Mad Jens: Certified Accessory Thief.

Oh yes he has. Mad Jens has struck once again. In the same week, no less.

In Saturday’s big fixture between Stuttgart and Hoffenheim – a big fixture in the table which needed a bigger scoreboard, as it ended 3-3 – Sejad Salihovic loses his shoe somewhere in the middle of Stuttgart’s half due to something resembling a footballing action – no crime there. Play continues but when it finally stops, Sejad and the ref are mystified as his shoe has inexplicably disappeared. The ref, a stickler for hygiene and good taste, gives him a “no shoes, no service” spiel and sends Sejad off the pitch to find his footwear.

The culprit? Who else. Mad Jens Winona Rydered Sejad’s shoe while no one was looking and casually fired it on top of his goal (goal mouth cam after the jump with flying shoe – I guess that’s the Flying Shoe Cam), some 40 yards from where it was lost. Genius.

It looks completely innocent, as though Jens is merely trying to clear the field of play….but this is Jens we’re talking about. Clearly it was part of his pregame plan and he’d pulled this little play out of his sock just before the cameras panned his way. Fortunately, and surprisingly, he didn’t fumble it across the goal line.

Don’t go, Jens. Don’t ever go.

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