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It is a massive day for news about Gordon Ramsay mostly centred around the earth-shattering news that Gordon Ramsay may have exaggerated his football exploits – amazing front page news that must be for some trash mags! Anyway here is the Gordon Ramsay news for March 2 – 2009

Let’s get The Gordon Ramsay Football News Out of the Way

Gordon Ramsay admits claims about his Rangers career may be inaccurate – Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
The chef Gordon Ramsay has been forced to admit that boasts he has made about his footballing past playing for Glasgow Rangers may be “inaccurate”.

Ramsay football statement – TeleText – Scotland,UK
Gordon Ramsay has said any inaccuracies in accounts of his football career are due to the passing of time. The chef spoke out following reports he lied …
A statement from Gordon Ramsay Holdings said: “Any inaccuracies regarding the details of this period can be explained by the fact that all this occurred nearly 25 years ago.” Rangers Football Club said they had no comment.

Gordon Ramsay tells porky pies – Melbourne Herald Sun – Australia
CELEBRITY chef Gordon Ramsay has been caught out lying again – this time to fight his way to the top of the food chain. The foul-mouthed chef has been …
CELEBRITY chef Gordon Ramsay has been caught out lying again – this time to fight his way to the top of the food chain.
The foul-mouthed chef has been exposed lying about his much publicised soccer career with top European club Glasgow Rangers.

Gordon Ramsay’s Rangers claims questioned – Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Knox told the News of the World: “The first time I ever saw Gordon Ramsay was in 1996 when he launched his first book. But he didn’t know me from Adam …
Ramsay, 42, has said on a number of occasions that he was a member of the first team squad at the Ibrox club playing three games, before injury cut short his career.
But his claims have been dismissed as “complete and utter nonsense” by Rangers historian Robert McElroy.

Ramsay admits inaccuracies – TeleText – Scotland,UK
Gordon Ramsay spoke out following allegations that he lied about signing for Rangers football club and playing in its first team. …

British newspaper attacks chef Gordon Ramsay
– Gold Coast News – goldcoast.com.au – Molendinar,Queensland,Australia
THE reputation of foul-mouthed Gold Coast-bound chef Gordon Ramsay has taken another hit, with revealations he lied about his professional soccer-playing past.
Ramsay has always insisted injury ruined his professional career with noted Scottish club Glasgow Rangers.

How Gordon Ramsay told porky pies about his past to raise his … – Daily Mail – UK
Gordon Ramsay lied about his past as a professional footballer to drum up publicity for his restaurants, it has been claimed.
The foul-mouthed chef has been accused of cooking up a series of lies about the brief period he spent training with Glasgow Rangers.
Rangers officials demolished his boasts that he played professional football matches during three years at the club.

Did Ramsay fib about his football? – Blatherskite – London,UK
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has made much of his cruelly-interrupted football career, claiming to have played a couple of times for Rangers’ first team before injury ended his career.
But the News of the World, which ‘exposed’ Ramsay’s affair with serial mistress Sarah Symonds, now claims he did no such thing, appearing just once in an unofficial testimonial game as an anonymous trialist.

UK chef Ramsay never played top-grade soccer – Thaindian.com – Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand

Chef Gordon Ramsay has always relished boasting about his glory days as a budding soccer star with Glasgow Rangers, but a News of the World report reveals that he never signed up for the team and never played first team games for them, despite saying so on radio, in his autobiography and in a series of interviews. In fact, he was such a liar, fellow cooks nicknamed him Billy Bull***t. He even secretly confessed to top chef Marco Pierre White that his Rangers career was boloney, adding: But it just came out of my mouth and it was a good story at the time.

Ramsay ‘lied about pro-soccer career’ – Ninemsn – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has repeatedly spoken about being signed to top soccer team Glasgow Rangers — but a new report says he made it up.
The News of the World newspaper alleges that Ramsay lied about being signed to the Rangers and playing for their first team.
In truth, the newspaper said, the celebrity chef trialled briefly with the club, playing one testimonial game but never securing a permanent contract.
Ramsay also blamed legendary Rangers

More News About Gordon Ramsay Restaurant Maze in South Africa

Avant-garde and Kitchens – The Times – Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa

Sol Kerzner’s new Cape Town joint will feature a Nobu and a Gordon Ramsay Maze. I have mixed feeling about this. If we are to import high-end dining brands, …

Two Michelin Stars in Less Than One Year For Gordon Ramsay Restaurant in France

Michelin honours Ramsay – Straits Times – Singapore

PARIS – THE Michelin restaurant guide marked its 100th edition on Monday with honours for one of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s favourite hotels and for British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s first French adventure.

Three Michelin stars for Sarkozy’s favourite chef is a fix, says … – Independent – London,England,UK

The British chef, Gordon Ramsay, will jump straight to two stars for his new restaurant in Versailles but there will be – somewhat unusually – only one new, three-star chef in the 100th version of the Big Red Book.
Both Fréchon and Ramsay’s promotions by Michelin are controversial in France.
Simon has also repeated his earlier criticism of Ramsay’s restaurant at the Hotel Trianon Palace in Versailles, which opened almost a year ago. He says that any real food lover should object to the award of two stars to the “stereotyped” and “déjà vu” cuisine of the Trianon Palace. The quality of Ramsay’s food, he says, is “not bad at all” but nothing original.

Gordon Ramsay Hasn’t paid some bills – WOW – More Dirt Digging

Gordon Ramsey’s restaurant empire being chased over unpaid bills – Sunday People – UK

TV Gordon pays £315K rent at last, but still owes his suppliers £109K Take one angry chef, add a soupcon of furious suppliers & one large credit crunch, but..
Telly chef Gordon Ramsay is facing his own kitchen nightmare – as his restaurant empire is chased for thousands of pounds in unpaid bills.
Angry food suppliers, property landlords and the taxman are all breathing down Gordon’s neck as his upmarket eateries struggle to cope with the recession.

A Gordon Ramsay Football Story with a Difference – Satire

Gordon Ramsey A Closet Celtic Fan – The Spoof (satire) – UK
Gordon Ramsey, celebrity chef, serial philanderer, foul mouthed hooligan and Scotsman has been revealed as a secret Celtic supporter. …

A Gordon Ramsay Hotel Review

Out of the frying pan – WA today – Perth,WA,Australia
Gordon Ramsay’s first hotel is big on thread count as well as food, writes Saska Graville. Gordon Ramsay is good in bed. I say this with some authority, not because I’ve been reading the recent revelations in the tabloid press but because I’m testing the mattress in one of the rooms of his first hotel venture, the York & Albany in London’s Camden.

David Driscoll
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