Daily Star Sunday

Only Fans is sizzling

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COR blimey, it’s roasting out there.

I didn’t learn my lesson in last year’s heatwaves so we still don’t have an air-cooling device.

I told the wife I’d get one online and stumbled on a site called Only Fans.

Anyhow, long story short, the house is sweltering – and I’ve not left my laptop for

days.

GOLF has often been described as a good walk spoiled.

Well how do you spoil the game of golf? With bunker loads of Saudi cash.

The once genteel sport played by bores in dodgy trousers has been rocked by money from the oil-rich state.

Saudi Arabia, a country that still gleefully beheads people in public, wanted to buy the game. And this week it appears they have managed it.

To cut a long story short, the country – using its Public Investment Fund – started the LIV tour and paid top players from the rival PGA tour, including Phil Mickelson, an obscene amount to whack a little white ball around the grass.

Meanwhile, other top players who also get paid handsomely to swing clubs in the sunshine, including Rory McIlroy, pictured, objected and called the rebels traitors.

Cue all manner of mud slinging. The head of the PGA

WITH his political career in the of bin here’s a comprehens­ive list his achievemen­ts… 1. Made us an internatio­nal laughing stock. Erm, that’s yer lot.

Jay Monahan, inset, even questioned how players could live with filling their pockets with Saudi wonga considerin­g the country’s links to 9/11.

Well, last week Jay made a screeching U-turn Bozo would be proud of and announced the tours were merging.

Money talks, bulls*** walks… and it appears to carry a set of clubs. Why is this a problem? Well if a rogue state can buy an entire profession­al sport, where does it stop?

The World Darts Championsh­ip to be held in North Korea?

The Saudis don’t seem to want to stop at golf to “sportswash” their sickening human rights record.

They’ve also got their oil-covered mitts into boxing and Formula 1.

And with the buying of Newcastle and four major sides in the Saudi league, how long before they’re after world football?

Money seems to win every time. But that shouldn’t stop us fighting back.

Why do we have to live in a world where it’s par for the course that cash and the rich always come out on top?

These sports are played by and supported by the people. Government­s are there to serve us. So let’s dust off our irons and take a swing at making them remember that.

What a hole in one that would be.

THE Scot celebrated winning his first-ever trophy as a manager with dancing that every uncle at any wedding would have been proud of. Happy Hammers!

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