Media Thread 2020/21

[KS55]

I beg to differ on the relevancy as the point I was alluding to is that it is much more difficult to be objective when you're on the inside looking in. What you might think as great, others may not agree with, especially when it comes to nationalism. A number of those points you list could quite easily be challenged by others with a non English centric world view.

Well, they would be inaccurate to do so. It was a quick list of things in England other than reaching the final, a riposte if you like.
I am not a nationalist and I strongly disapproved of Southgate's remarks that "We are a special country" etc. But my list is just a riposte to the "nothing" statement, which is clearly nonsense. Your post, while it made important points, was not about "Nothing", unless it was an unlikely proof of the opposite.
I am not asking anyone to approve or agree with my list. I'm not sure even I do!

 

[Mike Cledford]

Martin Samuel is consistently pro City though he's a fair minded West Ham fan. He exposes FFP for the nonsense it is and says without investment at City and Chelsea United would be as dominant as Bayern in Germany. Best sport writer by a country mile and the only reason I by the Mail.

Yes That comment doesn't sound like him at all

 

[mac]

Indeed, Billy! The DT this morning gives the front page of the main news section to Southgate and a call upon the 'English Warriors from history'! I wonder who might those warriors be and if they were flashed up on a big screen prior to kick off how many of the crowd would recognise them and how many who did recognise them would begin a chorus of booing! I would list Churchill, Nelson, Bomber Harris, Francis Drake, Clive of India, Wellington and every MC 'n VC since the Crimean War! And that would no doubt offend hordes of people. And the last time we won a major final Edward Colston was looking out over Bristol Harbour on his plinth.

Also dont forget George Floyd.
Thousands rioted and pilfered in his honorable name.

 

[KS55]

Maybe they've only been exposed to
Piers Morgan
Katie Hopkins
9 different ways of describing a muffin
The M6
The M1
The M4
All the Ms really
Casualty (is that still on?)
Noel Edmonds
Manchester United
Stoke-on-Trent
June, July and August pretending to be a summer.
Cash Generator
Greggs

A like for the first person to tell me to fuck off if i dont like it.

Good list of "not nothings"

 

[KS55]

Jeez, those policies must put the Third Reich in No2 slot, 'cos I can't think of anything that would make PP a saint!

Many devout Muslim women, caught between family pressures and the law, are now effectively confined to the home. The law was sold as emancipating them. Yeah, right.

 

[KS55]

Yer right, but his house was in England!

Wasn't his address: No.1, London?

 

[SatOnTheWall]

Wellington was Irish

As the man himself said, "If a man is born in a stable, it doesn't make him a horse".

 

[BTH]

Indeed, Billy! The DT this morning gives the front page of the main news section to Southgate and a call upon the 'English Warriors from history'! I wonder who might those warriors be and if they were flashed up on a big screen prior to kick off how many of the crowd would recognise them and how many who did recognise them would begin a chorus of booing! I would list Churchill, Nelson, Bomber Harris, Francis Drake, Clive of India, Wellington and every MC 'n VC since the Crimean War! And that would no doubt offend hordes of people. And the last time we won a major final Edward Colston was looking out over Bristol Harbour on his plinth.

Clive of India was a distant relative. True story.

 

[Ghandi's Flip Flops]

As the man hinmself said, "If a man is born in a stable, it doesn't make him a horse".

He didn't actually say it. A guy called O'Connell said it about him, and it later got attributed to Wellington

 

[KS55]

Also dont forget George Floyd.
Thousands rioted and pilfered in his honorable name.

What happened to Floyd was appalling but I'm not sure a man who robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint by pointing his weapon at her midriff had an honourable name.