An Everton fans forum did this a few years ago and went to the lengths of making up a foreign sounding name for a player the club was 'about' to sign. 'Henning Lobar' it was if memory serves me right with the 'nailed on rumour' apparently coming from someone in the know at the club. Lobars name appeared in the transfer gossip columns of a Sunday paper as being a signing target or 'situation monitored' closely.

Except that Parker will now have seen this and will be wary of falling into such a trap ... until he realises that he hasn't got anything to flog to the dailies tomorrow.

Tomorrow's sports headline: "Rugby League fans in lying and cheating shocker, a reflection of the state of the professional players?"

Apologies if it's been mentioned already:

The BBC coverage had a pitchside interview with Ian Lenegan prior to Sundays game, during which he stated that the story was ' a complete fabrication'.

However he did say that at some point in the next 10 years he hoped Edwards would be a Wigan coach.

Mentioned he speaks to Edwards fairly regularly (every couple of months) but that he hadn't spoken to him in several weeks.

Confirmed what had been alluded to at the fans' forum that Shaun Wane was still favourite for the head coach job, but that they had received many applications from high calibre candidates.

I did it about 6 or 7 years with a made up rumour that Brett Kimmorley had signed. Made its way into the Evening Post and Guardian and Betts got asked about it when he was coach at a press conference.

Stealing a living some of these RL journos - most of us could do it during our lunch.

Anyone who remember's Sky One's Dream Team, Didier Baptiste was a player on that show, who the fictional club Harchester United signed, in the weeks leading up to his characters signing, he was rumoured to be going to Liverpool.

This made the Sunday gossip columns in the red tops, its not just RL journo's they are all massively lazy. Hence their desire to break the superinjunction.

I remember this