Dressing up on Halloween isn't a challenge to be taken lightly. It's not just about the eating sweets, making friends and putting dog feces through mail boxes. It means much more than that. It's the one night when everyone on the planet can wear whatever they want and be whomever they wish.

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Move aside Bafana Bafana. The world has a new favourite South African team, and their name is Vakhegula Vakhegula, which means "Grannies" in the local Xitsonga dialect. Why? Because they're a team of grandmothers of course, ranging in age from 40somethinng to 80something and competing in an eight team local league in around the Nkowankowa township, 600 kilometers north of Johannesburg.

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Let's go back to the beginning.

We critics always talk about artists as the sum of their parts, how well they created their own style out of their influences. When you see this clip of I Want You Back, you hear why Michael Jackson could become anything other than a megastar.

I listened to this about five times yesterday, and finally hit upon the reason.

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Every once in a while I come across a video so inspiring that it changes the way I view the world.

This, however, is not one of them.

If you thought the famous Bing Crosby/David Bowie version of "The Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth" was bizarre (and make no mistake, it was), it's nothing compared to what Bing did nine years earlier.

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Peace out.

The newly-renamed Chris Sutton-Winston Bogarde Award for wack transfer of the season goes to ... Luiz Felipe Scolari
The fat, loveable World Cup winner traded national team football with Portugal for the sunny side of London and Stamford Bridge.

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Assuming he even cares that he missed! 1. Peter Devine 2. Francesco Totti 3. William 4. Diana Ross 5. Robert Pires Share on Facebook Click to continue reading...