League One club Chesterfield have been forced to apologise to fans after they faked a winning entry in a raffle to follow the team on their pre-season tour of Hungary. Yes, really! The club had invited fans to part with £20 to enter the raffle, but after a particularly slow
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Shambolic: Chesterfield Admit To Faking Winning Ticket In Mother Of All Raffle Cock-Ups

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We’ve all seen Demba Ba’s horrific leg break which occurred in the Shanghai derby last week. However, for the player himself, the long road to recovery stretches ahead, with a major question mark hanging over the 31-year-old’s future in the game. Unsurprisingly, Ba has had a l
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Crocked Striker Demba Ba Visited In Hospital By Shenghai SIPG Player Who Tackled Him (Video)

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It looks very much as though Lazio are set to shatter their record low season ticket sales two years on the bounce after the Serie A side managed to shift just a handful of 2016/17 tickets on the first day of sale. Lazio put season tickets on sale on Monday but demand proved s
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No Takers: Lazio Manage To Shift Just 11 Season Tickets On First Day Of Sale

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We ask you: What better way to celebrate your beloved football club’s 150th year of existence than by dropping £16 on a worthless nubbin of purest tat? Well that’s exactly what Chesterfield are asking their devout supporters to do, with the tat in question being this truly crap
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Football Tat: Chesterfield Would Like To Sell You A ‘150th Anniversary Garden Gnome’ For £16 (Photo)

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Image: @Pele/Twitter Pele has taken it upon himself to record his very own anthem for the 2016 Olympic Games, which are due to get under way in Rio de Janeiro next month. The 75-year-old Brazilian legend has penned and recorded an unofficial anthem called “Esperanca” (“Hope”) w
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Pele Takes It Upon Himself To Record Special Song Inspired By 2016 Rio Olympic Games

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What with it being the hottest day of the year so far and everything, Pies thought we’d capitalise on the furore by chucking a 15-strong compendium of sun-baked footballers your way. Don’t say we never treat you… Embed from Getty Images Tottenham ‘keeper Ted Ditchburn pootl
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15 Great, Sun-Baked Photos Of Footballers On Holiday

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Newly-promoted La Liga side CD Leganes have jumped on the weird and wonderful Spanish kit bandwagon by making their new 2016-17 home shirt the first ever to feature a “scratch ‘n’ sniff” badge. As unlikely as it may sound, Leganes’ new jersey features an embroidered club crest
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La Liga: Spanish Side CD Leganes Launch Kit With World’s First Scratch-‘N’-Sniff Badge (Video)

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