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Unrelated: Nicolas Anelka and Joe Cole’s Chelsea futures
The Daily Mail led with a headline yesterday which hooked us in straightaway, essentially because the two strands of news bear no relevance to each other.
New deal for Nicolas Anelka spells the end of the road at Chelsea for Joe Cole
Chelsea have reopened negotiations with Nicolas Anelka over a contract extension which would see the [...]
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 [...]
Logic failures - why Fabio will be England boss until 2012 - golf
Fabio Capello will not quit England early… says Alan Nixon in the Mirror today, due to his love of golf. The bullshit detector started beeping furiously at that headline, and unfortunately it only got louder as we scanned through the article text (all 407 words of it):
Fabio Capello will stay on as England boss for the [...]
Weak exclusives: David Luiz wanted by clubs
“We’ve got an exclusive!” boast the Mirror! “It’s big, it’s exciting, and John Cross can tell us more! Aggghhhh!”
Chelsea tracking £10million-rated Brazilian central defender - exclusive
Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti is tracking Benfica’s Brazilian defender David Luiz.
The 22-year-old is regarded as one of his nation’s top prospects and has also attracted interest from Manchester United and Real Madrid. 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 [...]
Risible rumour of the day: Hiddink to manage the Ivory Coast
Guus Hiddink and managing international football teams seems to go together much like the proverbial horse and carriage. He’s already had spells in charge of the Netherlands, South Korea, Australia and Russia. It stands to reason, then, that you can link him just about plausibly to any international opportunity.
There were rumours building last week, following his [...]
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 [...]
Tiger is back, and maybe he hasn’t changed
Tiger Woods is going to say some carefully chosen words today, and despite the fact that we know he will doing so almost entirely on his own terms and refusing to answer any questions or do anything that isn’t written on his cue cards [note to self - look remorseful], the media is going to [...]
Weak exclusives: Football team want to buy IPL team
The Sun go big with a cricket story this morning, though Sun readers needn’t worry - it’s fine - it’s got a football angle. Exclusive, they bellow:
City in cricket IPL team bid
Yes, admittedly that’s barely a sentence, so we’ll rephrase. Manchester City are the team apparently behind a bid for a cricket team in the IPL.
MANCHESTER CITY are [...]
Stan Collymore incorrectly identifies the villain
One of the more trivial aspects of Collymore’s weekly column in the Mirror is to describe an individual as the ‘hero of the weekend’, and another as the ‘villain’. Normally it can be let go, on the basis that the attribution of hero and villain status seems to be based on little more than whether [...]