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PAUL MERTON TRIES A DEEP PAIN PIZZA

ABOVE: paul merton
8th February 2010

By MIKE WARD

ON Paul Merton In Europe, the globe-trotting comic reached Italy, where he went to Florence to watch a game of calcio storico.


Dating back to the 1500s, and billed as an historically authentic blend of football, rugby, wrestling and boxing, it basically turned out to be a mass brawl.

Battered participants, he discovered, are routinely stretchered off. Police have been know to wade in and make mass arrests for violent conduct. It’s sickening stuff.

I gather Joey Barton signs on Wednesday.



	
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