Lionel Messi Singing In His Band

Lionel Messi the best football player in the world was seen in concert after his team comfortably progressed to the semi final of the Champion's League, where they will meet a long time nemesis in Real Madrid for a breathtaking four clashes of the El Clásico in the span of 18 Days. Lionel Messi's English is not the most polished, so he sang 16 days rather than 18 days as his latest song was inspired by the battle to come. The country twang to the song comes as a surprise as he revealed in an interview that his favourite music genres are Samba and Cumbi.

During the Copa America, he shared a room with Carlos Tevez. It was later claimed that "the music was louder than at a disco". Tevez has a band called Piola Vago, where he has some mean dance floor moves,a Tevez and Messi collaboration is planned for the future.

Can Homosexuals Play Football too?

There's not much to say, thanks to the homophobia that has hung over the game like an iron curtain.

Until now...

This month Anton Hyséna left-sided midfielder openly came out as a gay footballer, he plays in Swedish fourth division. The only other footballer who has came out as gay was back in 1990 with Justin Fashanu, who eventually hanged himself, eight years later after been shunned by the footballing world. Let's hope the football world has changed 20 years later and that Anton Hysén does not suffer the same horrible fate as Justin Fashanu.

Comments from Vlatko Markovic, the head of the Croatian football federation suggest that football has not progressed much even in such countries that are considered to be a part of the developed world “as long as I’m president, there will be no gay players. Thank goodness only healthy people play football.”

On the other side of the curtain Mario Gomez German international and Bayern Munich's star striker urged gay players to come out and to break the last "taboo" "

We've got a gay vice-chancellor [Guido Westerwelle]; the Berlin mayor [Klaus Wowereit] is gay. So professional footballers should own up to their preference

On March 9, 2011,a TV programme called "Får även bögar spela fotboll?" ("Can homosexuals play football too?") was shown on TV4, with Anton the subject of it. Anton's father is former Liverpool defender and Swedish international Glenn Hysén. Anton coming out is the equivalent of say Nemanja Vidic's son coming out.

To celebrate and add to the momentum of Gomez urging gay footballers to come out, here are a series of photographs to celebrate gay footballers. We will start with a sexy photograph of the Italian football team, where recently a third division player claimed that he worked as a gigolo and had slept with many Series A players.

Fashion in Football Part One: Evolution of the Snood.

Snoods are the new gloves for football players, the crowd chants sissy, puff and tart and they don't mean pastry! The derisory  attitude towards fashion conscious footballers is typical of a section of football fans who think a cat walk is a pavement allocated for cats to walk along. The word snood was first recorded in 1938 and its meaning was "net or bag worn over a woman's hair" footballers such as Argentinean with Tasmanian Devil physique Carlos Tevez have evolved the meaning of the snood collaborating closely with designers transposing with idiosyncrasy the neck for the hair in this new design.

There are mixed reactions from Premier League managers, Alex Ferguson has banned them from his team proclaiming them 'for powder puffs'. Arsène Wenger on the other hand is more compassionate and tender toward his player's needs. While nibbling on his croissant he suggested that the snood has a medical purpose with players who are having neck problems in the cold damning weather. Here is his golden boy Nasri, exhibiting his beautiful silk snood while playing in the game:

These snoods are mainly targeted by tropical players who find the conditions in England like that of Siberia. Former Brazil World Cup captain Socrates told the Manchester Evening News: "England is too cold for Brazilian footballers." So do these neck warming snoods make such cold places more attractive for those with the inherited brown sugary skills of the Tropic of Capricorn?

Trendy or not they will be banned this coming summer, The IFAB used Law 4, relating to players’ equipment, to banish the snood. It says: ‘A player must not use equipment or wear anything which is dangerous to himself or another player.’ Dutch player De Jong used judo which he learned from Gerald Butler of 300 and PS. I Love You Fame to take down Spanish player Alonso during the World Cup Final, so who knows if Tevez comes across him, De Jong might use the snood to strangle him until his eyes are xeses. And not the sexy kind, unless you are into necrophilia...