Businessman regrets printing ‘England winners’ t-shirts
And other stories from the stranger side of life

A chancer has been left with 18,000 “useless” T-shirts which wrongly herald England as World Cup champions, reported Sky News. Karl Baxter was so sure that England would win the tournament that he had the tops printed ahead of the quarter-finals. “England, Cup Winners 2022, It’s Finally Home” reads the slogan on the front, while the back is emblazoned with: “The Day It Came Home”. Baxter suggested people could still buy the shirt and “use it to clean the windows”.
Octogenarians wed after bumping trolleys
A couple in their eighties who met when their trolleys collided in a supermarket last Christmas have got married, reported The Independent. Wendy Hazell, 80, was single for 32 years before bumping into two-time widower Paul Hazell, 83, at a Sainsbury’s in Derbyshire. “I wasn’t looking for love and had been very happily single for over 30 years when I met Paul,” said Wendy, “but I knew from early on that we were right for each other, we had instant chemistry.”
Trump mocked for ‘desperate’ NFTs
Donald Trump bragged that he was “better” than Abraham Lincoln as he launched a set of NFT digital trading cards featuring him as a superhero, a cowboy and an astronaut. “America needs a superhero,” said the former US president as he announced the project, adding that Trump the NFTs were “very much like a baseball card, but hopefully much more exciting”. They were dismissed as “desperate” and “scammy” by critics, said Rolling Stone.
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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.
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