100 Objects Part 3

41 A kitchen bin

Two days before he was due to fly out for the Ashes, Graeme Swann troubled his 78,000-strong Twitter family with an alarming question. "Are passports still absolutely required to travel overseas," he tweeted. "If so then I fear today may be one of frantic searching." A Home Office official contacted the England and Wales Cricket Board offering to rush through a replacement but epic queue‑jumping was not required as Swannyg66 confirmed five hours later. "My passport turned up in my 'safe' place, down the back of my kitchen bin," Swann wrote. At least it wasn't with his cat under the floorboards.

42 LeBron James's contract

In the NBA he is known simply as "King James". When he became a free agent this year his team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, wanted to re‑sign him, but in an understated move James announced his new team in a one-hour live television show called The Decision. He now plays for the Miami Heat and is widely reviled in Cleveland.

43 Lindsey Vonn's skis

Vonn emerged as the photogenic face of the Winter Olympics after winning gold in the downhill, the first American woman to do so. She then went on to win a bronze in the super‑G, fighting off bruised shins to become a star of the Games.

44 Liz Hurley's coat

The most unlikely Anglo-Aussie sporting/actress crossover since Matt Le Tissier got engaged to Marilyn from Home and Away. The first signs came when Shane Warne and Hurley were seen in a steamy clinch while they waited for their coats outside a restaurant. The Perth Test aside, the most surprising Aussie conquest of the Ashes winter.

45 A loo in Delhi

The build‑up to the Commonwealth Games was marred by the collapse of a footbridge, but it was a picture of a dirty toilet in the athletes' village that really caught the imagination. The Games passed without major incident beyond the standard outbreak of Delhi belly. Opportunity, at least, to inspect the facilities even further.

46 Louis Oosthuizen's glove

After winning The Open, Oosthuizen gave away the secret of his success. The South African seemed transfixed by his glove. In fact he was gazing at a red dot, put there by his "mind factor coach", Karl Morris. "The red dot," said Morris, "became his trigger point to go into a deep zen‑like, almost hypnotic state." And everyone else thought he had suffered a ketchup accident at breakfast.

47 Luis Suárez's teeth

Having become a household name for preventing a Ghana goal with a fisted goalline clearance, the Uruguay and Ajax striker needed something special for his encore. He delivered in November, biting Otman Bakkal in a Dutch Eredivisie match. "No, I do not regret what happened," he declared, citing fatigue rather than hunger ...

48 Mark Lewis-Francis's starting blocks

With the look of a man with a preference for the odd kebab or nine, Lewis-Francis appears to enjoy imposing his own handicaps. He was at it again at the Commonwealth Games, failing to set his starting blocks properly so they slipped as he drove off. He still won silver.

49 Mark Webber's front wing

"Not bad for a No2 driver," said the Red Bull driver defiantly after winning the British grand prix. The day before his car's front wing had been given to his team-mate Sebastian Vettel, whose own had fallen off in qualifying. The Australian seethed at the implication of the switch, though by the end of the season his words sounded pretty prophetic. Vettel was world champion.

50 A Melbourne traffic offence notice

The traffic cops got two English celebrity scalps in Melbourne, booking Lewis Hamilton for an illegal burnout in his Mercedes AMG C63 and bagging Kevin Pietersen for speeding in Shane Warne's yellow Lamborghini. Hamilton stumped up a £288 fine, and the England batsman paid £149.

51 A microphone

"One-two ... one-two." A description of a Spanish sortie into an opposition penalty area and what touchline reporter and girlfriend of Iker Casillas, Sara Carbonero, says to sound-check her microphone. Her Sky Sports counterpart Geoff Shreeves is yet to be silenced by a post-match kiss from a player. And for that we should all be grateful.

52 Miguel Angel Jiménez's cigar

There are approximately 383 things about Jiménez that scream "millionaire golfer", including his sports cars, contented pot belly and the confidence to pull off a haircut 20 years out of date. But it's the cigars that are the Spaniard's trademark and he puffed them happily as he helped Europe to victory at the Ryder Cup.

53 A milk bottle

"White liquid in a bottle has to be milk," said the former Internazionale manager Rafa Benítez in one of his cryptic criticisms of the former Liverpool owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. It made more sense in context, but we'll still pass if he ever offers to make us a brew in the sperm bank canteen.

54 A mobile phone

The Australian rugby league star Joel Monaghan was photographed simulating a sex act with a team-mate's labrador in November and the picture from a mobile phone ended up on Twitter. "Alcohol is no excuse," he said at a tearful press conference. "I'd love more than anything to take it back but I can't." He signed for Warrington this month.

55 Nelson Mandela's buggy

Having emotionally blackmailed a frail Mandela into appearing at the World Cup final despite the tragic death of his granddaughter the night before the opening match, at least Fifa had the common decency to lay on transport. Well done Fifa! Well done!

56 Nobby Stiles's World Cup medals

In the middle of the Wayne Rooney contract saga it emerged that Stiles, who performed rather better than Rooney in World Cups, was selling his medal collection by auction. United did the decent thing, buying his World Cup medal for a record £188,000.

57 The Nolans' settee

When he wasn't rushing out to the driveway with a fire extinguisher in hand, Andy Carroll spent much of the latter part of 2010 slumped on Kevin Nolan's settee, much to the annoyance of Mrs Nolan, who quickly tired of pleas for bedtime stories.

58 Orange peel

Four minutes into ITV1 HD's coverage of England's World Cup opener against the USA the channel cut to a Hyundai advert featuring a man throwing orange peel out of his car window. Viewers missed England's opening goal of the tournament – and what would turn out to be the high point of a grim campaign.

59 A packet of fags costing £200

One of the strangest aspects of Wayne Rooney's News of the World kiss‑and-tell story was the amount of smoking England's No1 striker appears to get up to. The low point of which was Rooney paying £200 for a packet of room service Marlboro. Proof, finally, that it definitely doesn't make you look cool.

60 A pile of banknotes

The News of the World's Fake Sheikh's largesse was again in evidence when Mazhar Majeed, the "confidant" of members of the Pakistan cricket team, was stung when bragging about his ability to influence the bowling of no‑balls. After accepting £150,000, the charming Majeed proved his connection to Mohammad Amir by waking the teenage bowler by telephone with the greeting: "Are you sleeping fucker?"