Shoes For Hats: Daily Mirror Hack’s Zany Wikiepdia Cheat
THE Mirror’s David Anderson writes from Nicosia of Manchester City’s UEFA Cup match with Omonia Nicosia.
Despite City’s raised profile, they must make do with the UEFA Cup this season and Hughes will not tolerate any slip-ups against the Cypriot side, whose fans are known as the ‘Zany Ones’ and wear hats made from shoes.
Well, that’s what is says on the Wikipedia page for Omonia Nicosia, as updated by “godspants”, a web wag, and slavishly borrowed by Anderson as he does his, er, research…
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October 2nd, 2008 at 11:57 am
Dunno, wasn’t me guv, honest!
I don’t supoose you could lend me a few million just to tide me over to payday, could you, Fully Secured Bank Funding Pigeon?
You know how it is, one thing leads to another and before you can say $3 billion in preferred shares with an annual 10% dividend callable after 3 years at a 10% premium, there’s a nasty hole where your funding should be.
I blame it on the spivs and speculators…
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
who threw that?
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 am
The web wag could have been a bit waggier; why didn’t he claim that the supporters carry the mummified body of their first ever coach around the pitch before every match so that he can bless the proceedings?