Aberdeen fans tuned in the club's official website last week to read that the Premier League strugglers had just signed Argentinian megastar Gabriel Batistuta for £22 million after he used a release-clause in his contract that would allow him leave Serie A's Roma if a Scottish club came in for him.

Yup, it was a hoax, carried out by a hacker. We can only hope that 25,000 Aberdeen fans didn't go out and get Batistuta's name printed on the backs of their replica shirts.