Footballer Living In Fantasy World

[ChillDoubt]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30589052

What a p^&*(!

[-Talbot-]

Bjorn who?

[Arksided]

OP, agree... you put it politely.

[mikey4444]

What a twit...AB filter prevents me from spelling that word properly !

[mikey4444]

Here is a more worthy Swedish sports champion.....:::

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingemar_Stenmark#Olympic_results

I remember countless Ski Sundays, willing him on.

[ichkeria]

Hmm I suspect there may have been an element of tongue in cheek about Zlatan's comments. Hope so anyway

[ludwig]

Quotes taken out of context.

[mikey4444]

I can't confess that I am the worlds greatest football fan, but are we sure that
Zlatan Ibrahimovic really exists ? Could he perhaps be an anagram ?

[jno]

invented by the Scrabble people, probably. And perhaps invented with a sense of humour.

[mikey4444]

It would a ruddy high score jno !

[jno]

you'd have to phone a friend to get more tiles... or am I mixing games up?

[weecalf]

Now that would have been a turnip if he had been chosen

[anotheoldgit]

Shouldn't this belong in the sports section?

[jno]

it's a slow news day, aog... everyone's waiting for the Queen's Christmas message

[mikey4444]

Not everybody jno............

[Ken4155]

Ichkeria; don't think Mr Ibrahimovc does tongue-in-cheek. He has a very high opinion of himself and can be very outspoken. Probably as a defence mechanism after being labelled as mediocre a few years back, mainly by the British press. Probably wouldn't be the easiest of guys to get on with but he has won me - and many others - a good few quid with his scoring exploits recently for PSG.

[ichkeria]

Yes I know he is a bighead - he wouldn't be unique among footballers in that respect: but the fact that he is not ethnically Swedish - and therefore also a controversial figure also in his native Bosnia, who regard him as a traitor - means that there is a bit of baggage associated with this: and he actually stated he ought to have occupied the first 5 places, and at the very least replaced the obvious choice, which suggests to me that he was winding people up. As I say, one would hope so anyway.