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You Write the Caption: The Ballack-Referee Edition

Good afternoon and welcome to the latest installment of You Write the Caption, the contest where we ask readers to submit their funniest captions to go with the humorous soccer-related photos we find.

Congratulations to SBI reader Blake for winning the last YWTC contest, the Liverpool Lovebirds edition. For his win, Blake will receive a free Navy SBI Mafia t-shirt, courtesy of Objectivo Apparel.

The latest installment of YWTC brings us back to Barcelona's thrilling tie vs. Chelsea last week, and specifically the photo is taken from Michael Ballack's enthusiastic complaints to Norwegian referee Tom Henning Ovrebo.

Here is the photo, along with our own caption suggestion:

BallackRef (ISIphotos.com) 

Referees: The Other White Meat

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Now it's your turn. Submit your best caption for the photo and we will select the best entries and let SBI readers vote on which one they think is the best of the bunch. The winner of the contest will receive a free Navy Blue SBI Mafia T-Shirt from Objectivo Apparel. If you haven't done so yet, order your SBI Mafia t-shirts today.

Post your captions in the comments section below. Fire away.

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  1. The ref runs for dear life, to no avail, as the ref had to endure something no one should ever experience…Ballack’s attempt at germ-glish

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  2. An outtake from the latest in the Bourne Identity series. Here, disguised as a soccer player, Jason Bourne tries to save an innocent ref caught in the middle of the action.

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  3. Gimmie that headset! I wanna talk to your boss!
    or
    Tragically for Ovrebo, Ballack finally succumbed to his Transylvanian roots.
    or
    Transcript from referee voice communications:
    Ovrebo: Is he still behind me?
    Linesman: Yes.
    Ovrebo: Okay what should I do?
    Linesman: Keep running.
    4th official: Actually it’d be kinda funny if you stopped. You could red card him for running into you.
    Ovrebo: Interesting thought…
    Linesman: No, probably not a good idea, he looks rabid.

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  4. By eating your brain, I will then have your power to turn invisible during a Champions League match. Maybe THEN I can impress Hayden Panettiere. Save the Cheerleader, Save the Blues!

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  5. having little to celebrate at the end of another depressing Chelsea performance, Michael Ballack attempts to lift team spirits by falling in behind the referee and urging Didier Drogba to join his impromptu and ill-advised Samba line.

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  6. How many fouls are you going to blow. Wait let me translate, How many fouls are you going to blow, bork bork bork.

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