Dele’s finger of FA fudge
NOT since Gerard Houllier suggested Robbie Fowler’s whitewash-sniffing celebration was actually a grasseating ritual copied from team-mate Rigobert Song has an explanation raised so many press conference eyebrows.
Dele Alli’s sign language (above) was aimed towards Kyle Walker, said Gareth Southgate.
And the band played Believe It If You Like (one for the old-timers.) If it is actually to be believed. Alli’s crime is hardly a heinous one, but neither is it a laughing matter for FIFA or, indeed, the FA.
No one was hurt, as Joe Hart said after the Slovakia match, but if Alli escapes reprimand, it is an unfortunate precedent.
Whenever a referee makes a bad decision, they will all be talking to their mates with a single finger. I NOTICE the International Hide and Seek Championship takes place in an abandoned Italian village called Consonno this weekend.
Something to keep Diego Costa occupied, maybe. WAYNE ROONEY went into Everton’s training complex with serious stubble and came out clean-shaven.
And we thought Fergie’s hair-dryer was ferocious.