January 29, 201214 yr So Man City are out of the league cup, out of the FA Cup and also out of the Champions League... ...All the money in the world and can't even win or get into the final of the Mickey Mouse cup :P Come on Cardiff!
January 30, 201214 yr So Man City are out of the league cup, out of the FA Cup and also out of the Champions League... ...All the money in the world and can't even win or get into the final of the Mickey Mouse cup :P Come on Cardiff! Stop bikcering about City... I remember when Pompey thought they was minted.. they was the same if not worse than us !
January 30, 201214 yr Everytime I see Portsmouth in the news these days they always seem to be on the verge of extinction.
January 30, 201214 yr Stop bikcering about City... I remember when Pompey thought they was minted.. they was the same if not worse than us ! Hey Daryl, remember when you said you were minted?
January 30, 201214 yr Hey Daryl, remember when you said you were minted? We still are.. i am not .. yes pompey again.. are poor !
January 30, 201214 yr Eurosport Yahoo: FA Cup - Early Doors: Anger! Outrage! Condemnation! The internet is an angry place. An angry, unhappy place. Perhaps the internet's greatest achievement is in allowing us to communicate with each other. Instantly and for free, in ways we could not have dreamed 20 years ago. What do we do with this gift? We argue and insult each other. We reach out to our fellow man - and punch him in the face. Take Saturday's match between Liverpool and Manchester United, which was overtaken by events off the pitch - both alleged and fictional. Late in the first half, a screen grab taken from TV footage spread across Twitter like wildfire. It showed a man apparently making a monkey gesture - certainly worth investigating, but conclusive proof of racism? That would surely be for the police and courts to establish. But those days are over, and the man in the white cardigan was soon the most hated person in Britain. The public and pundits were lining up to take shots, usually with something along the lines of 'Every #LFC fan must condemn this moron.' In other words: it is not enough for me to judge this man. Everyone else has to do it as well. And, by implication, if they don't I'm going to assume they're racist as well. Never mind that this guy was just one potential pinhead out of 45,000 - every single Liverpool supporter must now clear their name by disowning him. Then came another story. Three Manchester United fans had been arrested for spitting on the Hillsborough Memorial. A fresh wave of outrage, and this time it was Manchester United fans being told to condemn this despicable act of barbarism. And despicable it would have been, if it had actually happened. In the old days, a rumour - without evidence - of arrests would have warranted a call to the boys in blue to establish some facts. No time in the Twitter age - by the time I get through my window for splenetic opinion will have passed. I'll just preface my ill-informed views with 'If this is true' and let rip anyway. The Daily Mirror's chief football writer Martin Lipton's timeline was particularly good value, as he bounced from one form of fury to another. He was far from alone in his rush to denounce, but he was a stand-out performer. Here's one double whammy: "If reports of spitting on Hillsborough Memorial are correct, I hope every #mufc fan will condemn. 1/2" "2/2 Likewise, if #lfc fan was caught on camera making monkey gestures, want to hear condemnation from #lfc" Here was a man desperate to be outraged by something, if only he could work out what it was: "As said earlier, condemnation required if reports are true. If not, those responsible for making false accusations should be condemned too" Eventually somebody did call Merseyside Police, who confirmed there had been no arrests for spitting on the Memorial. Cue yet more anger. How could anybody have made this up? It's disgusting, disgraceful, outrageous! Far from showing any contrition at unwittingly spreading a lie, Lipton declared himself utterly sickened by the made-up spitting story. "Deeply angered if the claims about Hillsborough Memorial spitting were completely made up. Hope #lfc fans condemn, too. Outrageous" Granted, it was contemptible for various reasons: 1- It was a malicious falsehood. 2- It claimed arrests were made - easily disprovable. 3- Most importantly, it was staggeringly disrespectful to victims of the Hillsborough Disaster, dragging them and their memory into a complete fabrication. But all of this ignores the likelihood that it was made up by some misguided 13-year-old in his bedroom, then took on a life of its own once the rumour spread (not unlike the Leon Best video). The Internet is fantastic, but it is full of gossip, hoaxes and lies. In such a landscape, journalists have an important job sorting the true from the untrue and the relevant from the irrelevant. Lipton himself said over the weekend: "Twitter is not journalism." Maybe true. But a journalist on Twitter is still a journalist, and he owes his 21,000-strong following to his status as such. And a journalist should at least attempt to deal in facts, rather than flying off the handle every time a report of a rumour of an allegation hits their timeline. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/30012012/58/fa-cup-early-doors-anger-outrage-condemnation.html
January 30, 201214 yr ^ That's a fair article. Granted I heard that it wasn't confirmed that spitting allegation. It is true - don't believe what Twitter (or Liverpool facebook pages for that matter) are telling you. That said it shouldn't hide the fact that large sections of the 6000 strong Manchester United end were chanting "The S*n was right you are murderers" and "96 is not enough". Paul Tomkins a well respected blogger at Anfield and contributor to the official Liverpool website said that this was the case.
January 30, 201214 yr I don't think this weekend has done anything positive to quell tension between Liverpool and Man Utd. If anything, it has got worse in this age of social media where anyone will believe what they want to believe, regardless of the truth. It's so easy to write something, anything, that later is taken out of control but I do think that its probably stems from the vast minority of total fans. How many people get influenced by tweets like that subsequently is anyone's guess. How many hundreds of people still think its the truth, and will probably never know it didn't actually happen. And it's sad that a whole stand can chant stuff like that but hidden behind thousands of fans, its strange what normal-minded people will do, knowing that they won't get punished for it.
January 31, 201214 yr a spectator has handcuffed himself to the Man City goalpost in the 40th minute.
January 31, 201214 yr Anyone else's SSN vidiprinter broken? Mine says Andy Carroll has scored for Liverpool, that can't be right :confused:
January 31, 201214 yr is that why there is 5 mins injury time? yup United old boy Darron Gibson scores for Everton v Man City Or as our headlines read: Another assist for Landycakes!
January 31, 201214 yr Less than strategic mic placement this game. I've heard a half dozen f-bombs throughout.
January 31, 201214 yr Poor Swansea! Chelsea really didnt deserve that, great result for us, Carroll was brilliant again. We are starting to see what he is really capable and the jokes will stop. :P:D
January 31, 201214 yr Before the match I really thought we needed Defoe or Tevez but after Carroll, Bellamy and Kuyt scoring maybe we dont. Could do with a right-winger though... :P
January 31, 201214 yr *cough* *ahem* cacough* why isn't everyone talking about how Manchester city lost again?
January 31, 201214 yr *cough* *ahem* cacough* why isn't everyone talking about how Manchester city lost again? :P:):cool::D:lol::wink3:;):lol::(:laugh3::wacko: :cheesy: :crown::thumbsup::chinese::goofy::joker: :guitarist: :wink::dance::dunce::mickey::devilish: :laugh2: :wiseguy::earmuffs:: ):vuvuzela: = Me after Man City lost
January 31, 201214 yr This Deadline Day has been nothing less than absolute SHITE! All I heard at work today was people bickering about how boring Deadline Day has been, people have such short memories, it's only last season and I think the season before that some crazy transfers have happened, normally big transfers don't happen in the January transfer window, nevermind the last day. It's only understandable.
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