DAVID Ginola has announced he’s running for FIFA presidency, much to the amusement of football in general.

He has benefitted from dodgy elections before – just look how he robbed Roy Keane at the Player of the Year awards in 1999.

And apparently the Frenchman was paid £250,000 to front the candidacy by a major bookmaker. Most of us would sit there and throw abuse at Sepp Blatter for a lot less.

The referee responsible for the Accrington v Bury game clearly had a sense of humour, as you can see from our picture.

After calling off the game for unprecedented flooding at the Crown Ground, he was straight on the phone to FIFA president Blatter to confirm it would be impossible to play the 2042 World Cup at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Bayern Munich star Bastian Schweinsteiger chose a strange way of confirming his break up with girlfriend Sarah Brandner, by scrubbing out her name on his boots.

It’s a bit odd putting the name of someone you’re going out with on your footwear, anyway, and even stranger considering the last name on his boots was “The Chosen One.”

Did anyone tell Mrs Moyes?

We’re all still laughing about the Ballon D’or and quite how Roy Hodgson picked out Javier Mascherano as the best player in the world last year.

With that in mind, Liverpool fans might also want some explanation as to why the England boss once saw fit to replace the Argentine with Christian Poulsen on Mersyside.

Cristiano Ronaldo won the award for the third time, which is quite some achievement. Until you realise Michael Owen also had one on his mantelpiece.

Lionel Messi was beaten into second place, which was well deserved considering the purple sparkly suit he was wearing.

Seriously, he might be a good footballer but he dresses like he’s hosting a cheesy telethon on US cable TV.

Cricketer Kevin Pietersen has had a map of the world tattooed on his side, detailing all the countries in which he has scored a century for England.

It has caught on in football too. Roberto Soldado has got a lovely picture of the Tottenham training ground on the back of his hand.

Thierry Henry will make his punditry debut for Sky Sports in the Manchester City v Arsenal game this Sunday, which would have been must-see viewing a few months ago.

Instead, Sky’s insistence on putting his mug on endless adverts promoting his involvement have made him look more like Alexsandr the Meercat from the Money Supermarket campaign.

He talks about “giving back” to the Premier League but Henry will earn a cool £4million a year for sitting between Jamie Carragher, Gary Neville and that lad who isn’t Richard Keys. That’s roughly a quarter of what they spend on the entire of their Scottish football coverage,

They say cheats never prosper – and I’ll bet that figure sticks in the throat of one or two Irish supporters.