Avi Yehiel, the rather short defender of the Israeli national football team, who gave the lucklustre header against ireland (draw 1:1), and possibly a major contributer to Ireland's absence from the world cup - is a devout Moz fan.

On HA'IR's ("the city", Tel Aviv's most popular weekly magazine) front page there's a photo of himself on a present-ROTT Morrissey backdrop. Inside, the footballer himself is the author of the unlikely confession. He attended the 21 May London Palladium gig, and wrote about that in a very emotional way. quotes: "he even says that his inspiration for the heroic game in Dublin was no other than IBEH, when all other players had to listen to some silly pop song he hid his headset playing the song...

He continues with a touching description of the day of the gig, anybody who wants the full translation of any reason can contact me...