DAILY MAIL JOURNO CAUGHT IN THE ACT!!!
A Daily Mail journalist was left 'blue-faced' with embarrassment today, after it was revealed that he had created a Guy Fawkes-like dummy of Carlos Tevez and then set fire to it in an attempt to grab headlines.
The journalist, named only as 'Sportsmail Reporter' in the article, is set to be investigated with a view to naming and shaming for this act of desperation. News agencies around the world have been starved of information from both Carlos Tevez and Manchester City Football Club, since the alleged refusal of the player to take part in a Champion's League match in Germany last week. Now, one of the Mail's team is set to land his or herself in hot water after an eye witness confirmed he saw the whole set-up.
The witness, named only as 'Baz', saw events unfold as the dummy was erected, photographed, set on fire, and then photographed again some more. It is though Manchester City Football Club will be contacting this witness in an attempt to aid possible charges against the Daily Mail.
Suspicions were originally raised with the apparent clarity of the reporter's pictures, taken both before and after the dummy was set alight, and also the fact that none of the pictures showed any other perpetrators. Despite this, the reporter claims in their piece that they saw nobody, depsite having photographic evidence of being there themselves both prior to, and during, the burning of the Tevez effigy.
According to industry rumour, the reporter in question claims they have a cast iron alibi for the night the photographs were alleged to have been taken, in The Ghost Who Never Lies, whom unfortunately for investigators, only that said reporter can ever see or hear.
It is thought that everyone else will laugh at the thought of buying the Daily Mail just a little more this week.
