Bull gores the ‘Messi of matadors’

And other stories from the stranger side of life

Andres Roca Rey and a bull
Andres Roca Rey in action
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The “Messi of matadors” has been gored by a bull, reported The Telegraph. Andres Roca Rey, a “darling of the Spanish media” was hospitalised with severe bruising after the incident with the half-ton bull. The animal, which had already been stabbed several times in the back with banderillas, tossed Roca Rey in the air “like a doll” before “crushing him into the red-cushioned barrier”, said the paper. In an interview in 2021, the Spaniard compared the relationship with a bull to that between lovers.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.