It’s happened again folks – sheer stupidity and flagrant ineptitude being demonstrated by officials by disallowing a perfectly good goal.

Are these people somehow visually impaired? Or do they have a warped sense of humour and find it enormously funny to pretend that they haven’t seen the blatantly obvious. Anyhow, here is a more recent example of the same injustice suffered by England and Chelsea ace Frank Lampard in South Africa.

The parallels are staggering with France’s Lea Rubio hitting a long-range effort against the bar during the Women’s U20 World Cup. Against the din of those cursed vuvuzelas, it is possible to see with the naked the eye that the ball crosses the line before the ref calmly waves play on.

You had better take a look….

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Frank Sidebottom is dead. Which is a crying shame. Quintessentially English, Frank was held in a modest amount of high regard by many.

Chris Sievey – Rest in peace you papier mâché-headed maestro.

On an upbeat note, John Shuttleworth is still rocking in the free world.

This month SureMen launches the ultimate football sweepstake promotion designed to give footie fans the chance to win cold hard cash if their chosen team reaches the final stages in South Africa.

To celebrate the launch of this amazing on-pack promotion, SureMen has teamed up with award-winning model maker Andy Gent to create an incredible Rube Goldberg-style football sweep stake machine.

The must-see viral – expertly captured in a single take – sees an ordinary football making a complex journey past a host of landmarks, representing some of the 32 nations competing in South Africa.

The World Cup in South Africa is upon us folks. Well I guess if unless you are a crazy from the heat Japanese soldier living in bunker 300 feet underground who doesn’t know that the war is over, you probably already knew that.

Ringtagz have a fantastic little thing going.

What’s the dullest sound in the world? For me it’s hearing the words, ‘Last orders, laydeeze an gennullmarrrn pleeaze’.

But for many it’s the plaintiff, ‘ring ring, ring ring’ you have to listen to whilst waiting for the other party to pick up the damn phone!

Ringtagz replace the ring ring your callers hear whilst they wait for you to answer your phone. And all you have to do is choose from 1000’s of sounds including music tracks, sound FX, TV theme tunes and loads more.

My fave is this!

Our Terry has a head for heights

Most performers would give their right arm to perform at London’s O2 Arena, but not Terry Venables.

As one of England’s most personable former managers, El Tel decided to go one better and sing on the roof instead appearing alongside London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in The Sun’s World Cup TV ad.

This remarkable feat of ingenuity is not entirely out of character for one of football’s more colourful characters. You could imagine Venables saying, ‘Pass us a pen love, I wanna write history’.

Terence Frederick Venables was a notable footballer for Chelsea, Spurs and QPR in a career spanning 16 years.

He took his first tentative steps into management with Crystal Palace in 1976 before moving onto QPR four years later – whom he took into the top flight. Barcelona came knocking in 1984 where he earned the sobriquet ‘El Tel’ whilst guiding them to three Spanish titles and a European Cup Final. The pressure to succeed was intense at Nou Camp though and he was harshly dismissed in 1987 after failing to secure a fourth title.

He wasted no time however, and jumped straight back into the saddle with Spurs where he would stay for the next six years. The team finished mid-table for most of his tenure but with Lineker and Gascoigne in the side, Tottenham grew a reputation for playing attractive attacking football.

His high-point at White Hart Lane came in 1991 following the club’s FA Cup triumph.

After a year in the wilderness, Terry took over the national squad at one of their lowest points after failure to qualify for the World Cup in the USA. He reinvigorated the side as we came so close to winning Euro 96 on home soil but for the German’s ruthless efficiency at taking penalties.

He has dabbled with management since that fateful night at Wembley, notably as Head Coach of Australia and a brief return to the England setup in 2006, but, he will always be best remembered for going within an ace of delivering the nation’s first piece of silverware since 1966.

There will only ever be one, ‘El Tel’.

He's a legend!

Recognise the catchphrase? – You should do. Legendary striker Jimmy Greaves made a habit of uttering these five immortal words when summing up just about anything. England’s third-highest goalscorer has temporarily set aside his TV punditry skills is now offering you the chance to watch the World Cup Final alongside him.

Burger King have now stepped up to the plate so to speak at global football’s biggest spectacle.

Greavsie was a remarkable player. His goal scoring record for Tottenham and England set him apart from all others, even to this day. And the opportunity to watch the World Cup Final with him will put you in a different bracket to your pals.

The legend that is Jimmy Greaves hasn’t lost his touch…

Mind your helmet

Well that got your attention didn’t it? Sadly, as much as I would like to write those types of articles, this is a family website and we ought to keep the smut to a minimum.

But, or should that be butt I can tell you that there will be a new kind of streaker at this year’s World Cup Finals – a tiny one.

Yes this is Freeview HD’s got to become a classic ad to entice you to sign up for their service and marvel at a very small man protecting his modesty with an extremely long beard.

Who can forget some of more memorable demonstrations of this very British tradition at football grounds the length and breadth of the country. Who could forget the Riverside Stadium in 1997 when a rather attractive young woman dressed in a Santa outfit invaded the pitch during Middlesbrough’s derby match with Newcastle and flashed her baubles at serial-prankster and Spurs legend Paul Gascoigne?

Or even when German club FC Hansa Ruslock successfully sued three streakers who disrupted their 2003 match against Hertha Berlin to recoup the €20,000 they were fined by the German FA for failing to maintain adequate security at their ground.

Moments of naked ambition or just bare-faced cheek, the arrival of a streaker is now so commonplace that it has become a barely-noticeable break in proceedings. We will never change in our fascination with this light-hearted attempt to amuse thousands of spectators by taking ones clothes off and it shall always remain a much-loved part of the beautiful game.

Jose is in the market for a bigger bus, Fabio is learning to stand on his own two feet and the Germans… well they are doing what they do best and holding some sort of rally. This is of course, just the latest production from the people that brought you the Buy Berbatov A Goal Foundation to name but one.

Oh look,  just press play and enjoy!

An extraordinary strike from a Brazilian footballer came in the shape of a 45 yard free kick from inside the centre circle.

Inca,36, of Sol de America, gave his side a much needed 1-2 win and simultaneously avoided relegation!

‘The big thing was that my team-mates trusted me to have a go at it, above all I want to thank them for letting me have a try. And thanks to God it was a goal!’

What a wonderful loon.

“C’est en faisant n’importe quoi qu’on devient n’importe qui” not my words but those of one Rémi Gaillard.

He’s a French prankster. Not like threatening to join Barcelona in order to up your salary, prankster. No, this guy is more like pretending to be a footballer (in this case Lorient).

Put his name into YouTube and you’ll discover that this is actually one of his more sophisticated stunts  as most of the others I watched fell squarely into ‘would make Stewart Hall cry with laughter’ category. Oh Well. Enjoy this one…