After last week's sensational picture from the surface of Mars, now comes news that on-line barristers' clerking service Clerksroom is sponsoring the tallest professional footballer playing in the UK - Yeovil Town's 6'8" Portuguese defender Hugo Rodrigues.

'He has a degree in economics from Lisbon University,' a press release tells us, 'and, after a penalty area tussle with Liverpool's Harry Kewell in the FA Cup recently, [is] a degree more savvy about our referees.' Kewell was accused of diving to win a penalty, which he strongly denied.

Hugo may not like UK arbiters - or at least referees - but he apparently likes its advocates.

Here he meets Taunton sports law barrister Andrea Barnes.

(This article refers to images that appear in the printed edition, see [2004] Gazette, 5 February, 11)