Sport washing

Its their country with their laws, they don't have crime levels as we do here because their laws are strict and if you are jailed for 5 years you will do 5 years with no liberal left winger telling them its not nice to jail the poor little mites as it might hurt their feelings. My sister lived there for 17 years and loved it, i visited on many occasions ( when city played in 2009 ) and loved, behave no problem, misbehave you're in deep doodoo
 
Just a quick trip to any city centre in the GB and as you step over the vomiting drug addicts and sidestep the homeless beggars in the bus and train stations make your way to overpriced shops and risk being accosted by lairy drunks or having your pocket dipped by the numerous thieving bastards. You can stop by the many hostelries where if you're lucky can be offered out by some arsehole trying to be big in front of his mates because he's had a few and you managed to catch his eye when he deliberately made a twat of himself to draw attention and looks. When you're done you can make your way back through filthy flytipped and littered streets to the station (bus or train) where you get to pay eye watering fares to stand up all the way back to your (stop or station) hoping the wankers you met earlier weren't on the same train annoying the fuck out of everyone and making inappropriate sexual innuendo at every pretty woman making her way home.
But yeah Abu Dhabi and its human rights - its a disgrace.
 
If we're going to start inventing pejorative phrases, how about media "image-washing".

That's taking medium sized clubs whose fans murder innocent football-goers from opposition teams thus getting their competitors banned from getting the riches they have had the benefit of, and inventing myths like "most knowledgeable supporters", "European Royalty" "famous nights under the lights" etc ad nauseam and re-packaging them as guardians of the game.
Fucking spot on pal!
 
Just a quick trip to any city centre in the GB and as you step over the vomiting drug addicts and sidestep the homeless beggars in the bus and train stations make your way to overpriced shops and risk being accosted by lairy drunks or having your pocket dipped by the numerous thieving bastards. You can stop by the many hostelries where if you're lucky can be offered out by some arsehole trying to be big in front of his mates because he's had a few and you managed to catch his eye when he deliberately made a twat of himself to draw attention and looks. When you're done you can make your way back through filthy flytipped and littered streets to the station (bus or train) where you get to pay eye watering fares to stand up all the way back to your (stop or station) hoping the wankers you met earlier weren't on the same train annoying the fuck out of everyone and making inappropriate sexual innuendo at every pretty woman making her way home.
But yeah Abu Dhabi and its human rights - its a disgrace.
If you chose to go to Liverpool you take your chances
 
Clicked on thread ready to offer some valuable tips on getting green grass stains out of your shorts in the summer.

Fucking misleading thread titles :p
 
There is an inherent arrogance in western culture as if the west has always been a beacon of permissive liberality, sneering at the backward ways of the ‘other’. It’s really not a good look.

Yet go back a generation and homosexuality was illegal in this country. The death sentence was still technically in force (and of course is very much actually in force in many states in the US). Black people were segregated in the states.

This is not the distant past.

The rush to condemn Middle Eastern states often whitewashes our recent past.
 
Social media and reality TV have given society’s idiots a voice.

Just because there are loads of these idiots all over the shop online or on tele these days, it doesn’t mean their opinions should be given any credibility.

They are still idiots with idiotic views and should be ignored!

Years ago society would say; “don’t listen to that ****, he’s a fucking idiot” and the idiots would sit in the corner of their pub on their own being ignored or just not bother going out because they know nobody would listen to them.

Nowadays the idiots from all around the world can converse with each other and they all think their idiocy is normal because that’s all they know. They venture onto social media comments sections where they feel a sense of importance because 653 other idiots from around the world will ‘like’ some idiotic thing they say.

The media pander to these idiots as well because they know these are the fools who will give them their ‘clicks’ therefore they put out stories that these idiots will lap up and it’s a money spinner.

This is absolutely spot on.

I’ve come off Twitter as it’s unbearable, not just with football chat but with politics and general life.
 
There is an inherent arrogance in western culture as if the west has always been a beacon of permissive liberality, sneering at the backward ways of the ‘other’. It’s really not a good look.

Yet go back a generation and homosexuality was illegal in this country. The death sentence was still technically in force (and of course is very much actually in force in many states in the US). Black people were segregated in the states.

This is not the distant past.

The rush to condemn Middle Eastern states often whitewashes our recent past.
Her Majesty's Three Lions lies emblazoned on the chest of the England shirt and yet no one talks about sports-washing when the England sporting teams play. One needn't be anti-British to feel this way, it's just a straightforward contradiction between the how the media presents Manchester City and other sporting teams.

These are just convenient arguments which they pick up and drop as and when appropriate.
 
Just a quick trip to any city centre in the GB and as you step over the vomiting drug addicts and sidestep the homeless beggars in the bus and train stations make your way to overpriced shops and risk being accosted by lairy drunks or having your pocket dipped by the numerous thieving bastards. You can stop by the many hostelries where if you're lucky can be offered out by some arsehole trying to be big in front of his mates because he's had a few and you managed to catch his eye when he deliberately made a twat of himself to draw attention and looks. When you're done you can make your way back through filthy flytipped and littered streets to the station (bus or train) where you get to pay eye watering fares to stand up all the way back to your (stop or station) hoping the wankers you met earlier weren't on the same train annoying the fuck out of everyone and making inappropriate sexual innuendo at every pretty woman making her way home.
But yeah Abu Dhabi and its human rights - its a disgrace.

That post probably summed up a night out in almost any major City in the UK and probably most of the smaller places too. Manchester City centre is bloody awful in the day, at night you venture there at your peril.
 

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