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Africa Cup of Nations In Picures: Togo Team Shot At By Machine Guns
THERE’S shooting at the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola. With bullets. The gunmen are firing at the Togo football team, as their bus drove through Cabinda. Two players are wounded. The drive is killed.
Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor is “shaken by the terrible events”. He is “unharmed”.
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Posted: 8th, January 2010 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Cricket In Pictures: Hated England Snatch Non-Result From Jaws Of Defeat In South Africa
AT Newlands, South Africa, England’s Sir Graeme Swann DSO and Lord Graham Onions VC managed to survive a furious South African onslaught of appeal upon appeal to draw the Third Test at Newlands. Left-armed Chinaman puts the awesomeness of this result in context:
English see themselves essentially as Tintin. A tiny, yet powerful, hero, battling against the overwhelming injustice and certain defeat. Although he’s never going to change the world (well, at least for the good) he can maybe grind-out a reasonable compromise with the local chieftain to only eat half of Tintin’s friends.
It’s when England drudge-out a draw that these perspectives collide. For Englanders, snatching a non-result from the jaws of defeat is the pinnacle of sporting achievement. It’s sort of a win without the guilt – LAC
England expects…the worst…
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Tiger Woods: ‘Gay Sex’ And Loredana Jolie Ferriolo: In Pictures
TIGER Woods’ Women now takes in Tiger Woods’ Men, if Loredana Jolie Ferriolo is to be believed. Ferriolo claims to have shagged Woods and in a putt ‘n’ tell book will say that she witnessed him in gay encounters. Pay up.
It’s a tale of homosexuality and bestiality, allegedly. America will lap it up – literally.
Radar Online reports that Loredana claims she saw Tiger having “sexual relationships” with men. It’s new news on Tiger Woods’ sex life.
Of course, it’s open season on Woods and you’ve got the balls you can pretty much say whatever you like about the golfer and wait for the fame and lawyers to come calling. If he sues you, he will, should it come to court, have to discuss other matters. So here’s Loredana Jolie Ferriolo claiming a new angle on the Woods narrative, and with it fame aplenty. Radar says she’s looking for $1million for her book.
Loredana says her tome will tell all about Tiger’s “healthy appetite for arranged sex, threesomes, girls next door, girl-girl, and an answer to all the rumors surrounding Woods’ sexuality.”
Says Radar:
Loredana has kept a low public profile since being named as a Tiger mistress but and lately has been spotted at an upscale Florida country club on the golf course, taking golf lessons.
Which way do you swing?
Newcastle United Ace Saves Vet From Weather: Bentley Fail
EVERY crisis needs a hero and here is Newcastle United footballer Kevin Nolan helping save a vet form certain snowy doom. Says the Sun:
Big –hearted footie star Kevin Nolan stopped to help a stranded driver.
Oh?
Vet Tony Sarma had been stuck for 30 minutes in snow when the Newcastle ace spotted him…
What did Kevin Nolan do?
He couldn’t tow Tony with his Bentley…
Might that be Bentley Brooklands, a car possessed of “the most powerful Crewe-built V8 ever produced, developing 530bhp (395kW) and a maximum torque of an astonishing 774lb ft (1050Nm), the highest ever torque output of any V8 automotive engine in the world”?
Bentley, as Ettore Bugatti once observed, makes “very fast lorries”.
… so he went home to get his 4×4 Range Rover.
And saved the day?!
By the time Nolan returned, Toon fan Tony had been pulled out by a van…
Van driving ace of no name hailed as hero! Read all about it!!!
Ashley Cole’s Speedy Sequel To ‘My Defence’ Cuts No Ice With Judge
REASON to not like Ashley Cole No. 3215b: Ashley has been found guilty of driving at more than 100mph in a 50mph zone.
Sadly, Cole was not present to hear the verdict announced at Kingston Magistrates’ Court, namely that the 29-year-old was driving his Lamborghini Gallardo in Kingston at 104mph.
Cole denied the charge. It was all huge coincidence that the speed gun was there at the same time as Ashley was sitting down for a cup of warm tea in a hotel when it popped in for a chit-chat.
No, only joking. Ashley says that he was being chased by paparazzi at the time. Yep, Ashley Cole is Princess Diana. Well, he could have been…
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Phil Taylor Beats Simon Whitlock With Walk-On Girls: World Darts In Pictures
PHIL Taylor is the Ladbrokes.com PDC World Championship’s champion, beating Simon Whitlock 7-3 victory. It’s Taylor’s 15th victory. The Power beat the Wizard, despite the winner “looking sick as a chip in cold fat” (words: Sid Waddell) as Whitlock started well. This was an England v Australia, imperial stomach versus a colonial beard not seen since the day Walter Raleigh brought back broken arrows from the New World and fired them into tree stumps. But the winner was darts, as ever it was. Bring on the walk-on girls. Bring on the gladiators:
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Leeds United Beat Manchester United In 27 Pictures
JERMAINE Beckford scores the 19th minute winner against Manchester United and Leeds United march on in the FA Cup. Manchester United had not been beaten a lower-division side during Sir Alex Ferguson’s 23-year reign as manager. In 1984, Bournemouth beat them 2-0.
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Because Man United were playing at home, the game was on the telly and Leeds scored in the middle of first half, it meant lots of Man U fans (between sanwhiches and trips to the club shop) saw the goal – save for a few thousand who left early to miss the rush back to London (the Jubilee Line is shut on the Tube at the weekends). Enjoy these pictures of the match…
Rooney Leads Manchester United To Thrash Wigan 5-0 In Premier League Pictures
MANCHESTER United thrash Wigan Athletic 5-0 in the Premier League and we are reminded once more that the division is not the best league in the world – it just features a few sides that are much better than the rest. To win the league you need to finish above Man United and Chelsea – the biggest team, and the team with the multi-billionaire backer, respectively. Man City now have very rich backers so look out for them winning things soon. The Premier Leauge – it’s all about oil. Teams like Wigan, meanwhile, exist to be routinely beaten and make the league at least appear to be competed between 20 teams…
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Vinnie Jones, Thierry Henry And Maradona Are Footballers With Hands
NEWS of Vinnie Jones going into the Big Brother house encouraged us look back over his career. The man whose contribution to football is so great that he is most famous for using his hands (just like Thierry Henry and Maradona) left football to embark on a carer on the stage. He has played Estragon in waiting for Godot with a gun, King Lear on the point of punching someone in the throat and A Streetcar Named Desire’s Stella putting your lights out – permanently. Here’s a gallery of Jones’ varied career:
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Arsenal On Song To Thump Portsmouth 4-1: In 28 Premier League Pictures
PORTSMOUTH Football Club was “shocked and surprised” by the winding-up petition by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) against the club but less so by being beaten 4-1 by Arsenal in the Premier League. We have no pictures of the owner of Portsmouth FC, but we do have photos of the game. The small ground enables our photographer to get very close to the action. To see those elusive owners may require a camera on a satellite. Goals from Aaron Ramsay, Eduardo, Nasri and the outstanding Song:
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Tiger Woods And Rachel Uchitel ‘Living Together’: Pictures
TIGER Woods: It’s been a while since any woman claimed to have shagged Tiger Woods. So the papers return to see what Rachel Uchitel is up to. Uchitel is one of the few women to have denied sleeping with Woods. Others yet to publicly deny the charge are Katie Price, Cherie Blair, The Queen, Dale Winton, most of the Surbiton WI and the cast of Holes Of Golf XI – Gin & It.
In pictures: Tiger Woods’ Women (Alleged)
Last week, we read:
The 34-year-old, who refuses to discuss Woods beyond denying having an affair with him, had a Christmas beach holiday close to her family in Florida.
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Posted: 29th, December 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2)
Premier League Photos: Wenger’s Arsenal Thrash Aston Villa 3-0
ARSENAL beat a strong Aston Villa side by three goals to nil and all is right with the world. Last week, Arsenal rediscovered the fighting spirit against Hull that saw them win titles. Against Villa it was back. To win the league a team needs skill and substance. Arsenal have both. It also helps if you have Cesc Fábregas. And the Premier League needs Wenger’s Arsenal. Success is not a commodity to buy. Chelsea, Man City, Liverpool and Spurs are X Factor teams – big corporate machines that seek to buy silver by spending big. Arsenal want to do it with patience and team building. Arsenal are the Rage Against The Machine protest vote. Here are the best 10 photos from the game:
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Roberto Mancini’s Taxi For Manchester United Presents The Top 10 Premier League Boxing Day Photos
MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini gestures on the touchline…for a taxi. How long will Mancini be in Premier League Manchester? Well, that depends how soon Man United want him. No, only joking. It depends when the City owners finally get the man they really want: Terry Venables. Jose Mourinho. Arsene Wenger. Alf Ramsay. Why not just hire all the world’s top managers and give them each a week? Best hair gets the job. The Boxing Day fixtures saw goals by West Ham United’s Alessandro Diamanti, Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti continue his impression of a man being sick in his mouth, and Liverpool being lucky. The top 10 pictures of the day:
Tiger Woods Keeps His Heuer
TIGER WOODS: Headlines such as “Tag Heuer ‘to drop Tiger Woods from US ads’” (BBC) and Tiger Woods dropped by Tag Heuer (Telegraph) may have created the impression that Swiss watch marker Tag Heuer was to sack Tiger Woods. Management consultancy Accenture has already ignored its own advice and sacked Woods.
Tiger Woods: Using Gillette Gets You Laid And Other Tiger Woods Endorsements
But Tag Heuer (say that in a Geordie accent) would like you to know that removing Woods from its marketing bunff was a “supportive move”.
AG Heuer confirms today that it will continue its relationship with Golf n°1 Tiger Woods but will respect his desire of privacy by modifying his role in the coming months’ marketing programs.
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Posted: 24th, December 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment
RIP Albert Scanlon: Manchester United, Busby Babes And Munich In Pictures
RIP Albert Scanlon. The Manchester United winger, a ‘Busby Babe’ who survived the Munich air disaster in 1958, died. He was 74. In the disaster, Mr Scanlon’s leg was broken leg and skull fractured. Eight of Mr Scanlon’s Manchester United team-mates and three officials were killed when their plane crashed at Munich Airport. In the 1958/59 season. Albert Scanlon scored 16 goals as United finished runners-up in the first division. The Busby Babes in pictures:
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Identified: The Premier League Manager In Prostitute Sex Shame
WHO is the Premier League manager caught “visiting hookers in a seedy brothel”?
The Sun leads with this news, and says the married manager went to a “grubby ‘Thai’ vice den hidden away on an industrial estate.”
The adjectives tell the story: “sleazy”; “grubby.” Had the brothel been in a smart glass-fronted office block or in a quaint cottage in the Dales, things would not be so bad. As a source says:
“He has a huge responsibly to the directors, the players and the fans.”
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Posted: 23rd, December 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (5)
Tiger Woods: Dancing Girls Woo Tiger Back Top Golf
TIGER Woods will be spending Christmas in the Bahamas aboard a huge yacht called Privacy. His wife Elin will not be aboard.
All the women linked to Tiger Woods (NSFW)
Golf fans with gigantic life preserving devices on their chests should mass at Old Port Cove in North Palm Beach for the official piping aboard, as the French say. The yacht has a gym, Jacuzzi and sky lounge bar, fully stocked with waitresses of all shapes, colours and flavours.
All the women linked to Tiger Woods (NSFW)
There is enough room to sleep 21 people. So golf nuts had best hurry. Space is limited. But afterwards, will Woods returns to the game he has graced?
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Posted: 22nd, December 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment (1)
Tiger Woods Fails Academy Test And Divorce Sensation
TIGER Woods: if there is one thing we know about Tiger Woods it is that the media has no idea what he’s up to, and if it does know, it won’t always tell. (See pictures of women linked to him here NSFW) So here’s the latest news about Tiger’s marriage:
No divorce!
Tiger Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren not divorcing – confirmed – SFGATE
Divorce!
As his wife was understood to be drawing up plans to divorce him, members of Woods’s close-knit circle of friends told the New York Daily News he had ignored their warnings that his serial philandering was likely to be exposed – Telegraph
Dunno!
Tiger Woods’ jilted wife has yet to decide if she will leave her superstar husband – amid reports she could lose up to £30 million in an early divorce – Mirror
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Premier League In Pictures: West Ham Draw 1-1 With Chelsea And It’s Cuddles all Round
WEST Ham United drew 1-1 with Chelsea. Chelsea equalised with a penalty softer than a cuddly puppy sat next to a pile of poo. Alessandro Diamanti had earlier scored his spot kick for the Hammers.
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But the game was memorable for two things. When then Chelsea player Dennis Wise sat his son in the FA Cup he not only destroyed the prestige of the famous old trophy but set Chelsea on a path of mawkishness. The modern Chelsea player is to the hug and the tear what the modern Chelsea fan is to the organic hummus salad. Do the old Chelsea die-hards who stood in the Shed enjoy these cheesy displays of pap sentiment? Are these fans still allowed into the shiny ground? Lastly, why does Carlo Ancelotti always look like he’s just been sick in his mouth? Consider that while you look at the game in pictures:
Tiger Woods: Drugs, Women And A Secret Deal
TIGER Woods: After the women (see them here) Let’s make it worse, with John Steigerwald, who writes a Sunday column for Pittsburgh’s Observer-Reporter, has a question about drugs:
What if Tiger Woods cheated at golf by using performance-enhancing drugs?
It’s open season on Woods. But lest you reads the headline and think Steigerwald uses a sub header:
Guilty until proven innocent.
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Posted: 20th, December 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2)
Tiger Woods: More Women Fail To Deny Affair And Ryder Cup Joy
TIGER Woods: grim news for the wayward golfer as Katie Price fails to go on the record and deny shagging Woods – as do Susan Boyle, Cherie Blair, Oprah Winfrey and millions more of potential lovers. But the Mirror has some good news for Tiger – at last:
“Mauled Tiger Woods gets Ryder Cup boost”
Who read that and doesn’t think, ‘He’s not been picked to play’?
All Tiger’s women (alleged) in pictures (NSFW)
Turns out that the boost to Woods who has retired from the public eye is that American Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin wants Tiger Woods on his team at Celtic Manor.
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Posted: 20th, December 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment
Fulham Rout Manchester United 3-0: In 31 Pictures
FULHAM 3 – Manchester United 0: in pictures. Fulham fans enjoy your moment. There is only F in Fulham. And three goals in United’s net. Goals from Bash Street Kid Danny Murphy, Bobby Zamora (When you’re sat in Row Z and the ball you’re your head – that’s Zamora; no more) and Damien Duff completed the win. Michael Owen for England, goes the call. Michael Owen for Division 1, comes the answer. Roy Hodgson’s Fulham were superior in every area of the pitch. This was a comprehensive win. And now Fulham fans can enjoy the pictures – as can the rest of you:
Posted: 19th, December 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Gareth Thomas Can’t Be Gay, He’s Got Muscles And Is Good At Sports
GARETH Thomas, hulking Welsh rugby player, is gay. Rugby fans already knew that. Thomas came out three years ago. He’s had to endure a few mocking comments from the terraces in club games. But not many. But today the The Daily Mail delivers:
British Lions rugby legend Gareth Thomas: ‘It’s ended my marriage and nearly driven me to suicide. Now it’s time to tell the world the truth – I’m gay’
TB looks at the story:
Yes, British Lions legend Gareth Thomas is a poof. And what are you going to do about it?
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Posted: 19th, December 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (8)
Tiger Woods Accused Of ‘Cheating’ Again: Pictures
TIGER WOODS: Accused of being a adulterer. Tiger Woods now appears as aman who can dish it but can’t take it. Anorak’s Man in LA has a question for you – it might not be that tricky to answer:
WHO SAID THE FOLLOWING ABOUT NFL PLAYER AND REFORMED DOG-FIGHT ORGANIZER MICHAEL VICK:
“If you made that big a mistake, you’ve got to come out and just be contrite, be honest and just tell the public that ‘I was wrong.’ Waiting a long time got a lot of people polarized… If he would have come out earlier, he would’ve diffused a little more of it.”
Give up yet?
Brace yourself.
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Former Spurs Player Kaboul Talks Of Dogs And Cows
SO why did Younes Kaboul leave Spurs for Portsmouth and not to Sunderland?
“The reason I did not come to Sunderland was because of Daniel Levy. He wanted to treat me like a cow. I said to him, ‘Look, I have a personality and a mind of my own. I am not a dog.”
Clear?
