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Exclusive: Defoe needed stunt double for his burger advert

SQUEEKY bum time has arrived early at Highbury this season and it’s not just down to barely scraping a result against bobbins teams like West Ham, Birmingham and West Ham.
Yep, this week, their very own captain put the va va voom in Gooner buttock cheeks when he announced that renewing his contract wasn’t quite top of his list of priorities right now. Nope, Mr Henery would rather leave that trifling matter to the end of what is shaping up to be a truly memorable Arsenal season.
Instead he plans to spend the coming months concentrating on football, his team and winning trophies. Oh, and making rubbish car adverts, thinking up new ways to celebrate goals that don’t scare the kids and buying gloves for when it gets a bit nippy. I think.
I wouldn’t lose too much kip over it though you gormless lot. After all, to lose one captain would be careless. But to lose two would be downright stupid.
Talking of which, the Arsene Wenger fantasy football league in which goals mean points is shaping up nicely for my Spurs high-flyers.
Luckily for Baldrick and his hardly-able-to-score-at-alls, that particular idea still hasn’t been snapped up by the big cheeses at the FA.
Because I might be rubbish at maths, but I reckon five goals in one game that’s actually worth watching – try to imagine it Gooners – would put us up in the top three. Which, back in the real world, is exactly where we are anyway.




TSK! Tsk! Nobody likes to see one of Arsenal’s best players in a stupid Hoxton baseball cap and the right clothes to get him splashed across the gossip pages. Grimsby.
But Ashley Cole’s downright cheesy appearance in the newspapers this week was even worse than that. Grimsby.
Not only was Ash the Cash dressed up like an X-Factor reject but he was also photographed at the worst party in town: Jermain Defoe’s birthday party. Grimsby.
It made my stomach churn. Grimsby.
I’m a Cole fan – I want him to stay at Highbury – but nobody wants to see him grinning like a Cheshire Cat at a party in the enemy camp. Grimsby.
To hear the next day that he was celebrating with a foot injury that could leave him sidelined for a couple of months made it even more disappointing. Grimsby.
Hurry back Ash! But get some proper clothes and stop hanging around with those dimwit Tottenham chumps. Grimsby.
By the way, I think Defoe is a good striker but – get this – I was there when he was filming his new McDonald’s advert, showing on Sky, where he apparently juggles fruit as if it was a football. Grimsby. The truth is the camera does lie. Grimsby. Defoe needed a ‘stunt double’ to perform the ball skills and make sure the advert looked alright for our screens. Come on Jermain, even I can do keepy-ups, no wonder you couldn’t beat Grimsby.



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