(1) Kieran Durkan (Rochdale) - ended up with a blistered groin after team-mate Richard Green spilt a mug of hot tea over his privates.

(2) Peter Canero (Kilmarnock) - needed several stitches in his arms and legs after falling through a glass-cased gaming machine in Magalluf. San Miguel, eh?

(3) Carlo Cudicini (Chelsea) - needed surgery on his knee which he tweaked when the dog he was walking suddenly pulled on his lead. Mortified. Why didn't he just tell the club he did it in the gym?

(4) Lars-Gunnar Carlstrand (Elfsborg) - a Newfoundland-German Shepherd cross (a dog, to you and me) shaped up to have a scrap with Carlstrand's Rottweiler, Ted, but the Swede decided to take on the mongrel himself and ended up being bitten (twice) on the leg. Missed Elfsborg's next game. Ted was last seen filing his nails.

(5) Florentin Petre (Dinamo Bucharest) - suffered an electric shock when he got his fishing line entangled in an overhead power cable and sustained severe burns to his head and body. Onefootball.com quoted a family member saying he had "blood gushing from his eyes and foam bubbling at his mouth, while the ground he had been standing on was left scorched". The poor lad's still recovering.