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England goalkeeper David James surprised reporters last night by eschewing the England team’s official regalia of Marks & Spencer grey suit, waistcoat and tie at a function at the British High Commission, and instead opting for a yellow long-sleeved polyester top with elbow and shoulder padding, complemented by a pair of thick white gloves designed by Umbro.

‘Goalkeepers are like method actors,’ said former England goalkeeper Bob Wilson. ‘It’s not a role you can just slip in and out of. People assume that goalies wear different outfits to the rest of the team for the extra protection and easy on-field identification, but it’s actually because we want to show everyone that we’re individuals, and that different rules apply to us both on and off the pitch.’

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Posted: Jun 19th, 2010
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Wasps have announced that, acting on some market research they commissioned, they have changed their outlook and will no longer placidly fall into a jam jar containing water and drown.

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Posted: Jun 19th, 2010
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The grilling of Tony Hayward by a Congressional Committee is only the first humiliation that the BP boss will suffer following the announcement that he is to have his arse kicked by President Obama live on prime time TV. BP’s top management team were called to White House earlier this week to discuss the crisis situation which had left the President’s party in danger of losing ground in the forthcoming mid term elections.

Although BP swiftly agreed to suspend dividend payments and to contribute $20 billion to compensate victims of the pollution from their out of control deepwater oil well, the question of public retribution took several more gruelling hours painstaking negotiation before Obama’s team emerged triumphantly announcing that Tony Hayward would be kicked in the rear by the most powerful man in the world.

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Posted: Jun 19th, 2010
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Nottingham prostitute Kelly Sharples, 38, has paid an unemotional tribute to have-a-go hero George Watson, who was shot dead in a jewellers shop last week. Watson, 59, had been paying Sharples for sex once a fortnight for the past three years. Watson had been getting a battery fixed in his watch in a branch of Ernest [...]

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Posted: Jun 18th, 2010
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Scientists have today announced the probable existence of even more complicated particles, the concepts of which are even hard to grasp even for people as clever as them.

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Posted: Jun 18th, 2010
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