Illarterate.co.uk » Football

A load of old Babel: Illarterate hits the back pages! Sort of

Illarterate — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:37:33 +0000

Anybody who’s bought a newspaper and looked at the back page today will probably have noticed a particularly poor Photoshop of Howard Webb wearing a Manchester United shirt. This one, in fact:

The image that launched a thousand smirks. Maybe.

Well, guess who made it? That’s right, some fool whose text you are reading right now. Namely myself. Feel free to peruse the gallery below, which I am compiling in honour of this moment of (anonymous) fame for Harry Yack.

See here for a brief background on the image’s origin and why it’s such a poor Photoshop. Though I guess anyone with eyes is able to see that.

Fantastical gallery

Click an image for full size version.

Monday 10 January:

The Sun

The Metro

The Guardian

The Daily Mail

Tuesday 11 January:

Daily Sport

The Metro

Oh yeah, and it isn’t ‘mocked-up’ or ‘faked’, it’s a real photo!

Pele’s World Tournament Soccer [Mega Drive] video game review

Illarterate — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:49:15 +0000

Just catching up on some more of these vids I’ve uploaded in the last couple of weeks. There are some more over at the Hindleyak YouTube channel but they’re of dubious quality so I ain’t gonna link to them here just now.

More info at Retro Yakkage
Hindleyak’s YouTube

Wigan Athletic v West Ham – photography

Illarterate — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:52:51 +0000

Dunno if anyone has noticed, but since the start of the football season about a month ago I’ve been posting some of my photos from Wigan Athletic home games over at Jesus Was A Wiganer and the Illarterate Flickr. Check ‘em out if you feel so inclined. By which I mean do it, man, the bald bloke in the middle (whose name escapes me right now) compels you!

Oh yeah, and buy the latest MudHutter Football Express from the Brickmakers (Wigan) or other such fine establishements, ‘cos there’s a piece in it by me. See if you can guess which one for a free penny sweet.

Notapatchon guest blogging

Illarterate — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:55:59 +0000

I’ve been doing a little bit of guest blogging for Wigan Athletic media site [Thas] Not a Patch On Harry Lyon, which recently unveiled its new user blogs.

It coincides with the launch of my new football blog, Jesus Was a Wiganer, which you may remember I mentioned a week or two ago on this very blog.

Not sure if there’ll be much difference between the types of posts featured on each blog, but I plan to share them out somewhat, with the longer, more detailed stuff mostly reserved for the NAPO blog.

Expect my activity on those blogs to fluctuate through the course of the season as and when I find stuff to write about or feel the urge to blog and, of course, when I have the time.

Incidentally, that picture is one of mine. There is a possibility you may recognise it as it has been syndicated around the internet:

It’s on my Flickr account in its highest quality, so feel free to use it for your own devices – a plug might be nice, though .

Jesus Was A Wiganer – football blog

Illarterate — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:55:42 +0000

I’ve been wanting to set up a Wigan Athletic blog for a while, but I never got round to it. Who knows, maybe I might get the time to do some vlogs for this one. To be updated whenever I feel the urge, and most likely after I return from the matches.

The pic above is a panorama of three stitched photos taken on Monday morning when people were queuing for 2009-10 season tickets. Accessible via Flickr, as ever.