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A rivalry cut short
An unfortunate memory failure from the BBC’s Martin Brundle in anticipation of the upcoming Formula One season. As a colour commentator, he really does give some excellent analysis and insight during the races through the year, but perhaps nobody thought to double-check his recollections on a piece for the BBC website previewing the key battles [...]
Lost in translation? Wilson Palacios wants to go to Real Madrid
The Sun run an exclusive today detailing the wishes of Tottenham’s defensive midfielder Wilson Palacios. He’s got his heart set on bigger things, it appears, and he seems to have told a British newspaper that very thing:
WILSON PALACIOS has stunned Harry Redknapp by admitting he is using Spurs to get a move to Real Madrid.
The Honduran midfielder [...]
The Sun’s poll results duller than first feared, spice added
Who would you pick in England’s World Cup starting XI? That’s what the Sun asked its readers, and they answered. The only trouble is that the England team has for several years been very easy to pick, and there is rarely much dispute over the squad of 23, let alone the composition of the first [...]
Stan Collymore: The Man’s not for turning
So now we know. Wayne Bridge won’t shake John Terry’s hand, won’t share a dressing room with him, and as things stand, won’t go the the World Cup. Terry won’t be captain, will be in the team, and as things stand will go to the World Cup. Given the fragility of Rio Ferdinand’s back, the [...]
The Daily Mail SWSes itself
It’s a day for us to kick up our feet and let other people point out the ironies in sports reporting. The Daily Mail’s Martin Samuel takes the reins, with a brilliant observation on a not at all over the top article entitled John Terry is nice to kids, so they say… but so were [...]
If this is being scared, then what’s Halloween to Michael Schumacher?
That’s what we found ourselves pondering this morning when we read the Sunsport pages and found the following Formula One story:
Schu: I’m scared of Lew!
Lovely - like the way it kind of rhymes.
First line of the article:
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER fears the threat Lewis Hamilton poses to his dream of making a title-winning comeback.
Why?
Seven-time champ Schu saw Hamilton’s McLaren blow his [...]
Another baffling selectorial Cook-up
So for reasons best known to the ICC, a 30 man provisional squad for the World Twenty20 Championships has to be submitted this week, and England have announced theirs. Amongst the thirty names there is no space for the stand-in ODI and Test captain Alastair Cook.
Geoff Miller, doing an interview in relation to the announcement, said [...]
The Daily Mail write a list of stuff - part one
To fill their website with lots of ‘read us every day content’ the Daily Mail have come up with the concept of the List, a top 50 of something or other which they reveal ten at a time, each day of the week. Often it’s meaningless fare, but last week it scaled new heights with [...]
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 [...]
Ferrari PR releases: Always awesome, occasionally just a touch unprofessional
It’s been documented over recent times that Ferrari have strayed from the tried and tested method of carefully worded press releases. They don’t much care for the way the sport is run - the same sport, which, incidentally, rewards Ferrari more handsomely than any other team for the same accomplishments, and rather than raising their [...]