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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.
Sun gets ‘vile’ Jonathan Ross to defend its Woy Hodgson attack
HAVING made fun of Roy Hodgson (tabloid crime: not being Harry Redknapp) on successive front page, the Sun leads with :
“WOSSY: ROY ROW IS RUDDY RIDICULOUS”
The ideal, presumably, is that Sun’s spiteful mocking of England manager Roy Hodgson’s speech can be excused because Jonathan Ross says it’s ok. This would be Ross, or Wossy, the man the Sun described as “”filthy, when he giggled along as Russell Brand told Andrew Sachs over the phone that he’d been shagging the actor’s granddaughter.
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Posted: 3rd, May 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (4)
In Photos – Fabrice Muamba makes public appearance at Bolton V Spurs
FABRICE Muamba walked onto the pitch before the Premier League match between Bolton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur at the Reebok Stadium. Just 46 days earlier Muamba had collapsed on the pitch at White Heart Lane. His heart stopped beating independently for 78 minutes. The talk is of his playing professional football again. But it must be unlikely. Footballers have medical insurance. Would anyone insure Muamba? It’s just a marvel he has all his faculties and can make a public appearance so soon after his near-death experience. He’s gotten out before Liam Stacey.
Former Sun editor slams paper for Woy Hodgson jibes
THE Sun is in crisis. The paper is the country’s best-seller – but is it as good as it was? Today’s front-page headline ignores Rupert Murdoch and instead just makes fun of Roy Hodgson’s speech. He is “WOY”. The Sun can be brilliant. But is this just cruel? Former Sun editor David Yelland tweets:
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@davidyelland So little compassion for Roy Hodgson today, bullying language, pointlessly cruel, pointlessly hurtful.
They hate him because he isn’t that tabloid pet ‘Arry Redknapp.
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Video: Roy Hodgson in 1960s drugs squat
ROY Hodgson is the new England manager. Much is being made of Hodgson’s past and how he came to be play for football in apartheid South Africa (he went as a young man because he was desperate to be professional athlete). The other things of note are his hair and his voice. He is Woy. And that got us thinking. We’d seen him before:
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Ched Evans: Nine more twitter arrests brings total to 12
CHED Evans update: Police have made nine more arrests in light of the naming of the Sheffield United player’s rape victim on twitter.
Four of them are women.
This bhring the total nuymber of arrests to 12. The three men arrested last week are on police bail.
Says North Wales Police detective sergeant Bob Halford:
“We continue to be proactive in this investigation and anticipate that further arrests will be made in the near future.”
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Photos: Manchester City v Manchester United – how the 2012 Premier League was won and lost
IN Photos: Manchester City v Manchester United – how the 2012 Premier League was won and lost – with a goal from Vincent Kompany, views by Maradona and Rio Ferdinand’s tongue…
The night Mario Balotelli made a drink of his urine
MORE on Mario Balotelli, the unmarried Manchester City striker who allegedly shagged Chloe Evans. Having said Balotelli was crap in bed (maybe it was you, Chloe?), the kiss ‘n’ teller is reported telling the Sun about the “crazy lifestyle of soccer badboy Mario Balotelli”.
The soccer badboy is a talented 21-year-old finding his feet working and living in a foreign country. Balotelli has embraced the prevailing culture by shagging tabloid-friendly English birds and allowing his bathroom to be the venue for a Bonfire Night do. The fire brigade was called and Balotelli’s friends (because it was them – really it was) would to well to read the full firework code, especially the bit about returning to a smouldering toilet roll. But, still, for the Italian Catholic import to be celebrating the death of the Papist Gunpowder Plot is admirable.
Balotelli did say that Manchester “is not to my tastes”. But no great hurt in that. Most Manchester United fans who only ever see the city’s wide open green spaces and ordered seating on the telly agree. And he can always commute from London or Abu Dhabi.
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1997: When Roy Hodgson was Glenn Hoddle’s interpreter
DON’T panic, England! Roy Hodgson is just like Jose Mourinho. Back in October 1997, Glenn Hoddle was England manager and England were gearing up for a crunch World Cup Qualifier in Italy. At the England Press Conference Roy Hodgson was acting as Hoddle’s interpreter. Famously, Mourinho was former England manager Bobby Robson’s interpreter in Barcelona.
He went on to bigger and better thing, though, sadly, not the England job. Still, Roy can be the new special one, or as he would put it, the “Spweshull Won”…
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The tabloids hate Roy Hodgson for not being Harry Redknapp
ROY Hodgson looks well set to be named the manager of England’s football team. The West Bromwich Albion manager is on the front page of:
Daily Star: “Roy in the frame for England
Not a done deal yet….
Daily Mirror: “Hod Choice For England”
Shock as FA snub Redknapp for cut-price Roy
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Army overlooks tower blocks in favour of yuppie flats for rooftop missile systems
AN update on those Army missile launchers soon to feature atop blocks of flats in Bow, east London. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) says the ground-based air defence systems could well be stationed on the residential apartment blocks, where they will manned by 10 Army personnel 24/7.
Journalist Brian Whelan, who tweeted the brochure sent to all residents in the block, asks: “Will this make me a target for terrorists?”
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Posted: 29th, April 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (4)
Chloe Evans: My sex with Manchester City’s shaven raver Mario Balotelli (photos)
MANCHESTER City striker Mario Balotelli has had sex with Cheadle’s Chloe Evans. Well, so says Chloe Evans, a woman seemingly well placed to see what’s on top of her. Having heard of Balotelli’s sex with “Wayne Rooney hooker” Jenny Thompson, the Sun know hears Evans claim that she too has enabled the Italian footballer to cheat on his usual lover Raffaella Fico.
Allegations from “pretty” Chloe are:
Chloe: “Mario hates pubic hair and before I had ever slept with him he asked me, ‘Do you shave the hair of the p**** ?’ I just laughed and told him not to be so nosey.”
Ruddy curtain twitcher. Go on:
Chloe: “He always shaves all the hair off down below, I’ve never seen him with anything there over all the time I’ve known him.”
Mario loves a Brazilian. Read all about it!
Chloe: “He wasn’t a bad lover as such — let’s just say he liked to take a long time about things. He said sex helped him be better at football, that it improved his stamina. But I had to fake it in the bedroom. Every time.”
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London Olympics: Army deploy missiles on residential apartment blocks
THE London Olympics is coming, and on the roofs of residential apartment blocks in the east of London the military are placing Ground Based Air Defence systems consisting of ground rapier units and the smaller High Velocity Missile systems. These will be manned 24/7 by armed soldiers. Bet that makes the residents below feel much safer.
Residents like Brian Wheelan, who tweets the leaflet. He says:
“Just got a leaflet through the door saying the army are putting missiles on my roof during Olympics. For context, I live in a private gated development (yuppie, I know) near the Olympics site. At no point were residents met with over this.”
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Southampton promoted to Premier League – Saints party photos
SOUTHAMPTON FC are up to the Premier League. The Saints are up. The fans are going potty. The players are going bonkers. The players’ wives and lovers are going nuts. Gary Linker and the self-satisfied Match of the Day team are tuning their patronising knobs up to 11 for “plucky” Saints. And the City’s jewellers and prestige car marques are going large on special offers:
Leinster Rugby Squad release interesting squad poster – photos
THE squad photo of Irish rugby football club Leinster was free with yesterday’s Evening Herald. Take a look:
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Posted: 28th, April 2012 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Ched Evans: Three arrests for twitter posts and Sheffield United’s hair don’t
WHAT news of Ched Evans, the Sheffield United footballer convicted of rape and sentenced to five years prison? Well, he’s appealing his conviction. If things go his way Ched Evans may be out of prison before the three men who allegedly tweeted the name of his victim.
The three have been arrested. Two men have been arrested under the Section Five of the Sexual Offences Amendments Act. One man is being held on suspicion of malicious communication.
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Great British Olympic Champions – photos
The London Olympics are coming. Quick! Look busy. Only joking, they’re gonna be great. In readiness for the big patriot push, we’ve compiled a gallery of some Team GB gold medal winners of old, right from the 1908 Olympics up to the last shindig in Beijing…
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Photos: UEFA Champions League – Real Madrid v Bayern Munich at the Santiago Bernabeu
IN Photos: UEFA Champions League – Real Madrid v Bayern Munich at the Santiago Bernabeu. It’s Bayern Munich v Chelsea. No Jose Mourinho. No weeks of listening to millions of pundits banging on about Mourinho’s return to face Chelsea. Hurrah! Hurrah for Bayern Munich!
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Posted: 25th, April 2012 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
BBC Olympics team bigger than Team GB
THOSE Olympics numbers in full:
BBC reps: 756
Team GB: 550
On your marks, get set….blog!
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Chelsea: Sky’s Geoff Shreeves breaks Branislav Ivanovic’s heart – video
FOR those of you who missed Sky Sports reporter Geoff Shreeves breaking Branislav Ivanovic’s heart by telling him that the yellow card he picked up during the win over Barcelona means he cannot play in the Champions League final for Chelsea. We’re still looking for the videos of Shreeves telling the Barcelona players that they too have not made it to the final and children that their parents will one day die…
Posted: 24th, April 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (5)
Chelsea beat Barcelona in photos – and Geoff Shreeves kills Ivanovic
CHELSEA are through to the final of the Champions League after a thrilling match against Barcelona. Before the best photos from the match, a word to Geoff Shreeves, the Sky Sports reporter who thought it his place to break the news to Branislav Ivanovic that he’s suspended for the final. Classy. Kick a man when he’s up, Geoff. It’s what John Terry would have wanted…. (Video is here.)
Sport mag alters cover shot of the Xavi-Puyol classico nosh
To Barcelona, where Xavi is showing his appreciation of all things Puyol. And you thought only Chelsea players loved to hug and kiss.
Note: The cover was later changed…
Football Dive of the day – HB Koge Defender Ronni Bendtsen
FOOTBALL dive / slip of the day: HB Koge Defender Ronni Bendtsen is floored by a push in his chest – which then relocates to his face. You’ll love these:
Spotter: Pies
Hooded Fabrice Muamba goes walkabout
FABRICE Muamba is not an unlucky victim of a heart attack suffered during an FA Cup mtch with Bolton Wanderers at Spurs. He is the “MIRACLE ACE”. The Sun leads with a photo of Muamba dressed in his team’s kit and juggling a football.
Inside, the news is that Muamba goes out every night “wearing a hoodie to avoid be recognised by fans”.
A black man in hooded top walking about at night… Forget the fans. Watch out for the police, Fabrice…
Arsenal’s Robin Van Persie is PFA Player of the Year for 2012
THE PFA Player of the Year for 2012 is Arsenal’s Robin Van Persie.
And you thought no Arsenal player wold touch silverware this season…
The PFA young player of the year Kyle Walker, who plays for Harry Redknapp’s *soon-to-be-former club Spurs.
* If Tottenham can get rid of him and the FA don’t go for Alan Pardew.
The Ched Evans fans club rapes twitter: the misogyny of #justiceforched
SHEFFIELD United’s Ched Evans is starting his five year sentence for raping a 19-year old woman at the Premier Inn near Rhyl, Denbighshire.
On twitter the hashtag #chedevans is busy. People might even have named the victim. Others want her raped.
Jack of Kent @JackofKent tweets: “Identifying #chedevans victim may be offence under Sexual Offences Act. Not good for CV. Police can trace you.”
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Posted: 22nd, April 2012 | In: Sports | Comments (4)
