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“Palacio” is actually Spanish for “entirely fictional”

1,143 comments July 17th, 2007

Journalists are the laziest people.  In my brief lifetime, I’ve worked in and around them, both on a national newspaper and a popular football magazine.  I have never come across people more dedicated to doing absolutely nothing.  That’s why we get on so well.

When I was at the newspaper, the sports journos would take three hour lunches, and get so drunk that the afternoon would be spent watching horse-racing and betting with their stationery as currency.

On the magazine, things took a turn for the surreal.  Editors, writers, and designers fought it out in a game of “Office Polo”, riding unicycles and impossibly small bikes whilst brandishing hockey sticks.  I kid you not.

So it was no surprise to me yesterday morning when I awoke to discover that The Sun had pinched a story from a little-known Boca Juniors blog and plonked it on their back page.  Spectacular.  Presumably it was 11pm, the game of Office Polo had gone into extra time, and they desperately needed something to sell a few papers.  The Fake Sheikh was playing a blinder in goal, so they decided to let him be and run with the Palacio story.

And then The Daily Mail, that bastion of integrity, spied the story and nicked it for their own website, and the back page of their sister publication, The Evening Standard.

Late last night the Boca Juniors President came out and denied knowing anything about it.  I could give you a link but seeing as it’s entirely in Spanish, it seems slightly pointless.  And then the great conductor behind this orchestral lie revealed his genius.  Though to be honest, what allowed him to succeed was approximately 10% his own ingenuity.  The other 90% was made up by the complete idiocy of the press.

The Arsenal squad has headed out to Austria, and ANR say that Freddie Ljungberg stayed behind.  To me, Arsene’s comments about Freddie being “90% likely to stay”, as opposed to absolutely certain, were an invitation to Fiorentina to up their bid.  Perhaps they have now done so.

Finally, I can exclusively reveal that Arsenal have agreed a fee for Porto’s Lucho Gonzalez.  He will fly in tomorrow for a medical.  An insider at the club has faxed us through details of the transfer.

If that’s not on the back page of tomorrow’s Sun I’ll be pissed.


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