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Inside Line: Tradition of April Fools' Day jokes on our site

Of course the Hamilton quits F1 as Alonso joins Mercedes was an April Fools' Day report and it is in line with a tradition on this site which is a mix of fooling the people and trying to inject humour by using tidbits of real information and stirring them into a pot to create a piece that may fool some readers briefly but also appeal to their sense of humour – the latter a rare commodity these days. In that spirit here are links to past ‘reports' that have appeared during 1 April on our site in past years. Inadvertently and ironically some in the end had a a certain ring of truth. Enjoy: 1 April 2011 Briatore: Put it in the hall! We get our hands on previously unreleased radio...
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