[G]iven the uncanny coincidence that artworks with the same title scooped the NME Album of the
Year and Palme d'Or Awards in 2003, it's appropriate that one of the blogosphere's finest
polymath's should contribute the fourth in our fledgling series of hopeless teams. For Chris
Ledger is none other than the brains behind Obscure Music and Football, a site with a sometimes
unhealthy predilection for Salad (the band that is), the musical career of one Paul 'Gazza'
Gascoigne and the witticisms of everyone's favourite xenophobe, Steve Claridge.
Sir Alex Ferguson has responded to claims by Benfica coach, Jorge Jesus, that Wayne Rooney plays
like a Brazilian or an Argentinian, by suggesting that whilst he is typically British, he is
similar to Pele.
"I think he's a typical British player," said Ferguson. "There have been British
players over the last few years, maybe for the last decades, who have similar great qualities that
make them great players, whether it's a Gascoigne, George Best, Bobby Charlton, Denis Law.
Hayden Shaw is a blogger with a sharp wit who shoots from the hip. Hayden writes for The
Fooball Pubcast and you can follow him on Twitter @ElHaydo ... here he shares his memories of a
famous Roy Keane performance and goal. . . If you want to know the moment of the all
important goal, skip to about 50 seconds in.
