Apes game for a laugh Sven gets dying wish to manage Liverpool
APES have a sense of humour similar to ours, experts have found.
Orangutans, chimps, bonobos and gorillas were observed “playfully teasing” each other by scientists in the US.
UCLA professor Erica Cartmill said: “It was common for teasers to repeatedly wave or swing a body part or object in the middle of the target’s field of vision.”
She added they would “hit or poke them, stare closely at their face, disrupt their movements, pull on their hair or perform other behaviours that were extremely difficult for the target to ignore.”
The research also suggests that humantype humour evolved in apes up to 13 million years ago.
FORMER England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson will see a lifelong dream come true when he coaches a Liverpool team – weeks after confirming he has terminal cancer.
The Swedish coach, 76, announced in January he has “best case a year” to live after being diagnosed with the illness.
Supporter
He also revealed he had “always wished to be the manager of Liverpool” and had been a lifelong supporter of the Reds.
Now that dream is to become a reality after the club revealed Eriksson will get to co-manage the Liverpool Legends team for a charity game at Anfield against Ajax Legends on March 23.
The club said Eriksson “will join a dugout of LFC greats, including Ian
Rush, John Barnes and John Aldridge”. A statement said: “All connected with the club and LFC Foundation look forward to warmly welcoming LFC fan Sven and his family to Anfield, and seeing him in the dugout on the day for a fantastic fundraising occasion.”
After revealing his illness last month, Eriksson was asked which role in football he wished he had taken. He said: “My father is a Liverpool supporter and I am a Liverpool supporter too, always have been. So I always wished to be the manager of Liverpool and that will not happen, but I’m still a Liverpool fan.”
Reds fans had called on the club to allow Eriksson to manage the Legends team following his health announcement. Anfield boss Jurgen Klopp said: “I heard for the first time about his admiration or love for Liverpool and that he was a fan for his whole life.
“I heard now about the Legends game and stuff like that. The only thing I can say is absolutely, he’s very welcome to come here and he can sit in my seat in my office and do my job for a day if he wants. That’s no problem.
“To have him here and show him everything,
Wonderful
I think that’s we will tell him.
“He can come over and have a few wonderful hours here, I’m sure.”
Eriksson was the first foreign coach to manage England, leading the national team to the quarter-finals of the 2002 and 2006 World Cups. He was boss of Manchester City, Leicester City, Mexico and the Philippines. definitely something