Cata Díaz, Question Marks and Courgettes

For every ying in life, there must be a yang. For every Natasha Bedingfield there must be a Fiona Apple. And for every limping, lame mummy's boy like Vicente there must be a Cata Díaz.

And that's because Díaz, the Getafe centre back, has now played in thirty-four of his side's thirty-seven ames, this season. And the Argentine man of iron has only missed one of those three matches through injury, when his head was blown clean off whilst trying to prove - unsuccessfully - that he could catch a cannonball with his teeth, during training.

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