Guardian Editors Succumb to Fox News-like Standards

and, in doing so, they give us the following headline:

Newcastle deny Bin Laden Link

Hilarious. Foreign regimes have to deny links to Bin Laden. Shady dictators have to deny links to Bin Laden. Now we can add Newcastle United to those ranks? Excellent.

In essence, a group of people related to (but not) Osama bin Laden are considering a 300m pound bid for Newcastle. The article is very tasteful and notes that the company, run by Osama's half brother Bakr, has long since cut ties to the al-Qaida leader but, with a headline like that, why would you even bother to read on. As far as I'm concerned, they're no longer the Magpies--let's call them the Fatwas. After all, it's better to be terrorists than perennial underachievers.