A World Cup miscellany compiled by Mary Hannigan

Tweets for my tweet: But are Etuhu and Kaka's Twitterings the real thing?

THE DANGER with Twitter, of course, is you can never be entirely sure if the Twitterers are who they claim to be. Take Nigeria’s Dickson Ethuhu. Unless “my boy” means his best mate we’re wondering if he has an impostor.

“My boy is getting married tomorrow and I am going to miss it,” he Tweeted earlier this week, as he prepared for the World Cup game against Greece. Note: Ethuhu (28) welcomed his son Zaccai in to the world, well, last summer.

The rest of his Tweets, though, seem plausible enough. Before the Greek game: “I am so looking forward to the game tomorrow. . . we must battle hard for 150 million Nigerians!” After the game: “I hope it was a dream.” “I feel sick.”

Speaking of Twitter. Whether the Tweetin’ Kaka is the real Kaka is another mystery.

“You are the love of my life,” read the message his wife Caroline supposedly posted him last week, for all the world to see, to which “he” replied: “You are an example of when God gives a dream, do not be shocked or scared and you will live that dream.

“I love you.”

That’s very nice, but, call us old-fashioned, would the pair of them not just pick up the phone?

Off their trolleys: Nurses are not doing Florence proud

WHILE THE Florence Nightingale Pledge, first taken by new nurses in 1893, might be a bit on the dated side now, its sentiment is largely timeless. According to The South Africa Times, though, nurses at Johannesburg's Helen Joseph Hospital aren't exactly doing Florence proud.

“A patient vomiting blood nearly died unattended as nurses were allegedly blowing vuvuzelas and jumping about the corridors neglecting patients,” they reported. Nonkululeko Mbambo turned up at the hospital with her ill sister but claimed that they were told that no one should be admitted during this period because “we want to focus on the World Cup”.

They were very rude – they told us to **** off and go outside the hospital.” The Department of Health said they’d look in to the allegations, presumably as soon as the World Cup is over.