Dubai Blue
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The thing that has pissed me off the most about the Adebayor situation is that it was the media whose initial reaction to all this was way over the top, be it on TV, on the radio, or in the papers. Their indignation knew no bounds and they quickly whipped every one up into a wild frenzy of hugely disproportionate levels whereby Adebayor became Public Enemy No 1 and the common consensus was that he should be banned for 10 games and then executed by firing squad on the site of Highbury.
Now the dust has settled slightly, the media are beginning to realise that there is a story to be sold on the other side and so are backpedalling furiously, telling football supporters that they are unintelligent morons who don't understand the game properly if they think Adebayor's celebration was out of order.
They really are a bunch of shallow, two-faced c*nts; the lot of them. They did the same with Beckham after France '98. They all but implored England supporters to hunt him down and kick his face in for committing treason against his country, and then exploded in moral outrage when people tried to do exactly that.
There really is nothing remotely resembling real opinion in the media anymore. It's all just agenda: let's sell newspapers to one set of gullible bastards by slagging Adebayor off, and then sell a whole load more to another set by slagging the original ones off. It's the media equivalent of sitting on the fence; that way they can have their cake AND eat it. Martin Samuel's at it today, so everyone thinks the Daily Mail is pro-City again and they get away with their disgracefull reporting of the incident over the previous two days.
TalkSport are the most obvious culprits with their 'Good Cop/Bad Cop' tactics on every single programme they broadcast, but they are all at it; creating outrage and faux debate over something as irrelevant and inconsequential as a man sliding on his knees within the confines of a football pitch. Unfortunately, the average man on the street is so ridiculously influenced by the media nowadays that he begins to think this actually is THE important issue of the day. Before long it is all over news bulletins, the police are involved, and a footballer gets banned.
In conclusion, listening to these lot banging on about how people should take responsibility for their actions is like listening to Hitler preaching the virtues of healthy race relations. The hypocritical bastards.
Now the dust has settled slightly, the media are beginning to realise that there is a story to be sold on the other side and so are backpedalling furiously, telling football supporters that they are unintelligent morons who don't understand the game properly if they think Adebayor's celebration was out of order.
They really are a bunch of shallow, two-faced c*nts; the lot of them. They did the same with Beckham after France '98. They all but implored England supporters to hunt him down and kick his face in for committing treason against his country, and then exploded in moral outrage when people tried to do exactly that.
There really is nothing remotely resembling real opinion in the media anymore. It's all just agenda: let's sell newspapers to one set of gullible bastards by slagging Adebayor off, and then sell a whole load more to another set by slagging the original ones off. It's the media equivalent of sitting on the fence; that way they can have their cake AND eat it. Martin Samuel's at it today, so everyone thinks the Daily Mail is pro-City again and they get away with their disgracefull reporting of the incident over the previous two days.
TalkSport are the most obvious culprits with their 'Good Cop/Bad Cop' tactics on every single programme they broadcast, but they are all at it; creating outrage and faux debate over something as irrelevant and inconsequential as a man sliding on his knees within the confines of a football pitch. Unfortunately, the average man on the street is so ridiculously influenced by the media nowadays that he begins to think this actually is THE important issue of the day. Before long it is all over news bulletins, the police are involved, and a footballer gets banned.
In conclusion, listening to these lot banging on about how people should take responsibility for their actions is like listening to Hitler preaching the virtues of healthy race relations. The hypocritical bastards.