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July 12, 2010
Mad Hatter Tries to Dress Up World Cup Trophy: After Spain's World Cup triumph, a fan ran across the field at Soccer City and tried to put a hat on the World Cup trophy, almost reaching it before receiving an open field tackle that should have drawn an immediate red card. The fan, who wore a "Salta Salta Jimmy Jump Against Racism" T-shirt, is a Spanish prankster known for pitch invasions. See the video.
Stretching, but...
It probably shows what the Spanish football authorities also think of anti-racism campaigns.
/One of the reasons I was going for the Dutch.
posted by owlhouse at 05:41 PM on July 12, 2010
He almost made it, but it looked like he flinched at the last second... Man...he was so close and chickened out after all his planning?!
posted by StarFucker at 02:56 AM on July 13, 2010
I don't think the tackle deserved a red card as much as it would have deserved a thunderous round of applause. Keeping jackasses like this guy off of the fields should be a priority and watching someone like this get launched to the ground is a good thing. If anything I wish they had tased him while he was down too.