Marcus Rashford lobbying govt to help vulnerable children

BillyShears said:
Pep had a PR team and during the time he was wearing the yellow ribbon. He still does. He is very publicly active in Catalonia. This whole silly argument that Rashford has PR people writing the tweets is a bit like saying Pep didn’t write his own tweets about the plight of the Catalonian political prisoners. Who cares.

And if you didn’t slag Pep off for his PR moves and his PR team then you’ll have to ask yourself why Rashford is different.
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Maybe because pep is not English and wants to be careful and correct with his words
 
You have to say well done to Marcus Rashford. You also have to say that this whole thing has clearly been stage managed by influencers for maximum social effect. Today alone he's been name checked in the House of Commons, the Sky News ticker referred to him as "Manchester United player and anti-poverty campaigner", some bloke on SSN said that Boris should put him in charge of a Social Mobility Commission and the Mail online has reported that the odds of him winning the Sports Personality of the Year have been slashed from 80/1 to being joint favourite with Tyson Fury.

Fair play to to the lad but plenty of other players and clubs have done much social and charity work during the pandemic but all this hysteria is pushing their activities into the shade.
 
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There are some players who are top blokes and do a lot for their communities. The likes of Rashford, Raz, Henderson, Milner and Vinny all come across as decent human beings.

It’s sad that when you look online some people are more interested in shouting abuse at rival players than respecting the good they do.
 
laserblue said:
You have to say well done to Marcus Rashford. You also have to say that this whole thing has clearly been stage managed by influencers for maximum social effect. Today alone he's been name checked in the House of Commons, the Sky News ticker referred to him as "Manchester United player and anti-poverty campaigner", some bloke on SSN said that Boris should put him in charge of a Social Mobility Commission and the Mail online has reported that the odds of him winning the Sports Personality of the Year have been slashed from 80/1 to being joint favourite with Tyson Fury.

Fair play to to the lad but plenty of other players and clubs have done much social and charity work during the pandemic but all this hysteria is pushing their activities into the shade.
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true, but many would say the same about the sometimes over the top praise Raheem gets after he forced the media’s hand and effectively stopped them slagging him off. We should just be able to celebrate them both doing great things for their communities
 
mike1923 said:
true, but many would say the same about the sometimes over the top praise Raheem gets after he forced the media’s hand and effectively stopped them slagging him off. We should just be able to celebrate them both doing great things for their communities
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I agree. Not a criticism of Rashford himself in any way and your analogy with Sterling is apposite. It's just that it's resulted in all sorts of hyperbole, some of which Rashford himself might find a tad embarrassing.
 
An amazing thing to do and he's got my respect. He spotted a huge issue, did his bit and then got the attention of those in power to do the right thing.

Children should never go hungry in this country, it should never have gone this far but fair play to Rashford for doing something about it when it did.
 
Pep Guardiola: "What Raheem Sterling has done, Marcus Rashford or whoever - they have to use these platforms to make a better society. They don't need to get more money, so they get a better place to live, for their families, our kids, the next generations..."

"Maybe these stupid people don't believe you are a human too. We can have an opinion - same as a nurse, doctor or politician. We are humans and why shouldn't we say our opinion when you believe you can make a better society, in the public eye..."

"So that is always why, when people say it is not enough, of course it isn't but let’s start from here. I admire a lot of these kind gestures because they do it for all of us."
 
Complete side note.

The BBC news just did a quick summary of today's points and the Rashford story (quite rightly) featured. What made me laugh was the portion size that they showed in the clip. I swear the amount of pasta that was put on the plate would have fed about 4.

Great initiative. Great result.

Edit: had to go on iPlayer and record a phone clip.

 
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Mike Cledford said:
Someone suggested on here that many of the blues commenting about the media overkill today would not have complained if a City player had written the letter.
I will turn that round a bit and ask would the media have given a fraction of the coverage to someone like Raz for example or indeed any player not from a team in red? There would be very little positive comment in support and the proposal would have got nowhere.
Football starts again tomorrow after a long break. In the evening the League Champions will play a team once called the invincibles and yet our piss poor media seems to be more concerned about what Kyle Walker did 5 weeks ago. And tomorrow there will be little about City. Front and back pages will be all about United and the other team in red.
And Marcus Rashford will be writing to the government about how he wants them to deal the financial crisis looming in months to come.
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After everything that’s happened over the past few months you see a young man focussed on doing something so important and meaningful. He could just throw a few quid at a charity but no he’s put his heart into this and I’m sure he doesn’t care about getting credit. What matters is he’s made a huge difference, he’s called out cold hearted MPs and put them to the sword. He’s Extraordinary in my opinion.
 
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