That feeling when you let the trophy slip. Literally
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Just some LOL examples of footballers dropping silverware - off of buses, from plinths, on their toes... all over the gaff really
Chelsea play Manchester United in the FA Cup final on Saturday - and neither team will want to let this one slip through their fingers.
Many a team before now has let the FA Cup trophy fall from their grip - quite literally. The thing is always getting dropped. In fact, it may just be the most abused trophy in sport.
After Chelsea's win in 2012, the trophy they handed back was so damaged that it needed around 80 hours of restoration work, external. The 2008 champs, Portsmouth, managed to damage, external the trophy twice.
Kevin Williams, a silversmith in charge of repairing the trophy, has spoken, external about the poor state it's been returned in, including one time when the lid was broken in two.
This isn’t the only time this has happened. People get excited, and accidents are bound to happen in the heat of the moment.
Manchester City drop the Premier League title
Manchester City finished this season 19 points ahead of their nearest rivals, Manchester United, so there was never ever any real danger of them letting the title out of their grip.
Nevertheless, some slightly over-zealous celebrations after their match against Huddersfield saw this happen.
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The faces on Oleksandr Zinchenko and Kyle Walker!
Might be a bit awkward when City have to hand the trophy back to next year’s Premier League winners and explain the damage. Unless, of course, they just go and win it again themselves.
Anyway, luckily, Sergio Ramos knows a man who knows a man.
Which segues nicely into…
Sergio Ramos throws the Copa del Rey under the bus
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He’s long had a reputation for throwing opposition players under the proverbial bus with his histrionics, but, in 2011, the veteran Real Madrid defender went and chucked the Copa del Rey trophy under the wheels of the team’s open-top bus, for good measure.
Maarten Stekelenburg: a safe pair of hands?
Only months after the Ramos incident, Ajax goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg went and dropped the Dutch league’s trophy from the team bus too (which fans can be seen rescuing here), which probably isn’t the best endorsement for his coolness between the sticks.
Daley Blind throws it away
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Not one to buck tradition, Daley Blind did this during Ajax’s 2013 Dutch league celebrations. In fact, Dutch defender Jan Vertonghen had also managed to drop the same trophy on his own toe the previous year, external, which could very nearly have ruined pre-season, and earned him an injury almost as embarrassing as the time Dave Beasant dropped a jar of salad cream on his big toe in 1993 (seriously, that happened, external).
Two words: risk assessment.
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