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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.
F1 FAIL! McLaren given suspended ban, Lewis Hamilton free to race
TODAY, McLaren have been punished by the FIA with a suspended three-race ban for misleading race stewards at the Aussie GP.
Lewis Hamilton’s team admitted five charges of breaching F1 rules at an inquiry on Wednesday in Paris.
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Posted: 29th, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (4)
Video: Stephen Hendry knocks in 147 maximum break at The Crucible
DURING his World Championship quarter final against Shaun Murphy, Stephen Hendry knocked in a 147 maximum break, the ninth in the history of the tournament. As long as no-one matches it, Hendry will earn £147,000 for the maximum, plus £10,000 for the highest break. Not bad for 15 minutes’ work.
Watch Hendry at work after the click…
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Posted: 29th, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Amputee cage fighter makes debut (with video evidence)
IN March, Anorak told you about Kyle Maynard, a congenital amputee who was set to make his cage fighting (MMA) debut in Alabama (where the sport isn’t regulated: hell yeah!) this month.
Well, Maynard did indeed make his debut, against an able-bodied fighter. How did he do. Click below for the result, and to watch him in action…
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Video: Frank Lampard and John Terry abused at West Ham
JT and Lampsy were singled out by West Ham fans during Chelsea’s visit to Upton Park last weekend. No surprise there: both Lampard and Terry hate West Ham, and the feeling is mutual.
Terry thinks Irons’ fans crossed the line (they slagged off his mum), but he’s man enough to take it. England’s captain said:
“I can take it, Lamps can take it. It’s a little bit more than that but I’m not going to give them a chance to say I’m whingeing… If they can give they can take it, and if I can take it I can give it. That’s the way it’s got to be.”
Relax, JT. The fans slagged off your mum, not you. Oh…
Watch videos of Terry and Lampard copping stick at Upton Park below:
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Posted: 28th, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Ryan Giggs threatens to flash hairy chest (again)
ANORAK has still not recovered from the sight of Ryan Giggs with his shirt off.
After scoring perhaps the greatest goal in FA Cup history, against Arsenal at Villa Park in 1999 (Man Utd’s treble-winning season), the Welsh winger whipped off his shirt and streaked like a crazed Neanderthal.
The sight of Giggsy’s luxuriant, penis-shaped chest hair, burned itself onto the retinas of Mr Anorak, and can be recalled a decade later.
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Jenson Button burns buttock in Bahrain GP victory
JENSON Button scorched to victory in Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix, stretching his lead at the top of the F1 drivers’ championship to 12 points. Button’s Brawn GP team-mate, Rubens Barrichello, lies second in the table.
Button’s fautless win came at a cost though…
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Posted: 27th, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Sir Alex Ferguson loses his pink balloon
LOOK at Fergie’s tomato face. It’s constantly on the brink of exploding with anger, either because an official hasn’t added on enough time for his Man Utd team to make a comeback, or because his team haven’t been awarded a penalty – as was the case in the FA Cup semi final against Everton, when Mike Riley somehow failed to award United a pen when striker Danny Welbeck was chopped down in the box by Phil “Jags” Jagielka.
Fergie’s reaction to the incident was priceless. Add in a pink balloon though, and it becomes downright hilarious…
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Carl Froch, Britain’s unknown boxing superstar
IN the early hours of Sunday morning, Nottingham’s Carl “The Cobra” Froch produced one of the great comebacks in boxing to beat Jermain Taylor and retain his WBC super-middleweight world title. Taylor was ahead on the judges’ scorecards and would have won the fight, but Froch stopped him with just 14 seconds left of a thrilling 12th and final round.
Not that you’d know. No British TV station aired the fight – Froch’s fans could only watch a live online stream of the world-title clash – though ITV did show it later, on Sunday evening.
Froch is a bona fide world champion but he lacks the box-office appeal of other British world champs, like Ricky Hatton and the now-retired Joe Calzaghe. That’s because he lets his fists do all his talking, and Britain likes a boxer who can also talk with his mouth, even if he’s a lovable loser like Frank Bruno.
Watch the final round from Froch v Taylor below (it’s a thriller)…
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London to host Super Bowl?!
MANY Americans would consider it a crime for the Super Bowl – the most-watched sporting event in the States, by a long way – to be held anywhere other than in their own country. But news has reached the Anorak sports desk, via Auntie Beeb, that it could be coming to Olde Londontown…
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Posted: 24th, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (4)
English teenage girl is arm wrestling sensation
THIS fine figure of a girl is Joanne “The Hitwoman” Poole. She’s 17 years old and she’s the next big thing in arm wrestling.
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Posted: 24th, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Olympic diver Tom Daley bullied at school
SURELY being an Olympic star as a schoolboy should ensure that your classmates think you’re the coolest pupil in the world? Not in England though, where we can’t abide success: Tom Daley, the teenage diver who captured the public’s imagination at the Beijing Olympics last year, has temporarily been removed from his school in Plymouth, because of nasty bullies.
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For sale: Liverpool FC mobile phone, only £14,490
UNLIKE investment bankers, Premier League footballers are, sadly, recession proof. So yhey are now the only people who can afford to buy this special edition Liverpool FC mobile phone.
Only 250 of the phones have been made. Each of the 18-carat gold handsets is studded with 18 diamonds, in honour of Liverpool’s 18 league titles. It costs a frankly ridiculous £14,490. Yes, you read that right.
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Posted: 23rd, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Real Madrid defender goes beserk
SPANISH football is up in arms at the shocking behaviour of Pepe, Real Madrid’s volatile Portuguese defender. Last weekend, near the end of Madrid’s dramatic 3-2 win against Getafe, Pepe kicked out at Javier Casquero in a Cantona kung-fu stylee – not once but twice. It amounted to a serious assault, just as bad as Zinedine Zidane’s World Cup headbutt or King Eric’s leap into the crowd at Selhurst Park.
Pepe was sent off, of course, though he didn’t go quietly: as he departed the field, he told the fourth official: “You’re all sons of bitches.” Feisty lad, clearly.
Watch Pepe’s moment of madness below…
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Posted: 23rd, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Man Utd: the sitcom
THIS adorable video highlights the unlikely friendship between three Manchester United players: Park Ji-Sung (who is Korean), Patrice Evra (French) and Carlos Tevez (Argentine). Give these guys their own sitcom now!
Watch the video after the click…
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Video: Arsenal fan cries like a little boy after FA Cup defeat
BOO-HOO, so your team lost. Get over it, loser!
Oh, wait, it’s just a poor kid, being consoled by his father after those nasty bullies Chelsea knocked out heroic Arsenal in the FA Cup semi finals. Get used to it son, it’s part and parcel of being a football fan.
Oh, wait, this isn’t just a kid in tears, this looks like a full-blown middle-class tantrum by a boy who may or may not be called Sebastian. Isn’t that a prawn sandwich hanging out of Daddy’s pocket? Ok, that’s a bit unfair. What, you expected sympathy?
Watch the video after the click…
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Posted: 22nd, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Grand National-winning jockey offered free dental makeover
REMEMBER Liam Treadwell? He’s the dentally challenged jockey who won this year’s Grand National on 100/1 outsider Mon Mome.
Little Liam also hit the headlines after BBC presenter Clare “Fatty Fatty Boom Boom” Balding slagged off his crooked gnashers on live TV…
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F1 To Race Grand Prix On Snow
OLD Mr Anorak’s kindred spirit Iowahawk is celebrating Earth Week by celebrating what Earth has to give us by way of fuels and precious ores.
“Let the carbonating begin!”
And first a video word from our sponsors at the F1 grid at Ski Dubai, Dubai, The Desert:
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WAG fashion watch: Thierry Henry’s ex shows off Star Trek catsuit
AT last night’s Star Trek premiere in London, Thierry Henry’s ex-wife, Claire Merry, turned heads by wearing a shiny silver and black catsuit. A case of boldly going where no WAG has gone before, if you like.
More photos after the jump…
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Posted: 21st, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Mohamed Al Fayed calls FA “donkeys”
FACED with accusations that he is looking to sell off his beloved Fulham FC, Mohamed Al Fayed has blasted back, in the only way he knows how…
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Posted: 21st, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Which F1 driver names his racing cars after girls?
ONE rising F1 star (hint hint) revealed at the Chinese Grand Prix this weekend that he names his racing cars after girls.
The driver admitted to the BBC’s Martin Brundle that he likes to treat women well, and he also likes to treat his cars well, hence he names his cars after the ladies.
The mystery driver said:
“Like a ship, a car should be named after a girl as it’s sexy. My original car was called Kate. But then it got smashed at the opening race in Australia. So we called this one Kate’s Dirty Sister because it is more aggressive and faster.”
Who’s the driver? Answer after the click:
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Posted: 20th, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Brazilian supermodel Gisele wins $1m betting on Italian football
LIFE is not fair, clearly. This story proves it beyond any doubt:
Extremely hot supermodel Gisele Bundchen has reportedly won $1m betting on the fortunes of Jose Mourinho’s Inter Milan. She is set to make even more cash if Inter win the Italian league this season (they almost certainly will).
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Joey Barton can read!
FOOTBALL bad boy Joey Barton received a £61.20 penalty fare after being caught without a ticket on a train journey from King’s Cross to Cambridge.
How much does Barton earn? Something like £50,000 a week, we reckon. And despite the size of his bank balance, he resorts to fare dodging? Classy.
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Posted: 20th, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (10)
Liverpool goalkeeper laughs during Hillsborough memorial
LIVERPOOL’S reserve goalkeeper, Charles Indatje (pictured), has incurred the wrath of his club after being caught laughing during the service to commemorate the Hillsborough disaster.
Indatje, who is French, will now be sold off in the summer, and forever face the boos of irate Scousers – quite right too. What’s the French for faux pas? Oh…
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Posted: 17th, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham heckled by Liverpool fans at Hillsborough tribute
ANDY Burnham, the Culture Secretary, was heckled as he read out a government statement during the memorial service to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 Liverpool supporters died.
A majority of the fans inside Anfield chanted “Justice for the 96!” in reference to the fact that no police officer – or anyone, in fact – has ever been prosecuted for their role in the tragedy.
Watch the video below…
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Posted: 17th, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
