Sunday, November 11, 2007

Soccer without shorts

In 1991 Nigeria turned up to play Burkina Faso only to find their shorts had been left behind in Lagos.

With the crowd growing restless and the referee threatening to award the tie to the home team, the Super Eagles took to the field in a makeshift shorts fashioned from cut-off tracksuit bottoms.

Unfortunately the seams of the tracksuits soon split apart leaving the players exposing what the Spanish FA described on another occasion as "their most private intimacies".

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