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Sports thoughts from the weekend
The weekend’s cricket
It was a weekend in which we learned that South Africa were not nearly as good as a Tendulkarful India but considerably better than a Tendulkarless one. England won a ODI against Bangladesh just as they have managed since the dawn of time, but not without the traditional nervy moments and curious team selections. [...]
Understatement of the day
Simon Jones at the Daily Mail is doing his best to guide us through a transfer window in which virtually nothing at all has happened. Lots of deals are proving fairly unlikely in his reckoning, few more so than the prospect of Wayne Rooney going to Barcelona. It didn’t stop him knocking together 117 words [...]
Who is Frank Lampard’s favourite striker?
And remember, Frank, you’re only allowed one.
Frank Lampard on Wayne Rooney, July 13: “Wazza is the best I’ve played with…”
Ah, the English striker who is seen by many as an essential to England’s hopes of World Cup success? Most reasonable. Thanks Fra… wait, what are you saying?
Frank Lampard on Didier Drogba, November 2: “His finishing at times is [...]
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 [...]
The Rooney goal streak - over-rated
The Daily Star have been celebrating with Wayne Rooney that he has scored two goals in the first two games of the season, and are clearly most impressed by the idea that he has hit the ground running this season after slow starts in years gone by.
The Manchester United ace has started the season on fire [...]
The Sun at its best: Wayne Rooney exclusive - wants to be a priest
If an article better summarises the approach of tabloid journalism to football reporting, then please show us it. The revelation, if you’ll forgive the pun, that Wayne Rooney might have wanted to be a priest, is one of our favourite articles of the summer - and at least it doesn’t contain a single transfer rumour.
What makes [...]
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, [...]
The great Rooney boot mystery
While Manchester United were being reminded that Barcelona are quite handy at football, there was a small morsel of comfort for Wayne Rooney, whose personal anguish at having his football boots stolen had briefly threatened to ruin everything.
In a ’story’ ‘reported’ by the Sun yesterday (and yes, both those words deserve inverted commas, it appeared that [...]
YouTube Champions League Preview - A magnificent seven…Manchester United and Barcelona players
With tonight’s Champions League Final dominating today’s sports pages, Sport without Spin brings you a YouTube special, looking at a magnificent seven players who could determine the destiny of the trophy this evening. Since there are 22 players on the pitch, however, with up to six substitutions, you can also conceivably disregard this list and [...]
The Naked Pun: Part 3
The pun is the tabloid journalist’s weapon of choice. If used wisely, it can deliver a penetrative blow into the reader’s brain that neatly and wittily sums up the story that will follow.
This week, The Sun dished up some good examples. The story about Manchester City striker Valeri Bojinov quite openly talking about how he wishes [...]