Nando meets his match in footballing mutt

In embarrassing news for every defender who has ever let Fernando Torres score past them, Hank the German Shepherd managed to keep El Niño away from the net for a full two minutes during a visit to the West Lancs Dog Display Team in Formby.

Hank, who rubbed it in by wearing his preferred Steven Gerrard strip, has actually been trained to play football, and had the honour of playing at Anfield  in goal at a half time display last year.

Spoiler win bonus: The first person to tell us which dog fan said “It’s nice to be affectionate to something German” wins a DVD copy the Real Madrid movie Real.