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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.
Bayern Munich’s new singing is a…Facebook app – fans go mad
HATS off to Bayern Munich. The German clubs efforts at social media have cheesed off their entire fanbase. Yesterday, Bayern began tweeting rumours of a “big new signing”.
Today, at 1pm, this big new signing would be unveiled on the club’s official Facebook site. Hit the “like” button and watch the magic.
Who would the big new signing be – Carlos Tevez, Kaka, Dimitar Berbatov and Xherdan Shaqiri?
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Is the Sun accusing Liverpool of racism?
LIVERPOOL are through to the final of the Carling Cup. Kenny Dalglish’s men and will play the mighty Cardiff City at Wembley. Good news, indeed, to see that Liverpool, a club that has spent part of season mired in a racism controversy with their striker Luis Suarez and their vocal fans have moved on.
The Sun heralds the Liverpool success with the headline . “ALL WHITE NOW”.
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Posted: 26th, January 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (6)
Demi Moore comforted by West Ham manager Sam Allardyce
CAN it be that Demi Moore, wronged by shagging husband Ashton Kutcher, has been seeking comfort in the arms of West Ham United manager ‘Big’ Sam Allardyce?
The Sun says it’s true. And the Sun is never wrong…maybe…
London Olympics: Babies need own seat – can’t sit on mum’s lap
BABIES wishing to see the London Olympics will need a ticket for their own seat.
The London Olympic Organising Committee (Locog) says women and men with babies in arms should leave the child at home with a minder or try and buy an extra ticket.
When did RyanAir start running the Olympics..?
Posted: 24th, January 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Harry Redknapp is in court – with a twitch (gif)
HARRY Redknapp, Spurs manager and hot tip to take over from Fabio Capello as England boss, is in court to answer claims that he evaded tax. It is alleged Harry Redknapp received £200,000 of bungs that he deposited into a bank account in Monaco. Southwark Crown Court is told that Redknapp named the account Rosie 47, after the year of his birth and his dog.
He denies any wrongdoing.
We were going to debate the facts. And then someone sent us this gif…
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Arsenal: Robin Van Persie explains his ‘row’ with Arsene Wenger
ARSENAL captain Robin Van Persie says he has no row with Arsene Wenger, the man who made him captain, stuck by him through lengthy spells in the treatment room and had helped turn the Dutchman into a great player.
Sill Van Persie did mouth “oh no” when Wenger “controversially” substituted 18-year-old debutant Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain during Sunday’s defeat against Manchester United. It was only controversial because a few minutes later his replacement, Russia’s captain Andrey Arshavin, a man blessed with delicious skills but the drive of a 1967 GAZ-24 Volga, waved United through to their winning goal.
Van Persie did not mouth “oh no, you f***ing black knobhead” or “oh, no, negro”. It was just “oh no”. In the quest for football scandal, Robin Van Persie oh-nogate is made of bone china.
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Wenger deserves praise for playing Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain against Manchester United
ARSENAL lose 1-2 to Manchester United in the Premier League and the story is that Arsene Wenger, the Gunners’ manager, does not know what he’s doing. The Sun leads with the news:
“You don’t know what you’re doing”
A few Arsenal fans did react badly to the sight of 18-year-old Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain making way for Russia’s captain Andrey Arshavin 16 minutes from time with the game at 1-1. In the Daily Mirror, John Cross hears the chants and writes:
Arsene Wenger reacted angrily after Arsenal fans turned on him following a third successive defeat. They chanted: “You don’t know what you’re doing” and booed after Wenger substituted Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (after his impressive full Premier League debut. Gunners captain Robin van Persie also appeared to shout “no” as TV cameras panned on to his reaction after the substitution. The mood then turned even uglier when Oxlade-Chamberlain’s replacement Andrey Arshavin was at fault on Danny Welbeck’s winner.”
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Posted: 23rd, January 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Chelsea fans arrested for allegedly racially abusing Anton Ferdinand
NEWS that a Chelsea fan has been arrested for alleged racist chanting on a train after the Londoner’s match in Norwich is, at the time of writing, the top story in the BBC website.
British Transport Police (BTP) officers suggest there will be more arrests following an incident on the 16:00 GMT train from Norwich to London Liverpool Street.
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Posted: 23rd, January 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Fifa orders Brazil to sell watery beer at World Cup
FIFA, eh? Watching over us all with ever-loving grace. Fighting the good fight. Tackling the real issues that threaten to undermine our beloved game with feverish haste and ruthless efficiency. Racism? Dealt with. Corruption? Ditto. Homophobia? Eradicated. Gifting World Cup hosting rights to very rich countries with ‘questionable’ human rights records? Not an issue.
Now some sages in Brazil have made it illegal for beer to be sold in football stadiums and those very same bozos are pleading that the law be kept in place for the 2014 World Cup due to concerns over safety.
Thankfully FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke has, metaphorically of course, kicked them square in the nuts:
“Alcoholic drinks are part of the World Cup, so we’re going to have them. Excuse me if I sound a bit arrogant but that’s something we won’t negotiate. The fact that we have the right to sell beer has to be a part of the law.”
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Hillsborough victim Anne Williams launches e-petition for truth
HILLSBOROUGH victims are still fighting for the truth. Anne Williams has an e-petition:
Give Kevin Williams his inquest under section 13 of the coroners Act, we have all the evidence under this section but keep getting refused.
Responsible department: Attorney General’s Office
Kevin Williams died in the Hillsborough disaster in1989, Kevin’s Inquests were riddled with coruption, suppressing of vital evidence and perverting the course of JUSTICE, Kevin did not die from Traumatic Asphixia or in an accident I will not pick up his death certificate until we get the course of death put right and the accidental death verdict struck down. Kevin does not relate to the 3.15pm cut off point.I want a new inquest were all the witnesses will be called to give evidence so the jury will know exactly what happened to Kevin at Hillsborough. I have all the evidence under section 13 of the coroners act and have been refused 3 times by the attorney generals office, I want the Attorney General to look at the evidence again and send Kevin’s case back to the divisional court recomending a new inquest into the death of my son.
They lied and lied and lied.
Darts: two world champions and one dad dance (doo-dah, doo-dah)
THE darts is over for another year. No darts will feature at the London Olympics, thus depriving the global TV audience the sight of British sports fans behaving without the kind of restraints imposed on them at football matches, say, and archery.
Two rival World Championships have produced two winners: Christian ‘The Lipstick’ Krist saw off Ted ‘The Count’ Hankey to take the BDO cup; and Adrian ‘Jackpot’ Lewis went home with the PDC’s copper-coated Saturn on a plinth by way of defeating Andy ‘The Hammer’ Hamilton..
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Posted: 18th, January 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment
Margaret Court says abominable gays made a godless choice
AUSTRALIAN tennis great Margaret Court says gays engage “abominable sexual practices”. Court, the senior pastor at the Victory Life Centre in Perth, Western Australia, says on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that if “two females have…a child and then they bring up that child, who most likely would come up in that circumstance as a lesbian, I don’t think that’s healthy at all.”
Court sees the shit storm coming her way and adds in The New York Times:
“I think it’s very sad because they [critics] have taken it in the wrong way. I make a stand for both my biblical side, and what I believe. It’s a choice, and I believe there are young people today who need to know it’s a choice.”
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Posted: 18th, January 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (4)
Were Olympic secrets left on train read by terrorists?
IN “OLYMPIC SECUTIRY SECRETS LEFT ON TRAIN”, the Sun leads with news that a policeman left a “secret dossier” on a public train.
Realising their importance, he gave them to The Sun and we returned them to police.
Stephen Moyes and Mike Sullivan report:
A SECRET dossier detailing plans for policing this summer’s London Olympics was left on a TRAIN.
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Manchester United’s Ravel Morrison is a tabloid editor’s wet dream
RAVEL Morrison is the hot news in football. Ravel Morrison is the 18-year-old Manchester United footballer and England youth international with a name like a new rotary iron. Morrison signed professional terms with United on his 17th birthday. Not long after, he was arrested.
To date, Manchester-born and raised Ravel Morrison has played three games for Manchester United’s first team, all in the Carling Cup. And he may be on the move. Who wants him? Well, Newcastle Untied have put in an offer, which has been rejected. Anyone else? Well, Arsenal are keen.
While clearly talented, Ravel is famous for a colourful private life. In 2011, he pleaded guilty to two counts of witness intimidation. He was given a referral order:
District judge Wendy Lloyd warned Morrison he would be jailed for 12 months if he put a foot out of line. She said: “I have a straight-forward choice – send you away or give you a referral order. I’ve decided to give you a referral order but you will be spending 12 months in a young offenders institute if you breach it.”
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Posted: 16th, January 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment
Banner to be Star Spangled by Kelly Clarkson at Super Bowl
AMERICA! The land of the free! The land of the burger! The land where sports events are billed to be worldwide, despite being only open to American competitors!
One such event is the Super Bowl which isn’t too far away. Of course, no sporting event would be complete without a celebrity singing the national anthem! So who will be cooing ‘Oh say can you see!’ at a crowd of pot-bellied nacho muchers, poised to yell “DE-FENSE! DE-FENSE!”?
Why, it’s Kelly Clarkson! That’s right! The singer of no fixed weight will perform the “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Super Bowl on February 5th at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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‘Whale tea, sea cake and FROSTIES!!! Roberto Mancini and Steven Gerrard row
YOU are about to hear Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini and Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard exchange views after the Carling Cup semi-final first leg at the Etihad…
As Mancini says, quixotically:
“Whale tea, sea cake and FROSTIES!!!”
Steven Gerrard is duly put in his place as Mancini finds a way to talk that foxes the anti-racists…
Liverpool FC makes a new friend – and he’s black
LIVERPOOL FA is not a racist football club. A few dickheads at the match and a player called Luis Suarez who behaves like a bigot on the pitch and finds himself the victim of morel re-educators off it – and Manchester United’s Patrice Evra waving his imaginary yellow race card – do not represent all players. What you say in the heat of the moment does not define you.
Anyhow, Liverpool stand accsused of being racist and on their website you get this. What can we make of it?
Sepp Blatter is away.
A football ‘sexism storm’ stars the uncompromising Phil Jewell and Amy Fearn
LAST night, Ipswich lost 2-1 to Birmingham. Ipswich manager Paul Jewell was upset with defeat and an unpunished challenge in the box on Ipswich winger Lee Miller. The referee’s assistant was Amy Fearn – a woman.
Cue the Daily Mail:
“JEWELL PENALTY RAGE AT FEMALE OFFICIAL”
Why draw attention to the woman official? Will the Mail now be questioning the referee’s assistants’ performances in all matches and featuring them in the headlines? Or is a woman with a flag worthy of more attention than a man?
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Chelsea captain and Sun monster John Terry turns mansion into QPR shrine
CHELSEA and England captain John Terry has a “£4.6m MYSTERY MORTGAGE“.
Sun readers pricks up their ears. A football story on the front page is always of interest. But where’s the sex? The money angle is dull. John Terry’s mortgage is right up with John Terry’s pension plans, John Terry’s life assurance policy and John Terry’s huge endowment in the sensation stakes. Reading on we learn:
Massive loan for England skipper’s £2.2m mansion
Well, John Terry does earn massive wages at Chelsea. The Sun says he gets £170,000 every week. That should cover any loan for his Oxshott, Surrey, pile. Also, he bought the property for that figure back in 2003. It might be worth more now, as might Terry.
JOHN Terry has mysteriously remortgaged his mansion for a fourth time — taking his home loan to a massive £4.65MILLION.
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Posted: 12th, January 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (10)
Oxford City footballer Lee Steele sacked for homophobic tweet
UNWANTED footballer of the Day is Oxford City’s Lee Steele, formerly of Shrewsbury, Oxford United. Brighton and Leyton Orient. He’s been sacked from Southern Football League Premier Division club for saying something unsayable on twitter to his 545 followers about gay former Wales rugby player Gareth Thomas, currently appearing on Celebrity Big Brother. (Steele’s twitter page has been removed.)
As Steele wrote on twitter:
“I wouldn’t fancy the bed next to Gareth Thomas #padlockmyarse”
The top brass at Oxford City FC debated the tweet and ruled:
“Following a Board Meeting last night the club have issued the following brief statement to the FA. The Oxford City board have decided to release Lee Steele in view of his recent comment via social media which is considered seriously contrary to the ethos of the club.”
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Posted: 11th, January 2012 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
When the Olympic Contingency budget is spent, what then?
THE Olympics contingency budget is worth £2.7 billion. It’s to be used when the costs overrun the project. It’s nearly all been accounted for. The budget for the London 2012 Games is £9.3billion – nearly four times the £2.4bn estimate when London’s bid succeeded.
Although the former Olympic Minster Tessa Jowell did tell the Commons in 2003 that the government “will review the [spending] package in 2005 in the light of what by then will be firmer and more detailed estimates of the costs of staging the games“.
How did the £2.4bn budget come about, then? It’s a number so shy of the actual figure it makes us wonder if it part of deliberate ploy to make the taxpayer feel less banjaxed?
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Arsenal ballboy attacks Thierry Henry
STILL wondering why Thierry Henry is forgiven by Arsenal fans for wanting to leave the club he has now returned to help (wages per week: £75,000)?
Henry may find that at least one ball boy at The Emirates is harder to win over than the paying punters:
When QPR owner Tony Fernandes backed Neil Warnock
NEIL Warnock, the likeable football manager, has been sacked by QPR with the team just above the relegation zone.
On August 11, Tony Fernandes , the club’s owner, told the QPR faithful:
“There’s a deep love for Neil [Warnock] here, it’s very apparent. They just want a chairman who will give the manager support…I love his passion…He’s just black and white. You don’t see any hidden agenda and what you see is what you get. He’s coming to the end of his career and this is a chance to really build something. I hope he’ll stay here for a long, long time.”
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Posted: 10th, January 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (3)
Bevan Small and Michael Mason showcase cricket’s relay catch
BEVAN Small and Michael Mason perform the cricket relay catch to dismiss Northern Knights batsman Brad Wilson. This is brilliant:
Of course Thierry Henry scores the winner for Arsenal (photos)
OF course Thierry Henry scored the winner for Arsenal in their FA Cup match against Leeds United. Hard luck on Leeds to be on the receiving end of the perfect backpage comeback story:
Posted: 9th, January 2012 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
