"Has a streaker ever scored? And would it count if they did?" poses Jimmy Lloyd.

Well Jimmy, the self-proclaimed 'World's No1 Streaker,' Mark Roberts, from Liverpool, has scored at least two goals while baring all. Roberts, who has also streaked at the Super Bowl and Royal Ascot, scored in the Liverpool v Chelsea Carling Cup game at Anfield in 2000 and the 2002 Champions League final, between Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen.

At Anfield, Roberts took a pass from Gianfranco Zola before beating the entire Chelsea defence and firing past a half-hearted Ed de Goey, after hurdling the perimeter fence. His goal bonus: a magistrates court appearance and ￡100 fine. In the Champions League final, at Hampden Park, he ripped off his velcro suit before stealing the ball, running past two defenders and finding the aptly-named Leverkusen keeper Hans-Jorg Butt no match for his finishing prowess.

Roberts is not the only streaker to find the back of the net. In December 1998, during an interruption in Reading's 1-0 win over Notts County, a fan ran on to the field, kissed the ground and scored past the County keeper before evading a steward and disappearing into the crowd.

These goals didn't count because they occurred during breaks in play (both of Roberts' efforts came during the half-time interval), but even if a streaker were to find the net during a game, it wouldn't count. Law 10, The Method of Scoring, says that a goal can only be given if no infringement has been made by the team scoring the goal. A streaker would be an ineligible player; a team cannot field more than 11, so there would be no goal. And that's even before considering improper kit! The referee also has the power to stop the game if "an unauthorised person enters the field of play".

KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE SPECIAL - PUTTING IT ON YOUR SHIRT

"You said that Liverpool were the first British club to have a shirt sponsor (Hitachi in 1979), but while Liverpool are doubtless the first professional club to be sponsored, I'm pretty sure Kettering beat them to it by a few years. This is not a wind-up. Maybe you can confirm it?" asked Jon Cudby back in 2000.

Having spoken to Kettering club historian Mel Hopkins, Jon, we can indeed. When Wolves striker Derek Dougan retired from football in the summer of 1975, he joined Southern League club Kettering Town as chief executive. Within a month of his appointment, he had brokered a "four-figure" deal with local firm Kettering Tyres, and in a SL game against Bath City on January 24 1976, Kettering became the first British club to run out with a company's name emblazoned on their shirts.

Sadly, the groundbreaking new strip would not get another run-out. Four days later, the FA predictably ordered the club to remove the new slogan, despite Dougan's claim that the ruling body's 1972 ban on sponsorship had not been put down in writing.

Characteristically, Dougan didn't take this body blow lying down. He cheekily changed the wording on the shirts to Kettering T, which he claimed stood for Town and had nothing whatsoever to do with Tyres. For a couple of heady months, the team played on under the new slogan.

Sure enough, however, Kettering were soon up before the FA, who ordered them to "remove the words Kettering T from their strip". The threat of a ￡1,000 fine was too much for such a small club, and the words were reluctantly removed.

There would be one final irony. Kettering didn't let the matter lie - after all, clubs like Bayern Munich had been coining it in on the continent for years - and so, with Derby and Bolton, they put forward a proposal to the FA regarding shirt sponsorship. But although the proposal was accepted on June 3 1977, Kettering could not find a sponsor for the upcoming season. Meanwhile, Derby players began that season running around in Saab shirts and Saab cars. Where's the justice?

ELEPHANTS ON BALLS

"Could anybody tell me the history of the Coventry City crest (ie: an elephant on top of a football wearing red-cross insignia and two burning birds)?" wondered Neil Butler in 2001. "A phoenix from the flames possibly? That would explain Coventry's history of escapology, I suppose."

It's not an easy one, this. According to Big Fat Gordon's Sky Blue Army Home Page (to visit him click here ), in medieval times, the city was granted the elephant as its emblem to ward off scary dragons.

BFG then explains how the phoenix is "fairly obviously a reference to the bombing of the city during World War II and its subsequent rebuilding", and that "the castle on the tusker's back either reflects the walled nature of the city or the howdah (or shed) that used to contain Imperial types and their Mem Sahibs."

However, that's where the information dries up. The creature opposite the phoenix is "the phoenix's mate who's just come along, if that's all right". And "as for the symbol in the centre of the crest, well that's anyone's guess."

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