I mistakenly posted this on the main board earlier...When the UEFA cup draw was made a few weeks ago, me and a friend changed some of the information on the wikipedia page for Manchester City's opponents, AC Omonia.We included this titbit in the "Fans" section - "A small but loyal group of fans are lovingly called "The Zany Ones" - they like to wear hats made from discarded shoes and have a song about a little potato.".Today, the Mirror has used part of this in their pre-match buildup.Hahahahahahahaha!Click for readabibilityness

Dear David (and could the mirrornews email please be forwarded to the sport/football editor),



Thank you for your article in today's Mirror (18th September 2008) about Omonia Nicosia. The bit I enjoyed most was the following paragraph -



"Despite City's raised profile, they must make do with the UEFA Cup this season and Hughes will not tolerate any slip-ups against the Cypriot side, whose fans are known as the 'Zany Ones' and wear hats made from shoes.".



Why? Well, shortly after the draw was made, a friend and I made a few alterations to the Wikipedia page for Omonia. The "Zany Ones", "hats made from discarded shoes" and the "song about a little potato" are, as you may have discovered in Nicosia, completely fabricated.



The clues were there in the rest of the article.



They have a new sponsor - Natasha Kaplinsky - and their former players include Jean Claude Van Damme and Richard Clayderman. My favourite is in the Board of Directors section...

# Governor of Football: Nikos Charalambous

# Governor of Basketball: Petros Souppouris

# Governor of Volleyball: Photos Ioannou

# Governor of Hitlersball: Albert Hall



I hope you take this in the spirit it was meant, and hope this reminds you not to trust everything you read on Wikipedia.



Any donations to our Friday beer fund would be most welcome. Perhaps your editor would like to contribute your fee for the article, as you evidently didn't do any fact checking.



Thank you,



*myname*



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