Role reversal

Flamengo's Eduardo Chimello leapt from his seat screaming "Nooooooo - don't eat them". Eh? "One little bread roll could lead to doping and the players would become involved in a scandal," explained coach Paulo Cesar Carpegiani. Eh?

Well, it seems that bread rolls covered in poppy seeds were served to Flamengo players on a flight to an away match in Brazil last week and eagle-eyed Chimello, knowing that the seeds contained banned substances, ordered the rolls removed from the players' trays. "If Flamengo players had eaten the bread we could have been punished. We were lucky because a lot of the players were asleep," he said, which suggests that The Beach, and not Toy Story 2 was the in-flight film at the time.