Haha, this is one pretty much exclusively for the sports fans, I'm well aware almost nobody else will care. The vast majority of pictures on my phone are holiday snaps and if this homework had come up a couple weeks earlier or later then my submission would have been some funky hip snap of Prague or Amsterdam respectively.
As it is, it's some plastic seats. Yes.
So, for as long as I can remember, I've been a season ticket holder at Leicester City (yes, that Leicester City, yes, last year was amazing, yes, Americans, just like the Panthers we've gone back to being shit.)
A couple weeks ago we travelled to some grey industrial estate called Stoke and a visually impaired referee sent off one of our better players for what he thought was a dangerous tackle. Almost the entire world of football saw the tackle and went "um, what?" (I say almost because Stoke fans and bitter Spurs fans are duly obliged by the laws of football tribalism to be contrary as fuck and pretend it was deserved.)
So, our owners felt fairly justified in appealing the decision and fairly confident it would be overturned (meaning he wouldn't be banned for three games), as did everyone else following the premier league.
Well, we were all wrong. There's an established precedent in European football that the local association will unwaveringly defend their officials, however big a balls up they made, so they upheld the decision.
You're not really supposed to criticise the powers that be, it usually provokes a fine, so our owners showed a rare flash of a sense of humour and instead - at our next game - put a mask of the player's face on every single one of the 30,000 home seats in the ground. Hilarity ensues.
Regardless of your sporting persuasion, the effort and expense for the sakes of being glib, petty and pointlessly defiant really do have to be applauded.
@rambo @missy
