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Liverpool's misery was compounded in farcical fashion in the 73rd minute.

And things got worse for Davis when he stepped into a pothole and injured an ankle during a farcical spring training visit to Puerto Rico.

When auditors came to search Freymond’s desk, the story took a farcical turn: Freymond had tried to dispose of the incriminating papers by stashing them outside his office window, on the cornice.

James Elder, spokesman for the UN children's agency, Unicef, said on Friday that the idea of a safe zone in southern Gaza was "farcical".

The prospect of the government introducing a Hillsborough Law without the backing of the majority of the disaster's families and their supporters would have been farcical.