Links! And Mario Balotelli getting an award for best costume!

All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award-winning Dirty Tackle...

Man City kitman Chappy gives Mario an award for the hand hat he wore last season, Mario is not impressed. [YouTube]

Megan Rapinoe feeds a baby deer...inside someone's house. [KCKRS]

An excellent tour of Barcelona's La Masia. [442]

Anyone executive members wearing shorts will be turned away at Old Trafford. [Independent]

Manuel Neuer did really well on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? [Kickette]

Top 5 January transfers SF would like to see happen. [Surreal Football]

Zlatan Ibrahimovic's "entire career has been built on a desire for revenge." Like a Stallone movie! [TFB]

Champions League is leaving our memories blank. [WSC]

Boca Juniors build the world's first football themed hotel. [Hotel Boca]

Funny new football comic. [The Pitiful Game]