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Perhaps more interesting than the actual Ballon d'Or award itself is the release of the full list of who voted for who, which more often than not makes for some interesting reading – and usually a few laughable decision.
That England decided then to send in Mark Wood as the nightwatchman was a laughable decision: there was some justice in that he lasted seven balls and Joe Root had to take the crease after all.
Jingoism's Guy Mowbray, on the BBC, is arguing that the laughable decision not to award Lampard's goal was more wrong than the one which allowed Hurst's goal all those years ago.
This summer, for example, right in the middle of just such a period of stress, I made the laughable decision to purchase a copy of Jacques Barzun's great (supposedly great, anyway: I haven't read it) prose brick, "From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life: 1500 to the Present".
But in Anthony, a figure that has always vexed pundits and fans since entering the NBA, the public decided the man made a laughable decision based on one thing: money.
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So mustn't grumble too much, eh? Mexico deserved to win, but the game was characterised by some truly laughable refereeing decisions.
West Brom manager Pepe Mel: "The penalty decision was laughable.
The idea of presuming I knew better than my parents while making such a huge life decision seemed laughable at times.
The first way this recently-announced decision is laughable is that the Obama administration insists that it has nothing to do with the court case or the judge's ruling.
The idea that if you made those children run round a field then they'd suddenly make different decisions is laughable.
Lord Victor Adebowale, chief executive of the addiction and mental health charity Turning Point, has called the decision "bordering on laughable".
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