Meanwhile in… ...spain, a local artist knew exactly how he wanted to honour diego maradona – with a bust of mick jagger?!

1 “I KNOW IT’S TERRIBLE – JUST SMILE AND CLAP POLITELY”

When Argentina’s under-20 team arrived in Spain for a friendly competition, they got way more than they had bargained for.

The annual COTIF youth tournament has been held in L’Alcudia near Valencia since 1984, featuring a pleasingly random assortment of sides – the USSR and Algeria tussled with Aberdeen in 1988, a year before East Germany battled Athletic Bilbao.

This time an Argentina outfit managed by Javier Mascherano travelled to take on Uruguay, Valencia and Levante, and the locals had prepared a special surprise – Argentine FA president Claudio Tapia was presented with a bust of Diego Maradona, lovingly created by local artist Rafa Ferri. One problem: er, it looks nothing like Diego? “This only strengthens the ties COTIF and Spain have with Argentine football,” Tapia politely said, presumably while having a subtle look around for the nearest skip.

Ferri is now due to create an artwork every year – get Aberdeen back for 2023, the world needs to see what he can do with Fergie...

2 BAD EBENING

Unai Emery seemed an amiable enough chap during his time as Arsenal boss, but there’s one guaranteed way to get his back up.

A number of Spanish sides headed to England for pre-season friendly games – Betis randomly faced off with Marseille in Chesterfield, while Emery’s Villarreal played rather more sensible fixtures against Fulham and Southampton. All was going well until a local stuck a camera in his face outside St Mary’s, and asked him to say, ‘Good ebening’.

Result: Emery produced the middle finger. Probably the wisest choice of gesture, to be fair – if he’d tried to flick them a V, he’d have ended up accidentally giving them a B sign.

3 BLUE IS THE COLOUR

AFC Wimbledon have worn a blue home kit since their launch in 2002, so when they recently unveiled their new away strip, there was some confusion. Er, this one is also blue?

In a revolutionary and baffling move, yes, the League Two side have two kits in pretty much the same colour – the away blue is a touch darker, but it’s about as useful at avoiding a colour clash as a hippopotamus would be at scaling Mount Everest.

The Dons have also launched a red third kit, leaving everyone wondering what the point of the second shirt was, other than to boost replica kit sales. Next season: 46 shirts, all in slightly different shades of blue. Buy the full collection for just £77,000...

4 A MODEL CLUB

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