QuoteI'll have you know I'm a feminist, Stu. I had been under the impression Bohs were equally progressiveOriginally Posted by SkStu
It's the bikini pictures Charlie.
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
I'll have you know I'm a feminist, Stu. I had been under the impression Bohs were equally progressive
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.
It's all them johnny foreigns, innit?!
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.
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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.
Presumably he has lost sleep thinking about former Ireland U19 player Michael Keane in the last England U21 squad also.Samuel must lose some serious sleep worrying about those Ireland-born players not selected by the FAI...
From Football365: http://www.football365.com/mediawatc...435/Mediawatch
Fairly well sums up what their doing to our Jack and from an English perspective.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.
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.
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).
Ou-est le Centre George Pompidou?
Excellent piece Danny.
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
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