In probably the strangest 10 seconds of footage from the World Cup so far this year, it comes from Japan’s comprehensive beating of Denmark last night in the group stages and we have Nicklas Bendtner using a felt tip ten colouring in the tape around the socks? “Huh?” I hear you all say? The only reason I could think for this was that maybe he didn’t want a white target on his ankles for the Japanese defenders to target? That’s stretching it still just a little bit. Especially considering he’s wearing silver and orange boots. That said it’s also a pretty lame attempt at colouring in that even a 10 year old child could do better. Either way Bendtner should probably have been concentrating more on his game than the colour of his ankle taping.
Click the jump to see the bizarre video.
EDIT (25/06/2010): A comment on the original post by David Langham explains:
He had a message on his socks. Apparently it violated FIFA rules, you’re not meant to have any messages other than official patches/sponsors etc.
So the ref’s told him to block it out, he got the marker from his team staff, I guess.
Case Solved.
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