Micah Richards, the 21-year-old England and Manchester City footballer, has recovered from a bout of the ol' swine flu. This was revealed to the world by everyone's favourite, loveable and huggable PR "guru" Max Clifford on behalf of Richards.
"When I was told I had swine flu all sorts of things started going through my mind. You see on the news people dying of it," said Richards, obviously completely oblivious to any actual facts about swine flu - like how regular year-on-year influenza deaths are down by about the same number that swine flu has amassed. I'm sure even Micah Richards and his double-digit IQ could work it out, if he got over the rather large stumbling block of reading a quality newspaper of course... - [read more]
Alan Pardew is an ex-footballer. Don't expect him to speak like anything other than an ex-footballer.
Alan Pardew yesterday did something very silly. That silly thing? Use a colloquialism when on a professional job. Yes, he made a mistake. But no, this mistake was not referring to tough footballing challenge by Chelsea player Michael Essien as 'rape' - the source of the current uproar - but rather being naive enough to allow such a colloquial term to enter his diction when being paid to present his opinion on national television.
Most reports of the story currently uphold the image of former West Ham manager Pardew's comment being "bizarre" and "unheard of"... - [read more]
