Can You Believe Football Gossip Column Rumours?
January Transfer Window: Can You Believe Gossip Column Rumours? In A Word ................ No !! Since its first appearance in 2002, the gossip column has consistently ranked as one of the most-read pages on the BBC website. In the most recent transfer window, it averaged almost one million browsers per day. But can you believe a word you read in it? To mark the 15th anniversary of its introduction, we have looked back at every gossip column from the summer transfer window to see how accurate the rumours were, whether stories about some clubs proved more reliable than others and to discover which sources were the most trustworthy. How many rumours become reality? Of the almost 800 rumours reported in the gossip column throughout July and August, just over one in three of them materialised as a transfer. Transfer rumours - did they happen or not? Did happen Did not happen Are rumours more accurate about certain clubs? How do you ju