Transfer Balls: Arsenal At World Cup To See Mandzukic, Benzema And Balotelli Playing Badly
TRANSFER Balls: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is in Brazil to chat for French TV. Now read on... More »
12th, June 2014
Arsenal
12th, June 2014
Flashback
How England were cheated out of TWELVE World Cups
See that lone star above the Three Lions crest? Well, there would be 13 of those beauties, had it not been for one fiendish conspiracy after another during England’s ill-fated World Cup campaigns… More »
12th, June 2014
Flashback
4 Horror TV Boom: The 5 Best X-Files Knock-offs From The 1990s
The years between 1995 and 1999 saw a veritable flood -- a genuine boom -- of horror-themed genre programming hit the airwaves.... More »
12th, June 2014
Celebrities
London Tribute: To Rik Mayall Who 'Punched His Friend In The Balls On A Bench Near This Spot'
It's what he would have wanted... More »
12th, June 2014
Music
'Dying' Morrissey, The Sickliest Musician In The World, Cancels Tour
IF you work in the music industry, or know someone who works in the biz, you'll inevitably have hundreds of anecdotes about Morrissey's behaviour, all them which will result in some kind of libel from the longest face in music... More »
12th, June 2014
Strange But True
Man Used Skinned Beheaded Dog Dressed In His Clothes To Fake His Own Death
WE have no picture of the man known only as Li, who was involved in this scam, but let us just imagine that he is not all that pretty. As he tells police in China: "I bought a dead dog, skinned it and cut off its head. I wrapped it in my clothes. I just wanted my [family members] to think I was dead."... More »
12th, June 2014
Arsenal
Transfer Balls: Arsenal Woo Fabregas Who Passes Chelsea Medical Twice
TRANSFER Balls with the Daily Fabregas - Anorak's look at today's reporting on the Barcelona player... More »
12th, June 2014
Celebrities
The Daily Mail Reduces JK Rowling's 'Air Bags' To A 1950s Ideal
THE Daily Mail is read by women who enjoy disliking other women. In today's newspaper, readers are treated to a banner declaring "How women's bodies have ballooned since the 1950s"... More »
11th, June 2014
Music
Man Locked Inside Vegas Airport Driven Mad By Celine Dion
I had a person behind a ticket counter give me a roll of luggage tape before she left. I then used a wheel chair that had a tall pole on the back of it and taped my iPhone to that... More »
11th, June 2014
Arsenal
Transfer Balls: Fabregas Goes Full House Hunting In Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool And Manchester
FOR some days Anorak has been bringing you the Daily Farbregas, an offshoot of our Transfer Balls (TB) round-ups. The aim in in TB is for all the mainstream Press to link the top players with each of the top English clubs... More »
11th, June 2014
Flashback
1 World Cup Greats Imagined As Pop Stars: The 24 Album Covers
NOTTINGHAM-born graphic designer James Campbell Taylor (see his work on Pennarello) has imagined 24 World Cup greats as pop stars, each adorning their own album... More »
11th, June 2014
Sports
Dancing Sepp Blatter Replaces Jennifer Lopez At World Cup Opening Show (Video)
SEPP Blatter shows that he is the bigger man (not in the literal sense, obv.) by ignoring the unfounded, racist and absurd news that FIFA is a mendacious, self-serving body based on greed, nepotism, corruption, more greed and still more greed by dancing... More »
11th, June 2014
Celebrities
JK Rowling Doesn't Want Scottish Independence
THE political hot-tatty that is Scottish Independence has seen most people thinking 'it doesn't really matter whether Scotland would be better off independent, they'll probably vote 'Yes' just to get away from the Tories and UKIP'... More »
11th, June 2014
manchester united
Transfer Balls: Thomas Muller Partners Toni Kroos In Manchester United Midfield
TRANSFER Balls: The Daily Star stopped short of saying that Thomas Muller has joined Manchester Untied. It was the Star's sister organ, the Daily Express, that announced Mueller's Bayern Munich's team-mate Toni Kroos has joined United... More »
11th, June 2014
Madeleine McCann
Madeleine McCann: Bowe Bergdahl, JFK And 15 Minutes Away
Madeleine McCann: Anorak's look at the missing child in the news media... More »
11th, June 2014
Money
Vacant Property: Is This The Country's Worst House To Rent?
You say 'house'.... More »
11th, June 2014
Strange But True
Car Threesome Ends In Disaster When Woman Breaks Both Legs When Vehicle Hits Tree
TWO women and a man were engaged in an in-car threesome when when one of them disengaged the handbrake... More »
11th, June 2014
Film
3 10 Ridiculous (But Awesome…) Horror Movie Tag-Lines of the 1970s
TODAY, movie-going audiences expect a certain threshold in terms of a film’s technical qualities. Viewers expect the sound to be crisp, the picture to be in sharp focus, and special effects to be, generally, believable. But way back in the seventies, many low-budget filmmakers couldn’t always hit those rudimentary-seeming bench-marks… and yet they wanted their movies to succeed and to be seen by the most people possible... More »
11th, June 2014
Chelsea
1 Transfer Balls: Luke Shaw Wants £30m Chelsea Move After Promising To Join Manchester United
TRANSFER Balls: a look at Luke Shaw, the England and Southampton star... More »
11th, June 2014
Arsenal
Transfer Balls: Arsenal Want Fabregas For £35m But Cheslea Get Him For Much Less
TRANSFER Balls: It's the Daily Fabregas, a round-up of expert views in the media... More »
10th, June 2014
Books
1 The Disappearing Face of New York: Wonderful Photos of Old Shopfronts
...the influx of big box retailers and chain stores pose a serious threat to these humble institutions, and neighborhood modernization and the anonymity it brings are replacing the unique appearance and character of what were once incredibly colourful streets... More »
10th, June 2014
Strange But True
North Carolina Water Company Challenges Customer To Walk Like Jesus
North Carolina, where the Chinquapin Water Association, aka the Chinquapin Wine Society, adds a little message on its water bills... More »
10th, June 2014
Arsenal
Transfer Balls: Not-For-Sale Marco Reus Rejects Manchester United For Barcelona And Arsenal, Maybe
More utter balls... More »
10th, June 2014
Money
1
The IMF Says Britain Should Build More Houses: Increase Supply, Dummy
WE don't really need an international economics organisation to tell us this: that Britain should build more houses. That prices are going through the roof, that no one normal can actually afford on in London any more, is all the evidence we need that there's simply not enough of them to go around... More »
10th, June 2014
Liverpool
Transfer Balls: Sevilla Want £16.2m For Albero Moreno But Liverpool Want To Pay More
TRANSFER Balls: A look at Sevilla's Alberto Moreno in the trusty mainstream Press... More »
