Burn Baby, burn…

10 years ago

The Greatest

10 years ago

Arsene’s having a party

10 years ago

Some of these designs are beautiful…and free!

10 years ago

That escalated quickly. Just a few weeks ago, Jamie Vardy and Leicester City were celebrating one of the most thrilling and unexpected title wins in the history of the game. There was wide-scale jubilation and it seemed as if everyone in the land was joining in the fun and merriment. One of the surprise stars […]

10 years ago

There are two ways of dealing with terror. You can either give the terrorists exactly what they desire, and cower in fear and panic, or you can remain resolute and undeterred. They want you to worry; they hope to fuck up your plans. What they don’t want under any circumstances is to be ridiculed. If there is […]

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You’ve got to feel for Brendan Rodgers. It seems that no matter what he says or does, he just gets the piss ripped out of him by everyone. The 43-year-old was unveiled as the new manager of Celtic recently, and the first reaction of many was to mock, mainly for his assertion that Celtic are […]

10 years ago

Good old Louis. Although Manchester United fans are understandably ecstatic about the long-awaited appointment of Jose Mourinho as their new manager, their feelings towards Louis van Gaal seem to have softened markedly over the last week or so. We are delighted to announce Jose Mourinho is our new manager! Full statement: https://t.co/PDiHMIWnpd #WelcomeJose pic.twitter.com/eZ8NBSz2up — […]

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It’s a sign of the times. With salary and terms agreed, and willingness from all parties to conclude the deal as soon as possible, the final stumbling block to Jose Mourinho being appointed the new manager of Manchester United was of course image rights. Wow. All the Jose Mourinho trademarks owned by Chelsea. Includes lipsticks, lingerie, […]

10 years ago

So many classics to choose from, to be fair.

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A dog’s life.

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He was a little bit too Keen on social media.

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The eighties get a raw deal. It’s the most referenced decade when referring to fashion fuck-ups – particularly for men. Everyone points to the New Romantic movement, or Wham! and yet those styles slowly came back in. And let’s not forget how cool the likes of Michael J. Fox, Eddie Murphy and Matthew Broderick looked back in the day. […]

10 years ago

You get low battery anxiety…

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Jose Mourinho and Manchester United. It’s a potentially explosive mix. The Portuguese brings with him an exemplary CV and undoubted charisma. He also drags along more baggage than Mariah Carey on a short tour of Europe. So much could go wrong, but it is such an irresistible prospect that it had to happen one day. The […]

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This could make going to the pictures as easy as a few swipes of your finger. Not content with their domination of the selfie market, Snapchat are now entering the movie business…or the cinema business at least. They want to become the box office in your pocket by selling you tickets for the big screen […]

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Snapping out of it.

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Don’t Stay Another Day

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The manager now knows his fate. Despite the rest of the world being aware of the rumours since Saturday, Louis van Gaal was only informed of his sacking on Monday morning. The 64-year-old and his entire Dutch coaching team have been ditched, and they are said to be livid. According to reports, they had already started preparing for next season. Here […]

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It’s happening. Louis van Gaal is leaving Manchester United. Reports of the 64-year-old’s departure from Old Trafford started up as soon as the final whistle was blown on the Red Devils’ FA Cup final victory on Saturday. Since then, rumours of Van Gaal leaving United, and being replaced by former protege Jose Mourinho, have gone […]

10 years ago

Not everyone thinks it’s a good thing.

10 years ago

Alpha email

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There is being a perfectionist, and there’s this. England notched up another victory in the run-up to the European Championships on Sunday by overcoming a stubborn Turkish side 2-1 at the Etihad Stadium. It wasn’t quite the scintillating display that the Manchester crowd were hoping for, but in fairness to Roy Hodgson, he only has a […]

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They’re fighting a losing battle. It seems that Manchester United’s press office are working overtime trying to put out fires in the media. Since the moment that Saturday’s FA Cup was won, manager Louis van Gaal’s future has been the subject of huge debate and rumour. All the major news agency ran the story that […]

10 years ago

Worse than fishwives. If you’re not familiar with the 18th Century stereotype, women who sold fish in the days of yore were lumped with something of an unfortunate reputation. It was one of loud, foul-tongued blabbermouths who loved collecting other people’s gossip and spreading it around to all and sundry. Now that may seem horribly sexist by […]

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The end is nigh. Manchester United fans who have hoped and prayed for months that Louis van Gaal would leave the club and be replaced by Jose Mourinho now seem strangely gripped with sympathy for the big Dutchman. Reports emerged minutes after United’s FA Cup win on Saturday that Jose Mourinho was set to be […]

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You know you’re in trouble when a 74-year-old is ripping into your threads. Tinie Tempah’s performance prior to the FA Cup final on Saturday may not have been to everyone’s taste, but Sir Alex Ferguson seemed more pre-occupied with the rapper’s shiny garb. The FA have shared fascinating pre-game footage from Wembley’s ‘tunnelcam’ via their YouTube channel, and […]

10 years ago

One’s a sprawling, expensive mess. The other is the new X-Men movie.

10 years ago

Forget Top Gear, this is the Matt LeBlanc we know and love. The former star of Friends may be about to front the new series of the motor show alongside Chris Evans, but it’s his 12-year stint in the New York-based sitcom that remains his most celebrated work to date. Alongside Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa […]

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Klopped up

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Could the Old Firm finally be coming to England? With the news that the Football League plan to introduce an extra division from the start of the 2019/20 season – resulting in an increase from 92 teams to a round 100 – there are renewed hopes that Celtic and Rangers could be two of the eight new sides. Both […]

10 years ago

Here’s what we know about the search for the missing plane.

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People can be so cruel. Liverpool’s Europa League dream came crashing down before their eyes on Wednesday in a wretched second-half display in Basel, as they allowed Sevilla to comeback from 1-0 down to win 3-1. It was a difficult result to take after a wonderful European campaign and a first-half performance that promised so […]

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There’s a time and a fucking place. After a thrilling Europa League campaign which included some of the most glowing highlights of Jurgen Klopp’s first season at Anfield, Liverpool failed at the final hurdle and lost 3-1 to Sevilla. The players in red were understandably devastated at the final whistle, as were the thousands of Scouse […]

10 years ago

God bless Danny Ings. The Liverpool striker is something of a favourite here at JOE towers, partly for his frankly heart-warming kind deeds, but also for his weird and wonderful videos. He may have suffered a serious injury this season but it has never affected his sunny disposition or good humour. That was evident again this week […]

10 years ago

Fancying someone is fine, but that’s not what this is about.

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Everything Sir Alex Ferguson says and does is for a reason. To suggest otherwise is not to know the great man at all. The legendary Scot is conniving, disingenuous, manipulative, and quite often shameless. Now, as in his glory days as the greatest manager of them all, Fergie uses words with the clinical accuracy of […]

10 years ago

This is a strange one, so please bear with us… Just after 4pm on Tuesday afternoon, Sky Sports News tweeted a video filed by their northern correspondent James Cooper reporting that Louis van Gaal was due to remain as the manager of Manchester United this summer. It was from a segment that had aired on the channel earlier […]

10 years ago

An obscene £150,000-a-week for a one-paced has-been mercenary who will be 35 years old in October. In many ways, Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s touted move from Paris Saint-Germain to Manchester United this summer seems typical of the Old Trafford club at present. An expensive ‘marquee’ signing whose acquisition would be on reputation alone and look very much like a […]

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The buck stops hair.

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He’s got the moves.

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How’s about this for being economical with the truth? God love Sky Sports. Since 1992 they’ve been doing their best to portray a somewhat sanitised version of football for the masses to consume at their leisure. And fair dues, they’ve helped popularise the sport. But some things are obvious to one and all, so there’s […]

10 years ago

Well played you lot. Whenever we call upon you for inspiration, you very rarely let us down and for that we are extremely grateful…mainly because it means we can just share your funny stuff rather than thinking of our own. We all know Game of Thrones is something of a cultural phenomenon that transcends its […]

10 years ago

This lot need to have a cold shower. It’s fair to say that most Liverpool fans have been praying for a new goalkeeper for a while now. Current number one Simon Mignolet does have his moments of inspired stopping, but he’s just as prone to as many brainfarts. So it will come as a huge relief to […]

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Comb and have a go if you think you’re hard enough. There have been previous computer-generated images of Manchester United’s third kit for season 2016/17, but this is the first time we’ve seen an actual real-life photograph of the forthcoming white design. Adidas’ new template for all their new kits sees their iconic three stripes moved from […]

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What a farce

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If this is true, it is extremely embarrassing for Manchester United. Whilst everyone was commending the club and its security staff for the swift way in which they dealt with the potential bomb threat, it now seems that they may have been inadvertently responsible. The Daily Mail’s Mike Keegan reports that the ‘incredibly realistic’ hoax […]

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The show must go on. After Manchester United’s final game of the season with Bournemouth on Sunday was abandoned due to a bomb scare, the game has swiftly been rearranged for this week. Although the suspicious package that caused the abandonment was later found to be a very realistic hoax, the club and the police […]

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This is a worrying development on an already unsettling day. On the day that Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium was evacuated due to a bomb alert, that turned out to be a very realistic hoax, a Ryanair plane bound for Manchester have been evacuated to due to a potential terror threat. According to Norwegian news agency Dagbladet […]

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Sunday was an incredibly tense day at Old Trafford. A matchday that started with Manchester United fans hoping that their result against Bournemouth at home and Manchester City’s game with Swansea City at Liberty Stadium would somehow allow them Champions League football next season, ended up watching no football at all. That’s because a suspect package – that […]

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