'WORLD FOOTBALL LESSON NO. 24: NEVER SIGN ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS'

AWARD OF THE WEEK

Goes to Ukrainian international Maxim Levitsky who this week laid the blame for his illegal use of a false European passport while playing in France on his former French club St. Etienne.

"They gave me a Greek passport and it turned out that, not suspecting anything myself,

I broke the law"

In unconfirmed reports he declared that he'll be more careful in the future: "Of course the whole story is useful lesson…Now I will never in my life sign any suspicious documents before I consult with professionals, especially if they are written in Greek, have Greek visa stamps all over them and tzaztziki stains smeared into them - I should've woken to the fact that something was wrong - something in my mind told me that the passport didn't look Ukrainian but I just couldn't put my finger on it."

January 2001