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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.
Meat is murder on the muscles?
SAD news for carnivores everywhere. Arsenal forward Robin van Persie has decided to cut down on his meat intake.
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Posted: 11th, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (3)
Monty Panesar is appealing
England spinner Monty Panesar has been fined 25 per cent of his match fee for excessive appealing during the fifth test against the West Indies. Stupid boy.
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Posted: 10th, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Football ref harder to catch than greased pig
THIS clip tickled us greatly. The ref slaps a player down and then manages to avoid an entire chasing mob of his angry team-mates. These guys are supposed to be athletes. Very poor show, but very amusing nonetheless…
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Murdered IRA Soldier Had Trial With Spurs
SAPPER Cengiz Azimkar, 21, from Wood Green, London, was murdered by the self-styled Real IRA.
Returning to quarters in his bath chair, between his Pall Mall Clubs, Old Mr Anorak’s eyes met with the London Evening Standard seller’s board, which screamed:
“KILLED IRA SOLDIER HAD TRIAL WITH SPURS.”
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FAIL: Tim Cahill’s son takes a tumble
AS one YouTube commenter points out, Cahill Jnr is a chip off the old block – he falls over in the stands but gets straight back to his feet. No rolling around on the floor for this little kid, who proudly wears a footy shirt with “Daddy” on the back…
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Video: Beware of sexually suggestive Spanish fans
IN which an ecstatic Athletic Bilbao fan takes a little too much pleasure in his club reaching the final of Spain’s Copa del Rey for the first time in 24 years (where, incidentally, they’ll meet Barcelona, who have won the cup a record 24 times)…
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Revealed! The brainiest professional footballer in the world
WHICH English football star has an estimated IQ of more than 150? Click below to find out…
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Posted: 9th, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Where’s the wanker in the black?
According to new figures announced by the Football Association, 7,000 football referees are quitting every season because of abuse on the pitch and from the touchlines.
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Chinese athlete thought she was a woman. She’s not
A Chinese athlete who won more than 40 medals has thrown most of them away after discovering she is not a woman. Gasp!
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Cool video: vertical ski-jump world record
IN which skiing mentalist Simon Dumont sets a new world record for highest air on a quarterpipe at his home resort of Sunday River in Maine, USA. This guy flies so high, it gives us vertigo just watching him…
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Footballers’ weddings: a tale of two owls
IF you’re a Sun or Mirror reader, you may be aware that a certain Man Utd footballer is getting married and plans to have the wedding rings delivered by a trained barn owl.
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Posted: 6th, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Ballboy Ofek Mizrachi Gets Assist In Haifa Goal
BALLBOYS. They sit there within spitting distance of both player and fan – literally. But things are different in Israel’s 2nd Division, where ballboy Ofek Mizrachi is working on behalf of Hapoel Haifa in their match against Bnei Lod.
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Ashley Cole’s Sorry Non-Denial Denial Reconstruction
ASHLEY Cole has been pinched by the police. Mr Cheryl Cole swore at police and was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct. He now apologises, sort of. Cole enacts that time-honoured tactic – the non-denial denial.
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Posted: 5th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2)
An awesome sporting prank that you must see
LET’S all laugh at the kid who thought he’d won $500,000! No, really, let’s laugh because it is an extra-special prank, and we insist you sit through it…
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Ashley Cole arrested
TODAY is a bumper day for footballers behaving badly. First Steven Taylor calls Cristiano Ronaldo “ugly” (we’re still getting over the shock from that one), and now comes the front-page news that Cashley Cole was arrested last night/early this morning outside The Collection nightclub in west London. He had been drinking with Chelsea team-mates John Terry and Michael Mancienne.
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Posted: 5th, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (5)
Ugly footballer calls Cristiano Ronaldo “ugly”
STEVEN Taylor, Newcastle United’s English defender, is no male model, as the photo to the left shows.
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Posted: 5th, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
In praise of… overweight cricketers
THE game of cricket has an illustrious history of overweight stars, from WG Grace to Rob Key, with honourable mentions along the way for larger gents such as Inzamam Ul Haq, Colin Milburn, Ian Austin, Merv Hughes and – who could forget? – the mighty Dwayne Leverock, Bermuda’s tubby talisman (pictured, left: the photo has not been stretched).
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Posted: 4th, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Do the tribal skank
Barnet’s Yala Bolasie and Albert Adomah showed off their synchronised “Tribal Skank” goal celebration in a League Two match recently. If you’re one of the many millions of people who weren’t at the game, here’s a clip of the pair in action…
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Spurs: a team of cowards
WORD is (via Talksport’s breakfast radio show) that not a single Spurs player raised his hand when Harry Redknapp asked who wanted to take a penalty in the shootout at the end of Sunday’s Carling Cup final against Man Utd.
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Posted: 4th, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Video: Sledge ice hockey brawl
DURING a recent sledge ice hockey (it’s like ice hockey but for paraplegics and those with other lower-body afflictions) game between USA and Canada, it all kicked off (maybe the wrong choice of phrase, but you know what we mean)…
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Past blast: Tony Knowles, snooker gigolo
ONE of the suites in Peter Kay’s Phoenix Club is named after Tony Knowles, a snooker player who defined the cultural tastes of the Eighties more than Interesting Steve Davis.
Kay knew that Knowles was the right type of cult figure -quite successful in his own right but obscure enough to rank as an in-joke amongst snooker cognoscenti.
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Posted: 3rd, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (4)
Pakistan terror attack: it’s not cricket
UP to a dozen gunmen ambushed the Sri Lankan cricket team’s bus in Pakistan this morning. Six police officers and two bystanders were killed in the pre-meditated attack, while six of Sri Lanka’s cricketers were injured.
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Posted: 3rd, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (3)
Allen Stanford Rarely Wore A Wristwatch
ALLEN Stanford, the moustached cricket fiancier who was to have spent his summers hiding out in the stands at County Championship matches in Canterbury and Durham – far away from the public eye – or in a gaggle of cricketers wives and girfriends, is spotted by the Mail.
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Posted: 2nd, March 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
El Hadji Diouf’s abusive prank phone call
EL Hadji Diouf is one of the least popular footballers in England, something which derives from his penchant for spitting. He loves a good gob, does El Hadji. Indeed, when Roy Keane signed the Senegalese forward for Sunderland, he said: “El Hadji has always been the kind of player opposition teams and supporters hate, a thorn in the side.” High praise indeed, Roy.
We didn’t think it was possible to like Diouf any less, but then we stumbled across this prank phone call, which purports to feature Diouf and a couple of his biggest fans.
Check it out after the jump…
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Reasons To Like Andy Roddick: Anti-Racist Smasher
TENNIS ace Andy Roddickrepsonds to the tennis knobs plans to ban Jews from sport. Of Dubai, that fascist enclave in the cement and sand, people by pork roast-dinner eating expats, Indian slaves and footballers:
America’s Andy Roddick says he won’t defend his title at the Dubai ATP tournament next week in protest at the UAE’s refusal to grant a visa to Israel’s Shahar Peer at the WTA event at the same venue.
Boycott Dubai – that Atlantis in the sea of sand…
