FootballCynic worried about the state of the beautiful game when gloves were worn by for the first time. It was just about acceptable for John Barnes to wear gloves because his silky skills were more noticeable than the gloves. Keith Weller in tights was a little harder to stomach, but more recently we have seen the arrival of the snood. It’s strange how you can go many years in life without saying a word like snood and suddenly find yourself saying it all the time.

Of course, Sepp Blatter has stepped in and banned the snood on health and safety grounds. It would only need to need Tevez to slip as he takes a corner and strangle himself and as the tightened snood got twisted around the corner flag. FootballCynic can reveal that FIFA is busy developing an ice pack snood which players will be allowed to wear in the ridiculous temperatures at the Qatar World Cup. Players will, however, will only be allowed to wear the FIFA approved ice snood priced at £999.99 at all FIFA-approved stockists.

It seems that we won’t be able to enjoy the sight of someone grabbing the tricky Argentinian’s snood as he waltzes through half a dozen defenders. It does mean, though, that Tevez will have to renegotiate his contract as he was only persuaded to stay at Man City if he could earn a 50% royalty of all Tevez-endorsed snood sales.

Below, if you google ‘snood’, this is what you get. Maybe, Roy Keane is right – despite the ban, you would never have seen a Manchester United player wearing a snood.