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Clickbaiting death is latest low from online football media as newspapers show respect

The newspapers are rightly dominated by the scenes in Paris while websites merrily clickbait the death of a young woman...

The newspapers are rightly dominated by the scenes in Paris while websites merrily clickbait the death of a young woman…

 

Oh Carroll
Two days after the Champions League final and one day after the Championship play-off final, what’s the biggest story in football according to The Sun football homepage?

‘Andy Carroll’s fiancée Billi Mucklow wipes footballer from WhatsApp profile over stag do antics after ‘crisis talks’’

Yes, that’s right; the biggest story in football on Monday morning is that the partner of Andy Carroll – out of contract with rank Championship side West Brom at the end of next month – has changed her WhatsApp profile picture. Which apparently constitutes ‘wiping’. It turns out Mediawatch regularly and unwittingly ‘wipes’ their wife.

On a day when The Sun newspaper dedicates page after page to what happened to Liverpool fans in Paris, we can only imagine what their army of reporters thinks when they open the website to see Carroll’s gurning mug and a headline about a sodding WhatsApp profile picture.

 

Shameless
It’s a seriously grim day as elsewhere on The Sun website, they shamelessly clickbait the death of a young woman who happened to be married to an obscure Mexican footballer.

This is genuinely one of the worst headlines we have ever seen:

‘Mystery as former Chelsea star’s young wife dies leaving behind two-year-old son and sending football community in shock’

Where to start? With ‘former Chelsea star’ being used to describe a footballer who literally never played for Chelsea?

Or with the use of the word ‘mystery’ to suggest something controversial or salacious when all it really means is that Macarthur FC – for whom the largely unknown Ulises Dávila now plays – did not announce how she died. Mostly because that would be a gross invasion of privacy.

Mystery? The real mystery here is how anybody waved that shameless shite through.

And of course they’re not alone. Here comes the…

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