Imagine that you wake up at the start of a new day knowing that today is going to be one of the most exciting days of your life. Your country have reached the World Cup semi-finals and you have been selected to play in the team representing your country and that you are only one game away from the final itself.

For Patrick Battiston, that is pretty much how his day started back in 1982 as that evening France would take on West Germany for the opportunity to play Italy in the final. 

However, the day would end with Battiston in hospital with a damaged vertebrae, having lost several teeth and his own team mate Michel Platini believing he had actually died as at one point as Battiston did not even have a pulse. Battiston even slipped into a coma and all this happened due to an incident in extra time involving Battiston and German goalkeeper Harald Schumacher.

Fortunately, Battiston made a full recovery and played on for several more years. Schumacher caused even more controversy with his statement after the match when he said "If that is all that is wrong with him, I will pay for his new crowns". Comparing the whole incident to today's game and Schumacher would probably never play again and be facing severe criminal charges!

This post really should be in the brutal/violent blog - it only goes into this category because Battiston lived to tell the tale and below is the video taken from "Phoenix From the Flames" which explains the rest in the usual jovial style of comedy from David Baddiel and Frank Skinner. Watch out for an appearance by "Schumacher" near the end.

Nottingham Forest versus Burnley in the Championship on a January evening. The Forest fans have not had much to get them excited this season - but at least they have had one of the greatest laughs of the season.

Jay Rodriguez may have scored the only two goals of the match in Burnley's 2-0 win at the City Ground, but he will be long remembered (especially by the people there) for his penalty miss ten minutes into the second half.

Admittedly it does look as if he must have slipped just before striking the ball and the ball ends up slowly dribbling out of play closer to the corner flag than the goal - but it still produced the biggest cheer of the night from the Forest fans.

In the video I have cut out the sound from the professional TV recording but believe me when I say even with the sound the atmosphere still seems rather dead. Then we cut to an amateur recording from a Forest fan and in this you start to realise the true magic of being in the crowd at a live game rather than watching the same match on TV. The reaction of the crowd sums up brilliantly that feeling of the live game atmosphere - you almost feel like you are there when you watch it and laugh along with them. I would suspect even Burnley fans must have had a little laugh at this one!

So we had a fair bit of snow all over the country yesterday and it was bitterly cold too. Chris Kamara decided to have a bit of fun from his reporting position at Loftus Road where he was watching QPR play Wolves. It got to the stage where every time Jeff Stelling went back to Chris you were anticipating what he would (or would not) be wearing next. Kamara even wrote on Twitter that it was only the intervention of his producer that stopped him going completely bare-chested.

Kamara of course is well known for many laughs and gaffs over the years as a Sky Sports presenter and reporter and I am sure that there will be plenty more that find their way onto this page - some of which he has probably not done yet - the mind boggles!