By Chris Wright

'The Hart Fart' appears to be a phenomenon that most Man City fans are aware of already, being as though their official in-house television channel has already produced an in-depth analysis package to accompany the video.

For the unenlightened, the clip is taken from City's 2011 blooper reel and sees Joe Hart letting go of a little bum toot in the back of a taxi, with captain Vincent Kompany trying desperately to keep a straight face in order to admonish young Joseph and his rogue sphincter, while Micah Richards just explodes in fits of howling laughter.

Heartbreak for Gabon and Aubamayeng but a bright future awaits... is a post from: Just Football

In my latest column for FourFourTwo I take a look at co-hosts Gabon and their exciting but ultimately heartbreaking Africa Cup of Nations campaign:

After the laughter comes tears.

@ArenaFlowers I've yet to cry from laughter when reading a joke but everything you've tweeted today has pushed the boundary. Bravo.

- Thomas King (@thomjking) January 4, 2012

@ArenaFlowers I've yet to cry from laughter when reading a joke but everything you've tweeted today has pushed the boundary.

‘Oh, is there a match on darling?' It's sweet of Adriana to sound even vaguely excited on my behalf.

It's the first time today that I've thought about football. I've known for a while that I would be working late so I put it to one side, and anyway sitting next to Adriana for the afternoon's meeting is distraction enough.

By Alan Duffy

Ronaldinho having some 'me time' whilst training with the Brazilian national team

One of football's more colourful characters, Brazilian legend Ronaldinho, must be feeling rather embarrassed right now, after an x-rated webcam video of the star erm, giving himself a 'helping hand', was leaked on the internet, in true Dirty Den/Leslie Grantham style.

So you;re at a football match somewhere in Indonesia. You buy your ticket and you kind a place in the stand or on the terraces and you mind your own business. You don't bother reading a programme cos there ain't one. You don't bother going to the toilets 'cos they're disgusting. You don't do much in fact 'cos there ain't much to do.

Jermain to say I'm a Gunner? Popstar Rihanna enjoyed a bit of north London banter ahead of her performance at the O2 this week when she met Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe backstage. She told Defoe: "Oh, Jermain, you play for Arsenal, yeah? I've heard all about you. The Mirror reports an awkward silence followed, broken [.

3PM Extra: Watch Serie D's goal of the season, the Bundesliga's "Wang Dance" and a minute's silence...with laughter

Running late but looking great, it's MirrorFootball's daily dose of video hi-jinks, 3PM Extra!

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A minutes silence for the victims of the Genoa flash flooding last week was controversially marred by a player's passing of Wind (farting) at the week-end.

During Fiorentina and Chievo's minute silence Fiorentina's Riccardo Montolivo was caught sniggering during the silence and consequently apologised for his bout of laughter which only occured after his team-mate Alessandro Gamberini let a ripper during the ceremony, which in my opinion was totally understandable, so why the controversy?

By Alan Duffy

Aston Villa's Der Kaiser listens to the resounding laughter following Alex McLeish's interview

It's not often that you hear the names Emile Heskey and Franz Beckenbauer in the same sentence, and it's even less often that you hear the former England man being actually compared to the German great.

It's only Day 2 of the Selecao Bootcamp and so much has gone down! Man United's Fabio who declared once that he'd prefer to play for Portugal ("Oh no he DI'INT!") went through the traditional 'Baptism Brasileira' process which involves standing on a chair and telling the whole room why you're proud to play for Brazil.

He shoots, he scores! Or, if you happened to be Fernando Torres yesterday afternoon, you didn't. There are several reasons why a Premier League match which had, as they say, a little bit of everything, will most likely remembered for one moment of aberration, some connected to the eye-watering amount of money that Chelsea played for said player, others through a sense of a relief that it effectively ended much chance of a tight finish to a match that Manchester United should have long since wrapped up, but most for reasons of good, old fashioned schadenfreude.

Yesterday I rediscovered a valuable element of the art of watching football. It's absent for a good reason when Spurs play it's a serious business as far as I'm concerned and I'm totally absorbed. Wouldn't have it any other way, that complete commitment is the source of the passion, but it can be draining and debilitating sometimes.

TGIF: nearly but so far

OK this is a teaser for the return of TGIF, I have to say that the old format was not very interactive and it was more you readers being fed , then expressing your views via the comments. So the new TGIF will become more interactive with the best comments in the first two hours being responded to and included with the Blog for posterity.

Like when that football 'expert' told you that Lionel Messi will sign for Stoke City, or that Pele is to come out of retirement and sign for Notts County, we at In The Stands could not contain our laughter upon hearing that Tottenham, yes, Tottenham Hotspurs are lining up a sensational summer swoop for.

Every month or so FIFA release a ranking of all the national teams in the world. The rankings are widely mocked for their inaccurate representation of the relative qualities of international sides, but is this fair?

Fans and journalists alike mocked England's recent position of fourth in the rankings.

I am posting this mainly so I can always find it and chuckle about it. Firmly on Carolyn's side it has to be said. Some superb quotes in there
from: Carolyn Bourne
to: heidi withers
subject: your lack of manners
Here are a few examples of your lack of manners:
When you are a guest in another's house, you do not declare what you will and will not eat - unless you are positively allergic to something.

Last night, after his team's bruising defeat to Mexico in the Gold Cup final, goalkeeper Tim Howard commented (according to Grant Wahl on twitter), that it was "a f ing disgrace that the entire postmatch ceremony was in Spanish."

He was, to be sure, in a bad place. Howard is a world-class goalie, whose saves have time and time again literally saved the U.

This sounds incredibly petty and bimbo-tic (yada, yada), but what is up with David Villa's hair??!! There needs to be a balance between being one of Spain's favourite forwards and a member of Fight Club, vale? You can't have both, tipo!

Speaking of Villa, everyone at Barca is making their way to London right now for the Champions League final this Saturday.

When a journalist asks Ian Holloway if he has "man love" for Spurs coach Harry Redknapp it causes an eruption of laughter. Very funny stuff, but as usual Holloway takes it in his stride!

Don't miss the brand new episode of the 3 Up Front podcast!

Host Adrian Clarke does his best to control feuding pundits Iain Spragg and Iain Macintosh during half an hour of lively laughter-filled football chat that features;

Darren Bent is a money-grabbing traitor Fact or Fiction?

Currently on the rebound after a slump in form, The Office has no doubt invigorated the use of several goldmine sitcom laughter schemes.Along with other recent comedies like our old pal Arrested Development, they've helped influence other shows with things like multi-camera use, lack of laugh track, overlapping dialogue and the now-ubiquitous mockumentary style.