The Flying Bugle

You just can't beat a bit of comedy in football. Who can forget David Dunn's bit of two-footed trickery that left him sprawling on his arse, as replayed week after week on ITV's now-deceased The Premiership? This weekend's Premiership matches plumbed a rich vein of hilarity which is worth celebrating here. Witness El Karkouri's long free kick for Charlton which left Maik Taylor static in the Birmingham goal. Over at The Riverside we chuckled as Big Dunc lunged in on Mark Schwarzer's dropped catch and started in a 21 man scrum in the Middlesbrough goal - only the Everton keeper kept his handbag to himself. Then there was the idiot who threw his mobile phone at Wayne Rooney as he was celebrating his goal against Liverpool. Now throwing objects at players is not a good thing, but at what point did this dim-bulb think that his mobile phone would make a good weapon? As if he's not going to get caught... doh! Couldn't he find a plastic bottle? Did he get his mate to phone his mobile and then ask the steward if he could have it back? But these all pale in comparison to the scenes at the Portsmouth vs Blackburn match. Paul Dickov runs to celebrate Blackburn's goal with his team mates on the touch line... and gets hit on the backside by a flying bugle! Still, it's worth remembering that Louis Figo was targeted by a flying suckling pig's head in a match in November 2002, so perhaps a bugle isn't quite so bizarre. (With thanks to Stevie B for the Figo anecdote.)