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Of even more concern for Mourinho’s job prospects, the Red Devils are now also seven points adrift of the top four, putting Champions League qualification for next season at risk. (Reuters)

Chelsea a banter-free zone? Seriously, José, you’re having a laugh

Mourinho fails to see the funny side of Chelsea’s early-season flop and seems to think training-ground high jinks are to blame, not bad defending.

Pistorius trial: There’s a hole in your bucket habit

Vomiting has played a role in past judgments but the jury is literally out on this one.

Teen pop star Justin Bieber was arrested recently in Miami for driving under the influence.

Don’t blame Bieber, kids have always idolised idiots

The silly child star from smalltown Ontario has no more responsibility to behave with decorum than anyone else.

Sepp’s World Cup plan takes a dive

The football boss’s World Cup strategy backfires as Brazil caves in to protests over spending.

A Twitter Music app will be launched for iOS devices later this month

Justin Bieber didn’t start the Great Teen Tweet Wars – ask Vera Lynn

Belieber death threats are not a sign of end times. Crazed fans were ever thus – it’s just easier to be in touch these days.

Fergie and José: With friends like these …

Is there a more hilariously unconvincing friendship in public life than that fabled one between Sir Alex Ferguson and José Mourinho?

Lethal weapon

On screen Gibson is a successful anti-hero, but off screen he’s just antisocial. <b>Marina Hyde</b> reports.

In this age of terror, the Cold War seems comforting

The news of the inept Russian spy ring is a reminder of what a decent sort of enemy we used to have to deal with.

‘Happiness for our Dear Leader’

The emissaries of the Dear Leader to World Cup 2010 sat grim-faced through a meeting with the capitalist media, writes <b>Marina Hyde</b>. .

Facing justice

Facing justice, Fifa style

Johannesburg magistrate’s court recalls Bismarck’s observation that those who love sausages and believe in justice should never see either being made.

Conspiracy of the cloth

<i>Marina Hyde</i> takes issue with Pope Benedict’s version of the priestly paedophilia scandal.

Going

Going, going, gong

Diva presenters, bad dance, graceless hosts … Marina Hyde rates some of the performances at this year’s Oscars.

Thanks for the philanthropy, billionaires. Now pay your tax

It is, perhaps, the greatest surprise since the citizens of Troy discovered that the wooden horse was not the generously gifted piece of public art.

Trouser-rubbing timewarp

The All England Club — aka Wimbledon — should market itself as ”the birthplace of the upskirt”, writes Marina Hyde.

Black mark for racism reform

Another week, another chance to gauge how our fine governing bodies are combating racism, with everyone’s favourite test case still England’s 2004 friendly against Spain in…

Dyeing for the cause

There are days when even the World’s Most Wanted Man looks in the mirror and just feels like the world’s most unwanted man. He stares at his grey beard, sighs wearily at a…

Cashley Cole’s defence

There is a scene in the sports-agent movie Jerry Maguire where Tom Cruise’s super-rich NFL client notices a Reebok commercial being filmed, and takes the opportunity to bemoan…

Soccer becomes the subplot

”Politics is a shitty world,” opined Andriy Shevchenko last weekend. ”I want to stay well away from it.” In which case, I can’t help feeling the vaguest misgivings about his…

Where the street has no name

One of the many and varied tragedies about the turbulent Saturday night we all endured is that we will now never know what it would feel like to walk down Sven-Goran Eriksson…

Rooney injury: Maggie Thatcher to blame

Instantly supplanting the War of Jenkins’s Ear as history’s most depressing conflict about a body part is the War of Rooney’s Foot, currently being waged between Sir Alex…