Robots mimic football’s worst cheats

By Michael MacLeod

FOOTBALL daft boffins were studying last night’s Champion’s League final for tips on teaching their robotic dream team on how to milk it like Messi or roll like Ronaldo to gain an advantage on the pitch.

Diving to con the referee is commonplace in football and now the robots are being shown how to copy the game’s biggest fakers.

The mechanical stars of this year’s RoboCup will be tumbling like Tevez to help ease their way to victory.

And their creators will have been glued to the Man Utd v Barcelona match while training for the annual RoboCup this summer, when 2,500 scientists from 36 countries will clash Austria.