Euro 2008 Fact Attack!

Austrian dairy company Straussli Kindli are providing every team in the tournament with a post-match yoghurt bath, with over 60 flavours for them to choose from. The winning nation will go on to receive a giant bell made out of butter.

ANOTHER EURO 2008 FACT TOMORROW!

Terry Tears Heal Sick

Chelsea Football Club today revealed one positive outcome from John Terry’s emotional outburst after the European Cup defeat to Manchester United: his tears have healing powers.
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Chiles Left Speechless – At Last

Five Live, One Show and Match of the Day 2 presenter Adrian Chiles says he is “gutted and flabbergasted” by a new BBC instruction that he must stop talking about himself.
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Champions League Final – Your Fact Pack

• In keeping with tradition, both captains will be presented with a guinea pig by Michel Platini before the kick off.

• During their coverage of the final, Sky use over eleven miles of cable, enough to strangle every Tyrannosaurus Rex that ever lived three times, until it was really dead.

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Spotted…

West Ham boss Alan Curbishley furtively unscrewing the wheel nuts on a 2008 Lexus, whispering “No-one ever leaves this club”…
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Kanu Snubs Pompey For Soup And Cake Dream

FA Cup Final hero Nwankwo Kanu will not pursue a new deal at Portsmoth, according to reports issuing from Fratton Park today. Instead, the mercurial Nigerian plans to open a small catering stand at Slough station which will offer a delicious selection of home made soups and cakes.
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Beijing Long Jump In Peril

Olympic organisers in China are in a state of panic as an import ban on Plasticine means long jump foot marker boards cannot be properly filled.
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Inkblot Champions Blot Their Copybook

A major fight broke out at the 2008 International Inkblot Championships when judges failed to acknowledge the Saudi Arabian entry as “definitely looking like a giraffe.” Read the rest of this entry »

What The Papers Talk – European Special

ROME
AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti will not be leaving for Manchester City as he has got his coat caught in the revolving door of a very busy hotel. (BBC)

LARNACA
Tottenham defender Ricardo Rocha has told Juande Ramos that he wants to leave White Hart Lane this summer. He confided in Ramos that he had experienced a vivid dream in which God had told him to spend seventy days and nights sitting on a child’s merry-go-round in Larnaca. (Guardian)
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‘Day’s Not Over’ Say Beeb

BBC bosses have denied that comedian Kevin Day’s ‘humour’ spots on Match Of The Day 2 are to be axed and replaced each week with three minutes of footage of starving children.
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