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I McHunt Alex Ferguson calls BBC Radio 5 Live (audio)
I McHunt calls into Mark Chapman’s BBC Radio 5 Live’s 606 football show. Tweeter I McHunt wants to share his views on Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson.
That Chapman reads the tweet from I McHunt before a live studio audience watching the show at the BBC’s Philharmonic Studio in Salford, Manchester, did not reduce its punch.
As Chapman says:
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Black Luis Suarez’s career suicide: Liverpool star did racially abuse Man United’s Patrice Evra
LIVERPOOL striker Luis Suarez did racially abuse Manchester United’s Patrice Evra. The Uruguayan has been handed an eight match ban. The FA’s Independent Regulatory Commission have buried Suarez, who says he is innocent. He says the word “negro” is nuanced. It is merely observational.
That commission is made up of:
PAUL GOULDING QC (chairman): Lawyer and wualified FA coach.
BRIAN JONES: Chairman of Sheffield and Hallamshire FA.
DENIS SMITH: Ex-Stoke defender who has managed York, Sunderland and Oxford United.
The, alleged, key quotes from Liverpool’s 1-1 with Manchester Untied are:
Evra: “Don’t touch me, you South American”
Suarez: “Porque, negro?”
Evra is booked. He shouts at the referee Marriner: “You’re only booking me because I’m black”
Suarez: “I called him something his team-mates call him and even they were surprised by his reaction”
Andre Marriner may care to contact his own lawyers. If Evra said that, it is despicable. But it is the racism that end careers, not the perception of it. Is guilty then Suarez has committed career suicide.
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Posted: 20th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (10)
Robbie Savage is the pundit who never was
WHAT news of former Blackburn Rovers player Robbie Savage, of whom Tess Daly said, “You came here a footballer and you’re leaving a dancer”?
This is noble Savage, of whom referee Graham ‘The Thing from Tring’ Poll, reportedly, noted as saying to him on the pitch, “I’ve got more money than you — loads more money.”
As Savage said after being voted off Strictly Come Dancing:
People didn’t know who I was before I came to this how. I was not a nice person on the football pitch. Hopefully I changed people’s perception. I’m just an ordinary decent guy.”
And so it came to pass that Savage – blonde hair, luminous tan, day-glow teeth and thin-skinned temperament (he once did a poo in referee’s toilet and left it there to float) – found his natural place. Not football. Pro-celebrity ballroom.
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Aaron Ramsay missed for Arsenal against Man City and let Kim Jong il live another day
WHEN Arsenal’s young blade Aaron Ramsay failed to connect with Robin Van Persie’s though ball, Kim Jong il sighed a little. Aaron Ramsay is the scorer of great goals that do down great leaders (surely nutters? – ed). When Ramsay scored for Arsenal against Manchester United on May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden, a notorious Gooner, died. When Ramsay scores in Arsenal’s win over Marseilles on October 19 2011, Colonel Gaddafi (Chelsea til the end) died. So. When Arsenal were due to play Manchester City on December 18, an ailing Kim Jong il (Everton) tuned in. But Ramsay missed. Why? Well, Bin Laden and Gaddafi died by the gun. But Kim Jong il was much fatigued when he died on a train being pushed by his countrymen. Aaron Ramday considered the options and contrived to miss.
Let is never be said that Aaron Ramsay, captain of Wales, lacks compassion…
Festus Baise scores the greatest own goal in the history of football
THE greatest own gola ever scored – as performed by Festus Baise in the match between Sun Hei and his team Citizen Hong Kong.
Roy Keane on Manchester United: Which managers are in Manchester United’s Alex Ferguson’s pocket?
ROY Keane no longer talks to Manchester United’s manager Alex Ferguson. The Sunday Times says Keane declined to attended Ferguson’s 25th anniversary party.
Why? Well, Keane, the former Manchester United captain Roy Keane, says that in April 2008, he was the subject of legal action by the club. The legal threat resulted from Keane’s article in the Irish Times of April 5, 2008, in which he was criticle of United.
Says Roy Keane:
“The way it [his exit from United] ended, the legal letter, I couldn’t have gone and sat there like everything was great. He [Ferguson] would come and we all stand up and clap, I couldn’t have done that.”
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Posted: 18th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment (1)
Wigan fan wears turkey hat at Chelsea match
CHELSEA drew 1-1 with Wigan Athletic in the Premier League. But the star of the show was the man in the turkey hat. Is it a cry for help and to put out of his misery of watching the Latics? Look out for him wearing a grouse hat on the Glorious Twelth…
Spotter: Pies
Chelsea footballer Michael Essien appears at the world darts championships
TO the World Darts Championships at Alexandra Palace, where Chelsea footballer Michael Essien is the star attraction. To some, darts is just an audition for Celebrity Fit Club. But it’s more than that. Dartists have nicknames. What price football adopting the ploy and Michael Essien becoming Michael ‘The Thigh Bone’ Essien, playing alongside Didier ‘The Ivory Man’ Drogba and Frank ‘Lights Off’ Lampard?
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Liverpool’s Luis Suarez is innocent: ‘negro’ wasn’t in the contract
DID Liverpool’s Luis Suarez racially abuse Manchester United’s Patrice Evra? The three-man Independent Regulatory Commission looking into the thing has yet to make a ruling. Meanwhile, while the IRC charges by the hour, The Telegraph reports that Suárez admitted using the term “negro” to Evra once, but states that this was not racially motivated. You see, Suárez’s says his use of the word “negro” was meant in the same way that Evra called him a South American.
Henry Winter writes:
Suárez, who will admit using the word “negro” once, will argue that it is a descriptive expression, and not deemed offensive in his native Uruguay, and that it is similar to Dirk Kuyt getting called “blondie” by the South American players at Anfield.
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Posted: 16th, December 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (3)
Olympics now worse than war in Afghanistan: official
NOW we all knew that the bastards were lying to us when they said the London Olympics 2012 would only cost £2.2 billion. For of course they would lie to us on something like that.
Get us all committed to the London Olympics and then over the years reveal quite how much more it was all going to cost. Current numbers seem to be running at £12 billion or more and there’s still that last year of frantically trying to build things on overtime yet to come.
And yes, as ever, it gets worse.
London will be protected by a consignment of 13,500 military personnel during the Olympic Games next year after a recalculation of security needs.
Gosh, that’s actually quite a lot of troops.
….our current troop deployment in Afghanistan, where there are about 9500 British troops.
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Jerry Sandusky was teaching children how to shower says his lawyer Karl Rominger
KARL Rominger knows that former Penn State sports coach Jerry Sandusky is innocent. Sandusky is no paedophile, says Karl Rominger, one of Sandusky’s lawyers. Want to hear why Jerry Sandusky is innocent? Here goes:
“Teaching a person to shower at the age of 12 or 14 sounds strange to some people, but people who work with troubled youth will tell you there are a lot of juvenile delinquents and people who are dependent who have to be taught basic life skills like how to put soap on their body.”
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Simple Maths With Spurs Manager Harry Redknapp: Making Football 200% Better
HARRY Redknapp, the Spurs manager destined for the England job, has an idea:
“Referees are human and can make errors and bad calls, just as I can, and, do. However, if we had two referees on one pitch, perhaps one in each half, surely it would cut the risk of getting a big decision wrong by 50 per cent.”
Anyone..? Anyone..? Bueller…
Posted: 14th, December 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (4)
Monster Spotted In River Lea By London Olympic Park: Fetch The White Elephant
THEY say there’s a monster lurking in the water by London’s Olympic Stadium. Mike Wells says he saw a goose being pulled under on the River Lea. The bird “disappeared so fast it didn’t make a sound“.“I was sitting on the back deck of my boat with a friend having a cup of coffee. And suddenly this goose about 30 metres away disappeared – it was extraordinary. We just saw the goose go vertically down – in the space of half a second it had gone. It was pretty surprising the speed with which it disappeared – and it didn’t come back up. There was no sign of the creature that took it.”
ITV Show Zero Confidence In England’s Chances At Euro 2012
WATCHING England has always been problematic since 1966. Basically, Hurst, Charlton, Moore & Co went and got everyone’s hopes up for no good reason. England fans have seen themselves as perennial underachievers, when really, the sad truth is that England just aren’t very good.
Best league in the world? Aye, imports from elsewhere saw to that, not to mention the plethora of excellent non-English managers. Essentially, we’re good at business, administration and hype – not playing football.
And backing up this notion is, remarkably, ITV, who are showing no confidence at all in England’s hopes to even progress out of their group in the European Championships in Poland and Ukraine.
They’ve refused to stump up the cash needed to land the England’s potential Quarter-final and Semi-final, leaving BBC with exclusive rights to England’s games on the off-chance they make it the knock-out phase.
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Liverpool’s Glen Johnson Says Luis Suarez Alleged Racism Is ‘Silly’
LUIS Suarez is on the mire. Accused of flipping the bird to Fulham fans and calling Manchester United’s Patrice Evra a “nigger“, the striker can at least call upon his teammate Glen Johnson to tell it like it is:
“Luis isn’t going to let any of the silly stuff bother him. People will try everything they possibly can to upset him because he’s a good player.”
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Chelsea 2 – 1 Manchester City: Photos Of The Premier League Title Opener
CHELSEA beat Manchester CIty 2-1 in the match of the oligarchy versus the plutocracy. I had planned to write 500 words on how the Eurozone can recover and thrive. But a few words on Chelsea’s great win and the end of City’s Invincibles dream seems more fun. (Arsenal fans rejoice!)
So. Why did City lose? Well, Chelsea’s Playstation figurine David Luiz was suspended for this game; City’s defence is not all that – no clean sheet in 8; Mark Clattenburg never awarded City a penalty for a top of Silva; and Frank Lampard is exceptional. You don’t just need money. You need luck, too… Manchester United, Chelsea, Man City, Spurs and even Arsenal can win the Premier League. It’s getting exciting…
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Posted: 12th, December 2011 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Are Agents To Blame For Lack Of Openly Gay Footballers?
GAYS. They’re everywhere. Seriously. There are literally LOADS of gay people on the planet. Some people take great interest in a person’s sexual preferences whilst others couldn’t care less. The fact remains though that, in every area of human endeavour, you’ll find homosexuals.
Apart from football.
Statistically, there should be loads of gay footballers too, but alas, only two have been open about it. That’s two openly gay footballers in over a century of the game being a professional sport. The first was the tragic Justin Fashanu, the second being Anton Hysen in Sweden.
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Shooting Fish With Harry Redknapp: Tottenham Never Man Says Stoke Deserved To Win
MORE news on Harry Redknapp, Spurs manager and barrel-swimming fish, who never – NEVER – says anything about the referees. Well, having seen his Spurs side defeated by Stoke City and a poor performance by man in black Chris Foy, Anorak harks back to when the two clubs met in 2010.
The referee that day was Chris Foy, the man Redknapp says “seems to enjoy” scuppering Spurs. The paper recalls how Jonathan Walters scored, only to have his effort wrongly disallowed.
Redknapp shared his thoughts:
“We deserved to win anyway because in the first half they couldn’t get near us.”
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Posted: 12th, December 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (3)
Harry Redknapp Says He Never Criticises A Referee: Spurs Manager’s Memory Fails Him At Stoke
HARRY Redknapp, manager of Spurs and a tip to the next England manager, explains what he never does but doing what he never does. Tottenham have lost 2-1 at Stoke.
“I accept defeat, I never complain about referees’ decisions — have not done it in 30 years of management — but today, I’m afraid, he got some badly wrong.”
Adding:
“I felt like he was quite enjoying giving us nothing.”
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Amir Kahn Accuses Lamont Peterson And Washington Of Fighting Low And Dirty: Photos
AMIR Khan lost lost his IBF and WBA belts to Lamont Peterson. Khan’s team are questioning the impartiality of referee Joe Cooper.
Kahn was scathing:
“It was like I was against two people in there. He kept trying to pick me up. He was wild. He was coming in with his head lower and lower every time. I had to push him away because he was trying to come in with his head. He was just so low. He was being effective in pressurising me but I was the cleaner fighter all night.
“I am ready for a rematch. I am here and I will take it. I knew it would be tough against him in his home town and this is why boxing has not been in Washington DC for 20 years – because you get a decision like that. I thought he was going to headbutt me and that is why I pushed him.”
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Posted: 11th, December 2011 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
How To Sell London Olympics Tickets: Slap The World Celebrity Before Each Event
LONDON Olympics 2012: The Wrestling test event at the Excel Arena suggests a sport best watched in photos. Anyone with tickets for
one of less showy events need do only one thing to elevate the viewing experience: add the world celebrity to the event. So, without further ado the stars if Celebrity Wrestling are here to entertain, back again after ITV’s aborted experiment in 2005.
Is that Great Britain’s Philip Robert or the small one from detonated boyband Blue? Is Santa Barbara’s Mason Capwell wrestling as Angel Escobedo? And it’s good to see Chloe Spiteria has put that horrific crane accident behind her (Casualty episode 5, 10mins 23s to 1omins 32s) to pin to the canvas Russia’s Ekaterina Bukina, formerly Nadia Borovac, formerly wife to EastEnders hard man Phil Mitchell.
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Nick Easter’s Rumsfeldian Non-Denial Denial Did Not Cost Him £35,000
WAS it Nick Easter who reacted to hideous England’s quarter-final defeat by France at the rugby World Cup by saying “That’s £35,000 down the toilet“?
That question was put to Nick Easter. His response is Rumsfeldian:
“I don’t specifically remember saying it but it’s possible I did – especially if a number of players have said so. It is the kind of facetious thing I say and people who know me know this. The remark, assuming I said it, has been taken out of context by the player, and subsequently, by the response to it. I hope my explanation clears this issue up once and for all and we can all move on”.
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Matt Slater Gets The Last Laugh On Manchester United’s Alex Ferguson
MANCHESTER United are out of the Champions League. And the BBC’s Matt Slater may be excused a giggle:
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Gary Speed Never Did Play Cricket But Luke Sutton Did
WE’VE no idea why Gary Speed committed suicide but the Liverpool Daily Post manages to conjure up the news story:
FORMER Lancashire wicketkeeper Luke Sutton has become the first high profile sports star to publicly admit to seeking treatment for depression and anxiety since the death of Gary Speed.
Sutton, who played for Somerset, Lancashire and Derbyshire, is quoted:
“I have been aware for some time that I have problems with certain aspects of my mental health.”
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Posted: 8th, December 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (9)
Lewis Hamilton May Be Wealthy, But He’s Still Depressingly Desperate When It Comes To Nicole Scherzinger
IMAGINE. You’re one of the most respected Formula One drivers on the planet. You’re reasonably good looking. You’re wealthy. You’ve got a number of lucrative advertising contracts. The world is at your feet (the one that presses the accelerator at least).
Yet, you still own a penis.
And it’s Lewis Hamilton’s member that’s making him all sad and desperate. See, despite his wealth and fame, he doesn’t like the fact that Nicole Scherzinger isn’t his girlfriend anymore.
And so, despite the fact they split only in October, Lewis isn’t giving up on the X Factor USA judge. Nosiree. Not even if he looks like a desperate teenager.
A source (to be massively trusted, of course) told the Daily Mail (also to be hugely trusted):
“Lewis is on a full-on mission to get Nicole back. He’s been having her favourite flowers and thoughtful gifts delivered to her LA home and to the set of US X Factor. He misses her terribly and has told friends he won’t stop until he’s won her over.”
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