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Sports news, commentary and scores with wit and added value. We compare and contrast the best and worst sports reporting in the mainstream press, blogs, TV and online. We love the English Premier League (Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs, Manchester United and Manchester City) and all things football but we cover cricket, rugby, the Olympics, tennis, golf, F1 and highlights of the sporting year.
Transfer Balls: Eden Hazard Agrees to Stay At Chelsea If They Give Him His Favourite Number
TRANSFER Balls: The summer so far with Chelsea’s Eden Hazard.
May27, Evening Standard: “Eden Hazard rejects talk of PSG switch”
Eden Hazard today dismissed the possibility of moving to Paris Saint Germain this summer…
He did?
Asked about the link with PSG, he said: “If you got to know me you’d know I’m not someone who is disturbed by it. Every year they say I’m everywhere. It’s part of the job. I focus on the World Cup which is much more important than what is said in the papers.”
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Transfer Balls: Manchester United Target Fabregas Signs For Chelsea Who Hate Him
TRANSFER Balls presents the Daily Fabregas. Is the former Arsenal captain set to leave Barcelona? Let’s se what the experts have been saying in today’s newspapers:
The Daily Star deals only in facts:
Chelsea agree deal with Arsenal and Man United target Cesc Fabregas
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Posted: 4th, June 2014 | In: Chelsea, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Transfer Balls: Manchester United Offer Liverpool £25m Less For Luis Suarez Than Real Madrid Will Buy Him For
TRANSFER Balls: How’s the summer shaping up for Liverpool’s Luis Suarez? Well, for Liverpool fans hoping their star man will remain at Anfield, it began well.
Daily Telegraph, March 4, 2014:
Liverpool striker Luis Suárez vows to stay at Anfield no matter whether club qualifies for Champions League
Speaking to Uruguayan TV channel Canal 10, the new PFA Player of the Year said: “Don’t worry, nothing is going to happen to me. I’m very happy here and my family is happy here.”
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Posted: 3rd, June 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comments (21)
Transfer Balls: Frank Lampard Leaves Chelsea But Joins Manchester City Not New York City
TRANSFER Balls: What news of Chelsea legends Frank Lampard?
On May 31, The Daily Mirror told its readers that Lampard had joined the New York City FC:
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Transfer Balls: Chelsea Buy Fabregas From Manchester City But He Wants To Pay For Arsenal
TRANSFER Balls: Having been linked in the media with a transfer from Barcelona to Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City, the Telegraph brings news that Cesc Fabregas is wanted by…Chelsea. The aim in Transfer Balls is for the Press to link every top player with all the big English clubs. So. Well done, Fleet Street.
Writes the Tele:
Exclusive: Jose Mourinho wants Spain World Cup midfielder Cesc Fabregas to replace Frank Lampard, who has released a statement saying he has officially left Chelsea
It was waaaay back on June 1, that the Daily Telegraph told readers:
Spain international will be allowed leave the Nou Camp with Manchester City now clear favourites to land the midfielder
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Posted: 3rd, June 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Sports | Comment
Spurs Balls: West Ham United Celebrate Doing The Treble In Embarrassing Fashion
WEST Ham United fans are celebrating The Treble with an official t-shirt. It turns out that season 2013-14 was a stella year for the club.
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Posted: 2nd, June 2014 | In: Sports, Spurs | Comments (5)
World Cup Balls: The Sun’s ‘Do Us Proud’ Campaign Is Good For India And Bad For England
THE Sun wants England to ‘Do us proud’ at the World Cup.
JACK WILSHERE has backed The Sun’s #DoUsProud campaign, telling fans: Tweets can make the Lions roar.
The tweets will be “ringing” in the players’ ears.
The paper tells readers on a webpage:
JUST #DOUSPROUD BOYS
We’ll keep all your messages of support to the England team here.
Send your own message of support via Twitter, Instagram, or Vine along with the hashtag #DoUsProud and yours could appear here too.
We’ll use the best tweets and Instagram posts in our World Cup campaign.
Will yours be there?
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Transfer Balls: Manchester City Take Vow Of Silence On Fabregas Move
TRANSFER Balls update: The Daily Fabregas has news on the Barcelona star:
On June 1, the Daily Telegraph told readers:
Spain international will be allowed leave the Nou Camp with Manchester City now clear favourites to land the midfielder
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Posted: 2nd, June 2014 | In: Manchester City, Sports | Comment
Manchester United Balls: Tom Cleverley Trying To Board The England Team Plane
MANCHESTER United Balls: Tom Cleverley trying to board the England team plane
Tom Cleverley trying to board the England team plane pic.twitter.com/aIaTdvM7x3
— Pie Sports Booze (@piesportsbooze) June 1, 2014
Just a joke, of course. And a funnier one than would-be Norman Wisdom impersonator Simon Brodkin being dragged away by the suits:
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Posted: 2nd, June 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Transfer Balls: Adam Lallana Signs For Liverpool For £10m Less Than Southampton Demand
TRANSFER Balls: Is Adam Lallana heading out of Southampton? Where is he going? Let’s see what the newspaper experts have been reporting the summer so far?
First up, Lalllana was Manchester United bound. And he was better than Arsenal’s young English star. So said the local Manchester newspaper.
March 6, Manchester Evening News: “Better than Wilshere: Why United are right to target Lallana”
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Posted: 2nd, June 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comments (2)
Transfer Balls: Arsenal Trigger That Fabregas £175m Release Clause
WHEN Cesc Fabregas left Arsenal For Barcelona, the Daily Mail said his contract contract had a £130m buy-out clause. The BBC said that was rubbish – the clause was worth £175m.
The Telegraph told readers:
While Barcelona believe the deal is worth no more than €40 million (£35 million), Arsenal value the transfer at almost £40 million after Fabregas agreed to waive a £4 million loyalty bonus.
We also learnt:
Arsenal will receive €14.5 million up front, with another €14.5 million to be paid in October. A further €1 million will be released for each year of a contract that lasts until 2016.
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Transfer Balls: Remy Dreams Of Chelsea But Signs For Arsenal
TRANSFER Balls: A look at how the media experts have been reporting on QPR’s Loic Remy. As ever, the aim of the desperate Press is to link every player with every top club:
Arsenal and Liverpool target Loic Remy can leave for £8m, says QPR boss Harry Redknapp
I’m dreaming of Chelsea! Loic Remy ready to snub Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs for Blues
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Watch The 14 Grandest, Corniest And Most Overblown Moments From FIFA World Cup Films
WITH the play-offs and European finals out of the way, it’s full-on World Cup season in the media.
The BBC has hit the ground running, with its toy-pundit trails, and is now screening the official FIFA World Cup Films – from 1930, when the refs wore suits, to the modern era when they became more famous than some of the players. See them here…
In their day, these were the best available record of the tournaments. They were filmed using state-of- the-art cinema cameras and even given theatrical releases.
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Posted: 1st, June 2014 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Sports | Comment
Transfer Balls: Fabregas Rejoins Arsenal Who Then Sell Him To Liverpool To Spite Manchester City
TRANSFER Balls looks at Barcelona’s Cesc Fabregas’ summer in the news media. Can he fill space to deadline? What utter balls can he news media say of the player?
Fabregas’ suitors have already been told that it will take £45million to get him…
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Posted: 1st, June 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comments (2)
Transfer Balls: Manchester United, Arsenal Get Juve’s Alexis Sanchez As Liverpool Prepare Bid
TRANSFER Balls: The contest in the national Press is to link every big English team with Barcelona’s Alexis Sanchez.
Chelsea, Liverpool and Man Utd target Alexis Sanchez
SNAPPED: Barcelona ace Alexis Sanchez dons a Manchester United shirt! ALEXIS SANCHEZ is pictured for the first time in a Manchester United shirt – but it’s only a Starsport impression!
May 10, Daily Mirror:
Wenger has been tipped off the Chile international will be sold this summer and is set for a £20million tug-of-war with Juventus
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Posted: 30th, May 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Real Madrid Balls: Find Out Who Ronaldo Dedicates His Goals To
REAL Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo is the subject of the Sun’s story:
Ronaldo: Every goal is dedicated to my dad
Really? Because in the past we have read…
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Transfer Balls: Manchester United Sign Miranda In Time For A Deadline
TRANSFER Balls: Have Manchester United signed Miranda? The Daily Mail says they have:
United trigger £24m release clause for Miranda, as reports in Spain say Atletico defender has agreed four-year deal and is looking at schools.
Or as the Mail’s Ian Ladyman puts it on twitter:
The #MUFC Miranda link would appear to be a load of old guff. Another one for the cutting room floor.
That would be the cutting room floor where the Mail sources its scoops?
Posted: 29th, May 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Political Footballers: When Desperate Leaders Use The National Game To Touch The Common Man
ALEX Salmond is the latest politician to succumb to the temptation to pose in public with a football, and, with the sad inevitability of England conceding an injury-time winner, he is the latest to be reminded that the effects are rarely edifying.
The SNP leader was not in fact smacked in the face by a stray shot. He was playing head tennis with Scotland under-21 midfielder Kenny McLean.
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Posted: 29th, May 2014 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Sports | Comment (1)
Manchester United Balls: Hated Malcolm Glazer Dies A Buccaneers Hero
MANCHESTER United owner Malcolm Glazer has died. he was 85. On the club’s website there is not a word on the man who oversaw five league titles and Champions’ League triumph. But on the website of another club he owns, the Tampa bay Buccaneers, there is a eulogy:
Malcolm Glazer, owner of the Buccaneers since 1995, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 85…A pioneering thinker, Glazer rebuilt the Buccaneers into a model franchise and a Super Bowl winner [see above photo].
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Posted: 28th, May 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Southampton Balls: Murat Yakin Admires You For Admiring Murat Yakin
MURAT Yakin could be the next manager of Southampton FC. The Swiss man about town might be the vainest man in football.
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Spurs Balls: Mauricio Pochettino Totally Looks Like This Naked Male Model
BEST of luck luck Mauricio Pochettino, new manager of Tottenham Hotspur. As Danny Kelly advises, “If Daniel Levy drives you mad, you can always go back to the modelling!”
Transfer Balls: Manchester United And Arsenal Make Fabregas Hungry
TRANSFER Balls: Today we look at how the Press have been talking about Cesc Fabregas.
Fabregas’ suitors have already been told that it will take £45million to get him…
Speculation over midfielder leaving Barcelona fuelled as star is left out of club’s kit launch
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Posted: 27th, May 2014 | In: Arsenal, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Arsenal Balls: It’s 25 Years Ago Since The Catharsis At Anfield (And I Was There. Were You?)
ON May 26, 1989, Arsenal did it. After years of nothingness but huff and puff and plod and dreariness and disappointment and hope, they won the league. On the last day of the season. With pretty much the last kick of the last game. On a Friday night. In Liverpool. And I was there.
Nothing beats watching your team win against all the odds and then remembering “I was there”.
It’s up for grabs now…!
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