadalupe (Peru/Russia/Netherlands) for their study Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller.
Acoustics Prize: Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada (Japan) for creating the SpeechJammer - a machine that disrupts a person's speech by making them hear their own spoken words at a very slight delay.
Neuroscience Prize: Craig Bennett, Abigail Baird, Michael Miller, and George Wolford (US) for demonstrating that brain researchers, by using complicated instruments and simple statistics, can see meaningful brain activity anywhere - even in a dead salmon.
Chemistry Prize: Johan Pettersson (Sweden/Rwanada) for solving the puzzle of why, in certain houses in the town of Anderslöv, Sweden, people's hair turned green.
Literature Prize: The US Government General Accountability Office for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.
Physics Prize: Joseph Keller (US), Raymond Goldstein (US/UK), Patrick Warren and Robin Ball (UK) for calculating the balance of forces that shape and move the hair in a human ponytail. Prof Keller was additionally given an Ig for work he contributed to on non-drip teapots in 1999 but for which he had been wrongly overlooked at the time.
The new high spots from apples new mapping technology, no doubt called the iMap
Museum in river
Among the user complaints regarding Apple's maps sent to the BBC were:
Users have complained about the quality of satellite images in the new software (bottom)- Some towns appear to be missing, such as Stratford-upon-Avon and Solihull.
- Others, like Uckfield in East Sussex, are in the wrong location.
- Satellite images of various locations, particularly in Scotland, are obscured by cloud.
- A search for Manchester United Football Club directs users to Sale United Football Club, a community team for ages five and above.
- Users also reported missing local places, such as schools, or strange locations. Another screenshot showed a furniture museum that was apparently located in a river.
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