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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.
David Beckham’s La Galaxy AC Milan Career In Quotes
DAVID Beckham loves Los Angeles Galaxy. Yaaaay! David Beckham moves to AC Milan after year with his beloved LA Galaxy. Scorechio! Anrosk takes look at BEckhgams’ LA Galxay career (pictures):
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Posted: 5th, February 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (3)
John Terry’s Transsexual Secret, Revealed!
ANORAK applauds Chelsea’s extremely heterosexual captain for having the balls to go public with his secret (until now) transsexual identity – Mr JT is perhaps the last baller we would expect this of.
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Posted: 5th, February 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (11)
VIDEO: Extreme tricycling
IN which mental X Games legend Travis Pastrana shows that it is possible to look cool on a tricycle:
Now that is a seriously cool jump. NON FAIL.
Sky extends Premier League TV rights with £1bn bid
WOUHOU! Sky has paid more than one billion pounds sterling to maintain its icy hold on live TV coverage of the FA Premier League. Rupert Murdoch’s masters of hype will have the rights for 92 out of the 138 matches available, including the prestigious 4pm Sunday kick-off slots.
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Posted: 4th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney Can Read, Harry Potter
ANOTHER day, and yet another attempt to squeeze a cheap laugh out of Manchester United’s mighty Wayne Rooney.
The Star sports a picture of the England star wearing glasses and a cape. Have a guess why.
No, Rooney is not playing Superman in a fetish club. Rooney has revealed that his favourite book is Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
Says Rooney:
“The Harry Potter books are favourites with a lot of children, and the same goes for a lot of adults. I’d encourage any child to read them, because they really get your imagination going.”
You can imagine the young Rooney going long on Famous Five books at the school library to make a full-height goal post outside his house.
The real shock is that with his celebrity high, Wayne’s was not been pricked to say his favourite book is Welcome to My World by Coleen McLoughlin…
Premier League Bucks Recession: Andrei Arshavin Signs
THE January transfer window slammed shut yesterday. You might think, given the wintry economic climate, that it was a fairly quiet month for transfer activity – hell no!
Andrei Ashavin. Our scoop!
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FAIL! Yachtsman knocked out by angry boom
IF you thought sailing the oceans of the world was more glamorous than your average Duran Duran music video, think again.
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Ten-pin bowling: a new kind of strike
IT’S a strike Jim, but not as we know it…
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Roger Federer is a crybaby
AFTER losing a truly epic – no, really it was – Aussie Open singles final to Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer could hardly control his emotions. ‘God, this is killing me,’ the Swiss star said when he stepped up to speak to the crowd after five sets of better-than-superlative (yeah, and that’s not even possible) tennis. He then quietly sobbed into his chest like a little girl, as you can see below:
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Posted: 2nd, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (10)
This club’s crap, let’s abuse the missus
Southampton FC’s crap form has been blamed for an increase in domestic violence.
Latest figures in the scummy lovely city show referrals to the council have doubled.
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Manchester United’s Scholes Can Hit A Helmet From 40 Yards
PAUL Scholes is able to land the ball on the “head” of any piss taking Manchester United player. Fact.
Says Alex Ferguson:
“The most amazing thing is Paul Scholes in the morning.”
Paul Scholes morning glory?
“…when a player goes to pee at the side of the training pitch… he fires balls from 40 yards right on the top of their head. He got John O’Shea about two weeks ago.”
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Posted: 2nd, February 2009 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism, Sports | Comments (5)
Michael Phelps Dries Out With A Marijuana Bong Fire
MICHAEL Phelps, multiple Olympic gold medalist, is pictured smoking weed from a bong. Marijuana is the secret of Phelps’ success. There is hope of London’s Olympians yet.
And who knew that a man who spends his life face down in chlorine and other people’s wee could have a life outside the pool?
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Posted: 1st, February 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment (1)
Newcastle Utd star downs tools after Joe Kinnear forgets his name
OF all the reasons why you’d want to leave a sinking ship football club, we’ve never heard the one used by Newcastle’s Charles N’Zogbia this week.
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Fabio Capello gets a lapdance on Italian TV (with video evidence)
THIS would never have happened in the days of Alf Ramsey! Sir Alf was always tucked up in bed by 10, no doubt with a steaming Horlicks plonked on his bedside table.
We’re not sure the current England gaffer knew what he was getting himself into when he agreed to appear on a TV show in his native Italy. We do suspect that his agent is now looking for a new job.
Watch the video below:
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Posted: 30th, January 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
The Harry Redknapp Flow Chart
HARRY Redknapp has a plan. It goes something like this… The Harry Redknapp Flow Chart:
Spotter: Hack
Posted: 29th, January 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Top 10 Super Bowl ads
WITH the Super Bowl taking place this weekend (Pittsburgh Steelers v Arizona Cardinals, if you’re interested), the Anorak sports desk thought it would be timely to feature ten of the best halftime commercials – companies pay huge sums of cash to make and screen one-off ads during the event, and the extra effort shows…
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Posted: 29th, January 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Boxer uses ‘left hook/Chinaman impression’ combo to win back world title
‘SUGAR’ Shane Mosley, a 37-year-old American boxer who has won world titles at three different weights, defeated Antonio Margarito last week to retain his WBA welterweight belt. No one expected him to win, but then he had a secret weapon – racism.
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Posted: 29th, January 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Is this the maddest two minutes in football history?
SEE if you can figure out what’s going on in this k-k-krazee football video, shot during a game between Mazara and Villabate in the Sicilian League of Excellence (excellent name for a league, by the way)…
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Eric Cantona, not good enough for Paul Scholes
MUCH consternation on Planet Football this week, and all caused by wee ginger Paul Scholes, the thinking footballer’s footballer.
Scholesy selected the best Man Utd XI he ever played with, a list that was published recently in United’s matchday programme for their Premier League fixture against Spurs. But – shock, horror! – there was no place in the starting line-up for either Cristiano Ronaldo or Wayne Rooney. Eric Cantona, regularly hailed as an Old Trafford legend on a par with the likes of George Best and Bobby Charlton, didn’t even make the subs’ bench!
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Posted: 28th, January 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (6)
Halftime entertainment goes wrong in the USA
In which an NBA halftime act didn’t go quite as planned when a female escape artist takes too long to escape from her water tank…
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British long jumper leaps naked from house roof
YES, you did read that headline right.
A British long jumper has been released from police custody after leaping naked from the roof of a house in South Africa. According to The Times:
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Robinho Sex Case: Soccer Ace Gets His Own Chant, Kaka Jealous
WELCOME to British football, Robinho, Manchester City’s Brazilian blade.
It’s not all goals and money. It’s about drinking, mobile phone footage and sex cases, like the one the Mirror brings the world via its front page:
“ROBINHO QUIZ OVER SEX ATTACK.”
The quiz is not “Why have you never been embroiled in a nightclub sex attack?” but “Was it you?”
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The Damage To A Footballer’s Brain
AMERICAN footballers have brains. Really. Dr. Ann McKee, co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE), has looked between the ears of American football players and found evidence of brain action:
“What’s been surprising is that (the damage is) so extensive. It’s throughout the brain, not just on the superficial aspects of the brain, but it’s deep inside.”
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Doing Business With Harry Redknapp
HARRY Redknapp is being linked with every player who has turned out for Spurs. But how does it go?
Redknapp furious as accusations fly back and forth over striker talks – Times
Harry Redknapp accused Sunderland of double standards last night over their attempts to sign Darren Bent. The Tottenham Hotspur manager reacted angrily to Sunderland’s charge that the North London club had led a concerted attempt to unsettle Kenwyne Jones by alleging that the Wearside club had pursued their interest in Bent without Spurs’ knowledge and approval.
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US basketball player stomps on opponent’s head
In which the University of Houston’s Aubrey Coleman uses Arizona opponent Chase Budinger’s face as a doormat. Coleman was ejected from the game for the mis-step and has been suspended for one game by his team. In a karmic twist, Houston lost the game in overtime, despite at one stage enjoying a 12-point lead.
Watch the stomp below:
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