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Teenage Victim Sues Joey Barton
IS Barton Street nick in The Bill named in honour of Joey Barton? He’s being sued:
Newcastle United footballer Joey Barton is being sued for damages by a teenage boy he attacked during a night out. Barton, 25, punched Jordan Spencer, then aged 16, in the face, outside McDonalds in Liverpool City Centre in the early hours of 27 December.
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Posted: 20th, August 2008 | In: Back pages | Comments (2)
Robinho’s Dream: To Win The Cash With Chelsea
ROBINHO, one of the myriad Brazilian attacking footballers whose names being in a “R”, has been the object of transfer speculation between Real Madrid (ten times winners of the European Cup) and Chelsea (identity under offer).
And the Sun headline: “Madrid have killed the dream.”
That’s right. Robinho’s dream was to play for Chelsea. Really.
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Posted: 20th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Tabloids | Comments (3)
Christine Ohuruogu’s Gold Is Britain’s Shame
CHRISTINE Ohurugo, Little Miss Scatterbrain who missed not one, not two, but three out-of-season drugs tests, is on the cover of the Mirror. She’s a gold medal winner at the Olympics. She’s one of the “Greatest EVER Brits”.
Inside the paper, Oliver Holt considers just how great she is:
Shame because Ohuruogu was only in Beijing in the first place because of the craven hypocrisy and pragmatism of the British Olympic Association.
You can’t have it both ways…
Posted: 20th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Tabloids | Comment
Best And Worst Of British: Christine Ohuruogu And Gary Glitter
GARY Glitter is at the airport. He’s dressed as a chav, with baseball cap on head and checked scarf pulled up across his face in true precinct gangsta fashion.
He’s the Mirror’s “CLUB CLASS PAEDO”.
Glitter, says the Mail on its front page, is the “WORST OF BRITISH”. Alongside Glitter is the “BEST OF BRITISH”, the Olympic gold medal athlete Christine Ohuruogu. She’s wearing the uniform of the New Britons.
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Posted: 20th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Tabloids | Comments (7)
The Olympic Flames
“I was running late, rushing from my last job to the Bird’s Nest for the men’s 100m final – as I turned the corner with one of my colleagues we saw a full moon rising above the stadium and we could not believe our luck!
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Posted: 19th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Photojournalism | Comment (1)
Rio Ferdinand On Knife Crime
SAYS England footballer Rio Ferdinand:
“I didn’t carry a knife, I was around people who probably did. We are fortunate that we had goals in life, we wanted to play football.”
Rio Ferdinand is a defender whose job it is to prevent young men from reaching goals…
Posted: 19th, August 2008 | In: Back pages | Comments (9)
Air Rage Attacks Up In Time For 2012 Games
“AIR RAGE ATTACKS BY BINGE BRITONS SOARING.”
Good to know that even topped up on duty free, the Mail’s headline writers can craft a decent pun.
Of course the pun isn’t the only element that makes this story newsworthy. Really, it is not.
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Posted: 19th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Tabloids | Comments (11)
Olympoc Balls: EU Wins Olympics
AMERICA wins. China wins. Now the EU wins. We’re all winning all of the time…
Posted: 18th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Politicians | Comments (4)
How To Be A Great British Briton
“GREAT TO BE BRITISH,” says the Daily Mail.
And it is as good a slogan for the paper, and the country, as any. But what does being British mean in today’s confused world?
Anorak investigates:
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Posted: 18th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Tabloids | Comment
Olympic Balls: Michael Phelps Is A Greek God In Roman Times
MICHAEL Phelps has won seven gold medals… No eight… Now nine… And so on. Can you win too many gold medals?
In the Guardian Kate Rew is contemplating swimming with the Gods:
In the Olympics in Ancient Rome, the powerfully built swimmers (nude, like all the sportsmen, so the crowds could better appreciate the mastery of the human body) swam in the rolling currents of the Tiber.
Those ancient Greek Romans. Now they really good swim…
Posted: 17th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets | Comments (4)
The Eyes Have It: Spanish Tennis Players Tribute To Slitty-Eyed China
AFTER the Spanish basketball players’ tribute to China, Spanish women tennis players adopt the slitty-eyed tribute pose.
Spain takes on China in the Federation Cup next April.
Posted: 17th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Photojournalism | Comments (11)
Olympic Balls: Plucky Paula Radcliffe Rolls Back The Years
THE Olympics – This is our year.
And amid the “GOLD RUSH” (Express, Independent), “OUR GREATEST OLYMPIC DAY” (People) is the news that plucky Paula Radcliffe, the country’s great marathon runner, DID cry when she lost and DID stop two miles from home, bravely finishing the race in scenes reminiscent of Reach For The Sky.
Just four years ago Radcliffe wowed Olympic crowds in Athens when she failed to complete the course, dropping out of the race she had no hope of winning.
Now to prove that was no fluke, the spirit-of-the-blitz and never-say-die Brit picked up her running spikes and…
Continues in all papers…
Posted: 17th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets, Tabloids | Comments (12)
Green NBC Air Conditions Beijing
NBS is so very green:
NBC Universal will also specifically seek out advertisers with green-friendly messages when it’s selling commercial time on NBC and its other networks this spring.
The company says it isn’t only preaching to others; NBC Universal is installing large solar panels at the company’s movie studios in California, and has eliminated all plastic foam from company cafeterias.
Tied to Earth Day on Tuesday, the special “Green Week” effort is the company’s second in six months. NBC Universal is following the lead of corporate parent General Electric Co., which is among many companies sensing that the public looks kindly on pro-environmental efforts.
How green?
WTHR, the NBC affiliate for Indianapolis, reported from Beijing and described the NBC set used for the network’s two highest rated news broadcasts, “NBC Nightly News” and “Today,” as air conditioned – even though it is outdoors.
“The set is outside, but air conditioning vents make the weather bearable,” Anne Marie Tiernon wrote for WTHR Eyewitness News…
As green as a greenhouse…
Posted: 16th, August 2008 | In: Back pages | Comment
Olympic Balls: More Michael Phelps Fakery
AFTER this, this, this, this and this, we now have this. Eleven gold medals… Pah! Why Michael Phelps’ shoulders could take hundreds of medals, a light aircraft and 17 runway models…
Aircraft Spotter: Jay
Posted: 15th, August 2008 | In: Back pages | Comment
Olympic Balls: More Fakery In Beijing
THE Wall Street Journal notes mnore fakery oin Beijing. After Michael Phelps was found out, there’s this:
In the Olympic Opening Ceremonies, a procession of children bore a large Chinese flag into the Bird’s Nest stadium, each child wearing a costume representing one of China’s ethnic minorities.
However, the children actually were members of the Han majority, an arts official said in an interview. Yuan Zhifeng, deputy director of Galaxy Children’s Art Troupe, said the children were drawn from the all-Han Chinese troupe. “I assume they think the kids were very natural looking and nice,” Ms. Yuan said …
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Posted: 15th, August 2008 | In: Back pages | Comments (8)
Drugs Olympics 2012: Feel The Wheelie Bin Burn
NO sooner has Anorak championed the 2012 Olympics as the Olympics of Drugs, then we read of a “craze of setting fire to wheelie bins and sniffing the fumes to get a high”.
The BBC reports :
Police believed the craze was behind bin fires in the Athersley and New Lodge areas of Barnsley.
Indeed, dear reader, fair it is that the Olympics should be passed about the land, like the burning torch, or a large spliff.
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Posted: 15th, August 2008 | In: Back pages | Comment
Agent Steve McClaren Was A Dutch Plant
IS former England manager Steve McClaren trying to pretend that he is not who he once was? Or can it be that McClaren was Agenct McClaren, a Dutch national sent to destroy the English game from within?
McClaren is now weaving his magic in Holland – his native Holland. Listen up:
Posted: 15th, August 2008 | In: Back pages | Comments (5)
Britain Gears Up For 2012 Drugs Olympics
WE’RE “OUT OF OUR HEADS,” screams the Sun.
“Drugs epidemic wrecking Britain.” For Sun readers that’s “broken Britain”, being wrecked, or mashed, as we know it to be. “DRUGS BRITAIN,” advertises the Indy.
The bombshell figures — which reveal 2million adults have taken drugs in the last month — will fuel calls for a crackdown on celebrity drug users like Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty.
Before Winehouse and Doherty appeared, drugs were an Americanism for pharmaceuticals. Says the Sun: “More than 400 under-16s were admitted last year, compared with 272 in 1997.”
In 1997, Anorak can reveal that the country’s top stars were, in order, Timmy Mallett, Steps and Ally McBeal. Innocent days, indeed.
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Posted: 15th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets, Celebrities, Tabloids | Comment
Olympic Balls: America Wins Even When America Loses
THE Olympics. This is our year, Britain. We will top the medal tables and all will be right. But what medals are worth most: gold, silver, bronze, Anorak’s “Olympic Heroes” Medal Collection (100 to collect in a leatherette coin purse)?
As these charts show, knowing what medal is worth the most is hard, but we’d put our bet on all American medals being worth 1.34 Chinese medals.
GB medals are – as ever – worth their weight in gold, or steroids, which ever is the the dearer…
* The Olympics traditionally list winner in terms of gold medals won.
Posted: 15th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Photojournalism | Comments (4)
Olympic Balls: Phelps Can’t Swim And Chinese Gymnast He Is A She
NO small shock to learn that Michael Phelps, the “greatest ever Olympia” (all papers), can’t swim.
With his big ears and massive snaggle tooth, Phelps was too untelegenic for Beijing and was replaced by one Maurice Maurice, a French Canadian life guard and part-time catalogue model.
Now after that, the non-singing girl who proved that not ALL Chinese people look the same, and the non-firing fireworks, we find out more Olympic shock news, chiefly that teenaged He is a teenged she.
How old is He? The Associated Press notes:
Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government’s news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13.
It turns out that this not only makes He a truly remarkable athlete, who can beat the best the rest of the world has to offer at just 13 years of age, but also make He illegile for combat.
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Posted: 14th, August 2008 | In: Back pages | Comments (12)
Olympic Balls, With Catherine Deveney
WRITES Catherine Deveny of her Olympic viewing in The Age:
I’m not into sport. Unless you call competition swearing a sport. But, I’m ashamed to admit, I do get into the Olympics. I know, I should be reading Noam Chomsky and meditating. But the Olympics are not all about sport, particularly if you have kids.
And on uniforms- and, mind, Deveney real person, not the work of a parodist:
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Posted: 14th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Tabloids | Comments (7)
George Bush Lol Medal
GEORGE Bush Lol medal…
Posted: 14th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Politicians | Comments (2)
Letizia Filippi’s Return Flight Of Fancy
CRISTIANO Ronaldo has transferred to Letizia Filippi. But for reasons inexplicable she has yet to go topless on a beach.
With no sign of Ms Filippi’s chest, the Sun is stuck on how best to feature her and so file its daily Ronaldo exclusive.
Normally the paper would stick in a photo of Nereida Gallardo, the footballer’s former topless stunna. But instead it opts to feature Filippi saying how she would like to get on a private jet with her man and “do it”.
Just what she told Star readers on July 24th… It’s another Ronaldo sensation!
Posted: 12th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Tabloids | Comment (1)
Blake Aldridge’s Olympic Challenge
BLAKE Aldridge. Do you know who he is? Have a guess. Is he:
a) The Banker on Deal Or No Deal?
b) John Edwards’ love child?
c) A British Olympic athlete?
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Posted: 12th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Tabloids | Comments (18)
Olympic Balls: Football In Beijing
OLYMPIC Balls – Anorak’s look at football at the Olympics
It was a swimming race like no other the Olympics has seen, the aquatic equivalent of Manchester United defeating Bayern Munich in 1999, or Padraig Harrington coming from nowhere to win the US PGA… But it wasn’t Phelps who did it. Rather, the Ole Gunnar Solskjaer of the American party was… – Jim White, Daily Telegraph
Continues for the duration of the Olympic Games…
Posted: 12th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets | Comment
