Comedian hurt as car parks on his foot at World Cup

Veteran comedian and England Supporters Band member Bernie Clifton was treated in a Cape Town hospital yesterday after a car parked on his foot.

Mr Clifton, who is on tour with the band during the World Cup, said he was "screaming blue murder" after the Chrysler Voyager pinned him to the ground.

He said he may now have to attend England's game against Algeria on Friday in a wheelchair after suffering heavy bruising.

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He said: "I've had better days. I was standing there minding my own business when I got a nudge in the back.

"The next thing I know a car had pulled in and stopped on my foot. I tried to pull away and hammered on his front wing.

"I was screaming blue murder, banging on the car. The car was parked on my foot.

"He said: 'I never saw you.' I said: 'I'm 6ft tall wearing a white T-shirt.'"

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Mr Clifton said the car, which had pulled into a parking bay in Long Street, contained "four large people".

Meanwhile two Dutch women accused of "ambush marketing" at a World Cup stadium after using tickets allocated to football pundit Robbie Earle to bring a group in orange mini-dresses into the stands were released on bail yesterday.

The women were each freed after paying 10,000 rand and surrendering their passports, according to South African Police Service spokesman Colonel Vishnu Naidoo. They are due to appear back at Johannesburg Magistrates Court on June 22.

The women face charges under the Merchandise Marks Act and the Special Measures Regulations, and are accused of the "unauthorised use of a trade mark at a protected event" and "entry into a designated area while in possession of a prohibited commercial object".

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Earle, who was fired by ITV after a "substantial number" of tickets allocated to him for his friends and family were found to have been passed to a "third party", has said he has no connection with the stunt.

n Sainsbury's expects its England branded vuvuzela horns to sell out within the next 24 hours as World Cup frenzy hits fever pitch ahead of England's match against Algeria tomorrow.

Last Saturday, when England played their World Cup opener against the USA, Sainsbury's sold a vuvuzela every two seconds.

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