I still say this is made up. Or at least a travesty of the facts. Does nobody remember the famous "Sport" headline "World War II Bomber Found on the Moon!". It was on the front page, complete with a photo. And people actually believed it! The Sport will print any old rubbish.
Factual accuracy is very much a secondary consideration if it makes a good headline.
To be charitable, some bloke might have gone down with dysentery shortly after having a shag. But I wouldn't even count on that. I seem to remember (or was this itself made up?) the Sport caused a minor uproar a few years ago with the headline "Was Maddie abducted by aliens?" (The answer, of course, was "no".)