Sports Category
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.
London Marathon 2012 – photos of runners, pukers and winners
THE London Marathon 2012 – if you ran – you mad, crazy, bastard – this might be you in our photo gallery:
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Posted: 22nd, April 2012 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Olympic ASBOs are more Beijing than London
LONDON is geting clean for the world’s eyes in this Olympics Year. First they tear down the Occupy London Stock Exchange tents, thus giving the tourists and TV cameras a nice view of St Paul’s Cathedral. Better were the rest of the human world to see genuine protest and democracy in action. It’s getting to be like China:
Beijing’s Olympic chief has ordered a social cleansing operation to clear the city of beggars, hawkers and prostitutes before the start of the event in August. The planned relocation of “problem” residents and businesses is aimed at creating a salubrious image of the Chinese capital in time for the arrival of an estimated half a million tourists, athletes and journalists – Guardian,Wednesday 23 January 2008
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AFL becomes home ground for Muslims
IN Australia, the Aussie Rules controllers want prayer rooms at all venues. The drive is being pushed by the AFL’s Bachar Houli, a Muslim:
Richmond’s Bachar Houli said more Muslims would go to the footy after the AFL announced prayer rooms must be provided at all venues. The requirement for Muslims to pray five times a day was stopping many from attending AFL games, the Tigers defender said.
Houli said many were forced to pray in carparks or stairwells at AFL grounds.
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World Record Breaker Nepal’s Thaneshwor Guragain spins a basketball on a toothbrush
SPECIOUS World Record Of The Day: Nepal’s Thaneshwor Guragain spins a basketball on a toothbrush during his attempt to break the Guinness World Record set by Thomas Connors of the U.K., in Katmandu,Nepal, Thursday, April 19, 2012. Guragain reportedly spun the ball for 22.4 seconds in the attempt to break the existing record of Connors which is 13.5 seconds.
It might be an Alternative Olympic Sport.
London Olympics sandcastle demolished as soon a photographers leave
THE massive Olympic sandcastle on Weymouth beach has been knocked down. The castle that took four days tom make – erected to mark 100 days to the start the London 2012 Olympic Games – has been bulldozed.
A spokesperson for Weymouth and Portland borough council banged on about it being an “iconic photo image”.
Everything is “iconic”, even a sandcastle that stood for a few hours. It was not iconic. It was a thing to see – a thing that will seen only on postcards saying ‘Come to Weymouth – Home of Official Olympics Long Jump Sand’.
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‘It’s a goal!’ (Or is it?) – when the referee scores and misses a sitter
IT’S a goal or is it?
Wembley 15 April 2012
John Terry (lying down) helps block the ball on the line to prevent Chelsea from scoring a second goal in Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final against Spurs.
But on this occasion all was well for Chelsea’s skipper.
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Keith Moon to play at London Olympics show
THE burghers of the London 2012 Olympics have invited The Who’s Keith Moon to perform at the event’s big music concert. Moon was a keen fencing fan and, as table-tennis enthusiasts know, his butterfly grip of the drumsticks was a nod to their sport.
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Liverpool beat Everton to reach FA Cup final – photos
LIVERPOOL beat Everton 2-1 in the FA Cup semi-final. Lovely Luis Suarez scored one Andy Carroll got the winner. Earlier in the week, Liverpool sacked Damien Comolli, the former Spurs scout who agreed that £35 million fee with Newcastle United for Carroll. Also, which idiots at the over-represented FA decide to stage an all-Merseyside semi-final at Wembley on a Saturday lunchtime? Everton and Liverpool were given 63,456 tickets for their fans. The rest of the 90,000 seats are occupied by sponsors, Club Wembley suits and corporations. If Comolli’s looking for a new job the FA might be a safe bet…
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Posted: 14th, April 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (9)
Aintree Ladies Day 2012 – the greatest photos of the year
IT’S Ladies Day at Aintree 2012. The woman are shod and in the saddle. Everyone’s in the Chair. The most ladylike woman on show was Coleen Rooney. The rest were doing their best to maker her look like royalty. Who’s your favourite? And how do the ladies stack up to last year’s stable mates..?
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Posted: 13th, April 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (6)
Roberto Mancini’s five point mind games
THE Premier League title race according to Manchester City’s Roberto Mancini:
“I won one title with Inter Milan when we were five points behind, five games from the end – this is football so we will see. Everything can happen but clearly we need to start to win” – Mancini – April 11, Manchester City pre-match programme notes.
“It is finished. Five points is too much. United have got fantastic spirit. We don’t have this spirit” – Mancini, April 11 2012, after the match that saw United’s lead cut to five points.
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Jenny Thompson shags one of Snow White’s dwarves
BAD news for Mario Balotelli, the Manchester City striker, and Jennifer Thompson: neither are as famous or seductive to tabloid readers as Wayne Rooney. For the third time in five days, Jennifer Thompson is the Daily Star’s cover girl.
In that time she has been:
And:
“DWARF’S GRUMPY-PUMPY WITH ROONEY HOOKER”
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Posted: 11th, April 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2)
Alan Davies upsets murderous Liverpool fans with Hillsborough insult
ARSENAL fan and jobbing BBC TV comedy show panelist Alan Davies has had his £1000 donation to the Official Hillsborough Justice Campaign rejected. Davies created upset when he questioned Liverpool’s refusal to play on the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, when 96 fans died – and police and media colluded to defame them.
Liverpool’s decision means that Chelsea have only two full days to recover from their FA Cup semi-final with Tottenham before their Champions League semi-final against Barcelona.
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Posted: 10th, April 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (10)
Sam Allardyce says the West Ham way is a ‘delusion’
WEST Ham United manager Sam Allardyce said back in March that people bemoan his tactics because they are jealous:
“It didn’t start off from there though [the media] – it started off from other managers many years ago, because they got jealous because I kept beating them. It’s there and I just have to carry on, I don’t let it affect me personally, I just know what’s good for the players at West Ham, I know what’s good for West Ham as a football club, and I know how to win football matches.“
Only, the players play their part, as Sam acknowledges:
“I said before the game that if you come off the pitch with a clean sheet, then you’ll win, but I must have been talking Swahili.”
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Sex Pistols politely decline to play London Olympics ceremony show
THE Sex Pistols, keen sportsmen and athletes to a man, will not be playing the closing ceremony to the London Olympics.
The Sex Pistols have been offered a role in A Symphony of British Music and said “no thanks”. What they should have said was “fuck off”, it being a Great British phrase.
The show is being put together by Kim Gavin, notably for working with Take That and Stephen Daldry, who directed Billy Elliot.
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Posted: 10th, April 2012 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
F1 teams told to forget Bahrain Grand Prix
IS Formula One set to pull out of the Bahrain Grand Prix? Is F1, that bastion of power and global warming enthusiasm – the circus that keeps Tamara Ecclestone in bags – to be the world’s moral barometer?
The Times says that backstage staff on the F1 Tour – engineers, mechanics and catering staff – have been given two sets of return flight tickets from the grand prix in Shanghai, China, next Sunday: one for Bahrain (scene of the scheduled next Grand Prix) and the other for Europe (home to eight F1 teams).
Last year’s Bahrain Grand Prix was cancelled amid security concerns. This season’s race looks likely to follow suit.
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Mario Balotelli and Wayne Rooney unite warring factions
IS this promotion for Jenny Thomson, formerly Jennifer Thompson, aka Juice Jen, the tabloids’ “Rooney’s hooker”. Although still not named in front-page headlines, Thompson leads the Daily Star’s new coverage as “MARIO’S VICE GIRL”.
Is Mario’s Vice Girl a better epithet than Rooney’s Hooker? There is much to discuss on Sky Daily Sport, the porn and football satellite station.
Today’s news is that:
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Jennifer Thompson gives Mario Balotelli 9.5 on Sky Daily Sports
JENNIFER Thompson, the former prostitute who had sex with Manchester City’s Mario Balotelli, remains the Sun’s “Wayne Rooney hooker”.
This proves that reading about sex with Wayne Rooney is more interesting than reading about sex with Mario Balotelli and that ‘Juicy Jeni’ continues to be an unnamed extra at her own shag ‘n’ tell.
But Jenny has news for other women keen to sex a footballer. She says that Mario Balotelli is a “9.5 out of 10 for the sex”, adding:
“Mario is funny, intelligent and a gentleman in the bedroom. He’s a brilliant kisser.”
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Posted: 8th, April 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment (1)
Has Liverpool FC opened a finishing school in India?
THE logo of the Gurukul public school in India looks a bit like… Well, can you Liverpool fans identify the logo for what might be, appropriately, a finishing school?
PS – The health education scholar is John Terry.
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Posted: 7th, April 2012 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Jennifer Thompson still a ‘tart’ – Balotelli is just ‘Mario’
STILL bad news for Jennifer Thompson, aka Juici Jeni, who despite having scored with Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli and, allegedly, Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney, remains a bystander to her own shag ‘n’ tell. The Daily Star brings its readers :
“MUM BLASTS MARIO TART”.
Although readers are on first name terms with the player who cheated on his lover, Jennifer Thompson is just a “tart”.
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Mario Balotelli and sex with Juici Jennifer Thompson – Rooney’s ‘tart’ (photos)
MARIO Balotelli, Manchester City’s entertaining striker, has been having sex with Jennifer Thompson, aka Juicy Jeni, the woman who allegedly had sex with Wayne Rooney, of Manchester United. The Sun says:
“Balotelli’s Nights With Rooney Hooker”
Poor Jennifer Thompson. She is, as ever, a makeweight in a story about her own body and what’s been inside it. Hooker and tart was how the tabloids described Thompson last time round, a woman reduced to her job – work that was said to earn her £1,200 a night. Why did he do it, eh? Why didn’t she get a proper job sat in an office at her work pod and get off with the head of accounts?
Thompson soon become a “dodgy woman“, a cautionary tale about “us” all when the Mail’s Bel Mooney asked: “What have we come to when middle-class girls like this see whoring as a career choice?” Sod it that Helen Wood, the other woman said to have shagged Rooney for cash was intelligent and made a case fo legalised prostitution. Instead we read of Thompson’s “suicide” hell and how the woman who had allegedly shagged 13 Premier League footballers was under attack:
Jenny reveals some of the most menacing abuse she’s suffered has come from another high-profile footballer – astonishingly from United’s rivals Man City. Whenever he sees me out in a club or a restaurant, he starts screaming ‘slag’ and ‘whore’ and then starts throwing ice cubes at me. He’s relentless,” says Jenny, fighting back tears.
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Posted: 5th, April 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2)
Chelsea beat Benfica in photos – Jorge Jesus wins the hair wars
CHELSEA beat Benfica in the Champions League to set up a semi-final with Barcelona. Chelsea, as ever, looked like a middle-aged party on Stag night in Dubai – all hugs, kisses, loud pats, self-consciousness and key jangling. To the side of the pitch stood Benfica’s manager Jorg Jesus and his magnificent hair. The last time we saw hair like that it was chucking thunderbolts at Carthage…
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Top five celebrity flight faux pas: Boon, Henson, Gallagher, NY Mets, Depardieu and Three Lions
THE TOP FIVE CELEBRITY FLIGHT FAUX PAS
Gavin Henson: icy reception
Gavin Henson’s alcohol-related antics on a flight from Glasgow to Cardiff were mild by the standards of Rugby Union. The Welsh international and occasional reality TV star threw ice cubes and generally acted the goat, but did nothing truly appalling.
Nevertheless this was enough, in these squeaky-clean times, to get him sacked by his club Cardiff Blues.
Surely some perspective is need here. After all, it’s not as if he’s the first celebrity to roll in the gutter while soaring through the skies, as you will see from our Top Five Celebrity Flight Faux pas….
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Posted: 4th, April 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Sports | Comment
Spurs boss Harry Redknapp gets his maths in a muddle
HARRY Redknapp, hotly tipped to be the next England manager, is waxing lyrical about managers in the Premier League born who by God’s good grace were born in the British Isles.
Swansea’s Brendan Rodgers (Northern Ireland), Norwich’s Paul Lambert (Scotland), Stoke City’s Tony Pulis (Wales) and Newcastle United’s Alan Pardew (England) are all name checked.
“It is hard. People don’t give them a chance. They go for foreign managers, most clubs have got foreign owners now. They want big names. They read about big names and think, ‘oh that’s all right, we will bring him over’. And it is very difficult to bring people in.”
Those pesky foreigners, eh. As it happens out of 20 teams in the Premier League, ten clubs have foreign owners:
Aston Villa (Randy Lerner)
Blackburn (Venky’s Group)
Chelsea (Roman Abramovich)
Fulham (Mohamed Al Fayed)
Liverpool (Fenway Sports Group)
Manchester United (Glazer family)
Manchester City (Sheikh Mansour)
Sunderland (Ellis Short)
QPR (Tony Fernandes)
Arsenal (Stan Kroenke is the major shareholder)
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Posted: 4th, April 2012 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Crazy Golf at The Masters, Augusta – a video
IT’S Crazy Golf time at The Masters golf tournament in Augusta:
I figured the BBC needed highlights of the radical innovations at Augusta this year…so i made them this video. SKY Sports got a hold of it and told me it was ‘Blasphemous.’ So If there’s a Golf Hell, I’ll see you there.
Isn’t Golf Hell on the 19th at the bar with Clive?
