JAPANESE SCHOOL GIRLS LOVE DOUBLE HELPINGS OF SEMEN

Last updated : 21 June 2002 By Editor
TIMES:
Mel Kenny, 29, and his friend Matt Wyatt, 30, both consultants, have been travelling round Japan as David Seaman lookalikes. "We got the wigs and moustaches on the internet. It has taken us ages to get the look right," said Mr Kenny. "It's been worth the effort, because of the attention we have been getting from the Japanese girls."

Italy's players have disappeared from the finals - and now their pictures are going out of circulation. This is protest Panini-style, with the Italian publisher so outraged at the manner of the Azzurri's elimination that it is withdrawing 2million stickers from sale. Their director Umberto Leone fumed: "We were indignant after the South Korea game which went against the image of clean football we have promoted. Clients have called to say they back the decision."

also: Two South Korea fans, healthy men in their 20s, died of heart attacks during the thrilling victory over Italy. One collapsed when the co-hosts equalised in the 88th minute. d'uh

and:
a nomination for best joke of the World Cup. As China made a hash of defending a free-kick, El Tel's comment apparently was: "You'd have thought if any side could have put up a decent wall, it would have been China."