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Arsenal balls: Wenger quits in 2017 and stays until 2019

Arsene Wenger is leaving Arsenal. But when will he go? The Daily Mirror has been hot on the news.

Today Steve Stammers says Wenger will remain at Arsenal until 2019:

 

 

 

The big … (read more)

Posted: 25th, October 2015 | In: Arsenal, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Transfer Balls: PSG swoop for Hazard who only dreams of Chelsea

Transfer Balls: The Sun on Sunday says Chelsea’s Eden Hazard, 24, could be on his way to Paris Saint-Germain. Below the rather icky headline “Hazard snatch”, the Sun reports:
French giants PSG are preparing a … (read more)

Posted: 25th, October 2015 | In: Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Chelsea Balls: Jose Mourinho creates a weak version of Don Revie’s Leeds United

Having picked fights with Dr Eva Carneiro, referees and Arsene Wenger, Jose Mourinho picked on the enemy that he can never beat: the media.

At a press conference he told the pack:
“I’m … (read more)

Posted: 25th, October 2015 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comment

Frida Kahlo dressed a boy – photos

 

See more photos of the great artist Frida Kahlo experimenting with the fluidity of gender on Flashbak.

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Posted: 24th, October 2015 | In: Celebrities, Fashion, Reviews | Comment

For sale: Tolkien’s map of Middle Earth

 

You can own a map of Middle-Earth annotated by Tolkien. Some lucky so-and-so found the map slipped inside a copy of Lord of the Rings. It’s yours for £60,000.

The Guardian.
It shows what Blackwell’s … (read more)

Posted: 24th, October 2015 | In: Books, Reviews, The Consumer | Comment

Chelsea balls: Shameful Mourinho is ‘getting sacked in the morning’

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West Ham United beat Chelsea 2-1, and José Mourinho spent the second half watching from the stand. Why? Because it was claimed that he tried to speak to the … (read more)

Posted: 24th, October 2015 | In: Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | Comment (1)

Other parents: woman threatened to lick neighbour’s noisy children

 

Police in Champlin, Minnesota, say a 38-year-old woman was arrested and has admitted sending anonymous threats to a family that said she wanted to taste and lick their children. Police … (read more)

Posted: 24th, October 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Man shot with shovel in botched drugs deal

To the East Side of Cleveland, Ohio, where a 49-year-old man has driven himself to the hospital. He tells medics he’s been shot.

He’d been drinking booze, and smoking crack and marijuana when … (read more)

Posted: 24th, October 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Transfer Balls: Arsenal offer Lavezzi a ‘ditch’, players agrees Barcelona deal, wants to join Juventus

 

Transfer Balls: Do Arsenal need another striker? Surely if Olivier Giroud is good enough score against the mighty Bayern Munich, and with Theo Walcott finding the net regularly, and Danny Welbeck … (read more)

Posted: 24th, October 2015 | In: Arsenal, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Transfer Balls: Manchester United have £50m for Spurs’ Harry Kane

Transfer Balls: Manchester Untied will offer Spurs £50m for their striker Harry Kane, says the Daily Star.  The paper says United manager Louis Van Gaal is  “demanding the Old Trafford top brass” … (read more)

Posted: 24th, October 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports, Spurs, Tabloids | Comment

Transfer Balls: Nicolas Gaitan move to Manchester United is done and off

Transfer Balls: The Daily Express says Benfica’s Nicolas Gaitan is NOT heading to Manchester United.

 

 

Uche Amako finds no room in this tale of the “saga” to mention that Gaitan already agreed … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, October 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Transfer Balls: Manchester United want Lionel Messi and Ronaldo

 

The Sun leads its sports coverage with the rugby World Cup  news that Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City hope they each have enough money to “persuade Lionel Messi to swap … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, October 2015 | In: Arsenal, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment

The many faces of David Bowie in one epic Gif

The many faces of David Bowie by Helen Green:

 

Ch-ch-changes… … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, October 2015 | In: Celebrities, Fashion, Gifs, Key Posts, Music | Comment

The making of Frank Sinatra’s Strangers In The Night

 

Mark Steyn celebrates his Sinatra Centenary series with a look at the making of a hit song:

It was 1966. Enter Bert Kaempfert “the German kaiser of kitsch”:
He eschewed the standard … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, October 2015 | In: Music, Reviews | Comment

Manchester United wants to get Everton’s Galloway on the cheap

Transfer Balls: Everton fans will be delighted to leans via the Mirror that “Manchester United are keeping tabs on Brendan Galloway”, looking to sign the player in January.

Everton’s 19-year-old left back … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, October 2015 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment

Transfer Balls: Liverpool move for the familiar Andrea Ranocchia

Transfer Balls: Italy’s Gazzetta dello Sport says Liverpool want to sign Internazionale central defender Andrea Ranocchia. Jurgen Klopp likes the 27-year-old who’d cost in the region of €18m.

Ranocchia had been heavily linked … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, October 2015 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment

Cop posed a woman to give oral sex to men through a glory hole

To Missouri, where former police officer David E. Cerna, 34, advertised on Craigslist for straight men to blow. Cerna posed as a woman keen on giving men anonymous oral sex. Men accepting the invitation … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, October 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Swansea City balls: magic Gary Monk vanishes

Gary Monk is magic! The Swansea City manager really is magic. He can make himself disappear. Yesterday the Mirror’s John Cross tweeted:
Garry Monk misses training as pressure mounts at Swansea
Monk missing. … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, October 2015 | In: Reviews, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Manchester United: Chinese turn Bastian Schweinsteiger into a Nazi doll

                              Schweinhund                     … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, October 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports, The Consumer | Comment

Satire is dead: Caitlyn Jenner named ‘Woman Of The Year’

 

Caitlyn Jenner has been Named ‘Woman Of The Year’ by Glamour magazine. No, not a satire. … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, October 2015 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Eden Hazard wants to quit Chelsea for Real Madrid AND Barcelona

 

News is that Eden Hazard wants to leave Chelsea. The Belgian fancies joining Real Madrid says L’Equipe. As is so often the way with these things, Hazard has told friends, family, pals, dogs and … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, October 2015 | In: Chelsea, Reviews, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

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