A NAME BY ANY OTHER NAME IS NOT SAVED!

Name-change fan 'no DIM-wit'
A COLOMBIAN football fan has won the right to change his name to his favourite club, but only after a tortuous seven-year legal battle.

A ruling handed down today by the country's constitutional court allows the 55-year-old supporter to call himself Deportivo Independiente Medellin Giraldo Zuluaga.

Giraldo is Medellin's No.1 fan - he never misses a game and takes along the club's mascot, his dog, who wears the club's red and blue colours and barks to celebrate a goal.

"I've been waiting for my dream to be realised for seven years. I'm so happy," said Giraldo, who has also decked his house out in Medellin colours.

"Medellin is the team I support with pride in my soul and in my heart," he added. "I've made sacrifices to get to this point. Everyone said I was mad, but finally I won. Now you can call me Deportivo Independiente Medellin or DIM."

Medellin put an end to a 45-year trophy famine in 2002 when lifting the Colombian league title.

Somehow I feel "DIM - wit" suits you better... And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. --Rev 20:15 (ESV)