[tps_header]In these times of economic oblivion, it is time we started to stop and consider the fate of society's real victims - those abandoned, deflated and lost footballs, drifting down a canal, stuck on a roof or impaled on a railing spike you pass everyday, without so much as a cursory sigh and moment's reflection. Well Matthew Lutz (brother of Guardian Sport's Tom) has been compiling a catalogue of these sorry souls on his own Twitter account for six months now. It is a harrowing smorgasbord of shame - look after your footballs people. [/tps_header]
Some have found solace in religion.
Others have have found comfort in a bit of retail therapy.
This Euro 2004 ball has come a long way from Lisbon.
So much for all that Scandinavina liberalism - this poor fella was left to freeze in Stockholm harbour.
This little fella is standing at the foot of a stairway to Heaven.
Just another brick in the wall now.
Escape to victory?
Such beauty. Such sadness.
Such discrimination, in this day and age.
Another victim of the Cypriot banking crisis.
