Off The Record
If there’s something that must be said, but cannot be said within blogging / journalistic confines, this is the place to say it. We’ve used this column to poke fun, to provoke and to just say our minds.
EXPOSED: Daily Mail Hacks Are Morons
The English tabloids pride themselves on having the ‘pulse’ of the nation. In truth, they are opportunists, shamelessly using exaggeration and false morality to paint themselves as whiter than white (NOTW ‘undercover’ agents investigating prostitutes and drug dealers always cracks me up). Sometimes they step over the line, as NOTW have done several times in…
Manchester United stars in prostitution and drug-related news…
I’m thinking of applying for a job at News of the World. In a pinch, I’ll take a gig at The Sun as well. Just think about it – you get to make up the most outrageous of fantasies based on the flimsiest of ‘tips’, get full points for groan-inducing headlines, go undercover to strip…
Who would own a football club?
It’s a strange job owning a football club. You are expected to invest millions of pounds (or roubles, or dollars or Emirati dirham) into something which is still the assumed property of hundreds of thousands of often-drunken, often-abusive, often-tattooed supporters who have no idea about the behind-the-scenes workings of a football club. Despite the massive…
Roy Keane: Jack Warner is a clown
Thank you, Mr Keane, for expressing how many football fans feel about Warner in a direct, succinct manner.
Usain Bolt to train with Real Madrid
USAIN BOLT – the world’s fastest man – is to train with Real Madrid to help improve their players run faster. Bolt: “They have invited me to train with them. I’ll definitely go. I think Raul and Van Nistelrooy are some of the best goalscorers ever. I’ve watched Van Nistelrooy from when he was with…
5 potential new sponsors for West Ham
New West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola was bound to want to make his own mark on the club, but few would have expected that the first person to leave would be the sponsor. The Hammers’ £2.5 million a year backer, XL.com, has gone into administration. The news did not break before West Ham had paraded…
Do you want to be the next West Ham manager?
Do you: speak good English? talk about football? know the Premier League? have peers who respect you as a footballer? help out younger players? like London? think you are a charming fella who promises anything he’s asked to promise? support a club other than West Ham? According to well-placed sources, this is the exact set…
5 conspiracy theories behind the Liverpool robberies
Robbie Keane joins Steven Gerrard, Dirk Kuyt, Daniel Agger and Pepe Reina as well as former Liverpool players Peter Crouch and Jerzey Dudek on the list of Liverpool players whose homes have been burgled in recent years. Last year we dismissed the conspiracy theories, but what if the people behind at least some of the…
20 Billionaires you want buying your football club
Come on down! These days everyone wants to be taken over by a billionaire and then immediately get linked with players worth more than the entire debt of Africa. But how? Ker-Ching! It’s easy! The Premier League title awaits, all you have to do is pick out a billionaire, flutter your eyelashes and as sure…
Arabs to build Liverpool stadium, plans to merge club with Manchester City
Just how rich are the new sugar daddies at the Eastlands? Rich enough to build a football stadium with their OWN money. Take that, you American bastards. In fact they’re so rich that they have launched an audacious bid to sign four of Liverpool’s top players in return for building the Reds’ long-awaited new stadium…
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