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Watch Ibrahimovich score for Manchester United after Claudio Bravo clanger (Video)

After all the hype, Manchester untied and Manchester City eventually played the world’s richest ever football match. With City 0-2 ahead, the Citizens’ news goalkeeper Claudio Bravo dropped the ball. … (read more)

Posted: 10th, September 2016 | In: Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment

What happened when ‘four big guys’ lifted a woman’s car into parking bay

To Fremantle, Western Australia,where Sally is outraged. She’s received a parking fine for not parking within the white lines. She posts a picture of her car with a front tyre barely … (read more)

Posted: 10th, September 2016 | In: Money, Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Seven-year-old boy’s pet lion goes missing

To Russian, where a seven-year-old boy is looking for his lost cat. It’s a big cat. It’s a lion, albeit a cub.

Happily, a local in the city of Ufa spotted … (read more)

Posted: 10th, September 2016 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Peace breaks out before Manchester United and Manchester City war

It’s Manchester Untied v Manchester City in the Premier League. It’s WAR! It is. The media has told us as much.

In the Mail Jose Mourinho tells Pep Guardiola “WE’RE READY TO RUMBLE”.

 

 

It’s WAR … (read more)

Posted: 10th, September 2016 | In: Back pages, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Why not allow police in burkas? They’re already wearing masks

Do you think it’s ok for a policewoman to wear a veil over her face? The Express and Daily Star says it could happen. Actually both papers say a police woman could … (read more)

Posted: 10th, September 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Brexit: Liam Fox, fat and lazy Britons must work for fascist UK

Good news, Brexiters, Britain’s trade secretary, Dr Liam Fox, a former GP, wants you to stop playing sport and work for the State. He says:
“This country is not the free- trading … (read more)

Posted: 10th, September 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Facebook says Napalm Girl ‘protects the community’

Having banned Napalm Gil from Facebook – and sent us a warning that posting the image could lead to our Page being removed – the website has relented.

“Because of its status … (read more)

Posted: 10th, September 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Transfer Balls: Real Madrid resign four Manchester United players in clickbait frenzy

The BBC says Real Madrid players Cristiano Ronaldo, 31, Gareth Bale, 27, midfielders Toni Kroos, 26, and Luka Modric, 30, are all on course to extend their contracts with Real Madrid.

The Daily … (read more)

Posted: 9th, September 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Manchester United v Manchester City: war points to a bore draw

It’s Manchester United v Manchester City. It’s the game between Pep Guardiola v  Jose Mourinho, what the Guardian calls a “poisonous rivalry”.

The media is awash with hype and hoopla. The game will … (read more)

Posted: 9th, September 2016 | In: Back pages, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment

The status of Jerusalem: Czech government agrees with King David (not the BBC and The Guardian)

And the capital of Israel is… Jerusalem! The city’s mayor, Nir Barkat, thanks the Czech government for that news. The Czechs have printed all school textbooks to show that Israel’s capital … (read more)

Posted: 9th, September 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Phuc Off: Zuckerberg and Facebook’s thought police erase Napalm Girl and you’re next

Facebook has a tricky relationship with censoring images. It recently censored a drawing of a human hand and banned Stephen Ellcock, who’d posted the image. But how do we stand of pictures … (read more)

Posted: 9th, September 2016 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: AC Milan want Spurs striker Harry Kane but Manchester United pass

Transfer balls: the BBC says Spurs and England striker Harry Kane is to be the subject of a bid from AC Milan. The Beeb says the Italians think Kane is … (read more)

Posted: 9th, September 2016 | In: Back pages, Sports, Spurs | Comment

Fabric closes as London goes soft on fun and hard on drugs

Islington council’s licensing committee said a “culture of drug use” existed at Fabric, the biggest nightclub in its manor, and revoked its license. The Metropolitan Police called for Fabric’s application to be reviewed following … (read more)

Posted: 8th, September 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Holler Timing: Liverpool FC frozen in sponsorship hell

Liverpool have a new ‘official timing parter’. It’s a brand called Holler. This is how Holler announced the deal on their website:

 

 

Yeah, not a single wrist in sight. Odd that a brand … (read more)

Posted: 8th, September 2016 | In: Key Posts, Liverpool, Money, Sports, The Consumer | Comment (1)

The colours of blindness and love

When Ashley was blind, her nearest and dearest described colours to her like this:
Yellow. I didn’t touch anything for this, they just told me that whenever you laugh so hard you can’t stop, … (read more)

Posted: 8th, September 2016 | In: Technology | Comment

Why I’m not buying an iPhone 7

Like millions of you, I’m not buying the New iPhone 7 because: a) they told me the iPhone 6s was the greatest phone ever and could not be beaten, and … (read more)

Posted: 8th, September 2016 | In: Money, Reviews, Technology | Comment (1)

Arsenal ball: Gunners get new Vieira and Petit in one

Good news for Arenal. Gunners new boy Granit Xhaka is in entire all-conquering central midfield pairing in one player.

Xhaka is the “new Emmanuel Petit”.

 

 

Xhaka is the new Patrick Vieira:

 

 

 

Arenal already have the new … (read more)

Posted: 8th, September 2016 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment

Dani Mathers naked gym shots make our skin crawl

Playboy model Dani Mathers, Playboy’s playmate of the year 2015, took a photo of a naked woman in the changing rooms at her gym, posted it on twitter and for explained: … (read more)

Posted: 8th, September 2016 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | Comment

Football Association chairman Greg Clarke rejects Greg Dyke’s plan to win the 2022 World Cup

Compare and contrast:

Football Association chairman Greg Clarke, September 2016:
“I’m not going to put pressure on and say we are going to win this tournament or that tournament.”
Football Association chairman Greg … (read more)

Posted: 8th, September 2016 | In: Back pages, Sports | Comment

Manchester United’s Academy is full of soft lads, says Nicky Butt

Former Manchester United stalwart Nicky Butt is talking to Henry Winter in the Times. Butt is now runs the Manchester United academy. It;s a good read, but the pick is what Butt … (read more)

Posted: 8th, September 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Chelsea balls: Hazard mocks Mourinho and Cahill looks to the future

Chelsea players Eden Hazard and Gary Cahill have “stuck the knife into former manager Jose Mourinho”, says the Express.  (It’s a mere flesh wound in the Sun – a “sly … (read more)

Posted: 8th, September 2016 | In: Back pages, Chelsea, Sports | Comment

EastBenders: rewriting the ‘legend’ of Michael Cashman and ‘yuppie poofs’

Lord Michael Cashman, the Labour MEP, is making a return to BBC soap opera EastEnders as  Colin Russell, the show’s first gay character.

Colin is remembered for a scene in 1987 when he and Barry … (read more)

Posted: 8th, September 2016 | In: Reviews, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment

IKEA balls: customer who said he got testicles caught in stool comes clean

When news broke that Claus Jorstad had got a testicle trapped in an IKEA stool, he laughed. “Haha, part of the story is a lie,” he tells Altaposten. “What is … (read more)

Posted: 8th, September 2016 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Arsenal’s Wenger unseats Manchester United’s Mourinho in ‘raging battle’

At a coaching conference in Switzerland, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger and Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho were both in attendance.

Spanish newspaper Marca recalls the following exchange as Sir Alex Ferguson is scheduled to … (read more)

Posted: 7th, September 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

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