Daily Star transfer rumours

[twinkletoes]

A Twitter campaign is underway to highlight the number of football stories being broken by the Daily Star Sunday newspaper in England. All the articles in question share certain characteristics which have attracted the suspicion of a number of online commentators.

They all contain quotes from elite footballers from European leagues. None of the players in question speak English as a first language and many of them barely speak English at all. None of them habitually give interviews to the media either.

Yet the Daily Star Sunday has somehow managed to overcome this series of seemingly insurmountable obstacles to gain unprecedented access to these players.

See the link below to see a selection of some of the fairy tales




<a class="postlink" href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/473881-beware-sensationalist-football-stories-by-the-daily-star" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://bleacherreport.com/articles/4738 ... daily-star</a>

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Ben Fairthorne was unmasked as the biggest con-artist in Fleet Street history.

A number of clubs, including City, Barcelona, even Ronaldo, took legal action.

It emerged he was simply making up the quotes and created an elaborate back story which most of the nationals were all too happy to accept.

He made tens of thousands from his lies until it all came crashing down.

 

[bluemoondays]

Errm, you do realise that story was from September 2010?

 

[twinkletoes]

Errm, you do realise that story was from September 2010?

Yes but apparently it is still happening and the stories are now attributed to someone else.

 

[charliebigspuds]

I've always said that when the transfer window opens they get all the players names in one bucket and all the clubs in another and then they pick one from each bucket and write a story about a possible transfer. They're not daft enough to write a story about messi joining bury but i think that is where the line is drawn!