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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 [...]
Ten transfer deals that definitely happened
The transfer window has been slammed shut, and finally some sanity can return to the world of football - either that, or more wild, impossible to substantiate rumours will dominate the spring months. But it’s as good a time as any to have a look back, and let the press take a bow for some [...]
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 [...]
Jamaica? Mears went of his own accord
A story that caught the eye in the Sunday papers was the revelation that Tyrone Mears, the Burnley and Jamaica right-back, was in fact just a Burnley right-back after all. It appears that Mears’ links to the Caribbean country have turned out to be based on not very much at all, and as such he [...]
Revealed: What the other papers have found out for the Daily Mail
There’s plenty to enjoy about the fact that Emile Heskey sent a text in full sight of Fabio Capello. If you’re going to send a text when you’re not supposed to, for example, definitely don’t do it at a table in full sight of Capello. Good work Ivanhoe. The idea that a broken rule about [...]
On this day in transfer gossip history … October 17th 2004
On this day in 2004, the papers were inventing commitment issues for key players at Europe’s biggest clubs, the one guy they said definitely wasn’t leaving is the only one who did, and every rumour looked plausible compared to the barmy double act the News of the World dreamt up for Rotherham to cap a [...]
How journalism works - the case of Rooney’s rage
The paper round-up on Sky Sports News is usually instructive viewing when it appears at about 7.30am each morning to tell us what the media are most interested in covering on any particular day. But today’s edition was somewhat more fascinating when Paul McCarthy of the News of the World took a look at the [...]
Chelsea’s spending plans - scooped and thwarted
Now that the Gael Kakuta story is in full swing, and the transfer window has shut, the press are moving on to the big issue of who Chelsea won’t sign. It’s an exciting position for the media to be in, of course, because they cannot be wrong. Of course specific players aren’t going to be [...]
On this day in transfer gossip history… August 22nd 2004
On this day in 2004, BBC’s transfer gossip column caught the News of the World on a hot streak, announcing that Sol Campbell would stay with Arsenal for life and putting Rooney in the frame for a switch to Real Madrid whilst confidently ruling Manchester United out, and spelling the end for Peter Taylor at [...]
On this day in transfer gossip history… 18 July 2004
BBC’s transfer gossip column on this day in 2004 the papers were split over Wayne Rooney’s date of departure, whilst elsewhere everybody were getting slightly ahead of themselves, musing over the fictional imminent transfers of Patrick Vieira and Sol Campbell who would both turn out for Arsenal the following season, and even more prematurely calling [...]