Aerial or Comical?

This Wednesday's roundup of Junior Football included the following photograph of a game between Harborough Rockets and Birstall United Foxes.

The paper were not sure if it was an aerial or a comical challenge so opted for a completely new word!

Chicken breast and heads - a true Valentine's Day treat

In the 14th February edition Tom Mack reported on a Michelin starred, Leicester restaurant's Valentine's Day menu.

"The recipe begins with a starter of roasted butternut squash soup with chilli and creme fraiche, followed by chicken breast, spring greens, coconut and coriander with noddles. For dessert it is orange and hazelnut shortbread biscuits served with chocolate dip and strawberries."

Presumably recipe should read menu and the noddles should be noodles!

Noddle: An informal British expression for the head or mind.

Perhaps the reporter should have used his noddle instead of a spell-checker.

Conman or Conwoman?

In the 1st February edition, an article on page 17 by "Staff Reporter" about an online conman appears to have confused his gender. The report states " He claimed he was a 43 year old widow..."

Now unless the mystery conman had had a sex change then surely that should read widower.  (i.e. a man whose wife has died and who has not remarried.)

Guessing the goals?

In "CityNews" 27 January, Steve Pumfrey writes about Dany N'Guessan going out on loan to Southampton.
He goes on to state "He has made 19 league appearances and scored three goals, including the winner in City's first match back in the Championship after League One promotion when they defeated Swansea 2-1 in August 2009. He also scored the winner to sink the Swans in the FA Cup five months later with his other strike coming to rescue a point at Watford in a 3-3- draw, also back in August 2009."

This "other strike" infers that N'Guessan scored three goals in the games mentioned and no others.

However, his record during the 2009/2010 was slightly better as he scored in the following games:

8 August 2009         - League         - Swansea (H)
12 August 2009       - League Cup - Macclesfield (A)
19 September 2009 - League         - Watford (A)
2 January 2010        - FA Cup       - Swansea (H)
6 February 2010      - League        - Blackpool (A)

Our cat can see that he scored five goals so why does the Mercury continue to churn out sloppy articles with little or no research?

Sol Bamba and case of the mysterious missing game.

Leicester City's new defender Sol Bamba has now scored three goals in his four appearances since joining from Hibs.

Manchester City (H) - scored
Preston (A)
Manchester City (A)
Millwall (H) - scored twice

However, in City News ( 25th January) Rob Tanner reports " The Ivory Coast international followed his debut goal against Manchester City with a double strike against Millwall on Saturday to make it  three goals in as many appearances..."

Where did the other game go?

West is East... or the clue is in the name.

This little gem was featured in Rob Tanner's City News on Saturday 22 January (p.50).

" City winger Danny N'Guessan has been linked with a moved to East Midlands rivals Coventry City..."

The last time I looked at a map, Coventry was in the West Midlands metropolitan county and formerly in Warwickshire but to my knowledge has never been in the East Midlands.

Just when you thought the Mercury couldn't get better... a flea!

Page 7  Tuesday 18 January 2011 by Suzy Gibson.

 















What can you say?  These howlers are the best thing about the 'paper ... Long live electronic spell checkers!