10@10: Alex Ferguson is a time lord, Jonny 'Hong Kong Phooey' Evans and football's top 10 superheroes

By Mirror Football in Football Banter

Published 10:30 13/11/09

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You don't want to make him angry! Porto striker Hulk - first name sadly not 'Incredible' -  is in the Brazil squad preparing to face England on Saturday.

Let's hope he keeps his emotions in check, not least because he  will earn an instant booking if he tries to play in just his trademark ripped shorts and no shirt.

But who else in football could have their own comic strip? Here are MirrorFootball's top 10 footballing superheroes.

1) Alex Ferguson must be a superhero - how else do you explain his ability to control time?

2) Ferguson's arch nemesis Arsene Wenger is obviously football's equivalent of blind superhero Daredevil. Despite being completely unable to see when any of his players commit a foul, his other football senses are perfectly tuned.

3) After he soared majestically over the outstretched leg of Lee Carsley at Anfield on Monday night it's obvious David Ngog can fly like Superman when he wants to.

4) Of course for most superheroes fighting crime is their raison d'etre and where would the city of Liverpool be without it's dark protector Duncan Ferguson? The former Everton striker is a Batman style vigilante and has twice confronted and detained burglars who were stupid enough to break into his house. Liverpool: city of justice.

5) By day he's the mild-mannered manager of Hull City but by night Phil Brown must surely be Radioactive Man - we know we wouldn't want to get too near him with that tan.

6) David James has got to be Superman after this dodgy haircut a couple of years ago. Also, just like the Superman's alter ego Clark Kent, Jamo fancies himself as something of a journalist with his column for the Guardian.

7) After his karate kick at Didier Drogba on Sunday, Jonny Evans is clearly the hapless superhero Hong Kong Phooey and has obviously been studying the his manual The Hong Kong Book Of Kung Fu.

8) Have you ever seen Wayne Rooney and The Thing from the Fantastic Four in the same room? Thought not...

9) Talking of the Fantastic Four, there's more than a passing resemblance between Peter Crouch and the stretchy-limbed Mr Fantastic.

10) Emile Heskey = The Invisible Man. Nuff said.