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Madeleine McCann: 4 police, Google gold and front-page news

Madeleine McCann: a look at the missing child in the media.

The Sun (front page): “Cops in hunt for Maddie slashed”

The “search” has been “drastically cut back”. Reducing the number of police … (read more)

Posted: 29th, October 2015 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Madeleine McCann: ‘just’ four police working full-time on case, 8,685 potential sightings, years of sensation

There were 29 police officers working full-time on the hunt for Madeleine McCann. Soon there will be four, the Metropolitan Police says.

The Mirror:
Scotland Yard has cut the number of officers investigating Maddie’s … (read more)

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Posted: 28th, October 2015 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment

Gif Of The Day: Wonder Woman ‘The Bermuda Triangle Crisis’

Wonder Woman, “The Bermuda Triangle Crisis”

Gif Of The Day: Wonder Woman ‘The Bermuda Triangle Crisis’ – 1977
… (read more)

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Posted: 28th, October 2015 | In: Gifs, TV & Radio | Comment

Chelsea balls: Mourinho’s new low, Stoke City are easy, Blues ‘plumb new depths’

Chelsea balls: The Sun sticks its napkin into its collar, picks up a knife and fork and tucks into Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho. Stoke – a Premier League playing at … (read more)

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Posted: 28th, October 2015 | In: Chelsea, Reviews, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Chelsea balls: Jose Mourinho in bondage club Hell and other love letters

How boring is Jose Mourinho? Don’t bother answering. It’s a rhetorical question. The Mail says the Chelsea boss is a huge bore.

Michael Henderson states:
Not many people are listening any more. … (read more)

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Posted: 28th, October 2015 | In: Chelsea, Reviews, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Chelsea transfer balls: Hiddink returns, Ancelotti scoffs, Mourinho laughs and Stoke City are ignored

Chelsea balls: the media continue to guess about Jose Mourinho’s future at Stamford Bridge.

You might see English football’s champions losing matches as a sign of the Premier League’s strength. But the narrative … (read more)

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Posted: 28th, October 2015 | In: Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Chelsea balls: Costa ‘punched himself’ out of the match and dark humour

The Metro hates football. To it the game is simply about getting clicks. Why else would you describe an injury to a professional player as “hilarious”? Diego Costa was injured playing for Chelsea … (read more)

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Posted: 28th, October 2015 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comment

Dog named Trigger shoots owner

To Indiana, where local brains’ trust rep Allie Carter, 25, is out hunting waterfowl. She puts down her 12-gauge shotgun. Trigger her gun dog Labrador steps on the weapon, and she’s shot in the … (read more)

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Posted: 28th, October 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Indiana Jones arrested after high-speed chase

Indiana Z. Jones of Rushville, New York, was pulled over by police. Rather than leaving the vehicle, Indy put his foot down. Police gave chase. Other police up ahead tossed … (read more)

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Posted: 28th, October 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Music from 1970s sex films

We only read Playboy for the articles (which since Hugh ‘Housecoat’ Hefner’s throbbing organ swore off naked women is truer than ever), and we only watch vintage skin flicks for … (read more)

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Posted: 28th, October 2015 | In: Film, NSFW, Reviews | Comment

MP duped by ‘custard gannet’ Cake placed in charge of UK drugs policy

Tory MP David Amess will chair the bill committee for the Government’s Psychoactive Substances Bill.

Good choice. Right man for the job. After all we all asked ‘What’s he on?’ when Amess … (read more)

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Posted: 27th, October 2015 | In: Key Posts, Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Jamie Oliver: sponsored by Mars star will save the poor and stupid from sugar

Jamie Oliver wants us to pay a “sugar tax”. The TV chef wants us to pay a tax on sugary drinks and snacks. He says:
“The discussions that I’ve had haven’t implied … (read more)

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Posted: 27th, October 2015 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Arsenal, Higuain and £68m going nowhere

Transfer Balls: The Daily Mirror says Arsenal are “preparing [a] sensational £68m Gonzalo Higuain bid’. Of course the Mirror is more conniving than that, adding a question mark to the … (read more)

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Posted: 27th, October 2015 | In: Arsenal, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Revolting marketing: UK betting firm offers odds on which footballer will come out as gay

In the Anorak Inbox today, this missive form a desperate
A UK betting site has offered odds on which England football will come out as gay, following the news over the … (read more)

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Posted: 27th, October 2015 | In: Money, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Migration: Daily Express uses anonymous source to demonise baby-killing Muslim asylum-seekers

Is the Daily Express demonising migrants? Does Jordan sleep on her back? Today’s migrant news in the tabloid of intolerance begins:
Britain next? Doctor’s outrage at ‘refugees pushing German hospitals to … (read more)

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Posted: 27th, October 2015 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)

Transfer balls: former Chelsea manager wants Blues striker

Transfer Balls: André Villas-Boas is looking at the Chelsea bench. He’s not vying to replace Jose Mourinho. Villas-boas is looking for sign Radamel Falcao for Zenit St Petersburg.

Why?

Falcao was poor … (read more)

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Posted: 27th, October 2015 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comment

Chelsea balls: Jose Mourinho engineers his lucrative sacking, continues obssession with Arsenal and Wenger

The backpages are dominated by the rumours that Jose Mourinho is on the brink of leaving Chelsea. Having abused Jon Moss, the referee, after defeat at West Ham, Mourinho is reported … (read more)

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Posted: 27th, October 2015 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comment

Texas police advertise for weed dealers to grass up their rivals

Lumberton Police Department, Texas, wants you to grass on weed dealers.

Spotter: M. Kritharis … (read more)

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Posted: 26th, October 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

Ukraine’s leading football club wants a separate area for black fans

What do you do when you see racists? Yeah. you remove their targets to a cage. Pies reports on life in go-ahead Ukraine:
The executive director of Dynamo Kiev’s Olympic Stadium has gone … (read more)

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Posted: 26th, October 2015 | In: Reviews, Sports | Comment

Transfer Balls: Chelsea want Guardiola who agrees to join Manchester City unless sharks eat Mourinho

Transfer balls: as the Press pile in on Jose Mourinho, the Telegraph says Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola, 44, is Chelsea’s first-choice replacement for the argumentative Portuguese.

He is? Says who?

Matt Law reports:
Intermediaries, working independently … (read more)

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Posted: 26th, October 2015 | In: Chelsea, Manchester City, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Chelsea balls: Liverpool pray Klopp gets Mourinho sacked

The papers are lining up to bury Jose Mourinho.

The Times says “José Mourinho could be dismissed if his Chelsea side suffer another acrimonious defeat when they host Liverpool on Saturday.”

What sweet joy for … (read more)

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Posted: 26th, October 2015 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comment (1)

Madeleine McCann: twisting ‘the Pole’s’ words, the whistleblower and creepy photos of kids

Madeleine McCann: news on the missing child.

The Sun: “‘£100,000 fraud’ on Maddie fund – WHISTLEBLOWER EXCLUSIVE: Search money rip-off claim”
THE fund to find Madeleine McCann was ripped off by up … (read more)

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Posted: 26th, October 2015 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment