**The beautiful 'game'**

##Warning Non Music Related##

This is a non musical blog post but I just had to share this with who ever is reading.

Ive just found the following article about Tony 'have a dig from anywhere' Yeboah. Most football fans, including myself, will remember the cult hero for being one of the most prolific goal scorers in Ghanaian and African football history, gaining a reputation for scoring spectacular goals which often featured in Goal of the Month or Goal of the Season competitions. To this day Yeboah is the only player ever to win successive BBC Match of the Day Goal of the Month competitions, doing so in September and October 1995.

Well that's how football fans remember him anyway, Im afraid to say that former professional footballer, and also scorer of a fair few corkers himself, Peter Ndlovu has a slightly different lasting memory of old Tony. Here is an interview with 'Nuddy' detailing his account of a certain episode which happened during the 2006 African Cup of Nations.

Take it away Pete...

‘We had just played our final group game, ending on a high by beating a strong Ghana side but still crashing out of the tournament. At the hotel that night we decided to have a few drinks and toast to our victory. I had invited my friend, who I can’t name for legal reasons (fans of English football will remember him from his highly successful period with Leeds United), along as he had been watching the match.

The lads started giving my friend a lot of stick for his country’s loss, especially our head coach. My friend was taking it quite gracefully but, as a proud Ghanaian, I could sense his patience was wearing thin. Nevertheless, the drinks kept flowing and so did the jokes.

It came to the end of the night and some of the lads had disappeared to bed, most notably our coach and my friend. Now during the whole tournament the manager had personally entered the hotel rooms of our most lazy players (Benjani was the worst) and pulled them out of bed in the morning to get ready for training so myself and a couple of the other lads decided to repeat the routine on him. We got the keys from reception and seven of us bundled into his hotel room at 4 a.m. To our horror it was not our coach who we found in bed, it was my friend. The worst part was that he was having sex with the coach’s wife!

I quickly rounded the boys up and ushered them out of the room, frantically hoping to keep a lid on the situation. After all, it was I who invited him to the party! We found the coach in one of the hotel bathrooms. He had had far too much to drink and crashed out.

The next morning, at breakfast, I quizzed my friend about what happened and he delivered a line which I will remember all my life: “When a man insults my country, I insult him by taking his woman”

There is only one phrase that can sum up that line 'Unbelievable'. So there we go kids never insult Tony Yeboah or you, and your Mrs, is for it.

Cheers

Mr Rice

..ML..