Waking up feeling a little bit sheepish this morning are Real Madrid, who lost at home to suburban nobodies Getafe yesterday in rather foolish circumstances.
Madrid thought they’d gone ahead when Arjen Robben tapped in, and celebrated accordingly, but were so engrossed in their self-congratulation that they’d failed to notice the goal had been disallowed for offside. Getafe marched up the other end, ignoring the celebrating Madridistas, and scored. “It was the mistake of a four-year-old,” said Guti. Especially gladdening: Arjen Robben’s expression turning to horror as the truth dawns.
Has football’s upper echelon lost the battle to keep itself strictly hetero?
The tiny group of mythical creatures such as the phoenix, the unicorn, the yeti and the Loch Ness monster is this week smaller by one, with the supposed discovery by hysterical Spanish tabloids that one of their number - a gay professional footballer - really exists.
Prying photographers reckoned they’d busted Real Madrid midfielder Guti landing a kiss square on the chops of another man outside a Madrid bar, on St Valentine’s day, no less.
