Nettles in the newsNot surprisingly there are always a few quirky stories appearing in the newspapers regarding nettles - some of them originating from this site. Here is our run down of some of the recent nettle coverage. Please let us know if you come across anything yourselves. Nettles win football match!Reported in the Sunday Times by Louise Taylor "Mick McCarthy will be hard pressed to devise team talks as imaginative as Howard Wilkinson's. Before Sunderland played Liverpool last December, McCarthy's predecessor arrived in the home dressing room carrying a bag of nettles. First Wilkinson demonstrated that squeeezing the plants slowly in his palm stung painfully. Then he grasped the nettles swiftly and firmly, before explaining that this approach hurt less. The point was to warn his players that Liverpool would aim to lull Sunderland into complacency before stinging them on the counter-attack; a tactic that could be negated by curtailing such breaks at source. On that occasion a 2-1 victory - only one of two in 20 premiership games during Wilkinson's reign - resulted." | 
