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Weak exclusives: Manchester City want Torres and Gerrard
A brilliantly emotive piece hit the News of the World this Sunday. Who would have thought it - the day that Manchester City were due to face Liverpool was the same day that the paper would unearth an extraordinary exclusive about Liverpool’s two star players?
City set up every Liverpool fan’s worst nightmare
And of course, NotW are not [...]
The Sun - only interested in the real deals
We live in exciting times. Highly anticipated sporting events (and horse racing) are fighting against the snow, England are fighting to save the 3rd Test in South Africa, Portsmouth are fighting for dear life, and Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are fighting a war of words. Which means they’re no longer planning to fight a [...]
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… June 13 2008
What a difference a year makes. This time last year Big Phil Scolari had just been confirmed as Chelsea manager despite still being Portugal manager, and the newspapers were in fantasy land imagining what sort of flair dream team he would put together with Abramovich’s vast wealth. The credit crunch was starting to bite with [...]