Let This Be My Annual Reminder That We Can All Be Something Bigger

Growing up in the southern United States, it was not unusual to hear stories of fans of various football teams getting into drunken brawls over the outcome of a game between their two favorite teams. Usually those fights were simply "crimes of passion" that arose in a fit of rage after a last-second loss or a particularly vicious argument. In the world of English football, though, disagreements between supporters of rival clubs can be taken a BIT too far.

A married Manchester United fan drove 400 miles for a saucy weekend with a girl he’d met on the internet only to discover it was an elaborate hoax set up by two burly Liverpool supporters he had upset on holiday.

The story is worth your time if only because it includes the following phrases: "professional cage fighters", "rude photograph", and "You've been framed". That's practically an outline of the script for the next Guy Ritchie movie.