comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 12 hours, 46 minutes ago
comment by RB&W -Same Place-Same Club-Same Man (U21434)
posted 57 minutes ago
It was reported on the BBC as fact. So I'd assume there must have been some sort of briefing
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Hilarious.


The BBC on their website in the Sport/Football pages have a daily feature called Gossip. In it they collate and report football stories and rumours published in the UK mainstream press.

If you actually believe that as the BBC publish this feature everyday they are in anyway verifying the authenticity and sources of the crap that UK journalists write and publish aboyt football in their newspapers, then you really need to give your head a wobble.
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I am fully aware of the gossip column and what it is. The BBC don't try and pretend that it's anything other than aggregated rumours from other outlets.

But when they publish an article and report it as fact then that carries a lot more weight. The Telegraph got the scoop on this story. But you can be sure that the BBC will have verified the story themselves before running the story.
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Nonsense. They attributed the story to the Telegraph.