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Hurrah for The Blackshirts: The Guardian cheers for Islamic State

Compare and contrast:
Daily Mail, 8 July 1934: “Hurrah for the Blackshirts”:
“If the Blackshirts movement had any need of justification, the Red Hooligans who savagely and systematically tried to wreck Sir … (read more)

Posted: 25th, July 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

Manchester City lose Premier League before it’s begun, says the Sun

 

It’s panic stations at Manchester City. The Premier League season hasn’t even started and City are doomed. Utter balls, of course. But, then, we did read it on the Sun, … (read more)

Posted: 25th, July 2015 | In: Manchester City, Sports | Comment

Chelsea: Mourinho attacks Kevin De Bruyne for the club’s errors

Chelsea manager José Mourinho says Kevin De Bruyne, the player he sold for £18, and Manchester City are willing to pay up to £50m to sign, does not regret letting him … (read more)

Posted: 24th, July 2015 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comment

Westminster paedophiles: The MI5 protested top Tory Peter Morrison

Yesterday we revisited the links between Westminster politicians, MI5 and the scandal of child abuse at the Kincora home.

Today the Times tells readers:
The Westminster politican protected by MI5 when suspected of … (read more)

Posted: 24th, July 2015 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Arsenal can buy Gareth Bale but not Messi says Gunners boss

Arsenal director Philip Charles Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham, tells the Daily Mail the Gunners are rich enough to buy almost any player in the world.

So why don’t they?

The story begins: “Arsene Wenger … (read more)

Posted: 24th, July 2015 | In: Arsenal, Money, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Arsenal want Spanish striker Fernando Llorente

Arsenal are chasing Spanish striker Fernando Llorente. The Sun reasons that with Karim Benzema vying with Lord Lucan and the Blue Peter tortoise to get to Arsenal fastest, Arsenal Wenger will … (read more)

Posted: 24th, July 2015 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment

Transfer Balls: Watch Ronaldo edge closer to Manchester United in a fantasy row with ‘hombre’ Benitez

 

Transfer Balls: Is Cristiano Ronaldo heading back to Manchester United?

In “Utd Ron alert Rafa row opens door”, the Sun says Real Madrid’s new manager and and Crisitiano Ronaldo have “clashed”.  The pair … (read more)

Posted: 24th, July 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Transfer Balls: Arsenal target Julian Draxler defies the Daily Express

Transfer Balls: did Arsenal ever get their hands on Julian Draxler?

October 10, 2014, Daily Express: “ARSENAL will match Julian Draxler’s £37million Schalke release clause”

June 16, Daily Express: “Arsenal head Man … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, July 2015 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment

Transfer Balls: Manchester City buy Kevin De Bruyne for an ever-increasing fee

Transfer Balls: How much is Kevin De Bruyne worth to Manchester City?

June 30, 2015, Daily Star: “Man City suffer blow in pursuit of £30m-rated ex-Chelsea star Kevin de Bruyne”

July 2, … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, July 2015 | In: Manchester City, Sports | Comment

Transfer Balls: Christian Benteke drips for Liverpool

 

Transfer Balls: Christian Benteke has signed for Liverpool. He has joined, as ever, “to win things”. But the Indy writes:
“Liverpool signing appears to have been decorating before £32.5m switch, specks of … (read more)

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

Westminster paedophiles: Colin Wallace, Kincora, child murder and Sir Maurice Oldfield’s sick MI6

The story of child abuse among the elite is taken up by the Times. “Child abuse cover-up at the heart of government,” says the headline.

The story will provide a link … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, July 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

Idiot robber mistook fish and chip shop for Corals bookmakers

Derek Carr can’t read or write.So he asked his friend Greg Tod to write a robbery demand on the back of a Ladbrokes betting slip. He’d walk into a branch of rival bookies Corals, … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, July 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Watch a man knock himself out after headbutting a bus

To Florida, where a man annoyed by the $2 fare headbutted the bus.

 

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Posted: 23rd, July 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Manchester United ‘abandoning’ their history says Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger

 

Did Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger say Manchester United are trying to buy glory? The Times reports:
Arsène Wenger has accused Manchester United of abandoning the club’s tradition of youth development in pursuit of … (read more)

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

Transfer Balls: Sergi Samper becomes Arsenal and Liverpool superstar

Arsenal have tabled a £8.5m offer for Barcelona’s Sergi Samper. Well, so says the Sun:
Samper, 20, is currently behind Sergio Busquets, Javier Mascherano and Sergi Roberto in the Nou Camp pecking order.
But … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, July 2015 | In: Arsenal, Liverpool, Sports | Comment

Transfer Balls: Arsenal finally get shot of Wojciech Szczesny

So. Farewell Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, the player whose name only his mother could spell. The  aloof, cocksure, talented, error-prone goalkeeper has left Arsenal for Roma on a season-long loan. Petr … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, July 2015 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment

Desperate Chelsea use the media to tap up Everton’s John Stones

Is John Stones edging closer to a move to Chelsea from Everton?

The media think it’s a matter of when not if. The Times reports:
The Everton defender is understood to want to … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, July 2015 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comment

Plastic ‘racist’ Chelsea fans banned from football by anti-football bigots

Five Chelsea fans (all white) who shoved Frenchman Souleymane Sylla (black) off a train on the Paris Metro have been punished. The four chanted “We’re racist, we’re racist, and that’s the … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, July 2015 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comment

Transfer balls: Man United’s ‘surprise’ non-striking striker target revealed

When Manchester United’s Louis Van Gaal played the media by telling everyone he was signing a striker not yet linked to the club, we began to guess.

Rumours are that it’s Fernando Llorente. … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, July 2015 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment

Roger Alan Giese: alleged child abuser fled to the UK and lived and loved as Jonathan Roberts

 

Roger Alan Giese is a wanted man. The US citizen is wanted on 19 charges of sexual assault and ‘grooming’. Giese lives in Hampshire, where he goes by the name … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, July 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

Manchester City: Balotelli wants Liverpool fans to praise Raheem Sterling

Manchester City: Raheem Sterling scored on his debut for The Citizens. Within three minutes for his new club, the former Liverpool player set about justifying City’s £49 million investment.

City won the game against Roma … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, July 2015 | In: Liverpool, Manchester City, Sports | Comment

Phone sex: Nuneaton couple filmed have sex in a phone box

With a shortage of sharks off the British coast to source as news, the Sun zooms in two people have sex in a Nuneaton phone box. This follows news that a … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, July 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)

Ryan Byrne: prisoner released by mistake has broken no laws

 

Ryan Byrne, 34, is an idiot. We know this because after being mistakenly freed from jail he has taken to posting pictures of himself on the web. Photos include one of … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, July 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

The South Carolina Klu Klux Klan Nazi mash-up: the farty tuba walk

The South Carolina Klux Klux Klan Nazi mash-up protest has a theme song.

Tke it away, super sousaphonist, Matt Buck and the farty Ride of the Valkyries:

 

 

Spotter: DM … (read more)

Posted: 21st, July 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

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