Soccer Player Steals A Kiss From His Opponent

We all know what great actors soccer players are, what with all the flopping and the crying and the whole lot of it. It appears that Lee Mansell, a player for the Bristol Rovers, took things a step further by giving an opponent a quick peck on the lips when he came in to intimidate him.

Instinct Magazine (link below) brought us what will likely be the final soccer story of 2014, a year that was rife with soccer stories, but the sport is clearly going out on a high note. 

Bristol Rovers soccer player Lee Mansell landed himself a yellow card during a matchup on Dec. 19 after he kissed opposing Gateshead player J.J. O'Donnell on the lips during a nose-to-nose confrontation. 

Speaking about the incident on Monday (December 22), the 32-year-old says he made the gesture to avoid “doing something silly” after the pair clashed.

“We either clash heads and he goes down or I end up doing something silly”, he said. “I did it to defuse the situation. It’s the first time I’ve been booked for kissing someone.”

He continued: “I got in the car to go home and saw Twitter had lit up and my missus said, ‘What the hell were you thinking?’

“But we had a laugh and a joke about it with the lads afterwards. It’s another thing to add to the list of daft things I’ve done on the football pitch.”

Via Instinct Magazine