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Stoke's Liam Lawrence could miss next weekend's game against Portsmouth with an ankle injury -
after falling over his own dog (not pictured). A stupid way to injure yourself no doubt, but not
quite brainless enough to make our top 10 Dumbest Football Injuries list: In no particular order...
1. Spanish goalkeeper Santiago Canizares missed out on [.
When a Brazilian girl on the streets of New York starts to chant the carnival song Viva Colonia...
..and when a bunch of kids in South Africa join in... ...and when 50000 fans in Cologne's Rhein
Energie Stadion do the same... ...then this global Cologne lovefest can only be explained with
this: A rare big win against a big [.
Liverpool striker Andriy Voronin has agreed a one-year loan deal with German side Hertha Berlin,
the Anfield club have announced.
The Ukraine international signed for Liverpool on a Bosman free transfer last summer and scored six
goals in 27 appearances.
However, the impact of Fernando Torres restricted his first-team opportunities and Robbie Keane's
arrival this summer forced him further down the pecking order, prompting the forward to move back
to the Bundesliga, where he previously played for Bayer Leverkusen, Cologne, Mainz and Borussia
Monchengladbach.
You never quite know how a returning hero will be greeted in football. I remember when Ian Wright
was sold from Palace to Arsenal he got a right earful from the fans. He replied by
scoring the goals that got The Eagles relegated and celebrated as though he'd won the World
Cup.
Other players have a much better relationship with supporters of their old clubs.
Soccer fans are, in general, a fickle breed. One minute they can be singing the name of their
favorite player as if they were praising the Almighty, the next they can be spewing venom at the
same player for an act of treachery. The most punishable of acts is, of course, deserting the cause
to join another team.
