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Tea towels you keep forever linked to food poisoning

Your tea towel is killing you. Maybe. The Daily Mail says “repeatedly using an old one could help to spread food poisoning”.

 

 

It’s said much the same thing many times.
“A 2015 … (read more)

Posted: 11th, June 2018 | In: News, Tabloids | Comment

Transfer Balls: Torreira is Arsenal’s new one-man midfield

In what TeamTalk calls a “boost” for Unai Emery, a “€25m Serie A star” Lucas Torreira has  “agrees” to transfer to Arsenal.

 

Done deal!

 

Teamtalk says Lucas Torreira’s … (read more)

Posted: 11th, June 2018 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Breaking: Posh and Becks STILL married

More ‘no news’ news on the Sun’s cover: David Beckham and Victoria are still married. Yesterday they held hands at a London fashion event. It was a “show of unity”. … (read more)

Posted: 11th, June 2018 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids | Comment

The Free Tommy Robinson March and World Naked Bike Riders collide in London

London – June 9 2018:

The Free Tommy Robinson March has accidentally bumped into the World Naked Bike Ride event in London. What a time to be alive. pic.twitter.com/gTF0YIapdJ
— Chairman Lmao … (read more)

Posted: 10th, June 2018 | In: News | Comment

Transfer balls: Fekir rejects Liverpool

No News – Breaking! France forward Nabil Fekir is not joining Liverpool. Fekir will remain at Lyon. Fekir was supposed to join Liverpool for 60m euros. He even wore the Liverpool … (read more)

Posted: 9th, June 2018 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment

Transfer balls: Fakir kisses the Liverpool badge but still plays for Lyons

Liverpool have not signed Nabil Fakir for £53million. News is that the Reds stalled after the Lyon took his medical with the club. Fekir performed media duties in a Liverpool … (read more)

Posted: 9th, June 2018 | In: Back pages, Liverpool, Sports | Comment

Transfer balls: Higuain and Lewandowski to Chelsea; Arsenal still waiting

Whenever Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain pop up in transfer chatter, we laugh a little. It’s been five years since the Sun told its readers that Arsenal had “smashed their transfer … (read more)

Posted: 8th, June 2018 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Transfer balls: Nabil Fakir wants Liverpool; dreams of Barcelona

Joyous transfer balls balls on the BBC.  The national broadcaster picks up the tale of Nabil Fakir’s move from Lyon to Liverpool. Get a load of this: “Lyon will allow forward … (read more)

Posted: 7th, June 2018 | In: Back pages, Liverpool, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Heinz Salad Cream or Sandwich Cream: the taste of bottled jizz

Heinz Salad Cream is relaunching. The sweetened gunk is to change it name to ‘Sandwich Cream’ because, as the marketing bilge states, “millennials don’t use it on salad.” But they … (read more)

Posted: 7th, June 2018 | In: Celebrities, The Consumer | Comment

Transfer balls: Yacine Adli joins Arsenal at 18; Higuain still missing

Have Arsenal signed Yacine Adli for just £223,000? The Metro and Sun says they have.

 

 

The media seem confused. The Sun says:
RMC Sport claim he has penned a three-year deal, with the option … (read more)

Posted: 6th, June 2018 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson reunited in Mirror and Mail cut and paste disaster

The Mirror is promoting an auction of photographs by “royal snapper” John Scott, who died in 1986. The paper omits to mention where the auction is talking place – you … (read more)

Posted: 6th, June 2018 | In: Key Posts, News, Royal Family, Tabloids | Comment

Liverpool balls: Karius ‘dumped’ and remade in Chelsea

Yet another “exclusive” in the Daily Star, which brings news of Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius. He’s been “dumped after girlfriend gets death threats over Champions League howlers”. Before we get … (read more)

Posted: 6th, June 2018 | In: Back pages, Liverpool, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Clickbait transfer news: Manchester United ‘told to SACK’ Mourinho

“Man Utd transfer news: Bigwigs told to abandon plans and sack Jose Mourinho – EXCLUSIVE.” So thunders the Daily Star.  “MANCHESTER UNITED need to focus on changing their manager – … (read more)

Posted: 6th, June 2018 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Arsenal: Papastathopoulos and Fellaini reject Manchester United; Lichtsteiner joins; Gunners go tall

Who will be Unai Emery’s first signing at Arsenal? If media chatter is any guide, it’ll be someone tall. The large Sokratis Papastathopoulos looks to be on his way. The centre-back should complete a … (read more)

Posted: 5th, June 2018 | In: Arsenal, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Spurs kill Pochettino’s dream to manage Real Madrid

Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino has been talking about Real Madrid. He told us he’d have to listen if the Spanish club offered him the manager’s job. He gave Real a … (read more)

Posted: 5th, June 2018 | In: Back pages, Sports, Spurs | Comment

The Last Line – an outstanding bit of British TV from 1981

In 1981 ATV went to the Wolverhampton Fiesta. Jacqueline was there. She was about to do something dangerous. John Swallow reports:

 

 

Spotter: @aflashbak and @CFBClips – two Twitter accounts well worth … (read more)

Posted: 4th, June 2018 | In: TV & Radio | Comment

One Year After London Bridge and still no talk about Islam

A year ago Islamists murdered eight people in an attack at London Bridge. A year on and the BBC says the eight “died”. Yesterday at a remembrance service for the … (read more)

Posted: 4th, June 2018 | In: News | Comment

Samuel Umtiti and the Manchester United transfer delivered in code

News that France international centre-half Samuel Umtiti has agreed a new five-year contract with Barcelona should disappoint tabloid-reading Manchester United fans. Umtiti, who joined Lyon for €25m in 2016, will remain at … (read more)

Posted: 4th, June 2018 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Real want Spurs boss Pochettino; fans want Liverpool’s Klopp; Balague eats himself

The BBC says Real Madrid are no longer interested in Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino. Sky Sports adds a little more: “Real Madrid end interest in Mauricio Pochettino, says Guillem Balague.” Ah, him. Balague is the expert … (read more)

Posted: 3rd, June 2018 | In: Back pages, Liverpool, Sports, Spurs | Comment

Stanley Nelson’s film shown to all Starbucks workers – both racist and non-racist

When Starbucks stores closed for racial training – half a day training adults not to be bigots – staff watched this video by Stanley Nelson. Called The Story of Access, here … (read more)

Posted: 3rd, June 2018 | In: News, The Consumer | Comment

Transfer balls: Arsenal have £88m for Dembele; Liverpool have tea with his mum

Arsenal are using Borussia Dortmund as a feeder club, chasing the German side’s former star Ousmane Dembele. The Gunners want the forward to play with his former teammates Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and … (read more)

Posted: 3rd, June 2018 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Liverpool, Sports | Comment

Media still gunning for Manchester City striker Raheem Sterling

Manchester City and England forward Raheem Sterling is a “great example” to us all, says England manger Gareth Southgate. His tattoo of a gun is no-one’s business but his own. … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, June 2018 | In: Back pages, Manchester City, Sports | Comment

John Prescott is a Clint Eastwood look alike

In the Times news that Hollywood politician and actor Clint Eastwood looks a lot like John Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister:

 

 

Clint Eastwood, of course, only pretended the punch people in … (read more)

Posted: 1st, June 2018 | In: Celebrities, Politicians | Comment

Man jailed for pooing in hole on children’s golf course

To Wales, where a man was filmed on CCTV pooing into a hole on the children’s pitch-and-putt golf course, Parc Coed Helen in Caernarfon. The Cambrian News says Philip Blakemore, 22, … (read more)

Posted: 31st, May 2018 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Zidane leaves Real Madrid; Spurs fret over Pochettino; Wenger hopeful

Zinedine Zidane is leaving Real Madrid boss, going out on an almighty high after leading the to a third straight Champions League triumph. He says the club needs “a different … (read more)

Posted: 31st, May 2018 | In: News, Sports | Comment

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