This is when your local newspaper links your local football club with at least three or four new players in every week in order to try and shift more copies because to be honest no-one is really interested in the other big headlines “cat up tree safely recovered” and “job believed to be available in local area”.Īs a Newcastle United fan, I’m used to our local paper - the Evening Chronicle - churning out this sort of information. One of my favourite parts of football gossip is what is known as “the transfer rumour”.
