TOTUF -- Bored of reading about Messi, Ronaldo and Falcao? Welcome to the site that celebrates football's Lost, Damned and downright Clownish Main menu Archives Post navigation It's unfair that the things we so often enjoy can generate unpleasant by-products.  Want to drive a car?  Then deal with the pollution.  Want to drink?  Deal with the hangovers.  Want to smoke?  Deal with the chest pains. Sex? Kids.  Rich food?  Gout.  Twitter?  Barton. Want to watch football?  Then deal with the clichs. One of football's lasting qualities is its ability to surprise, but the analytical post-mortem that follows is often predictable.  Gary Lineker bears witness to this grim [...] In the field of advanced robotics, a hypothesis exists to explain why incredibly human-looking robots are so eerie to behold. Known as the 'uncanny valley', the hypothesis suggests that while robots can look, move and behave in a remarkably human fashion, they do so imperfectly -- producing innate feelings of revulsion in human observers. Similarly, in the field of Premier League football, a hypothesis exists to explain why gangly footballers are so eerie to behold. Known as 'Bendtner's law', the [...]