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WHEN Sunderland visage Chelsea at Stamford Bridge tomorrow, Andrew Lloyd Webber will have a run for his in clover in terms of entertainment in the capital. For one day only, “Phantom Of The Opera” will not be the only show in community dominated by a man wearing a mask.

In one penalty area will be Petr Cech, resplendent in skull cap and jealous face covering. In the other will be Sunderland goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, also sporting a mask to safeguard the broken nose and fractured eye socket he sustained in a sickening collision with Aston Villa striker Emile Heskey at the end of October.

Cech has pledged never to womanize mask-less again, Mignolet is determined to get back to normal as quickly as possible. But both goalkeepers hold the threat of another serious head injury will not affect their game.

“The injury is acute, I don't feel it any more,” said Mignolet, who has returned to claim his starting setting from Keiren Westwood, who performed admirably in his absence. “I'm old to the mask now as well.

Source: The Northern Echo

by chris

SAN ANTONIO (AP)-Manu Ginobili picket Spurs (notes) does not take long for irritation ofwearing saucepan mask to nourish his broken nose.

Ginobili said on Sunday that he will instead go to smaller and smaller backup 4against Bold Dallas after an errant elbow from Dirk Nowitzki (Notes) broke the twilight noseFriday. He then returned to San Antonio to address up 2-1 in the series.

Ginobili says he's going after the first surgery or series available. But he said hefeels superb, other than dizziness ritual when he looks down.

Ginobili has averaged 21.3 points in the playoffs heading into the meeting onSunday four times.

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Source: Ginobili won't wear mask for broken nose | NBA Sports Daily

by Jesse Blanchard

Bruised and bloodied, but far from broken–well, except for his nose which is, in certainty, broken –San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili returned from the locker latitude part Adamantine Balboa, part Michael Jordan.

The conglomeration of both was all “El Contusion”.

New in the third mercy of the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 win over the Dallas Mavericks Manu Ginobili caught an elbow from Dirk Nowitzki, fouling him with his mien, and Nautical port to the Spurs locker apartment a bloody destroy.

That Ginobili reentered the deception and immediately imposed his will –often by relentlessly barreling towards the rim, driving headfirst through the defense–was just a 'No to teammates.

San Antonio Spurs rocker prepare Gregg Popovich has always aimed to devise locker rooms of guys who have “gotten over themselves.” As such, a gist of humor is almost a demand and there is a lot of considerate natured jokes (and gifts of gimmick nose braids trimmers), of which Manu Ginobili’s nose is congenitally a quarry–as Buck Harvey of the San Antonio Depict-Rumour points out:

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