Sick note frenzy

Injuries - Sporting injuries cost employers in Britain £504m a year in time off, a survey revealed yesterday. Four million sporty types phone in sick every year after spraining an ankle playing football or pulling a muscle in the gym. Two days a year off work is the average, but one in 20 in the poll was laid up for four days in the past 12 months. Nearly 40% of injured people blame themselves, including one woman who wore cowboy boots for jogging. A spokesperson for the survey said: "These people are asking for it, basically. All that running around and doing press ups can't be good for you can it? Or maybe it can, I don't really know, I just came in here to use the toilet."

isporty wants to hear about yours and your friends' daft injuries. Did you break your wrist while playing rugby on stilts? Did you graze your chin while mountain biking through a cat farm? Did something else entirely happen? What? Just tell us, that's what we're here for!