Throughout history sport has had an intimate relationship with animals; horse racing, running with bulls, hump the camel. An American football is nicknamed ‘pigskin’ after the original practice of running with and throwing a piglet with the aim of depositing it safely in the ‘Penzone’. [read...]
Despite having been dead for 10 years, fans of Len Goodman are violently insisting he make a return to ‘Strictly’. One rioter shouted: ‘Let’s face it, Len’s a bit of a reactionary dithering duffer. He’s old school. [read...]
Hampshire’s pheasants are expressing anger at Aung San Suu Kyi’s silence as they are beaten from their natural habitats and shot in cold blood. Survivors have reported seeing fern patches being trampled upon with smoke rising from the ends of shot-guns as defenceless birds come under attack by wax-coated-madmen or ‘Barbourians’, [read...]
