Buy the Liverpool beach ball

It's the big red beach ball that punctured Liverpool's league fortunes and - unlike goalie Pepe Reina - you could get YOUR hands on it!

The News of the World won a fierce bidding war for the inflatable red devil and we're selling it to the highest eBay bidder with all the profits going to help sick kids in Merseyside and beyond.

So whether you want to scribble on a portrait of Rafa's goatee and kick it about your front room or treasure it alongside your framed portrait of Shevchenko - this is a unique piece of soccer memorabilia.

And the way things are going, it could be the only trophy Liverpool fans take home this season!

Quick recap for those from another planet: Liverpool's season took a turn for the worse at the Stadium of Light last month when a shot from Sunderland's Darren Bent struck the ball - which had been thrown onto the pitch by a fan - and it deflected past a bamboozled Reina to seal an unlikely victory.

Please note: due to the force of Bent's strike, the ball no longer inflates.

So get bidding. All the profits from the sale go to IMAGINE - the charity for Alder Hey Childrens' Hospital in Liverpool which pays for research and equipment to improve the lives of children all around the world. For more info: http://www.imagineappeal.com/

Bent's strike deflected off the stray ball

The view of Bent's shot from behind the net

Our man Keith Gladdis shows off the trophy

The ball

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