Is it any wonder Id rather read the Manc-worshipping SUN any day of the week!
Our old friends at rthe Daily Mirror could not resist a couple of sly references to mighty Leeds at the weekend!
Years after Don Revie and Billy Bremner's death, they still hate us. Their "columnist" Michael Calvin described Chelsea under Hiddink as more reviled by the public than Revie's Leeds!
(Er has he forgot about Ferguson's Man Yoo when Keane and Stam chased Andy D'Urso around Old Trafford for daring to give Middlesbrough a penalty?).
Not to be outdone, boring resident "Scouse Git" Brian Reade advised bad-boy Joey Barton to quit Newcastle and join either us or Millwall!
Charmed I'm sure!
So here's a few things I have dug-up about the MI-WAH's dirty, seedy and sordid past that they would no doubt rather brush under the carpet and like their ex-editor Piers Morgan try and reinvent themselves as a national treasure....
1- In 1933 they supported Oswald Moseley's BUF (British Union of Fascists) however they later recanted after violence at a rally in 1934.
2- In May 2004, they fell victim to what they tried to shrug off as "a calculated and malicious hoax" when they published photo's of British Soldier's in Iraq "abusing" insergent captives. The photograph's turned out to be fakes!
3- In April 2008, they apologised and paid compensation to TV host Kate Garroway after both the Daily and Sunday Mirror claimed she was having an affair.
4- One-time owner Ján Ludvík Hoch was a little charmer, syphoning off billions out of the Mirror's pension funds to prop up his ailing empire. You will probably remember him better as Robert Maxwell!
5- On April 9th 2001, an article in the previous days' Sunday Mirror led to the collapse of a trial at Hull Crown Court which had ran for 10-weeks. This cost the tax-payer an estimated £8m. This was of course the first Bowyer/Woodgate trial!