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Shocking Guardian article on De Jong/Ben Arfa
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LongsightM13
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Every time Taylor gets some credit from City fans with the occasional well-written piece, he then goes and spoils it by showing his true colours.
A pretty pathetic piece of shit-stirring with no quotes and hysterical, subjective judgements rather than facts.
I will never trust him again after his lies about the 'Golden Jubilee' song and his general tone of unjustified, sneering pre-judgement before the 50th anniversary of the Munich Disaster.
No amount of attempted self-serving justification or back-sliding on his behalf will alter my view. The man is a complete twat.
A pretty pathetic piece of shit-stirring with no quotes and hysterical, subjective judgements rather than facts.
I will never trust him again after his lies about the 'Golden Jubilee' song and his general tone of unjustified, sneering pre-judgement before the 50th anniversary of the Munich Disaster.
No amount of attempted self-serving justification or back-sliding on his behalf will alter my view. The man is a complete twat.
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Anonymous
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"...players...keen not to inflame..."
But in a bid to generate traffic, the Grauniad clearly are! Maybe they should take Sepp's advice and just shake hands?
But in a bid to generate traffic, the Grauniad clearly are! Maybe they should take Sepp's advice and just shake hands?
oakiecokie
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Unfortunately for us,we are an easy target from these twats nowadays.
However,Nige has been involved in two broken leg challenges and 9 bookings,since the "infamous tackle" (I`m using those words lightly,based on the journos near words)
Strangely enough has Nige ever received a Re card ?? Never heard too much from OT with that dirty twat Scholes,I wonder why ?
However,Nige has been involved in two broken leg challenges and 9 bookings,since the "infamous tackle" (I`m using those words lightly,based on the journos near words)
Strangely enough has Nige ever received a Re card ?? Never heard too much from OT with that dirty twat Scholes,I wonder why ?
Nothing in it?Train said:There was nothing in it. Move on.
Man up
Factually correct, but what impression of De Jong were you given when you read the article? A serial leg breaker, who besmirched the World Cup Final, snubbed by his own national manager, and with a bad disciplinary record for his club.
"Manning up" is about understanding what is being said, and then doing something about defending your own. Blue flag flying high here, not the white flag
DTKOAG
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He writes books about the rags... That says it all for me
stonerblue
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There was fuck all wrong with the tackle
Arfa didn't want to speak or see anyone when asked so DJ gave him plenty of time before getting in touch.
Both players don't wanna re-hash this but the Guardian feels it has to for some reason.
Arfa didn't want to speak or see anyone when asked so DJ gave him plenty of time before getting in touch.
Both players don't wanna re-hash this but the Guardian feels it has to for some reason.
Fine to cover it. De Jong's message was newsworthy. It was a big controversy at the time, even if that was in part due to the way it was reported, but it's not the coverage of the issue that annoys, but the way it is done.stonerblue said:There was fuck all wrong with the tackle
Arfa didn't want to speak or see anyone when asked so DJ gave him plenty of time before getting in touch.
Both players don't wanna re-hash this but the Guardian feels it has to for some reason.
johnny on the spot
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What's this? The Guardian's Daniel Failure shit-stirring about City? Well I never...
more lazy than useless
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I can't see what the fuss is about. I've read the article through and can't see anything anti-city in it at all. I'd go as far as to say very neutral and puts things into their context; for example, pointing out that City believe Van Marwijk wanted to deflect attention from himself.
As for the 'booked 9 times' line, that's pointing out that City believe NDJ is being treated unfairly.
Why write it? Why not? It was a big story at the time ( made a big story by the media ). City v Newcastle this week, international week so few stories around, etc.
The strapline is 'horror tackle'? It was a horror tackle, a man got a broken leg! I can see no implication from the journo that he's trying to make out that the tackle was malicious, which seems to be what is being read into the line.
I normally have no time for football journos, but can't see a single thing wrong with this article.
There is plenty of shite, malicious, opinionated and biased journalism out there, but I can't see it in this even when I go looking for it.
As for the 'booked 9 times' line, that's pointing out that City believe NDJ is being treated unfairly.
Why write it? Why not? It was a big story at the time ( made a big story by the media ). City v Newcastle this week, international week so few stories around, etc.
The strapline is 'horror tackle'? It was a horror tackle, a man got a broken leg! I can see no implication from the journo that he's trying to make out that the tackle was malicious, which seems to be what is being read into the line.
I normally have no time for football journos, but can't see a single thing wrong with this article.
There is plenty of shite, malicious, opinionated and biased journalism out there, but I can't see it in this even when I go looking for it.