Leicester Mercury or Leicester City - which one took their eye off the ball?

Monday 13 May 2013 -  page 61

Possibly still suffering from post traumatic stress, the Mercury went to town in their pages of reporting on the Udinese Watford v Leicester City play-off semi-final second leg.

Chris Wood suffers twice as he is called Woods in a photograph caption and in the players "scores" his squad number has changed from 39 to 29.

In another photograph, the Mercury have Andy King tackling Almen Abdi. Clearly, this is not Abdi  (below) in the shot but the Scot, Ikechi Anya.

 Thanks to Bobby George for spotting these errors.

King heads it to Pratley... or was it Davies?

Wednesday, 17 April 2013

In the reports of City's game against Bolton Wanderers on Tuesday evening, the Mercury managed to have Andy King heading the ball to two people at the same time.

Rob Tanner's City News on the back page has "Andy King flicked a long throw back into his own box and Pratley gratefully accepted the gift to make it 2-2".

Page 55:
Match Stats gives King a score of 6 with " His poor defensive header gifted the equaliser to Davies..."

The minute by minute breakdown of the action has "71 min Goal (2-2) King's header from a long throw falls to Darren Pratley all all of City's hard work is undone."

It must be the excitement of a home win!

Martin O'Neill - The Missing Years

Friday, 17 August 2012.   Page 55 - Inside Football

In today's "Inside Football" article, Rob Tanner reviews former Leicester City manager Martin O'Neill's 25 years in football management.

However, according to Mr Tanner ," O'Neill moved on in 2005 to manage Celtic"... but most records indicate that he left Leicester City on 1st June 2000 to go to Celtic where he remained until the end of the 2004/05 season.

Was he only on loan at Celtic or has the Mercury's football expert got it wrong again? - You decide!

(Thanks to Sam for spotting this clanger.)

Barmby is Gerrard lookalike.

Wednesday 8 August, 2012 -  page 54

An article about Leicester City's failure to sign Anthony Gerrard, the accompanying photograph clearly shows a delighted Nick Barmby celebrating with Matt Fryatt.

Still they are both footballers so that's near enough for the Mercury!

Metallica at Download Festival

Monday 11 June 2012 - page 5

Under a photo' of James Hetfield at the weekend's Download festival, the Mercury report that Metallica played "The Black Album" in reverse order.

They then attempted, unsuccessfully, to do the same with the band's name in the photo' caption
"Mteallica on stage"

Who is Red Helmut?

Another caption clanger on Monday 30 April. This time with Speedway on page 41.

Presumably, Lasse Bjerre is known as "red helmut".

(Thanks to Bobby George for spotting this typo.)



Question: When does 4 = 44?

Answer: When the Mercury write the captions.

Monday 30 April 2012, page 45.

In a photograph accompanying the report on Leicester City's win at Leeds United on Saturday, " Ben Marshall gets away from Alex Bruce " . However, the picture shows Leeds United's Ross McCormack who wears No.44. Bruce is No.4.

Near enough for the Mercury!