Facebook ban Spanish sports club for 'too sexy' name

A SPORTS club has been expelled from Facebook for having a too sexy name.

The Sexitano Athletics Club, whose name comes from the original Phoenician name Sexi for modern-day Almunecar, was rejected by Facebook monitors for ‘sexual connotations’.

The Sexitanos finally managed to secure a page under the name Atletismo Çexitano.

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