In a week where British sport was awash with sunshine, it was a blue moon that made all the headlines.

Never mind Paula Radclliffe, Joe Calzaghe and the rugby league boys, Manchester City's Stephen Ireland was the name on everyone's lips after his short-dropping antics against Sunderland. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foo...

The cheeky chappy (more rubbish bottom jokes to follow) revealed a fetching pair of Superman undies - staking an early claim for Player of the Rear, and prompting headlines like 'Bum's Rush', 'Bum Rap' and 'Over The Moon' - all rehashed from Joey Barton's antics last season.

Meanwhile, Ireland's team-mate Micah Richards revealed in his BBC column that he also had a pair of Superman scunties ready to show the world, only to be cruelly denied by injury. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foo...

What is it with all these blue boys and their desire to bare all? Next thing you know, City's number one fan, Ricky Hatton, will be dropping his kegs while on holiday with his mates in Tenerife....oh, he already has.

Staying on the gluteus maximum theme, Bristol City boss Gary Johnson has seen his players put themselves in the shop window with some impressive displays in the Championship - and now he may be forced to do the same after losing a wager with defender Liam Fontaine.

The player had not scored in 108 games for City, Fulham, Yeovil and Kilmarnock and Johnson was so sure Fontaine would never break his duck that he promised to bare his backside in Burton's if he ever netted. www.bcfc.co.uk/page/WTPSDeta...

No prizes for guessing what happened next.

Johnson has been furiously back-pedalling since Fontaine's leveller against Wolves, suggesting the bet was only valid if he scored the winner, but if all his appeals fall on deaf ears, the menswear chain might have a new advertising slogan on their hands...'You get bags more fuzz at Burton's'.

From Blue Moons to true blues and the news that Frank Lampard has nailed his colours to the Tory mast by declaring his support for David Cameron.

What price Lamps becoming the MP for Kensington & Chelsea when his footballing days are over - he'd do a fantastic job for his constituents, although he might not be as effective when it comes to representing the country.

Lampard's former boss, Jose Mourinho, was in hot water after a spat with a 12-year-old boy in a playground, who allegedly insulted his daughter, Matilde.

Isabel Simao, headmistress at St Peter’s School in Portugal's Palmela, said: "As far as I can gather, it followed a typical children’s row with children’s words. Matilde was boasting about her father but the boy said: 'Your dad is not the best’."
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ma...

Or as the Manchester United fans put it - following Mourinho's departure from Chelsea - "You're not special anymore!"

Meanwhile, Mourinho's fellow countryman Ronaldo has been outed as an unlikely pie fan. The Manchester United winger admitted: "I dated a girl from Manchester and she showed me that steak pies and chips are very good."

Ronaldo's revelation comes hot on the heels of Cesc Fabregas admitting his passion for doughnuts - it's good to know England is giving something back.

And as the countdown to the country's likely Euro elimination begins in earnest, spare a thought for poor old Steve McClaren who completed an unwanted hat-trick when he had a pair of Mickey Mouse ears super-imposed on him by The Sun after his much-criticised trip to the States to see David Beckham.
www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...

That followed previous incarnations as a rugby ball and 'McDonut' - and if Russia manage to beat Israel in a couple of weeks, don't be surprised to see him turn up on a bottle of 'plodka', under the headline 'He Mos-cow!'.

And finally, the regular reader may recall I suggested in last week's piece that I might bump into Stuart Pearce at London's Roundhouse, where The Stranglers were performing a 30th anniversary gig. Well, guess what, I did. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertai...

Psycho was looking too cool for school in white t-shirt and black three-quarter length leather jacket as he stood amongst all the old punks, singing along with the same gusto in which he used to belt out the national anthem. Who said there were No More Heroes anymore?

OTHER STUFF

Carlos Valderrama waves some cash (and hair) at a referee
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_hB...
Fan makes goal-line clearance
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Pro Evo football game gets stuck in the bar
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tZo...
Martin Jol mickey-take on Fanbanta
www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Hw...

(With thanks to Whoateallthepies www.whoateallthepies.tv/