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The badertion of the Irish football club Ballybrack FC that one of their players would have been killed in a road accident was revealed to be untrue.
Fernando La Fuente is not dead but in Galway, in the west of Ireland.
Such extreme lies may not be the norm in sports but, as AFP Sports points out, three examples in particular, it is not unique:
Ireland kills three grannies
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Irish midfielder Stephen Ireland lied about the death of one of his grandmothers and it was only the beginning of the story
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Irish international midfielder Stephen Ireland killed three grandmothers to avoid a qualifying match at Euro 2008 with the Czech Republic. They opposed, as well as the Irish football authorities and he never played for his country again.
The 21-year-old had been repatriated to England by private plane after her girlfriend Jessica, who was in Cork, informed Irish director Steve Staunton that her maternal grandmother had died. This was revealed as a lie after the grandmother had read in the newspapers her supposed death.
Ireland then claimed that it was his other grandmother. When she discovered that she was so angry, she threatened to sue.
Ireland tried to kill her step-grandmother before deciding to reduce her losses. He issued a two-page apology in his Manchester City club, claiming that he had been upset after hearing that Jessica had suffered a miscarriage.
"I immediately called my girlfriend, she was upset and explained that she had suffered a miscarriage." Jessica said that she was very lonely and that she wanted me to come home, she thought that they could let me go home more quickly if they thought my grandmother was dead. " Explain.
Morton plays grandmother's card
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Runako Morton, West Indies cricketer, lied about a grandmother who wanted to die for not playing in the 2002 Champions Trophy
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The West Indies cricketer, Runako Morton, died tragically in a car accident in 2012, while he was only 33 years old.
More than ten years earlier, the drummer – who had participated in 15 tests and 56 internationals one day for the West Indies – had mopped his notebook with the selectors.
He had already been expelled from the West Indies Cricket Academy in 2001.
A year later he decided, like Ireland, that the death of a grandmother would prevent him from playing for his nation – in this case at the 2002 Champions Trophy. One of his grannies was in dead effect for 16 years. The other was still alive.
Morton was suspended for a year from all the cricket organized by the West Indies Cricket Commission.
Morton continued to flirt with difficulty since he had been stabbed in 2004 and charged with possession of marijuana in 2012. The case was moving towards acquittal upon his death.
Ferdinand in the wrong country
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Defender Anton Ferdinand told a story that his grandmother was sick and that he had to be with her on the Isle of Wight, but instead went to the United States to celebrate his 22 years.
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Anton Ferdinand may be best known for being the target of a spate of abuse by John Terry in a West Ham match against Chelsea, which the FA found to be racially abusive but a court of law judged later. Or perhaps as younger brother of the former captain of England, Rio.
However, the defenseman made his own headlines when he got the better of West Ham manager Alan Curbishley in 2007. As West Ham was at the bottom of the rankings, Curbishley banned players from traveling to Canada. # 39; abroad.
Ferdinand claimed that he had to be with his sick grandmother on the Isle of Wight, but instead took a trip a little longer than that one, a steal for the United States in order to celebrate his 22 years at an evening filled with alcohol at a club in Columbia, South Carolina. .
"He apologized and we will leave here," Curbishley said. "The players have all learned that they can not leave the country and it will be clearly disciplined." In the end, Ferdinand was fined two weeks salary estimated at £ 45,000 ($ 57,000). He left West Ham in 2008 – just like Curbishley.
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