Brazil deal a big hand

Posted Friday, July 13, 2012 by The Sun

Now it's Cats 'n flogs

SUNDERLAND season-ticket holders will be allowed to sell their seats for above face-value prices — and not be called ‘touts’.

The Black Cats’ tie-up with US-based StubHub, the world’s biggest ticket re-selling business, is the first of its type in the Premier League.

Selling fans will set a price for their seats and StubHub will issue individual tickets at the Stadium of Light, while keeping the market open longer than supporters could do on their own.

FIFA need someone to literally wipe the slate clean after another scandal ended with confirmation that former bigwigs Joao Havelange and Ricardo Teixeira took massive bribes.

A stone plaque at FIFA HQ in Zurich still has their names on it, plus those of disgraced Mohamed bin Hammam and three others kicked off the executive committee.

AN OUTSIDE firm of caterers tried to charge for hot drinks ordered by soldiers back from a tour of Afghanistan.

But kind-hearted punters treated the 4th Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment heroes who were special guests at rugby league side Hull KR last Sunday.

TRUTH can be stranger than fiction as TV comedy Twenty Twelve assumes a lifelike accuracy.

The deadline for bids to use the Olympic Stadium after the Games was extended to yesterday after just four bids were made.

So how many bidders are there now? Er... four.

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