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Stan’s horror column lunges in after horror tackle
One of the major talking points of the weekend was the horrible injury sustained by Aaron Ramsey, whose season has been ended after a tackle from Ryan Shawcross during Arsenal’s game with Stoke on the weekend. Wenger didn’t much care for the inevitable defences of Shawcross that followed in the immediate aftermath - not that [...]
The numbers game: guessing the Chris Smalling deal
Manchester United have apparently made a foray into the transfer market this January and the deal sounds quite final, given that they’re not afraid to announce it on their official website. But ever since United stopped being a PLC and started being some strange Glazer bank they’ve no longer had to declare exactly what they [...]
Some measured opinion in the Mirror about the Mirror’s over-the-top opinions
The Mirror does an excellent job of lacking self-awareness today. Steve Stammers in his opinion piece this morning ventures the following fairly sensible assessment on Arsene Wenger’s press conference on Monday, which we covered yesterday:
Arsene Wenger’s outburst is no big deal
In the eyes of some people, it was like discovering your maiden aunt was a coke-dealing street [...]
Arsene fumes at media, not Walcott
The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has found himself in the back pages of a number of newspapers this morning. Apparently the problems began at a press conference, according to the Sun, in which he was asked about Theo Walcott and his prospects for the World Cup:
Wenger blasted: “For f***’s sake the World Cup is in [...]
Marks out of ten for the Mirror’s likely transfer deadline deals
It’s an interesting move by the Mirror to commission a piece with 10 prospective deals which will be borne out (or not) within 24 hours. You see, the thing is that once it is done there will be no place to hide. How relevant or accurate it is will be shown up almost immediately. So [...]
Misleading headline: ‘Wenger: Bhoys bigger than Utd’
So sayeth the Sun headline this morning. So Arsene believes what, we’re supposed to wonder? That Celtic are a bigger club? It seems a bit of a stretch. That they have a better following? Well, there’s an argument there, though it might be somewhat antagonistic. Let’s see what Antony Kastrinakis means:
ARSENE WENGER has dubbed Arsenal’s European [...]
On this day in transfer gossip history. . . July 4 2004
One this day in 2004, BBC’s transfer gossip column mystifyingly has Arsene Wenger chasing all the big names, has the Daily Star Sunday pricing Rooney at £50m without so much as a Florentino Perez in sight, has Chelsea eyeing up the Spanish totty and featured some future Borussia Monchengladbach players with careers in flux. Meanwhile, [...]
On this day in transfer gossip history… 27 June 2005
On this day in 2005 BBC’s transfer gossip column was like one of those toddler’s games where they have shapes and matching holes to put them through, and the papers weren’t very good at it. A number of different players were faced with holes in the shape of Newcastle United, Birmingham City and West Ham, [...]
On this day in transfer gossip history… May 30 2003
A lot has happened in football since 2003, yet much of what was predicted by the papers hasn’t. On this day in 2003, the BBC transfer gossip column brought us reports of big Manchester United stars being wooed by Spanish giants and Arsene Wenger being touted as the next Real Madrid manager. So in many [...]
The Naked Pun: Part 3
The pun is the tabloid journalist’s weapon of choice. If used wisely, it can deliver a penetrative blow into the reader’s brain that neatly and wittily sums up the story that will follow.
This week, The Sun dished up some good examples. The story about Manchester City striker Valeri Bojinov quite openly talking about how he wishes [...]