Stoke manager Tony Pulis defended his supporters over their treatment of Terry and claimed that the Chelsea captain will come home a hero if England win the World Cup in South Africa this summer.

As a punishment, the colonel removed the city's holiest modern shrine, to Omar Mukhtar, Libya's anti-colonial hero, dumping it 50km (31 miles) to the south.

In Sea Bird Island in South Africa, Tippi has been branded the real life Mowgli after Rudyard Kipling's hero of the Jungle Book.