Brazil's manager forbids team from having 'acrobatic' sex during World Cup

Bizarre sports injuries always make for an easy story (see here or here), so it makes sense that if your team is hosting the World Cup, you'd want to limit the chances for ridicule.

That's (hopefully) the thinking behind Brazil's soccer team manager Luiz Felipe Scolari, who recently answered a reporter's question about what his team's policy on sex would be during the World Cup:

So, normal sex is fine. Acrobatic sex is not. And as for that survey? Those player comments should be interesting.

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