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Man who shook hands with Sepp Blatter apologises ‘for causing offence’

a simple gesture of respect and reconciliation, leaving the other hand free to accept cashA man who yesterday shook hands with embattled FIFA president Sepp Blatter has sought to downplay the significance of his actions and apologise for any offence he may have caused.

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Posted: Nov 19th, 2011
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BBC to scrap Match of the Day in favour of FIFA2012

BBC officials announced today that they will no longer be showing Match of the Day in its current format and will replace the show with EA Sports’ award-winning FIFA2012 game. The move comes after researchers from the BBC Archive Unit analysed 20 years of MOTD commentary and realised nobody would be any the wiser.

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Posted: Nov 18th, 2011
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Unscrupulous website accused of search engine manipulation (Bieber Gaga Free Games Twilight)

googlingInternet users, including teenage Asian lesbians, have accused an unnamed online news outlet, described by its editor as the funniest website ever, of stuffing its articles with hot sexy phrases and references to the iPhone 5 so as to manipulate its rankings on the most popular web searches.

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Posted: Aug 3rd, 2011
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FIFA delegates to ‘pick a candidate, any candidate’

A man who is ‘not a shyster’ is expected to be re-elected as the president of a bunch of shysters at the FIFA conference in Zurich later today.

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Posted: Jun 1st, 2011
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NATO to bomb FIFA

Colonel BlatterThe UN Security Council has agreed to use ‘all necessary means’ to protect 2.3 billion innocent yet hopeful football-mad civilians worldwide and end tyranny at the heart of football.

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Posted: May 30th, 2011
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