The Sun's apology to Tom Cleverley.
REMEMBER THAT STORY which the Sun ran last month about Manchester United's Tom Cleverley begging a girl for sex after meeting her in a nightclub?
(No? Neither do we.)
Would you be massively surprised if we told you that it was completely and utterly untrue?
(No? Neither were we.)
The British tabloid was forced to issue a public apology to Cleverley this morning after it emerged that yes, a man had met a woman in a nightclub and asked her to have sex with him.
Unfortunately for the Sun, it wasn't the United midfielder. It was just someone pretending to be him.
The Guardian reports that the London high court heard Cleverley's libel action against the paper this morning. Sensibly, the publishers have agreed to pay the footballer "a substantial sum in damages."
Great piece Niall, but there are a couple of other points here.
If, for example, Kenny Egan was to travel to Baku, he could qualify for the Olympics, and would do so in the same weight division as Joe Ward. As a country can only enter one fighter in any weight class, as far as I’m aware, Ward could then not even compete in Istanbul and his Olympic dreams would be dashed, even though he is European Champion. This is the same for any of our ‘stars’ who miss out.
Also, if IABA were to send Ward and Moylette, the European champions would be seeded and thus get an easier draw. If they send other boxers in the same weight classes, that seeding is lost.
Thanks for the comments Gavin.
I see Kenny has declared that he’s stepping up to Heavyweight for this week’s competition, which was presumably decided in order to avoid the clash with Ward that you mentioned. It’ll be interesting to see how it all plays out over the next week.