Newest Spanish Pastime: Throwing Bottles at Faces

By Spencer Hall
If Norm MacDonald used to insist that Germans love David Hasselhoff (they do) on SNL, I would like to posit that the Spanish just love throwing bottles at soccer players. For the third time in a year, a soccer player or coach has been hit by an object thrown by a fan in Spain.
This week’s lucky winner? Bilbao’s keeper, Armando, seen below taking a bottle filled with “liquid” just below the eye.

As with all soccer players, it’s hard to tell just how severe the injury is. After all, after years of training soccer players to react to the smallest of paper cuts by grabbing a knee and falling to the floor; how does anyone know how they act when really injured? Turns out, they act just Armando does there, though his wound only required stitches at the local hospital.
Dida, by the way, thinks Armando is a total wuss for falling to the ground there.↵