As everyone knows, The FIFA World Cup starts in a fortnight, with lots of talk about Australia's chances, and it seems Harry Kewell's groin is on everyone's lips at the moment. (Ah, its an oldie but a goodie). Which reminds me that it's not just footballers who get injured at football games as this coming world cup marks four years since I broke my elbow in a world cup-related off-field incident.

It was a Friday, the quarter-final between England and Brazil and the biggest game of the tournament so far. I was working for a cashed up dot-com in Brisbane and the management put on a stack of booze and food for us so we could watch the game in style.

We pinched the projector from the boardroom, laid out some beanbags, watched the game and drank a stack of lagers. England lost as I recall, but it was a good game and eveyone had fun. But of course everything is fun until someone gets an eye out or in my case breaks a bone.

Later in the evening the by now drunken receptionist thought it would be fun to push the by now drunken people around in office chair races and dump them off onto the beanbags. Me (by now very drunken), being ever the comedian, thought it would be funny to "accidentally" miss the bean bags and land on the far side on the floor.

What I didn't realise was that my bones were no longer those of a 15-year old (I was 32 at the time). I landed awkwardly on my arm, felt a very different kind of pain in my elbow, but got up and tried not to make a scene. I remember drinking a few more beers to try and numb the pain, then being poured into a taxi.

Of course the next morning I couldn't bend my arm, so I had to drive myself one-armed to the hospital where it would be confirmed I had fractured the elbow. "Drunk were you?" asked the registrar nurse. "Umm, yeah..." I replied sheepishly. "How'd you do it? Drunk?" the examining doctor later enquired. "Yep, drunk..." I said, getting more embarrassed by the minute.

Still, it was nothing that a sling and some painkillers couldn't fix, but I sure as hell won't be watching the matches at the office this year. And despite my embarrassment over the office chair incident, I'm not half as embarrassed as the goalkeeper in the video below. 

Watch carefully as the goalie from the opposite team kicks a massively long ball into the opponents net to score. Goal of the year if you ask this football fan.

And then there's this late entry which I just keep watching over and over