The Fiver | A doozy of a story that leaves little or no room for comic embellishment

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Much as those tasked with churning out the world’s most tea-timely football email would really like it to, the Fiver doesn’t tend to write itself. Like most great American sitcoms, each edition begins with a crack round-table committee of satirists scouring the world’s media for the Big Football Issues, before bouncing ideas around a room charged with enough crackling creative and comedic electricity to power a modestly-sized city suburb. A modestly-sized city suburb like Ballybrack in Dublin, for example, where a local amateur team have made headlines after falsely reporting the sudden, grisly death of one of their players in order to apparently get a match postponed. In doing so they have ensured this particular episode of The Fiver more or less does write itself, because theirs is a doozy of a story that leaves little or no room for comic embellishment.

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/nov/28/the-fiver-ballybrack-fc-footballer-declared-dead-but-not-really-dead