Sausages
“Twelve months ago we even heard the sad tale of the Romanian defender Marius Cioara, a man forced to abandon the game he loved for good because of the effect of sausages. Cioara, you may recall, was transferred from the Romanian second-flight club UT Arad to the fourth division outfit Regal Hornia for a fee of 15kg of prime pork links. Within a few days of the deal being done, however, he had packed his bags and fled the country. ‘The sausage taunts all got too much,’ he confessed. ‘They were making sausage jokes.’
‘They said I would have got more from the Germans. It was a huge insult. I have decided to go to Spain where I have got a job on a farm.’ Officials from Hornia were distraught. ‘Not only have we lost our sausages, we have also lost a footballer,’ the club president wailed.”
Harry Pearson, Guardian Unlimited Sports Blog