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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Simon Burnton

Autographs and a flashmob: just another day in world football

Chris Wood is shown a yellow card for signing autographs
Chris Wood is shown a yellow card for signing autographs. Photograph: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images

‘LOOK AT THE STARS …’

It has been a special day for fans of novelty bookings, reeling as they are from the glorious double-whammy of watching Panama’s Cecilio Waterman get cautioned in the early hours of Britain’s Friday morning for the crime of hugging Thierry Henry, before New Zealand’s Chris Wood pulled off the genuinely special achievement of getting his name in the referee’s notebook for putting his name in other people’s notebooks.

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