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2nd, September 2014 Arsenal

Manchester United Balls: Radamel Falcao Was Inspired By Thierry Henry To Join Manchester United

MANCHESTER United Balls: The Red Devils have gone galactico and hired Radamel Falcao for a the season. Falcao says playing for Manchester United is a "dream" come true. .. More »

2nd, September 2014 Key Posts 1

Ashya King: How The Daily Mirror Turned Readers Into Narks And Supported A Police State

ASHYA King: the story of the child kidnapped by the State and hunted by the police is occupying hearts at the Mirror. The paper scalls it a "SCANDAL". It says the treatment meted out ot Ashya and his parents Brett and Naghmeh King is "BARBARIC"... More »

2nd, September 2014 Arsenal

Transfer Balls Awards: Arsenal Sign Cavani And Khedira, Manchester United Get Vidal, Kroos And Hummels - Falcao To Liverpool

TRANSFER Balls: Over the summer Anorak has been highliting the utter balls newspapers and football websites have presnted as fact. Time to review some of the choices cuts. As ever the biggest balls features Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United and Cheslea... More »

2nd, September 2014 Arsenal

Football Clubs Use Craft And Graft To Announce New Players On Twitter

FOOTBALL'S summer transfer season is over. The Transfer Balls have been digested. And football fans get to see what their team got on DEADLINE DAY. We'll round-up with the little sticker-style photos clubs use to release new player news on twitter... More »

1st, September 2014 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Manchester United Sell Danny Welbeck To Arsenal But He Wanted Spurs

News and news.... More »

1st, September 2014 Sports

Transfer Deadline Day Is Forever Tied To Jim 'The Clock IS Ticking' White

FOR those of you not au fait with Sky Sport News, Jim White is the man who "understands" from "Sky sources" that he has hours of airtime to fill until a team owned by a billionaire actually buys a footballer from another team owned by a billionaire... More »

1st, September 2014 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Arsenal Bid £40m For £20m-Rated Marco Reus

Balls... More »

1st, September 2014 Reviews 7

Ashya King: Prague Proton Therapy Centre Needs £65,000 From The NHS To Treat The Tumour

Pay up... More »

1st, September 2014 Reviews 1

The Independent's Problem With The Jews In The Lobby

NOT all Jews are Israelis, just as not all Anglicans are English, not all Muslism are from the Isamic State in the Levant and not all Catholics are Vaticanites. But to the Indy Jews are all Isrealis and all Israelis are Jews, even those Druze fighters for the IDF... More »

1st, September 2014 Key Posts

Lou Alder Is Missing: The Strange Story of the Kidnapped Music Mogul

MUSIC legend, Lou Adler, is an inductee of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and responsible for a frightening amount of hits and given the world so much music that he should be beatified... More »

1st, September 2014 manchester united

Transfer Balls: Manchester United Pay £40m For Artuo Vidal And Line Up Joao Moutinho Instead

Balls... More »

1st, September 2014 Reviews

Canada Newspaper Advises Learning The Koran To Escape Jihadis In Your British Shopping Mall

WRITING in Canada's National Post, Afsun Qureshihas a tip on how to survive the jihadi with the questions: you have to make an Islamic vow... More »

1st, September 2014 Celebrities

The Night I Opened For Joan Rivers

JAMES Adomian shares the story of his worst stand-up show ever. The night he opened for Joan Rivers in Florida... More »

1st, September 2014 Strange But True

Estate Agent Advertises Ipswich Home Fit For A Pig

Messy, you say... More »

1st, September 2014 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Radamel Falcao Joined Chelsea Twice, Signed For Manchester City And Manchester United And Headed To Arsenal And Liverpool

A look at reporting on Radamel Falcao. It's been a pretty rich summer of utter balls being passed off as a fact... More »

1st, September 2014 Reviews

Ashya King And Me: The Self-Serving Police, A Hatchet Job And A Child Left Alone

ASHYA King: a look at reporting on the boy with cancer and his parents... More »

1st, September 2014 Reviews 2

Israel Seizes 400 Hectares Of Land No-One Was Using

Reporting on Israel requires a light touch... More »

1st, September 2014 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Manchester City Beat Arsenal To Falcao With Sale Of Negredo To Valencia Agreed

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31st, August 2014 manchester united

Transfer Balls: Manchester United Bid for Radamel Falcao To Gee Up Manchester City

More balls... More »

31st, August 2014 Manchester City

Transfer Balls: Manchester City Panic Buy Radamel Falcao

TRANSFER Balls looks at the Guardian's headline news: "Manchester City offered Monaco’s Radamel Falcao for £55m"... More »

31st, August 2014 Film

Watch Grant Meyers Use Raw Meat And Toilet Plungers To Make Porno Films Sound Effects

Meat to the beat... More »

31st, August 2014 Reviews

Ashya King: The Police Make It All About Them

HAVING made criminals of his mother and father and taken the boy on pain of law, the police says they did right Ashya King, the five-year-old with brain cancer.... More »

31st, August 2014 Chelsea

Transfer Balls Dead Cert: Radamel Falcao Heads To Manchester City, Chelsea Or Liverpool

TRANSFER Balls - betting special. Every day the betting industy pumps out PR missives that desperate journalists can turn into a story. Let's take a look and see what the trusty bookmakers have been feeding the press about Monaco's Radamel Falcao... More »

31st, August 2014 Reviews 2

Watch a Christian Family React Terribly To Their Conservative Son Coming Out As Gay

YOU'RE coming out as gay. So. You film yourself telling your Christian parents. Daniel Pierce is 19. He did just that. His stepmother, father, and grandparents react... More »

31st, August 2014 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Loic Remy Has Left QPR to Join Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal. Now Read On...

What utter balls... More »