http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/lancearmstrong/5138094/Lance-Armstrong-French-could-ruin-my-Le-Tour-ambitions.html

tip: check the byline

🙂

taking a shower without permission, no wonder the French don’t like him, they don’t shower do they?*

*this is a joke Juan, no offence intended xx

no cigar for rocketdog
try again
🙂

can i have a pipe?, i like a pipe

no.

and Im not going to spell it out, because that will spoil it for everyone else. 🙂

*sulks*

Private Eye had a thing about the Maily Telegraph doing this for its cricket coverage. As they’ve laid off all their sports staff they rely on agency copy with a byline. They presumably haven’t had any cycling writers for decades anyway. 🙂

BD, confession: that’s where I got the tip from 🙂

PS did I see you riding a blue framed, SS with mudguards up Strand this morning?

Dan Harbles is an anagram of Handlebars

samuri can have rocketdogs pipe.

will it tickle?

you’ll hardly feel a thing, there’s not a huge amount of tobacco in it either

I think Stoner must have something extra in his pipe.

Not sure if this is funny or sad…read on…

If you don’t read Private Eye then you will not be aware of the following:

The Daily Telegraph sacked almost all their freelance cricket- and other sporting- writers for that matter; and brought in:

Oliver Clive
Austin Peters
Charles Carrick
Matthew Hannah
William Gray
Perry Crooke
Dan Harbles.

All are fake by-lines for bought in news agency copy. Sorry folks- none of them exist.

The Eye got suspicious when Peters managed to report on cricket from Leicester along with snooker from Sheffield on the same day. Harbles is also supposedly the cycling correspondent- it’s an anagram of ‘handlebars’. Carrick then reported from Taunton on a Championship match but then- on the same day- reported on Spurs. v. Man United…….you get the idea.

A real and terrible shame.

http://www.wcccfansforum.com/miscellaneous-f6/cricket-coverage-the-daily-telegraph-and-you-t515.htm

Oh dear – what a joke of a paper.

it is a laughing stock now.

i think the web address is better.