Interesting Facts

We were talking about maternity and paternity / maternal and paternal in today's session, so this little factlet is very fitting. According to a survey carried out by the Family Matters Institute, 12% of fathers in the UK aspire to be like Homer Simpson. A good role-model? (The following "father figures" were most popular:- David Beckham - 21% Jamie Oliver - 14% Homer Simpson - 12% Prince William - 9% David Walliams - 7% Simon Cowell - 5% David Cameron - 4% Wayne Rooney - 1% The typical, modern UK dad was described as a food-loving, health-conscious, house proud family man, but their choices of role models leaves a lot to be desired.  For goodness sake! David Cameron left his 8 year-old daughter in the pub!)

In order to save their team and raise much needed sponsorship, all the players of the first team squad of Farnborough FC have changed their name by deed poll to that of a legendary footballer in their respective position. (The dream team line up now consists of David Beckham, Paul Gascoigne, Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona, Gary Lineker and Johan Cruyff, even the manager Jose Mourinho (formerly known as Spencer Day), will be taking his place in the dugout this season, along with trainer Sir Alex Ferguson (yes, Sir was added as the first name) and the kit man will be none other than Terry Venables. Good luck to them.) You can see the full line up here: http://www.farnboroughfc.co.uk/2013/08/by-far-the-greatest-team-the-world-has-ever-seen/

David Beckham has hung up his football boots and announced his retirement from football, at the age of 38. (He won't be able to draw his pension, get his bus pass or his heating allowance any time soon though, but don't worry, he won't suffer. Last year he allegedly earned around £200 million, but only £4.6m of that was from football. He must have sold an awful lot of aftershave.)