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Fcuking pussies, pay me 100 odd grand a week and I'll play nekkid in Siberia! Premier League footballers: Take your skirt off, cancel the manicure, grow a moustache and HARDEN THE FUCK UP!At the start of the 2010/11 Premier League season, most football fans had never heard of a snood, let alone seen one. Now, the International FA Board has agreed to ban players from wearing the garments as of July the 14th.
The ruling came at a meeting of the football body, which gathered to discuss the use of goal-line technology and the controversial accessory favoured by fashion-conscious footballers.
While experiments with goal-line technology are set to continue, the decision on snoods was unequivocal with Fifa explaining in a statement, "The IFAB agreed that in relation to Law 4 - Players' Equipment, the wearing of snoods should not be permitted."
Manchester City's foreign legion of stars seems to be championing snoods more than any other club, with the likes of Carlos Tevez and Mario Balotelli wearing the fashion items whenever there's a chill in the air. Even the club shop at Eastlands has got in on the act and is selling branded-snoods to City fans like hotcakes.
The snood epidemic is also rife at Arsenal, where Samir Nasri and Marouane Chamakh are rarely seen without them. But not everyone is keen on the latest trend; Blackpool manager Ian Holloway has voiced his oppositionsaying that in his day if players were cold they were told to run about a bit more