Northern Irish nutters change their names by deed poll

What can you say? I don’t know whether to laugh or cry after watching the Belfast version of David and Victoria Beckham talk through getting their name changed by deed poll and a subsequent conversation with the genuine, bungee-jumping David Beckham.

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BBC’s unfortunate technical problems

A technical problem with the BBC’s homepage has reduced the mysterious deaths of civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo to mere sport. In the screen dump above, you can clearly see that the Beeb’s top sport story for the day is DR Congo ‘civilian deaths’ probed. Suppose it puts the probe into Sir Alex Ferguson’s rant at Mike Dean into perspective anyway.

What have you done Juande to make you feel proud?

This headline from the Telegraph’s website proclaims that: “Juande Ramos has restored Tottenham’s pride.” It only goes to show how quickly things can turnaround in the cut-throat world of football. The story was written just eight months ago in February.

Spurs fans might be divided on who to blame for their current situation, and whether or not Ramos should be fired from his post or given more time, but few would say they are proud at sitting at the foot of the Premier League.

Birthday presents, Glasgow style!

A Rangers fan returned from a birthday weekend away to find his house, garden and even wheelie bin had been painted in green-and-white hoops by his prankster mates. The vans he uses for his bouncy castle business were also given the Celtic treatment and a banner proclaiming “Hoopy 25th Birthday” was put up on his house.
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OK, it’s getting a bit silly now

To follow-up yesterday’s clanger from MSN, we have now found this article from last Friday in which they call Joe Kinnear - for some reason best known to themselves - Roy Kinnear. As we pointed out yesterday, Roy Kinnear is an actor who died in 1988 after falling from a horse and suffering a heart attack. Sort it out!

MSN appoints deceased English actor Roy Kinnear as new Magpies boss

Oops! This one slipped through the net. According to MSN, Roy Kinnear is raging at “scandalous press”. Either MSN have employed a bloody good medium to contact the actor who passed away in 1988, or someone has messed up. We would say they deserved the sack but as Juande Ramos is still in a job it is difficult to make a good case for it!

Violet is so last season

The Romanian equivalent of FC United or AFC Wimbledon has been docked points for continuing to use the identity of its former guise. FC Timisoara have been order by the Romanian football federation and FIFA to stop using the name, colours and club history of rivals FC Politehnica Timisoara.

FC Politehnica Timisoara was bought by Italian businessman Claudio Zambon and moved to the outskirts of Bucharest (which is probably favourable in comparison to a move to Milton Keynes!). The understandably disgruntled former owners of the club set-up a new club in Timisoara called FC Timisoara.
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