Truth Is Stranger Than Friction

The joy of truth is that it can be funnier, crazier, than fiction. On September 16 the referee suspended a football match following complaints by the spectators that the players on both multicultural or should I say multiracial teams had been racially abusing each other with terms like 'black bastard' a player corrected this, explaining that it wasn't racial abuse but 'sledging' - to put off players from kicking penalties etc.: 'Sure it was abuse, but there was no racism' well that's alright then, after all it's a multi, er, cultural society and the tackling was clean and good sportsmanship sorta