Another excellent round-up by the Guardian:
Football transfer rumours: Manchester City chasing Xavi? | Football | guardian.co.uk
Another day, another tedious mention of Pippa Middleton's backside, England's strangest obsession since everyone stopped moaning about Polish workers. What is this all about? It's just a backside. Everyone's got one, even posh people.
The Mill hasn't seen Pippa Middleton's backside yet, but we have heard plenty of rumour-mongers talking out of their backside in our time. None, however, have ever produced pucky to match today's suggestion that
the high priest of tiki-taka, Xavi, will join Manchester City in the summer.
Roberto Mancini's plan to build a side comprised entirely of men whose surnames end in a vowel - what else did you think the point of Dedryck Boyata and Patrick Vieira was? - will continue when he swoops for
Internazionale's Samuel Eto'o. Inter, however, will not do business for a biscuit less than £45m.
City's monstrously absurd chief executive
Garry Cook has also tabled a joint £200m bid to Barcelona for their midfield duo
Tiki and Taka.
Pippa Middleton's backside will ensure
world peace by the year 2017.
If Xavi joins City, that will free up a space in the
Barcelona squad for
Cesc Fábregas. When Xavi doesn't join City, Barcelona will make space in their squad for Cesc Fábregas anyway.
Pippa Middleton wouldn't, even if you were the last etcetera on etcetera, so stop this silly little obsession. You're a grown man.
Sir Alex Ferguson wants to continue the proud tradition of French centre-halves at Old Trafford - Prunier, Silvestre, Blanc - with the signing of
Lens' man-boy Raphaël Varane, who is a first-team regular at 18.
It's not going to happen between
you and
Pippa Middleton.
The Liverpool owner, John Henry, will fly to Anfield to celebrate the club's 2011-12 title victory during Sunday's match against Spurs.
Kenny Dalglish will be confirmed as permanent manager before the match, and has already lined up two wigwam signings: the Reading forward
Shane Long and the Aston Villa geriátrico
Brad Friedel. Meanwhile,
Robert Green will go to
Villa and Juventus will pay £10m for
Wigan's Charles Insomnia.
Pippa Middleton is a man.
Neil Warnock will receive a bumper financial bonus for getting QPR promoted, namely the pay-off that comes with a fresh P45.
Claudio Ranieri will replace him.
That Pippa Middleton's a bit of all right, eh?