http://www.sportwithoutspin.com Rumour-busting, chat-spotting, plain-talking sport Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:03:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some cracking over-reaction from the Daily Mail in the wake of the German GP. Fernando Alonso eased past Felipe Massa thanks to a brilliant overtaking manoeuvre instruction from his team and won the race, and nobody much cared for it. People don't like the fastest driver having to pull over to ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/07/27/f1-and-new-lows/ An odd logic failure from the Telegraph this morning as they fill a little space wondering whether Robbie Keane, who has done his fair share of club-hopping in the last two seasons, will be staying at White Hart Lane or moving to his eighth club (this time, probably to his ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/07/26/keanes-future-no-clearer/ Martin Samuel makes a very observant argument in the Daily Mail (yes, we know) this week. When it comes to England managers, the margins between perceived success and failure are very small, but the media swings are violent ones. When the team wins, faults are brushed aside. When the ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/07/23/the-capello-pendulum-continues-to-swing/ The Capello Index. It's a simple concept. Players are rated according to a complex formula based on their every contribution to a game of football, and the results are laid out in statistical form with a score of 100 being the best and 0 being the worst. And to give ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/07/20/storms-in-teacups-the-capello-index-reappears/ Red Bull are doing a whole-hearted job of undoing their best season ever with an incredible string of dropped points despite their cars turning up race after race as the fastest on the grid. The last race at Silverstone was notable for being the race where Red Bull largely stopped pretending ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/07/19/red-bulls-advisor-puts-forward-worst-conspiracy-theory-ever/ How to explain the following two statements, both allegedly made by Luis Fabiano within the last month? June 27th: "There would be no point in me joining Tottenham, I might as well stay at Sevilla, it's the same thing. "Sevilla are actually bigger when you look at how much we have been ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/07/16/luis-fabiano-rumours-conflicting-statements-and-mistranslations/ As the 2010 Open begins in earnest this morning the focus of the media will be centred on 1 of the 156 competitors. You might have heard that late last year it emerged that Tiger Woods had been having some affairs, and that made him a terrible person, and meant ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/07/15/no-let-up-in-the-tiger-narrative/ He won the World Cup on Sunday. He went out on a big celebration in Madrid on Monday. And on Tuesday, apparently, he stopped to talk to The Sun and give them juicy quotes for their article on Wednesday. Wait, that doesn't sound right. And neither do the words in ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/07/14/the-ashley-cole-summer-transfer-rumours-seem-to-have-their-origin-in-the-uk/ Yes, we were terrible. We know. It was a couple of weeks ago. Everyone else has gone on holiday and forgotten about it (including the players). There were quarters, semis and a final between the best eight sides in the competition. But there's still time to stick the boot in ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/07/13/the-tedious-england-post-mortem-continues/ The season is over - long live the new season. Yes, Spain lifted the World Cup last night, but don't worry about missing out on football for too long - the Community Shield game is all of 27 days away. And now that the business of watching international matches is ... http://www.sportwithoutspin.com/2010/07/12/a-question-of-value/