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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.
Ex-model banned from boxing
A former model who wanted to become the first female boxer to represent Great Britain Team GB at the Olympic Games has been barred from the ring because she has silicon implants in her fun bags.
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Posted: 16th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
VIDEO: Italian ref knocked out by thunder shot
SOMETIMES Italian football is not so dull… during Sunday’s 1-1 draw between Lazio and Torino, ref Massimiliano Saccani was knocked out by a fierce strike by Lazio defender Aleksandar Kolarov. However, after a quick waft of smelling salts, and perhaps a face full of magic sponge, Saccani was able to continue with his duties as the ‘short-sighted bastard in the black’. Marvellous.
Watch the video below…
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Finally, a plane you can have sex with
THE Interweb is ablaze with photos from this year’s Swimsuit Issue of Sports Illustrated (it’s not sexist, it’s a tradition, m’kay).
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Posted: 16th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (3)
FAIL: Football fan falls asleep in a bad place
THERE’S no bed more comfortable, more secure, more cosy, more appropriate than a ledge. Oh wait…
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David Beckham v Bobby Moore
LAST night in Seville, David Beckham equalled Bobby Moore’s record of 108 England caps (not including keepers).
It’s a fine achievement by Becks, and one that inevitably promps the comparisons between Goldenballs and the late, great Moore.
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Posted: 12th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (6)
Top 10 Fernando Torres adverts
WHEN Fernando Torres is not scoring goals for Liverpool (something he’s not done enough of this season), he loves nothing more than to spend a relaxing day in a studio, making TV commercials. He’ll sell anything, will Nando. Here’s ten of his finest moments as a corporate ho…
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The most excitable football commentator in the world
MEET Carlo Zampa, Italian journalist and football commentator. Carlo loves AS Roma so much that when they score a goal, he goes a little bit mental.
Here’s a sample of Zampa in overdrive, taken from Roma’s 3-0 win over Genoa on Sunday:
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Chelsea Reveal Guus Hiddink Pay Deal
GUUS Hiddink for Chelsea. Forward with Guus.Go Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus
Guus is the new Ruud. “Give me a u”…
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Posted: 11th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Tony Adams sacked at son’s birthday party
TONY Adams got the boot from Portsmouth while making balloon animals at his son’s birthday party (we might have made up the bit about balloon animals).
Tone took the phone call from Pompey chief executive Peter Storrie while celebrating with his five-year-old son, Atticus (real name).
We imagine it went something like this…
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Freddie Flintoff’s Caribbean cruise
THE Current Bun is aghast to discover that Andrew Flintoff and best bud Steve Harmison (how is that man still an international cricketer?) went on a luxury booze cruise only ‘hours’ after England’s humiliating defeat to the West Indies in the First Test at Sabina Park.
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Drugs cheat: I wish I’d lied earlier
BRITISH sprinter Dwain Chambers says he wishes he had continued to lie about using banned steroids. His justification for such a stance? Poor Dwain feels that he has not been forgiven since he owned up.
Damn honesty and its unfortunate consequences. (As Homer Simpson might say.)
Chambers made the bizarre admission during a radio interview with Victoria Derbyshire (the most patronising and annoying woman in the world, fact fans) on BBC Five Live.
Anorak often hears people say that drug cheats deserve forgiveness and a second chance, but using banned substances is rarely a one-off error of judgment – it’s a concerted, pre-meditated effort to cheat the system, rather than a lone lapse. So does Dwain deserve more sympathy. No, in a word.
Watch Chambers tie another noose for himself below:
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Sexed up footballer requests No.69 shirt. FAIL
CROATIAN defender Dino Drpic was forced to leave Dinamo Zagreb after his WAG Nives Celsius (pictured) revealed how she and Dino had sex in the centre circle at Zagreb’s Maksimir stadium. Classy. Drpic is now on loan at German side Karlsruhe.
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Posted: 10th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (3)
Hearts fan cries on live radio phone-in
THE scenario: Hearts lost 1-0 at home to Falkirk in the Scottish Cup on Saturday. The ref, a certain Dougie McDonald, failed to award a nailed-on penalty to Hearts, a decision that prompted one poor Hearts fan to phone a local radio station…
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David Bentley’s miracle skip shot wins him £15,000 watch
IN which David Bentley’s agent bets his client his own £15k watch that he can’t kick a ball from the roof of Red Bull’s London HQ into a skip below. You can probably guess what happened next (the clue’s in the headline)…
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Posted: 9th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Chelsea sack Scolari!
MOVE over Tony Adams, you are this morning’s news. The Premier League’s day of the long knives/short-sighted owners continues with the shock news that Chelsea have sacked manager Luiz Felipe Scolari.
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Posted: 9th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Top 10 Tony Adams quotes
TO celebrate the sacking of Tony Adams – OK, maybe celebrate is the wrong word – by Portsmouth FC, Anorak offers ten of The Donkey’s best quotes:
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Posted: 9th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (3)
An Open Letter From Michael Phelps
WHAT was Michel Phelps thinking of when he first dipped a toe into the murky waters of pro-celebrity swimming?
The Olympics is seedy, vice-riddled world of corruption, greed and drugs.
Says a contrite Phelps:
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Posted: 7th, February 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (8)
Russian footballers, or Russian gangsters?
HMMM, clearly the writer of this episode of Law & Order is a Premier League fan. Either that or he/she checked out a football website to come up with some generic Russian surnames…
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Race tracks guilty of noise pollution? Duh
Croft Circuit, a race track in Yorkshire, has been ordered to pay almost £1m in damages and legal fees after being found guilty of noise pollution.
The landmark ruling means other race tracks, such as Donington Park – the new venue for the British F1 Grand Prix – and Silverstone are also open to attack from local residents (pensioners and busybody Daily Telegraph readers, in other words) who can’t be bothered to put in ear plugs for a few hours every year.
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Michael Phelps deprived of ideal munchies
YESTERDAY, Kellogg announced it wouldn’t renew its sponsorship deal with bong-happy Olympian Michael Phelps, saying his behavior is “not consistent with the image of Kellogg”. And so Phelps will no longer appear on Kellogg’s cereal boxes.
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Posted: 6th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
The Kaka Tattoo Tapes: Why Kaka Didn’t Join Manchester City
FOR days, Manchester City fans toyed with the news that Kaka would leave AC Milan and take up residence in Eastlands.
Now Anorak can reveal why that deal did not go though and how it was too late for Manchester City fan Christopher Atkinson.
To an office in Milan. Kaka is seated in his football kit and boots. His agent is talking…
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Posted: 6th, February 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment
What We Learnt In Sport This Week
WHAT we learnt in sport this week: Nodding heads overheard…
“Eight yards out, Younes Kaboul, BANG! It’s in all the way, part from the fact it hit the crossbar” – Chris Kamara, Sky Sports
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Which Man Utd player sunbathed under Old Trafford’s UV lights?
A Man Utd groundsman has revealed he found a United player sunbathing under the UV lighting used to help the grass grow on the pitch at Old Trafford. True story.
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Posted: 5th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Liverpool fans taunt Everton rivals… with socks
DURING last night’s 1-0 defeat to Everton in the FA Cup, some Liverpool fans threw socks onto the pitch. Well, it’s safer than coins or cigarette lighters.
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Liverpool And Everton’s Bad Advert For ITV Football
TO last night Everton v Liverpool FA Cup thrillers and we go live! to an advert break with the scores at 1-0.
VW Golf… to Directory Enquires… on to Dyson…intercepted by Oxoo Cubes…. taken up by Tic-Tac…. Refereee!!!!
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Posted: 5th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
