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4th, May 2014 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Arsenal Sign Diego Costa For Less Than Chelsea Paid For Him

STEVE Stammers has news for all Arsenal fans reading his Daily Mirror column. The Gunners are all set to buy Atletico Madrid's Diego Costa transfer for £31m... More »

4th, May 2014 Flashback

May 4 1976: Liverpool Win The League At Wolves

FLASHBACK to May 4 1976: Liverpool win the League with a win at Wolves. Liverpool needed a win or low-scoring draw to pip QPR to the title. They did it, winning 3-1. The defeat meant Wolves were relegated... More »

4th, May 2014 Chelsea

Chelsea Balls: Jose Mourinho Says His Family Are Like The Smurfs

IS Jose Mourinho going a bit, you know, Tonto? In the Programme notes for Chelsea’s match with Norwich, Jose delivered a few words to his son. The lad's name? Oh come on. It's Jose Junior. D'ur! More »

4th, May 2014 Strange But True

Woman's Belly Button Explodes On Jet Airliner

PATRICIA Jackson, from Bridlington, is no jihadi. She did not attempt to blow up a plane with a bomb hidden in her shoes. She is a cosmetic surgery survivor whose belly button shot off on a flight to Portugal... More »

4th, May 2014 Reviews

Constance Briscoe: Disgraced Judge's Mother Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell Gives Her Daughter A Kick On Her Way Down

THIS week barrister and occasional judge Constance Briscoe started her 16-month jail sentence for lying to police investigating the case of LibDem MP Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce, who were both jailed after she accepted driving penalty points for him in 2003... More »

4th, May 2014 Books

Game Of Thrones: George RR Martin On Nazis, Borrowing Shakespeare And His Moral Code

“Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind it’s the execution that is all-important. I’m proud of my work, but I don’t know if I’d ever claim it’s enormously original. You look at Shakespeare, who borrowed all of his plots... More »

4th, May 2014 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: Euclides Monteiro 'Cleared', Roderick William Robinson Wanted And Seven Years Pass

Anorak's regular look at the story of the missing child in the news media: On the seventh anniversary of tabloids' 'Our Maddie', the Sunday Star leads with news... More »

3rd, May 2014 Film

The Shining Fashion Collection: You Can Wear The Carpet From Relive Kubrick's Masterpiece

DID you look at the carpet in Stanley Kubrick's haunting version of The Shining and think 'Where can you buy that?" Well, now you can. The MONDO 237 Collection features the floor covering from room 237 as a sweater, cardigan, 6′ scarf, ski mask and two different sized floor rugs... More »

3rd, May 2014 Politicians

A Few Highs And Lows From Nick Griffin's Hacked Twitter Account

THE hacker with the Anonymous group known only as @Anon_0x03 has gained access to the Twitter account of British National Party’s chairman Nick Griffin... More »

3rd, May 2014 Chelsea 1

Chelsea Balls: Blues Ban Fan For Being Annoying

CHELSEA fan Connor is banned from Stamford Bridge. Why? What did he do? Is he a hooligan, a Headhunter? Did he call someone a "fu*king black cu*t"? No. That doesn't get you a stadium ban. That just gets you banned from going on the pitch during the game... More »

3rd, May 2014 Sports 4

Spurs Balls: Bring Back AVB All If Forgiven - And Tim Sherwood Is A Shoo-In For The England Job

HOW they cheered when Tim Sherwood replaced Andrew Villas-Boas as Spurs manager. Tim was a "man's man". Tim would get Spurs into a brilliant fifth. And then it came to pass that Tim proved himself to be not all that good. In fact, he is worse then AVB... More »

3rd, May 2014 Reviews

Legal Highs: Sniffing Rexona Deodorant To Get Wasted

THIS week in imaginative ways to get a legal buzz, we journey to Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory, where the cool kids are inhaling Rexona deodorants... More »

2nd, May 2014 Flashback

Northern Ireland Troubles 1971: Belfast In 50 Photos

IN 1971, the Troubles in Northern Ireland were in full cry... More »

2nd, May 2014 Celebrities

Watch Celebrity Censor Max Clifford Caught WIth His Pants Down On Starsuckers

"You just can'y believe these people. The money gives them the indulgence... You've done that, you've done this, so what else? You could do it upside-down on a plane... well, we've done that, now what else can we do.? And it gets like that because there's nothing else for them. They've got to keep pushing and pushing and pushing."... More »

2nd, May 2014 Key Posts 2

Don't Blame Jeremy Clarkson For The Nigger Row: Top Gear Has No Black Faces To Control Him

God it's hard not saying nigger on the telly. Each day, hundreds of BBC types battle with it. "Morning Nig... el," they say to the black faces. "Did you see that Nig...ella on the box last night?" Can we get more diverse faces on Question Nig... ht?"... More »

2nd, May 2014 Chelsea

Chelsea Balls: Diego Costa Signs For £128m Plus, Say The Experts

DIEGO COSTA will play for Chelsea next season. Says the Sun in the "exclusive": A top Stamford Bridge source confirmed last night: “Diego Costa will be a Chelsea player next season. It’s a done deal.” He's joined for £32m? More »

2nd, May 2014 Flashback 2

Five Sci-Fi TV Series that FOX TV Axed Before Their Time

JUST this week, Fox Television announced the cancellation of the high-profile series Almost Human (2013 – 2014), a science fiction endeavor starring Karl Urban and Michael Ealy, and executive-produced by J.J. Abrams. Fans of the short-lived series remain heartbroken that Fox showed so little faith in the promising venture... More »

2nd, May 2014 Flashback

Breathe New Life Into Your Playlists With 100 Songs As Chosen By New Wavers

COULD your Spotify and iTunes playlists use some sprucing up? Let these Post Punk and Synth Pop artists rejuvinate your tired lists with their fresh audio suggestions. Pulled from the pages of 1980 issues of Smash Hits magazine are ten “All Time Top Ten Lists” as chosen by selected New Wavers... More »

2nd, May 2014 manchester united

Manchester United Balls: Paper Mistakes Harold From Neighbours For Louis Van Gaal

AND Manchester United's next manager is... Harold Bishop, from the hit daytime telly show, Neighbours... More »

2nd, May 2014 Flashback

December 1942: Miss Virginia Hammel of McLeod County, Minn. Tucks Into The Typical American Christmas Dinner

It includes roast Turkey, Mashed Potatoes and Gravy, Cranberry Sauce, Tomato and Lettuce Salad, peas, string beans, rolls and butter, coffee with... More »

1st, May 2014 Reviews 4

Middlesbrough 'Superfan' Who Ripped Up The Koran Is Guilty Only Of Being A Godless Idiot

MIDDLESBROUGH FC fans Julie Phillips, 50 and Gemma Parkin, 18, went to see their club play Birmingham City at St Andrews'. They went equipped with a copy of the Koran, not to hold in prayer as they willed their team to score. Julie, a Middlesbrough Council employee, ripped pages from the religious text and distributed them to other fans to shred... More »

1st, May 2014 Music 1

Brody Dalle Is 'Proud' of Alex Turner's Speech

Distillers honcho Brody Dalle has said that she's "proud" of Turner for speaking out on behalf of rock'n'roll, because obviously, rock 'n' roll was in danger of not being represented all the bloody time on TV and radio... More »

1st, May 2014 Celebrities

V. Stiviano: Photos Of Donald Sterling's Lover And The Future President Of The USA

V. STIVIANO knows how to find the camera. Known as the Pete Burns lookalike girlfriend of bigoted LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling, Stiviano is going to take the bugging skills she learnt recording her lover making racist comment on the phone and become President of the US of A.... More »

1st, May 2014 Strange But True

Dead Socialite Smokes, Drinks And Dances The Lambeth Walk At Her Wake

WHEN Mickey Easterling died she left instructions for how she'd like to feature in the casket room. Chiefly, she'd like to be not in the casket.... More »

1st, May 2014 Strange But True

Australian Dogs Get Caned Licking Toad Skins

IN Australia, the dogs are getting hire on skin licks: Queensland dogs are getting high by licking the poison off cane toads. Vets are warning some pooches may become addicted to the hallucinogenic and are risking their lives trying to get their next toad fix... More »