It may sound as unlikely as Cheryl Cole lifting the restraining order against BBM, but as The Times reported last month a 24-team league, featuring 16 permanent sides including Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal and Paris St Germain, is set to be played in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
The Times says players, who would earn three to four times what they currently earn, would live on artificial peninsulas where “laws and morals of the continent” would not exist.
Sounds unbelievable right? Well that’s because it is, but those silly twats at The Times thought it was real and printed a huge ‘scoop’ on it last month. In fact the whole concept had been dreamt up by a French spoof website and The Times’ chief football correspondent Oliver Kay fell for it hook, line and sinker. Prat.
Just to add to the laughter, he initially stood by the story with the backing of The Times.
“I’ve been amused by the speculation about the source of this story,” Kay told Reuters after a day of intense internet piss-taking. “I can guarantee you 100 percent, 1,000 percent, 175 million percent, that my story had nothing to do with any website, spoof or otherwise.”
However, the following day The Times’ sports editor Tony Evans was forced to issue a humiliating climb down – possibly realising something was up when Kay used phrases like “1000 percent”.
“The Dream Football League (DFL) would turn into a journalistic nightmare,” Evans grovelled. “It would have been possible to ride out the storm, tell the world that time would vindicate the newspaper and allow memories of the furore to fade away. But that is not how The Times does things. We value our reputation.”
Unfortunately for Tony, no one else values it now – especially after reading the bit about games being visible by hologram in “local stadiums” in Europe, with the roars of fans sitting at Old Trafford being heard in the Gulf stadium. Tools.
It may sound as unlikely as Cheryl Cole lifting the restraining order against BBM, but as The Times reported last month a 24-team league, featuring 16 permanent sides including Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal and Paris St Germain, is set to be played in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
The Times says players, who would earn three to four times what they currently earn, would live on artificial peninsulas where “laws and morals of the continent” would not exist.
Sounds unbelievable right? Well that’s because it is, but those silly twats at The Times thought it was real and printed a huge ‘scoop’ on it last month. In fact the whole concept had been dreamt up by a French spoof website and The Times’ chief football correspondent Oliver Kay fell for it hook, line and sinker. Prat.
Just to add to the laughter, he initially stood by the story with the backing of The Times.
“I’ve been amused by the speculation about the source of this story,” Kay told Reuters after a day of intense internet piss-taking. “I can guarantee you 100 percent, 1,000 percent, 175 million percent, that my story had nothing to do with any website, spoof or otherwise.”
However, the following day The Times’ sports editor Tony Evans was forced to issue a humiliating climb down – possibly realising something was up when Kay used phrases like “1000 percent”.
“The Dream Football League (DFL) would turn into a journalistic nightmare,” Evans grovelled. “It would have been possible to ride out the storm, tell the world that time would vindicate the newspaper and allow memories of the furore to fade away. But that is not how The Times does things. We value our reputation.”
Unfortunately for Tony, no one else values it now – especially after reading the bit about games being visible by hologram in “local stadiums” in Europe, with the roars of fans sitting at Old Trafford being heard in the Gulf stadium. Tools.
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