South Africa, 2010

[Mr Flibble]

Originally Posted by Priene

But the king of fabrications is Rivaldo, and he's Brazilian.

I beg to differ

the greatest single exposition of the craft, which was performed in 1989 by the Chile goalkeeper Roberto Rojas during a World Cup qualifier match with Brazil. Faced with certain defeat and elimination from the World Cup, Rojas hit on a brilliant scheme - forcing the match to be abandoned. When a firework thrown from the crowd landed in his penalty area Rojas hurled himself down, took a razor blade out of his glove and slashed open his scalp. Carried off on a stretcher while his team-mates created a riot, his plan seemed to have worked when the game was stopped. Sadly his antics had been caught on camera

Here he is, doing an oscar. A razor in his glove? He musta been a boy scout, cos that's going prepared.