STRANGE , BUT SADLY, TRUE!

       “FANCY A FEW SAUSAGES SON?”

A Romanian football team is apparently demanding a refund after having bought a player for a transfer fee of 15 kilos of pork sausages. Defender Marius Cioara retired a day later saying he could not face any more sausage related taunts at his expense. Cioara, who played for second division team UT Arad, was sold to fourth division Regal Hornia for the sausage meat.
After the deal a spokesman for Regal Hornia confirmed, 'We gave up the team's sausage allowance for a week to secure him, but we are confident it will be worth it. 'However, a day after the deal was leaked to the media, Cioara announced he was giving up football and had decided to flee the country.
Ananova- the News agency reported that he said, 'The sausage taunts all got too much for me. I have decided to go to Spain where I have got a job on a farm.'

       “I’M HAPPY TO BE HERE, OH HANG ON I’VE BEEN SACKED!

 Ex-soccer star Leroy Rosenior was appointed boss of a struggling club - then sacked after ten minutes. The former West Ham and Fulham striker broke the record for English football's shortest managerial reign after being introduced with a fanfare by Torquay United, reports The Sun.
Sports journalists were summoned to a press conference which finished at 3.30pm. Then - at 3.40pm - Leroy was told by the chairman that the Devon club had been sold to a business consortium. And that meant he was out. Leroy, 43 said, 'For it to happen ten minutes after I finished the press conference was a bit of a shock. But we had a good laugh about it afterwards.' Leroy smashed the previous record for the shortest time as manager - Dave [Harry] Bassett's 72 hours at Crystal Palace in 1984.
He joked, 'Obviously they thought I had done a fantastic job after ten minutes and let me go.'  The post was Leroy's second stint at Torquay. He was boss between 2002 and 2006 when he left by mutual consent. Since then the club has been in a managerial crisis, with four different bosses in the hot seat. Leroy added, 'I wish them the very best of luck. They are going to sort me out a bit of compensation.'



WOMEN! DON’T YOU JUST LOVE THEM?

Two Northampton Town fans, Bernie Love and life-long friend Eddie Shore, where lucky enough (or unlucky depending on your viewpoint) to have season tickets to the clubs home games a few seasons back. However they noticed that the enclosure was full every home game bar one seat – K37 Row E – the seat directly alongside them. They’d be trying to convince another friend to come along each week but when asking about the mysterious K37 seat, they were told by an official that the seat had actually been sold pre-season and was not available.

Every second week Bernie & Eddie watched their side play at home until December 28th 2008, a home game against Bristol Rovers ,when to their amazement someone finally came along, smiled at the two lads and took his seat.

Eddie couldn’t resist asking who the man was and more importantly where he had been all season. The stranger put his eyes up to heaven and replied that his wife has bought him the season ticket in July and kept it as a surprise present for Christmas!

SNATCH OF THE DAY
This happened in 1991. A derby between Uruguay's two biggest teams was taking place: Penarol v Nacional. The incident involved Panamanian international Dely Valdez (now in PSG, France) and Penarol defender Goncalves. Valdez was Nacional's striker and he was known for wearing gold chains and other jewellery on the pitch. Both players were struggling as a corner kick was about to take place for Nacional, Goncalves ripped off one of Valdez's gold-chains and hid it in his sock.
Nobody in the stadium saw it but the TV cameras caught the moment, and after the game Valdez and the police were waiting for Goncalvez outside the dressing rooms. Goncalvez was arrested but the charges were later dropped as he had returned the chain.
Asked why he did it, Goncalvez replied “I’ve been very depressed lately and really didn’t know what I was thinking” The derby has since become known as the “golden-chain derby”. Brings a new meaning to the phrase “we were robbed” doesn’t it?