Mac media makeover

The tabloids have started on Stevie Mac already, with the ink not yet dry on his reported £2.5m England contract.

Not content with mere football guff, the Sun and the Daily Star's sleaze-seeking searchlights are fully trained on the Boro boss. Of Steve McClaren's appointment as Sven's successor, the Star attempts to raunchify the story, with the headline: "TV babe sexed up Mac."

What? Another alleged affair revealed?

Er, no – despite the Star's fnarr fnarring: "New England boss' two years under Katie."

The story goes that Big Mac, as the tabs are already calling him, "had £20,000-worth of secret sessions with ITN's sexiest newsgirl, Katie Dereham.

"Her media makeover transformed the shy Middlesbrough manager into a smiling and slick TV performer ready for the hottest seat in football."

Maybe the Labour party should get hold of her number.

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