You couldn't make it up dept. no.62: for lovers of the beautiful game

http://publicinterest.blogspot.com/2007/05/its-your-friday-quiz.html
'nuff said.

You couldn't make it up dept. no.63: a new reason to end up before the beak

What follows is probably very imprecise. I have not been able to find it on any British news site, but it was reported in different forms by two Italian newspapers. This is my translation of the longer report, from today's La Repubblica.
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Beneath contempt, beneath belief

http://community.livejournal.com/linguaphiles/3225121.html