It's the bikini pictures Charlie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
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It's the bikini pictures Charlie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I'll have you know I'm a feminist, Stu. I had been under the impression Bohs were equally progressive :silly:Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
Hopefully the tabloid treatment will put him off being an English international.
Apparently it happened six months ago, but at the time he was still an unused sub for villa. Now that he's flavour of the week, it's time to use the photos to sell some papers
Does Ireland no harm anyway. The other two players photographed were born in Burundi and Jamaica and play internationally for England, if that's any link worth drawing on the matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
It's all them johnny foreigns, innit?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
Despite all his laughably fake concern, it seems like the root of all his concern is that, while he has no problem with another country taking the players England didn't want, this time a player good enough to play for England might choose to play for another country.
The rest of the article looks like a way to (weakly) mask his outrage and try and make it look like an objective argument.
Christ, Danno. No need to cast me as a Daily Mail-reading xenophobe! I was more referring to the fact that all 3 have/had alternative international options to England whilst being subjected to the, often unfair and frequently pointless, scrutiny of the English media.Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
Presumably he has lost sleep thinking about former Ireland U19 player Michael Keane in the last England U21 squad also.Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
From Football365: http://www.football365.com/mediawatc...435/Mediawatch
Fairly well sums up what their doing to our Jack and from an English perspective.Quote:
Hippie Crack-ing Up
Fresh from their 'picture exclusive' on Wednesday, The Sun step up their game with a 'world exclusive' on Thursday. Yes, 'hippie crack' has returned to the back pages.
The subject of this latest exposé is Aston Villa's Jack Grealish. If the timing seems more than a little coincidental, that's because it is. Whilst the back page screams out the inflammatory and scare-mongering headlines, the inside page concedes that, like Sterling before him, the photos were taken six months ago.
Mediawatch feels duty-bound to point out that a form of 'hippie crack' (or nitrous oxide If your lexicon is sculpted solely from tabloid headlines) is used to alleviate the pain of serious injuries, and thus has probably been used on the pitch, in a stadium, by a not insignificant proportion of Premier League footballers. It's just called entonox - or gas and air - in those circumstances.
For a potentially dangerous drug (remembering that too much of anything will potentially do you a mischief) it's actually used by many club's medical
departments, not to mention doctors and dentists. And it's given to pregnant women during childbirth.
Is this the future, then? The Sun sit on a bank of photos of footballers carrying out a pastime which is statistically far less harmful than drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes. They bide their time, waiting until said player's form takes his reputation to a zenith.
At that point the pictures are then splashed over the back pages, ignoring the extended period since they were actually taken. Only then can their stories
cause the most damage to the player, and garner the most notoriety for their newspaper.
Build them up, then knock them down: The English way.
Ha, don't worry. I wasn't directing it at you. Just parodying Daily Mailites.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
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Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Because you get it delivered??? ;)
The Daily Mail should be moved from the newspaper section to Fiction, or Children's Comics, or Utter ******** if they have such a section.
I decided to put my thoughts on Samuel's piece in blog format: https://danieldcollins.wordpress.com...jack-grealish/
Can you tweet it to the moron ?
That's brilliant stuff Danny. I have asked a footy journalist and author friend to retweet it. He has around a thousand followers I think.
Cheers, Stutts!
Samuel doesn't appear to be on Twitter; just a parody account, as far as I can see. I've managed to find an email address (not moniterod by him personally, unfortunately) and I've tweeted it to @MailSport, so I hope he might see it somehow.
Great stuff Danny, eloquently written and bang on the money as usual.Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
Nice work Danny - comprehensive takedown. Samuel doesn't have a baldies, nothing new there.
Just listening to Second Captains at the mo, some of the same points being made by Early and co. Not much optimism he'll be playing for us mind (can't say I disagree either).
Excellent piece Danny.
Cheers for the positive words y'all!
No luck with two email addresses through which I tried to get in touch with Samuel. I suppose it's handy for one who spouts so much crap to be uncontactable.
Instead, I've emailed the general editorial email address. And their corrections department; they deal with concerns over accuracy. :p
This could escalate. Oh wait, we want this one to escalate. Danno Danno Danno.
Paul Scholes has his say.
Maybe Scholesy would have been better off choosing Ireland. He wouldn't have been shafted out to the left wing to accommodate Gerrard and Lampard! We would have probably qualified as much as England if we had him too! Imagine, Keane and Scholes our centre midfield, Jayney.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Scholes
Jack Grealish warned by Aston Villa boss Tim Sherwood
Aston Villa midfielder Jack Grealish has been warned about his off-field behaviour after he was photographed apparently taking nitrous oxide.
Year-old pictures of Grealish, 19, seeming to take the legal high - known as laughing gas - from a balloon were printed in a newspaper on Thursday.
"I spoke to Jack first thing this morning as he came in," said manager Tim Sherwood.
"I explained to him his behaviour can't be tolerated."
Similar pictures of Liverpool winger Raheem Sterling and West Brom striker Saido Berahino have also emerged in recent weeks.
"We can't condone that behaviour," Sherwood said of Grealish, who has not been fined for the incident.
"He is now in a responsible position as a professional footballer, he's got to make sure it won't happen again, he's assured me it won't.
"But, as I said about Raheem last week, he's a young man, he was even younger a year earlier when the picture was taken."
The Villa academy product has made 18 first-team appearances and was involved in both goals in their 2-1 win over Liverpool in the FA Cup semi final on Sunday.
Grealish, who qualifies to play for both England and the Republic of Ireland, is set to be included in the squad for Saturday's Premier League game with Manchester City.
And Sherwood says the recent off-field attention will be a learning curve for the Birmingham-born teenager.
"I'm not worried. To be honest there is only one form of discipline - that's self-discipline. That's what really matters," added the Villa boss.
"Jack has to take that on board now. This is an eye-opener for him, he has to realise he has to be very careful who he can trust out there."
Ha, surprisingly, the corrections team have sent me a very cordial reply to inform me they've forwarded my email on to Samuel.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
Gerrard, Rooney and Carragher could have played for us too. As could Rio Ferdinand. There may even be a few that we don't know about that could have played for us.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
Alot of their "golden generation" may have done better at tournaments if they were away from the madness of the English media.
Carragher is another that would been better off.
Scholes grandparents are in Letterkenny as far as I'm aware but I've never heard of him visiting or being in around the town. Grealish seems to have a much stronger connection than Scholes has had.
the thought of that scummer in an Irish jersey sickens me.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
Exactly. Which is precisely the argument that Danny makes so well about varying degrees of nationality and making your own decisions based on how you feel.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
PS - Rio Ferdinand was another who could have played for us and he used to come over to visit his family here quite regularly when he was with Leeds. I seen him and his personalized number plate quite a few times in some of my old haunts. (I presumed he took the ferry once and left a car over here?)
Why? Carragher always seemed alright.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
My neighbors were Irish father and English mother with children raised in Ireland. The extended family members on the mother's side came to Ireland every summer; very much English. They said they were in the Leyton Orient youth team but they were pretty sh*t at football so I took it with a pinch of salt.
Apropos of nothing.
He talked openly about getting some old school pals to commit grievous bodily harm against Lucas Neill when he was shopping in Liverpool city center.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Neill was "spared" an assault because David Thompson was with him and Carragher didn't want him to be a witness to it.
Charming character.
That sounds completely out of character. I'm sure they just wanted to have a friendly chat.
I wouldn't be mad about Liverpool by any means, okay I can't stand them, but I always liked Carragher. Super player and seems like an honest, down to earth sort. Very Roy Keane-like with his intolerance for excuses which I find refreshing. Himself and the Dunney Monster could have been great :)Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
I've always thought Carragher was alright. More info on the Neill matter here, although I sense Carragher must have been using some poetic licence to stir controversy for the promotion of his autobiography: http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/2008/09/...ill-assaulted/
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Originally Posted by Jamie Carragher
Was just about the post the same thing. Predictably, not exactly as TOWK reported it, where he implied that Carragher premeditatedly set about organising the assault.
He was a good player alright, one we could have done with but as set out by the others his off field behavior was very questionable.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
in fairness DeL...Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
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Terry Darracott, a Scouser, appealed to one of my friends to call the boys off. I agreed
It seems he never gave the go ahead though, either initially or when his friends came across him in the city centre. That's hardly the same thing as "getting some old school pals to commit grievous bodily harm against Lucas Neil". Sounds like a bit of a non-story to me. There was nothing overly "charming" about the leg breaking tackle either... not that it deserved 'off the field' retribution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CEyTHbllwU