Same Time Next Week Brummies?
Feb 25th, 2008 by 'holic
Monday morning. There have been better weekends. Regulars will know we had quite a time of it on here with the orchestrated invasion by the SmallHeathAlliance on Saturday night.
For their benefit, but to their chagrin, I removed some of the more inane and downright vile comments. I wish I could have done the same before my television and radio were similarly affected.
Garth, notionally a football pundit for the BBC. I have to tell you that no, I did not consider that Arsene Wenger’s initial reaction to be the headline story when a professional footballer, something you once were, lay in a hospital bed with a shattered leg.
Terry, not a shock-jock, just a cowardly two-faced ‘professional northener’ on TalkSport. Strange though it may seem it never crossed my mind that the breaking of Eduardo’s leg was some kind of divine retribution because Arsenal import too many foreigners.
Christian has not been alone on TalkSport with his puerile dribble, and I have tuned into that station for the last time. Similarly the merest glimpse of the amateurish Crooks will have me grabbing the TV remote.
So I am drawn to an inevitable conclusion. Who would I rather spend my Saturday night with? Simple. Give me the SmallHeathAlliance any day, because they are fighting their man’s corner, and their opinion will not change between now and next weekend.
But if Wayne Rooney, or Steve Gerrard, or Frank Lampard suffers a broken leg as a result of a challenge by a foreigner next week, just listen for the squeals from people like Crooks, Christian, Green, Parry, and Durham.
Whatever happened to broadcasting standards?
22 Responses to “Same Time Next Week Brummies?”
amen brother
exactly what i’m telling people.
can you remember turkey v england a few years back and as the players went down the tunnel at half time alpay had a small childish kick at the then golden boy beckham no harm really just a small trip and push on the england skipper remember what happened next and remember no one was injured and england went through well i do the brithish hypocr.. media drove hime out of england within weeks. we hade the “sun” with tunip type headlines and sky giving us 20000 replays and pundits drooling over the hype.
We have fallen into the trap of allowing the media to turn the weekend into an anti-Arsenal cause celebre because our manager expressed indignation at an assault. This gave the media the opportunity to indulge in Arsenal and foreigner bashing and conveniently lets them off having to criticise a footballing culture which promotes brute strength and the ability to run around and kick people over skill and tactical nous. The same scum media rely on interviews from the many managers and players who would find no employment in any other league in the world due to a complete absence of anything but near psychotic levels of aggression. Far easier for the media to focus on the emotional outpourings of a manager who has seen a player potentially have his career ended for the second time in 3 years (Diaby vs Sunderland before the European Cup final being the other occasion).
The only course of actioon is to stop buying the newspapers who employ these people and complain vociferously to the BBC to have morons like Crooks, Hansen and Lawrenson removed. They add nothing in terms of quality analysis. I have heard Crooks interview style described as “a long winded exposition of the bleeding obvious followed by a question mark”. Seems pretty accurate. We have to ask just why it is people like him continue to be funded by the public purse.
From reading the press and hearing Seb Larrsons comments, it appears that Arsenal are the bad boys!! I think everbody has forgotten how disgracful that tackle really was… I don’t care if Taylor is a nice guy, Eduardo had half jis leg hanging off as a result of his stupid challenge, but, that point seems unimportant…… I’m absolutely disgusted with the media at the mo….
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http://www.up-yours-fergie.blogspot.com/
I’m glad that I’ve finally seen someone mention what an absolute dickhead terry christian is. I work on Saturdays and drive home listening to him saturday was my last time as well
No excuse for missing out Sky here either. Keys, Gray and Platt were an absolute disgrace.
Anyway, time to let it pass. Hope that nice Martin boy quickly gets over the anguish Eduardo must have caused him. Imagine what he must be going through. He only has three games to piece his shattered mind back together before he can play again.
Sweet mother of God!
Good stuff, ‘holic.
I woke up this morning feeling rather quiet, but reading even more media (and Brum players, Larsson boy, seriously, what the fuck happened to your brain?), has got me extraordinarily angry again.
Wow ‘holic… exactly what the lads here have been saying too. Spot on as usual.
Ollie… I can’t believe what Larsson said too. Time away from the capital has obviously eroded his morals or something.
I’m furious, but my concern for Dudu overwhelms everything…
xx
The fact is that Eduardo suffered a horrendous leg break and the majority of football fans have sympathy with his plight, There will be idiots on both sides of the aisle making outrageous comments. I feel extremely sorry for Both Eduardo and Taylor, 1. because Eduardo my have had his career destroyed and 2. Taylor have live with the fact that he may have destroyed two careers.
On brighter note did anyone notice the Chavs on sunday.. Move over Rover the boys are back in town..
Case of Guiness to be ordered for the drowning of sorrows in the swindon area.. Cant resist if it ‘holic get your eraser out now!!
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I just heard Micky Quinn on the radio say that the referee only gave Taylor a red card to get him off the field to protect him from a reaction from the Arsenal players.The lunatics have finally taken over the asylum.
Two of the worst forwards I have seen at the top level were Micky Quinn and Mark Falco.Slow,cumbersome with the skill levels of a jelly baby.They both scored hat tricks against us.
One only has tocompare the media’s reaction to Duscher breaking Beckham’s foot in 2002 or Ronaldo winking at a camera. As for talksport, Alan Brazil has recently released a book detailing his fascist political ideology, detailing his belief that England needs to turf out all immigrants. Nuff said.
The totally predictable small minded and biased reaction of the media does not surprise me one bit, which is why I have not bought a newspaper for years and won’t watch televised football unless the commentary is turned off. The morons who need someone to tell them what to think are welcome to it.
I’m pleased to see that Wenger has not given them the satisfaction of more of his words to twist since he seems to have forgone the usual post match press conference today. It’s a shame he can’t stop speaking to them all together.
same time next week brummies?
you never know your luck goonerholic, we have got spudzzzzzzzzz next sat and with the ‘after the lord mayor’s parade’ bit hopefully you’ll be happier to see us 😉
good luck for the rest of the season and nice to hear tiny visited eduardo in hospital (once straight after the game when he was in surgery and didnt get to see him) and eduardo said that the tackle wasnt malicious.
Can’t believe you’re so one-eyed you can’t see what the rest of the world can; especially with the disciplinary record of your team.
Ah well, I always knew London was full of shit. You’ve just proved it again.
i wonder if any arsenal fans have softened given a few days to mull things over…i have not heard one person in the media criticise martin taylor, they cant all be wrong.
even the comments of niklas bendtner must comfort arsenal ears, if one of your own is defending him what does that say.
i was delighted to hear today that eduardo is expected to make a full recovery and i wish him all the very best and hope it is as speedy as possible,
i honestly and truly believe the whole incident has been blown out of all proportion (not the injury, the reaction to martin taylor) and i point the finger at arsene wenger, this wont be a popular opinion on here but martin taylor is not a malicious man, far from it, ive had the pleasure of meeting him many times and as far as footballers go he is as gentle as ive ever met, being a small time sports journalist ive met many.
he showed the courage to face eduardo in hospital and apologise, and comments that he is distraught i think are true, he must now live with the knowledge his mistimed tackle( and that is all it was) caused serious damage to a fellow professional, death threats and vitriolic abuse are frankly disgusting and i hope even right mannered arsenal fans would denounce such behaviour.
finally id like to draw a line under this assertion that birmingham city set out to bully arsenal and kick them off the park, i was present on saturday and saw no such thing, and one check of the stats will tell you arsenal committed more fouls than birmingham, i dont for one second counter no team in the league attempts hard tactics against arsenal, but on saturday this was not the case and i feel this has clouded some peoples judgment.
good luck to eduardo, good luck to arsenal for the rest of the season, i still think you are a super team to watch and shall be cheering for you in the champions league
And Holic obliged!! Race you to the super cup who will get there first
Maybe if even one of those people in the media who are so quick to sympathize with the perpertrator stopped and gave a word of sympathy for Eduardo it might be different Che.
And if you’re looking for ‘one-eyed’ Al Majir, look no further than the media and pundits. How an emotional comment or reaction, which was retracted on reflection can be considered more offensive than an assault, regardless of intent, which results in a serious injury can only make sense in the mind of someone with a warped sense of right and wrong.
I was just asking Arseblogger how he thought the pundits would react if that would have been an Arsenal player tackling C. Ronaldo or Rooney? Not to beat down a point but I can’t imagine the response would have been the same…
best to you all
chad~Tulsa, OK
I respect Taylor for visiting Dudu in hospital, BUT who did that help most Taylor or Eduardo?
passenal – i think the vast majority would show much more sympathy for eduardo had your own manager not changed the angle of the story, you cant fully blame the media when it was wenger who gave them all a headline turning the focus on taylor.
i actually think had wenger simply made comments regarding over zealous tackling in the game in general then the whole football world may well have sat up and taken notice of dignified comments, as it was he didnt and the football world has rallied round behind a genuinely decent guy who made an unintentional mistake.
trizzo – i dont doubt it helped taylor more than eduardo, but all credit to taylor for doing it (twice) and facing eduardo and apologising, rather than doing it through the media