Fowlers Penalty Miss said:
It's one thing to have an interview with someone, but to drag up a bit of gossip, if it is gossip, and dress it up as fact is another thing entirely.
The way the story is constructed just smacks of bullshit, and it probably is.
Like I wrote, is it reasonable to expect Mancini to say those words?
Lets' put it another way. Using your experience of life, of an everyday existence, do you really believe it happened?
Could it not be a case of a desperate reporter being dispatched to Carrington with a message from his editor to dig up the dirt, and when said reporter gets there, he finds out the players have been given the day off?
What does he do?
He files bullshit.
I'm no lover of the press, and certainly not the sun, but it is over dramatic, and like I said, I don't believe it.
I can tell you this:
1. You are wrong. He has not made that story up. They are giving it big licks and it's up as an exclusive by one of their leading sports/football writers.
2. You are basing your assertions on fewer facts than you say Custis has... why?
3. If you think an editor tells his reporters to "Go and dig the dirt up at Carrington" you have paranoia issues. Doesn't happen mate.
4. What could have happened is something like this: someone knows/heard about a row. That someone; CB/RM/agent/tealady/delivery man/etc lets press know for a few bob. They go to the Sun cos they have the biggest circulation and pay the most. They put their top reporter on it; he calls CB and puts it to him. CB either fills him in but insists on remaining anonymous or tells reporter to do one. If he does the latter reporter asks him to deny the story.
If this story is made up then RM/CB and the club will have writs on the Sun's desk at 9am today, simple as. We'll see if that happens.
