Red Issue shameful front cover

[Dubai Blue]

I just hope that now the guy is sitting up and watching the telly in hospital we can stop all the "tributes", all the t-shirts. all the mentions of "tragic"....no, tragic is when 22 kids die in a bus crash on holiday...and all the "I'm more upset than you at the fact that somebody I'd never heard of almost died". At one point last week I thought he must have died because there were all these football shirts lying outside the Bolton ground and there was the Oldham team, on their way to Hartlepool, stopping off to pay their respects to somebody who wasn't actually even bloody dead. We've turned into a nation of wimps and this sort of tosh just adds to the malaise.

Absolutely spot on. The nation seems to be in such a rush to grieve now that we don't even wait for people to be dead. It's crass in the extreme.

 

[skyblue78]

The excuse of being football 'banter' seems to allow anyone to take the piss out of anything no matter how sick it is. Death, disease, physical and mental health, family problems etc just to score some points against the opposition.
Saying that I hate United so that cover is 100 times worse cos it's them!

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Wonder what Red Tissue had to say when we were all forced to endure a minute's applause or silence for an alcoholic Irishman who had no connection with most of the clubs in the PL bar two and who drank himself to death quite deliberately.

Now that was the day football made a rod for its own back.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

The 'grief junkies' brilliantly compare September 11th to Munich.

 

[1_barry_conlon]

It's pretty much spot on, to be honest.

It's not in any way taking the piss out of Muamba or his condition, it's taking the piss out of the people who were scrambling over each other to grieve the most for a player who hadn't even died.

There is obviously a fair bit of irony, though, as pointed out above.

This forum had a fair few

Glad you pointed that out....I was reading some of that and I have to say I found it odd that people were posting "Sat here in tears" etc etc. Now I was gutted for the lad and am glad it looks like it turned out ok but crying over someone that you have never met and dont know is a bit odd if you ask me.

It's the Princess Di wailers who kicked it all off. After that the precedence was set and we became a nation of professional mourners.

 

[camelcoat]

Poor taste but the message it's trying to say is right.

Still hypocritical though with all the munich stuff they do. What made the 50th anniversary any different than the 49th or 51st? Yet they still tried to force people into respecting it in an OTT fashion.

Exactly. It isn't that I disagree with the sentiment, it's more the motivations. Rags think they have an absolute monopoly on "tragedy". This is what allows them to sing about Marc Vivien Foe whilst castigating the idiots who sing about Munich.

What an incredibly moronic statement.

It seems the dust has settled somewhat on the Muamba situation, I hope people who have no connection with the club, player and/or Football in general will look back at their behavior over the past few weeks and cringe. Help and support is one thing but the event snowballed into a ridiculous parade of grief one upmanship.

 

[skyblue78]

The 'grief junkies' brilliantly compare September 11th to Munich.

This picture is pathetic in the extreme.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

This forum had a fair few

Glad you pointed that out....I was reading some of that and I have to say I found it odd that people were posting "Sat here in tears" etc etc. Now I was gutted for the lad and am glad it looks like it turned out ok but crying over someone that you have never met and dont know is a bit odd if you ask me.

It's the Princess Di wailers who kicked it all off. After that the precedence was set and we became a nation of professional mourners.

I've still not got over Jade Goody yet :(

 

[1_barry_conlon]

Glad you pointed that out....I was reading some of that and I have to say I found it odd that people were posting "Sat here in tears" etc etc. Now I was gutted for the lad and am glad it looks like it turned out ok but crying over someone that you have never met and dont know is a bit odd if you ask me.

It's the Princess Di wailers who kicked it all off. After that the precedence was set and we became a nation of professional mourners.

I've still not got over Jade Goody yet :(

God bless her racist soul. ;-)

 

[Dubai Blue]

The 'grief junkies' brilliantly compare September 11th to Munich.

Fuck me, what a pair of complete cunts