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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.
Imogen Thomas Wants To Protect Her Kids: Oh, The Irony
THREE papers are sticking with Ryan Giggs. The Star says Thomas is off to see her lawyer. And, no, that’s not because she’s sleeping with him. The Mirror leads with (HE’S STILL MY MAN”). It’s Stacey Cooke, aka Mrs Giggsy, who says she will not leave her footballer. It’s odd that a woman whose husband allegedly wanted to keep the story of his alleged infidelity out of the papers should talk to the Mirror?
The paper reports:
Just days before he and his Man United teammates take on Barcelona in the Champions League final, heartbroken Stacey Cooke told him: “Go out there and play the game of your life.”
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The Ryan Giggs Guide To Killing A Sex Story
ONE day on from Ryan Giggs appearing on the front page of ten national newspapers, the Manchester United footballer John Hemming MP named in Parliament as the married footballer exposed on Twitter as having an injunction over an alleged affair with reality TV star Imogen Thomas, is one just two front pages.
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Quiet Ryan Giggs Overshadows Gobshite Gary Neville At Manchester United Testimonial
FUNNY isn’t it, that the testimonial for Gary Neville, a player derided by some fans, mostly not of his Manchester United, for being an outspoken gobsite, should have his testimonial overshadowed by Ryan Giggs, a quiet man named in Parliament as the married footballer exposed on Twitter as having an injunction over an alleged affair with reality TV star Imogen Thomas?
The meek shall inherit the headlines.
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Posted: 24th, May 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (9)
Did Secret Tyrant Ryan Giggs Break The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
RYAN Gigg’s private life is now an animated video. Before you see it, we bring you a few notes from Article 19 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights – the one Great Britain helped to write to avoid future tyrannies after World War 2:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
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Ryan Giggs Becomes Interesting As Career Nears End
SO. Ryan Giggs. What are you famous for..?
(Imogen Thomas is here.)
Posted: 24th, May 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (4)
Ryan Giggs Puts His Dongle Away: Imogen Thomas Delighted (Great Photo)
RYAN Giggs is today more famous for his private life than for his football – and that is no easy thing to pull off when you consider that Giggs is the most decorated footballer in the history of English football.
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Lawyers Sell New Magnificent-Injunctions: Ryan Giggs Offered Discount
SUPER-INJUNCTIONS are going cheap at your local law firm. Manchester United player Ryan Giggs is rumoured to be negotiating a two-for-one cash back offer on any future injunctions.
His last alleged super-injunction turned out to be faulty, lasting only a few weeks before breaking.
Which is why legal eagles ensure us that the new improved Magnificent–Injunction will last TWICE as long as the old super-injunction model and feature women with BIGGER tits and possibly an identical TWIN sister you can shag behind your wife’s back with impunity.
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Posted: 23rd, May 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (8)
Manchester United And Legendary Ryan Giggs Win 12th Premier League Title: Great Photos
HATS of to Manchester United for winning the Premier League for the 12th time. We’ve got great photos of the post-match ceremony: the fireworks; the fans; Alex Ferguson; the players medals; and the wives and kids on the pitch – such as the legendary 12-Premiership title winner Ryan Giggs, his wife Stacey Cooke, son Zach and daughter Liberty; and Wayne Rooney having his photo taken by the fragrant Coleen. It is epic stuff in a season of ups and downs, and ins and outs. Enjoy.
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Arsenal Win FA Cup: Moments Of Hurt At End
PLANS to turn Arsenal into a wine bar are on hold as the lad(ie)s win the big one – the FA Cup – beating the mighty Bristol Academy at the magnificent Ricoh Arena, the fabled home of football in the cauldron of Coverntry… (Continues for six more years.) 
Posted: 21st, May 2011 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Imogen Thomas And The Footballer: How To Take A Secret Global
IMOGEN Thomas has gone from zero to potential hero. The woman who days ago was labelled an alleged blackmailer is now the woman who could name the footballer who allegedly shagged her and then gagged her.
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Posted: 21st, May 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (4)
RIP Macho Man Randy Savage: A Life In Photos
RIP Macho Man Randy Savage, aka Randall Mario Poffo (the Macho Poffo). This was your life in photos. Wrestling’s loss is Miss Elizabeth’s gain. A little bit of the 1980s has died. Let’s remember it:
Finland’s Pasi Nurminen Beats Ramos And Stekelenburg To The Drop: Great Video
THE flight carrying the Finnish Lions national team arrived in Helsinki at 4:46 PM on Monday, 16th May 2011. It was safe touch down for the side that had won the country’s second IIHF World Championship trophy. Moments later the team’s goalkeeper coach Pasi Nurminen arrived on the tarmac at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. He kissed the ground like the Pope of old…
Other contenders in the Season of Butter:
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Henry Cooper: A Farewell
HENRY Cooper was buried yesterday.
His funeral was one of those occasion when you see the stars of yesteryear in one place.
Kevin Keegan , Cliff Morgan, Pat Jennings and Sir Bobby Charlton were all at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Tonbridge, Kent.
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Posted: 19th, May 2011 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
James DeGale Fights George Groves And Rome
ABOVE all sports, Anorak loves boxing. So, we went to see James DeGale poses during the work-out session at The Academy, Loughton. James DeGale faces George Groves in the British Super Middleweight Bout at the O2 on Saturday. We wish them both well. But we cannot look at DeGale without harking back to one of his golden moments:
JAMES DE GALE FIGHTS ROME – CLICK ME FOR A GREAT AUDIO
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Imogen Thomas Slept With Star Footballer For Signed Shirt And Tickets? Fans Approve
IMOGEN Thomas and the Sun have failed in their bid to overturn the injunction protecting the name of the married footballer she claims she was shagging. She says the affair lasted six months. He says he met her three times.
Says she:
“Yet again my name and reputation have been trashed while the man I had a relationship with is able to hide. What’s more I can’t even defend myself because I have been gagged. If this is the way privacy injunctions are supposed to work there is something seriously wrong with the law.”
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Posted: 16th, May 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (8)
Manchester City Stop The Stretford End Clock: Do Manchester United Fans Care?
AND so it came to pass that 35 years after last winning a tropy, it only took a couple of hundred million pounds to win Manchester City another one. Peter Swales, Francis Lee, John Wardle and Thaksin Shinawatra (all City chairman in the barren years) now know where they went wrong.
The North now has its own version of Chelsea.
More vitally, the Stretford End clock is reset to zero.
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Posted: 14th, May 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (4)
The Greatest Sports Clips Ever: Bruce Forsyth’s FA Cup Final
THE Greatest Sports Clips ever goes back to the FA Cup final of 1974, when Liverpool played Newcastle United and Bruce Forsyth did for red Comfi-Slax what Farrah Fawcett did for bikinis…
ITV Fail As Patronising Adrian Chiles Is Cut Off By The Adverts: Stoke City Fans Relieved
MANCHESTER City win the FA Cup and ITV’s Adrian Chiles performs a majestic fail. In seeking to patronise praise Stoke City fans for sticking behind at Wembley for a few moments rather than making a dash for the exits and the long drive home, Chiles opined:
“Full credit to Stock fans. On these occasions too many fans from the losing team…”
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Posted: 14th, May 2011 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Manchester City Win FA Cup In Photos: Plastic Fans Dance For Silver
MANCHESTER City have now won something since the horse and cart was the racy way to get about and the King of Siam needed English lessons. The FA Cup holders are winners of silver and in next season’s Champions’ League. And the club is ready for a huge influx of news fans. The club’s website has published a ”bluffer’s guide’ to City. New fans in Surrey can know that:
“Success means we’ll be welcoming a new generation of City fans from here in England and all over the globe, too, and when our new followers come on board, they’ll be welcomed with open arms into our ‘family’.”
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The Ferrier Estate Remembered In Video: Unseen London
TOURISTS thinking of heading to London for the 2010 Olympic Games will not get to see the Ferrier Estate in Kidbrooke. It’s being replaced by new homes. Thankfully, one Londoner caputured the magic for posterity in this video. As a reader on the excellent 853 blog puts it:
Great idea to capture this for posterity. The old place looks a lot better in the sunshine and from a speeding car!
Posted: 13th, May 2011 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Giant Snail Finishes London Marathon
A SNAIL has finished the London marathon. So. Looks like that trail wasn’t left by the Pippa Middleton fan club after all.
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Win A Game Of Football At Stamford Bridge: Calling Chelsea Fans For Top Prize
DO you want to play football at Stamford Bridge, home of Chelsea FC? Well, here is your big chance to play a match on the hallowed turf.
All you need to do is follow us on Facebook.
The closing date in Tuesday May 17 at 12:00 GMT.
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Posted: 13th, May 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2)
John Wilson’s ‘Attack’ On Celtic’s Neil Lennon Introduces Herts To The New Firm: Photos
THE match between Hearts and Celtic was decent backdrop to the main event of Neil Lennon getting, allegedly, punched in the head by a Mr John Wilson.
Scottish football is no longer just about watching Celtic V Rangers scrapping on the TV news but also about Herts, too. If Scottish football is to be a thriving competitive area that makes the tabloids sit up and notice, it needs more than two sets of fans and players prone to violence. Does Wilson work in the marketing department for Sky Sports, where every game is massive and tradition is a watchword on Monday night football?
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Posted: 12th, May 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (11)
Lewis Hamilton And Jenson Button Launch Decade For Road Safety Without Irony
WHO better than Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button to join Prime Minister David Cameron on the steps of 10 Downing Street in London to launch the Decade for Road Safety campaign? No-one.
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Nathan Van Someren Sent Off For Dangerous Hair: Bab Windsor Proves Point
TO Australia, where Simpson Tigers midfielder Nathan Van Someren has bene sent off “because his hair was too dangerous“.
You might suppose this was an oddity – until you read that his sport is Aussie Rules, that game of boob tube and hot pants.
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