Forget Fifa 'corruption', what about Sir Alex Ferguson's unsightly gum-chewing?
Never mind alleged Fifa corruption.
How about manager Sir Alex Ferguson’s unsightly gum-chewing, seen during Manchester United’s Champions League final defeat against Barcelona at Wembley?
TV football pundit Alan Hansen – another Scot – appears to be referring to Sir Alex when, in a new ad for Extra gum, he boasts: ‘Some people do look slovenly when they chew, absolutely. And in a job like mine, that’s just not on.
'Unsightly': Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson chews gum on the touchline during the the Champions League Final
'You’ve got to look presentable… Ultimately, it comes down to how you go about it. It’s not hard to chew with a bit of subtlety after all.’
Perhaps he’ll give charming, approachable Sir Alex a few tips.
Fashion faux pas: William Hague in a baseball cap going down a log flume
So what if David Cameron’s family holiday in chav heaven Ibiza is a departure from the huntin’, shootin’ and fishin’ breaks of former Tory premiers, or the ocean racing of oddball Ted Heath.
But he mustn’t take his man o’ the people act too far.
Baseball-capped William Hague, pictured, never really recovered from being photographed whooshing down a water slide in Cornwall.
Xavier Durringer’s new film, The Conquest, about French president Nicolas Sarkozy, has caused a stir.
Durringer tells the German magazine, Der Spiegel: ‘He is a bundle of nerves in search of recognition and affection… He starts every day with a temper tantrum.
'He shouts, he spits venom, treats everyone like complete idiots and genuinely thinks he has to do everything himself because only he can do it well enough…’
Considering how the French treat us, don’t you find yourself warming to wee Sarko?
In the running: Senator Scott Brown from 'Nowheres-ville'
President Barack Obama? Been there, done that.
The latest hottest U.S. political hero from Nowheres-ville is Senator Scott Brown, 51, of Massa-chusetts, pictured, who had a real hard-luck, foster-home childhood (as opposed to an exaggerated one) before becoming a basketball star and Cosmo magazine’s America’s Sexiest Man winner.
He’s being called Long Shot Brown, suggesting he might reach the presidency. After winning the Senate seat previously occupied by Ted Kennedy, a Democrat, Republican Brown met the late senator’s niece, Maria Shriver, in a Washington restaurant.
‘You have Uncle Teddy’s office?’ she exclaimed imperiously.
Her then husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger reminded her: ‘Maria, Maria. It’s not Uncle Teddy’s office. It’s the people’s office.’
A reader complains to the Left-Wing listings magazine Time Out about ex-Tory deputy chairman Lord Archer appearing in its books section, adding: ‘I almost collapsed when I read him subtly comparing himself with John Steinbeck (author of The Grapes of Wrath). This beggars belief even by his standards…’
This unkind attack on Jeffers is chosen as Letter of the Week.
Appropriately, the reader, Nigel Messenger, wins a bottle of champagne.
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