Keepy-uppy king (or maybe not)

Finally, vindication that you don't have to be able to perform thousands of kick-ups in order to be a quality player and this time its a little bit more robust than the standard "when do you ever need them in a game" (unless you're Jay Jay Okocha).

The FA have started to run a little competition between various footballers past and present seeing how many kick-ups they can do with a tennis ball...

The debutant players were Jordan Henderson and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who managed a fairly impressive 148 and 136 respectively.  Since then Paul Merson managed 47 and Jill Scott 53...today however they released the footage of Spurs and Holland hero Rafael van der Vaart...obviously Rafa is hugely gifted and technically brilliant, after all, he is Dutch and thats what they do best...errr, obviously Rafa missed out on the keep-uppy training as a youngster since yer man can only manage 14

...suddenly my paltry back garden total doesn't seem too bad!