Liverpool beach ball sells for more than £400 on eBay

Rob Parker | November 16, 2009

We’re guessing the buyer wasn’t Pepe Reina

The red beach ball which helped Sunderland to a shock victory against Liverpool has sold for £411.77 at auction. The inflatable, which deflected Darren Bent’s shot past Pepe Reina, was auctioned to raise money for the Alder Hey Imagine Appeal.
It is not known who won the auction, but the [...]

Buy your own Liverpool beach ball

Rob Parker | October 18, 2009

Turn your club’s misfiring strikers into hotshot Darren Bents

The humorous string in the already hilarious tail of the beach ball incident is that the ball is an official product sold by the club shop. The fan in question obviously decided the temperature was getting a bit too chilly for it to be of any practical [...]