The Fifth Official

An open goal

September 19, 2011
By The Fifth Official
(Archive)
Few of us like Monday but The Fifth Official does, for it brings with it a chance for him to point the finger and laugh. Here he pulls out the pretty, the puzzling and the downright pig-ugly from a week brimming with potential victims.

The £50m miss

Somewhere in Israel at about 5.43pm on Sunday a middle-aged man let out a contented sigh as he watched Fernando Torres miss an open goal from six yards out. That man closed his eyes and drank in the ironic cheers that cascaded down ...

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