Footballers raise money by playing fancy dress

Earlier this week, Sunderland FC held a charity event called ‘Fashion Strikes’, for which a £110 ticket would entitle the holder the right to see some of the Black Cats’ most famous faces strut their stuff on the catwalk.

Djibril Cisse was only too happy to help out, as it allowed him to indulge in his favourite pastime of wearing utterly ridiculous clothing. Elsewhere, Anton Ferdinand did some serious hat angle experimentation, and appeared to settle on ‘jaunty’.

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Last night, Kevin Keegan took part in a charity fashion show organised by Shay Given, a man who wears gloves and shorts for a living. During the course of the evening, the Newcastle boss instructed someone to ‘sit on it’, invited people into his office (which was actually a toilet!), elbowed a jukebox to make it play, and then went to the bathroom to comb his hair, but decided it was perfectly quaffed anyway.

I personally like the look. It doesn’t say ‘I’m terrified of relegation and botching up the hopes and thousands of fans,’ as much as it says ‘Yeah, I may be portly but I’m daring enough to get away with sideways stripes.’ You go, girl.

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