Footballer rewarded for kicking football

David Bentley may be enjoying mixed form at White Hart Lane this season, but Spurs and Arsenal fans will testify that the winger knows how to hit a long range effort.

For some reason, Bentley finds himself on the roof of Red Bull’s London headquarters, when his agent says he can’t put a ball in a skip on the other side of Charing Cross Road. The agent has so little faith in his client’s abilities, that he puts his £15,000 watch on him missing. As the headline suggests, DB earns himself a new piece of bling.

(At a time when people are struggling to pay their mortgages, isn’t it great to know that footballers are still waging huge amounts of money on kicking footballs into skips? God bless the Premier League.)

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Aussie knocked unconscious during naked high jinks

Running onto a sports playing surface and wobbling about a bit with no clothes on doesn’t sound complicated in principle. Australian football player Nathan Roberts, however, didn’t quite make it to the ‘ticking off from the Police while wrapped in a steward’s jacket’ stage, as he managed to knock himself unconscious:

Mr Roberts, 26, of Salisbury, streaked during the Adelaide Plains Football League preliminary final match between United and Hummocks Watchman Eagles at Virginia Oval.

“We had knocked back a few bevvies and someone mentioned someone should streak,” he said yesterday.

“I said I would for a gold-coin donation . . . then there was $50 on the table so I had to do it.”

Part of the challenge was that Mr Roberts had to complete a cartwheel.

However, that is where everything came undone.