A little competition on this first day of Euro 2004. Included in this article is a list of footballing knights. Can you spot the odd one out? (clue: the last one, by some distance)
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There's a joke, and then there's telling the press you've signed Alan Shearer. "I didn't even know of his existence"? Slept through Euro 96, did you?
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As a number of people pass by this way every day, perhaps we should say that for the time being pretty much all our focus is on Lisbonic Plague until the end of the month. Go there, then. Now. It's good. The Independent said so, not just us.
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Another best thing we've ever seen, even if most of the text is in Swedish - Konspiration '58, a group who claim the 1958 World Cup finals were played not in Sweden but in a film studio in LA at the behest of the CIA and FIFA, and have all sorts of moon landing-esque 'proof' regarding shadows and buildings in the background. Fascinating, and moreover completely nuts
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Now we've heard everything - Ronaldo to Spurs? News Of The World, shut down this instant
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The BBC Sport Relief thing is gearing up again - buy yourself the varnished tables of Match of The Day and Football Focus. While you're there, look at sport.relief's member profile and wonder just what sort of person would give them negative feedback
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