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Manchester United v The Sun: Pep vanishes in Paris

Compare and contrast two of today’s stories on Manchester United an Pepe Guardiola:

And the, as reported by the Guardian:
Manchester United have denied reports that club officials met Bayern Munich manager … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, January 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Manchester United move for Pep, block Van Gaal and have £45m for Stones

Manchester United have been talking to Pepe Guardiola, the football manager who will lead whichever club he coaches to ultimate glory. The Sun says Manchester United’s schmoozers met Pep at the … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, January 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Jimmy Savile and Jon Peel: the BBC’s ugly Englishmen are always perverts

Jimmy Savile is back in the news. The Sun leads with the Jimmy Savile Report, the review by Dame Janet Smith into the BBC stalwart who post-death was labelled the most prolific child … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, January 2016 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, NSFW | Comment

Arsenal top of list of clubs Pep Guadiola wants to manage

Former Times football editor Tony Evans tells the Evening Standard that Pep Guardiola wants to mange Arsenal.
Arsenal have the opportunity to acquire a coach with the potential to take the club … (read more)

Posted: 21st, January 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Transfer balls: desperate Pato agrees Liverpool deal and signs for Chelsea as his price keeps on falling

Transfer balls: Chelsea have agreed to pay Corinthians £8m for 26-year-old striker Alexandre Pato, says the Daily Express. Is that a good price for a lightweight but talented player who has largely … (read more)

Posted: 21st, January 2016 | In: Back pages, Chelsea, Liverpool, Sports | Comment

Misleading headline of the day: Wenger’s ‘exciting Arsenal transfer plans’

 

The Metro has some terrific transfer balls. The paper decalres: “Wenger gives exciting update on Arsenal transfer plans for next two weeks.”

The story runs:
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has refused to … (read more)

Posted: 21st, January 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages | Comment

Transfer balls: Liverpool open bidding for Alex Teixeira

Liverpool have made a move for a big-named signing. It’s Alex Teixeira. He plays for Shakhtar Donetsk. He scores lots of goals. He’s from Brazil.

The Guardian says Liverpool have made a £24.5million bid.

The Liverpool … (read more)

Posted: 21st, January 2016 | In: Back pages, Liverpool, Sports | Comment

Alexander Litvinenko was murdered for free

The Daily Telegraph dashed out to read up on Polonium 2010, the radioactive poison used in 2006 to murder Russian spy in London.

The paper tells readers  is a “lethal but hugely expensive … (read more)

Posted: 21st, January 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Listen to David Bowie imitate Springsteen, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Marc Bolan and more in a 1985 studio tape

NEW YORK – JANUARY 19: Lou Reed (L) and David Bowie (R) attend the opening of Lou Reed NY photography exhibit at the Gallery at Hermes … (read more)

Posted: 21st, January 2016 | In: Celebrities | Comment

George Monbiot and Heathrow hooligans make a lot of noise about nothing

“The Heathrow ‘hooligans’ are our modern day freedom fighters,”  says George Monbiot in the Guardian. We think of a freedom fighter fighting for choice, glory and human endeavour. Monbiot’s freedom fighter … (read more)

Posted: 21st, January 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Alien Hybridization: ‘I had sex with aliens and I liked it’

Incredible news in the Daily Mail. Aliens have been breeding with women in Arizona.
A group of women in the US claim to have children fathered by aliens – and describe their … (read more)

Posted: 21st, January 2016 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Misleading headline of the day: Danniella Westbook’s Big Brother ‘cocaine shame’

 

The Daily Star is the “official Big Brother newspapers”. Every day the Star publishes front-page news on goings on the TV celebrity silo, saving readers the bother of tuning in. today … (read more)

Posted: 21st, January 2016 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids | Comment

Arsenal earn more money on match day than every other club in Europe

 

Arsenal raked in more cash from match-day activities last season than every other club in Europe. The Gunners took a whopping £101.6m, beating Real Madrid (#99.9m), Barcelona (#980m) and Manchester … (read more)

Posted: 21st, January 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Money, Sports | Comment

Spurs go marching on as Leicester sacrifice Cup glory for league success

Spurs are on their way to Wembley! Well, if they can negotiate a deal to play at the national football stadium while their new ground is being built, then yes, … (read more)

Posted: 21st, January 2016 | In: Back pages, Sports, Spurs | Comments (2)

Tabloid caption of the day: Chris Martin ‘craves pancakes’

Uncoupled former Mr Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Martin, appears topless in the Daily Mail. Like no-one we’ve ever met, the Mail wonders why Chris – 38, rich, lots of free time, pop … (read more)

Posted: 21st, January 2016 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids | Comment

Manchester United balls: Louis Van Gaal ‘Walks’

The Daily Mirror has news: Louis Van Gone – Old Trafford pressures force boss to consider his future.. he could walk a year before the end of his contract.”

 

 

This follows … (read more)

Posted: 20th, January 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Lord Janner: 3 missed chances, a self-serving CPS inquiry and allegations now fact

 

Westminster paedos: a look at reporting on the story of sex crimes in high places.

The Daily Mirror has been at the forefront of the allegations of murderous paedophiles protected by the … (read more)

Posted: 20th, January 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Transfer balls: Spurs make James Maddison the ‘new Dele Alli’ by bidding less than Arsenal

Transfer Balls: No sooner have Tottenham Hotspur signed Dele Alli, 19, then they’re getting an second Dele Alli. The Times brings news: “Spurs make fresh bid for new Dele Alli.”

This … (read more)

Posted: 20th, January 2016 | In: Back pages, Sports | Comment

BBC Warns of Apache Frog invasion

We interrupt this broadcast to bring news of a new terroristic threat: Apache Frog is coming to the UK, says the BBC News:

 

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Posted: 20th, January 2016 | In: TV & Radio | Comment

Watch Pages of Death: a bonkers 1962 anti-porn movie

Watch Pages of Death, an anti-porn film from 1962, brought to you by Citizens for Decent Literature:

 

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Posted: 20th, January 2016 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment

Transfer balls: Chelsea want Berahino who wants Spurs but will go to Newcastle

 

It’s been a busy fee days of doing nothing for West Brom’s Saido Berahino. The Birmingham Mail says he’d play for Spurs or go “nowhere”.

A few days on and the London Evening … (read more)

Posted: 19th, January 2016 | In: Back pages, Sports | Comment

Laughably biased Daily Express story calls BT Sport The Arsenal of TV

 

In “BT Sport’s winning duo: Hoddle and Hargreaves showing Sky are no longer the limit” the Daily Express’. The story on Liverpool’s 3-3 with Arsenal is written by Jim Holden. It … (read more)

Posted: 19th, January 2016 | In: Back pages, Sports, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (5)

Transfer balls: four Chelsea players in mass exodus is a blessing

It’s “cHELLsea” on the Sun’s backpage, the pun a natural fit between the fires of Hades and a football club in West London. “Chelsea are fearing an exodus of their … (read more)

Posted: 19th, January 2016 | In: Back pages, Chelsea, Sports | Comment

School uniform news of the day: Yorkshire teenagers sent home for too-tight trousers

One popular subject matter for the tabloids is the school child sent home for wearing unsuitable kit.  The Barnsley Chronicle reports on Barnsley Academy in South Yorkshire, which has been “measuring the … (read more)

Posted: 19th, January 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Fuel thieves drink poo after mistaking bus toilet outlet outlet for petrol tank

 

To Western Australia where fuel bandits are licking koalas and doing anything they can to get that taste of raw sewage out of their mouths. The thieves had tried to suck fuel from a parked … (read more)

Posted: 19th, January 2016 | In: Strange But True | Comment

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