Footballers have suffered some bizarre injuries over the years -- like Ivano Bonetti's fractured cheek bone from a plate of chicken wings or Chic Brodie's career-ending broken kneecap from a dog that ran on the pitch. And now, Ever Banega can add his name to the list.

From Reuters:

Valencia playmaker Ever Banega will have surgery on a damaged ankle suffered after he failed to set the handbrake in his car at a petrol station and it rolled back and trapped his foot, Spanish media reported on Sunday.

Have to say she's a very lucky woman after just delegated a huge problem of immigration security and queueing at airports. If the minutes of her meeting with Brodie Clark could prove he'd told her about the relaxation of finger print checks she'd be out wouldn't she? I mean all the other home secretaries were told, would she not have been?

LONDON, England Drug smugglers tried to transport a kilo of cannabis within a wooden framed painting of Manchester City footballer Emmanuel Adebayor last year, the UK Border Agency said on Thursday. The painting was sent from Togo destined for an address in Tottenham, north London, and was discovered at a postal hub in Coventry.