Paper Monitor
12:38 UK time, Tuesday, 15 July 2008
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
"Got, got, got, need, need, got, got, need bad!"
It's a blast from the past for some, a time when social status was defined by how close you were to filling your footie sticker album. The pinnacle was a foil World Cup sticker.
And it turns out Amy Winehouse has the bug. The Sun says she is collecting the stickers for a Euro 2008 album to give to her husband when he gets out of prison.
The inset photo on the story is of Swiss midfielder Tranquillo Barnetta, who you would have to say is unlikely ever to be described as "need bad".
First "hat off" for the day goes to the Times where page 32 has a lead on villagers tracing their caveman ancestors. The first paragraph is dominated by 127 uses of the word "great" - as in grandparents. It is a triumphant intro.
Minor oscillation of the hat for the Sun's headline on the water supply infected by a dead rabbit: "OI, OUR WATER TASTES BUNNY"
There's a contrast in "attitudes towards Germans" within Associated's stable. In the Metro, there's an interview with Henning Wehn, the German whose comedy routine is based on sending up British attitudes towards Germans and their ongoing obsession with World War II.
In the Daily Mail there is a two-page spread with a giant photo of the shadow left by an airship on a suburban street. The headline reads: "In the shadow of the Zeppelin again (but zis time it's for fun).
Just in case you don't geddit, Littlejohn makes it crystal clear a couple of pages later.
"Stella Artois... is planning to hire a Zeppelin, piloted by a German called Fritz, to take tourists on an aerial trip across London. How about bringing them over on doodlebugs? Don't be surprised if they encounter a little light ack-ack over Wapping."
Ah, how could Wehn accuse the British of an obsession with the war?
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