Archive for April, 2008

Has Gordon Brown got two left feet?

PM Gordon Brown just can’t get it right.

He goes off to the US at the same time as the pope is visiting there, grabbing all the headlines, and the other day he turned up at Paddington Station in London to …

Floggin’ Max Mosley makes a comeback

Embattled Formula One boss Max Mosley is to attend next month’s Monaco Grand Prix - but, “only because I live there.”

Max, who was caught by the News of the World lashing (and being lashed by) five hookers in a highly suspicious …

Rafa’s luck runs out, it’s Avram on top

Rafa Benitez of Liverpool has probably been the luckiest Champion’s League manager ever at Liverpool (although he did lose two finals with Valencia).

But his luck ran out tonight, when John-Arne Riise chose to head a ball he should have booted …

Will Hillary do the decent thing?

That is, throw in the towel if Barack Obama wins, or gets close, in Pennsylvania?

I’ve been a Hillary supporter (let’s face it, anyone would be better than Bush) but I think this ‘experience’ thing she’s pushing is a bit rich. …

Even if they win it’s another vale of tears for Chelsea

Chelsea are playing Liverpool in the semi-final first leg of the Champion’s League tomorrow.

Will they win? Well Liverpool have beaten them in the quarter finals twice in the past three years. And that was with Jose Mourinho as manager.

Now they’ve …

A Bafta for Bruce, and not before time

80-year-old Bruce Forsyth won a Bafta long service gong the other night, and not before time.

Usually these go to the Attenboroughs and other pillars of the media establishment but it’s appropriate that Britain’s longest-lasting song and dance man should be …

The Princes and the showgirl

Not content with using a much-in-demand Chinook helicopter as a mini-cab, heir to the throne Prince William has been carousing in Cowes with bruv Harry and an intriguingly-named showgirl Gigi La Chance.

Gigi, a former dancer at Stringfellow’s apparently, remains a …

Will Martin Johnson really be England’s rugby saviour?

He was a great player but, as he freely admits, has no experience of coaching or managing a top rugby side.

But England’s World Cup-winning captain Martin Johnson is now installed as England’s rugby supremo (although even he doesn’t seem to …

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