Viral email of the week (see above) *

Q: What do Didier Drogba, Pippo Inzaghi and Pete Doherty all have in common?
A: They've all scored winning goals in cup finals over the last week. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/fun...

You could probably have predicted two out of the three - but Inzaghi?!

No-one saw that coming, least of all a Liverpool-supporting colleague who, upon seeing the striker's name on the Milan team-sheet, chuckled: "I can’t believe they're playing him, he's useless. We've got it in the bag now."

He was strangely subdued at the end of the match, as was the chap who'd been designated to drive the Liverpool victory parade bus. A group of Manchester United fans working in the city couldn't get their camera phones out quickly enough when they spotted the vehicle, decorated with slogans including "We've won it six times", as it sat unused in the garage.

While Liverpool may have lost on the pitch, they won hands down when it came to the songs contest, not to mention those legendary banners.

"Our lads come from all over the place. De talk dead funny but de play dead great" was a particular favourite but the winner by a country mile simply read: "Mum, I'm gay."

All those Reds fans who didn’t get in will be relieved to know there were no such problems for former Tory leader Michael Howard and everyone's favourite referee Graham Poll.

According to one tabloid, the Thing from Tring was spotted playing air guitar to Bon Jovi at a party on the eve of the final - and it's fair to say he's been living on a prayer ever since those three yellows in Stuttgart.

Official viewing figures suggested Drogba's late strike in the FA Cup final was watched by 11 million people on the BBC. When they say watched, approximately 10.8m actually missed it after falling asleep in the first half and waking up just in time to see Ken Schofield's presentation of his very own Schofield Report - promptly sending them back into a coma. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cri...

While Ronaldo and Kaka displayed only flashes of brilliance in their respective finals, Ronaldinho showed he was not going to give up his crown as Best Player In The World without a fight, pulling the ultimate party trick out of the bag in this advert for a well known training shoe manufacturer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo_n...

Apologies to those of you thought we might get through this week's review without mentioning the publicity-shy Jose Mourinho, who announced with great sadness that his Yorkshire terrier had done a bunk.

With a final dig at the Metropolitan Police, who used approximately three-quarters of their resources to try and find the little yapper, Mourinho said: "The dog is with my wife in Portugal so the city of London is safe. The big threat is away." Gotta love him.

Listen to 'Mourinho's' account here www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/main...

Rumours of the Special One's imminent departure from Chelsea refuse to go away, but at least he's lasted longer than Leroy Rosenior who was sacked after just 10 minutes as Torquay manager following an unexpected takeover. An anonymous texter to Five Live remarked: "I reckon he left the club in a much better state than when he took over."

Away from football and the most intriguing email to land in the BBC Towers inbox this week came from actor Jesse Birdsall (you might remember him from such shows as Eldorado and Footballers' Wives) who claims to have discovered the cause of 'kicks' in snooker. More of that in the coming weeks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_...

And finally, congratulations to our very own Ben Dirs, whose irreverent ball-by-ball commentaries on anything involving a ball have earned him a cult audience and now his very own Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Di...

Dirsy's latest observations came while watching Andy Murray retire hurt from the Hamburg Open on his 20th birthday...."Not much of a birthday that, almost as bad as my 15th when I got a pair of plastic telephones off the Roman Road market from some cousins who thought I was still six."

* P.S. Just in case anyone was in any doubt (and there will be some), Arsene Wenger is not really being investigated for the Cutty Sark fire, it's just a play on the word ar....oh forget it.