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Satire
Satirical work appearing on strange bOUnce, arranged by main sport featured:
American Football ¦ Athletics ¦ Cricket ¦ Football ¦ Tennis
Being Tom Brady - Getting inside the mind of an NFL superstar – literally.
***INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE PRESS RELEASE*** - The “official” Olympic songs.
***GREAT BRITAIN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE PRESS RELEASE*** – Perhaps they’d have done better selecting this team…
Morville & Worksop — the alternate Olympic Mascots serialised story:
- Out Of A Cloud (Part 1)
- Into The Fire (Part 2)
- Misadventures On A Cloud (Part 3)
Don’t Take Your Eyes Off The Ball - The secret behind Shane Warne’s “ball of the century” revealed.
Sparks Will Fly - Mark Hughes is less than impressed after QPR’s woeful start to the Premier League season.
Red Van Man - Robin van Persie writes an open letter to heartbroken Arsenal fans. Good job he had it subbed before publication.
Terry England: An Unsubtle Metaphor - England crash out in the quarter-finals again; reflection time.
Euro 2012 Knockout Drinking Game - Whenever England lose possession, take a drink. It’s going to get messy.
Roy Hodgson Gets Revenge On Rio Ferdinand - The real reason Rio didn’t make it to Ukraine and Poland for Euro 2012.
Recipe For A Good Sporting Summer - Laptops, illegal streams and bitter aftertastes.
Twenty-Three - David Beckham stars as a sort of 007 character. Or should that be 023, these days?
Emotional Rescue - Help for City and United fans after that final day.
St John’s Letters To Thee, Roman:
Fit And Proper Person - ’Inspired’ by the fiasco at Rangers FC.
It’s In The Game - Gary Neville invites the Beckham’s for dinner, and some fun and games. David Luiz *sort of* co-stars.
The Four Horsemen Of An Impending Apocalypse - The FA continue their search for a new England manager.
Squeaky Bum Time - Is Dimitar Berbatov’s time at Old Trafford finally up?
Winning Ugly, a serialised satire on the Murdoch/Rebekah Brookes phone hacking scandal:
Charles, Feliciano, Boceli… Clatenburg? - What’s wrong with our referees?
The De Jong Disaster - He just felt like destroying something beautiful.
The Grass Isn’t Always Greener - Arsene Wenger worries about his star striker, Robin van Persie.
Peter Kjaer All Stars - Uli Hesse reports on some peculiar tactics.
Schrodinger’s Cat - Bayern Munich host the new “Anfield Cat”.
Then Harry Met Sali - Harry Redknapp barely needs satirising, but we’ve done it anyway.
The Interpreter - The story of Jose Mourinho’s rise to the top – well, almost.
The Past Lives Of Steve Kean - Listen up, children: a lesson in football management and history.
Anfield Anonymous - A couple of under-performing football stars discuss their problems.
The Last King Of England - Harry Redknapp stars again. He’s too easy.
Craft Your Own Carroll - Learn how to make a misfiring forward in this episode of Green Peter.
Rafa’s Melwood Vacation - Senor Benitez stops by the Liverpool training ground.
Build Your Own Balotelli - Mad Mario’s been satirised from here to kingdom come… and here, again.
Arsene Wenger’s Master Plan - Johan Djourou does most of his work off the pitch, it seems.
The Qatari Job, featuring more football stars than you could shake a cheque book at:
- Part I – Bridge Over Troubled Waters
- Part II – Going To The Source
- Part III – A Dish Served Cold
- Part IV – Tevez Under Wraps
- Part V – One Hump Or Two
- Part VI – The Best Laid Plans Of Mice And Man City
- Part VII – The Cup Runneth Over
The Science Of Sergio Busquets - Is the Barcelona midfielder a cheat or a genius?
As Seen On Arsenal Direct - Roll up, roll up! Three flying wingers for the price of one!
UEFA Lonely Hearts Club - Jobless managers send in personal ads.
The Great SPL Brainstorm - Minutes from a peculiar meeting.
Rafael Nadal “Suffers From Smurf Fear” - So that’s why Rafa Nadal flopped at the Madrid Open in 2012
