You lot are like a pack of old birds chattering about every scrap of gossip you can scrape up. Blowing everything into a torrid affair. Panting for the next heap of slop to be flushed by the media. Tough love is the excuse is it?
"If you can't take the wagging fingers and tongues my dear, maybe you shouldn't have married a sailor! Yes I know you didn't marry a sailor - but let's just say you had... Oh dear, dear, dear. Fancy that, marrying a sailor, what did you think would happen?"
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Here we go....media persecution complex! Give me a break!
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
Just in football?
It's not even persecution, it's just any old garbage they can use to fill the space. They are a bunch of cowards. There are 101 real stories that could be written about football and they don't touch a single one. Instead they chuck trivia, speculation and outright bullshit (like this Ozil story) in the air and hope it draws enough attention from jaded and gullible types. Then do the same tomorrow and the next day. It's a job, just not a useful one.
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Have you ever been part of or have inside knowledge of an event covered in the print media? If so, (details are unimportant) how accurate was it?
His coach and his own teammate thought he was being booed when subbed. What more needs to be said?
It was a straight question.
Nevermind.
Do you really need me to tell you that the media can be full of shit? But this was a live televised event with quotes from his colleagues. It can debunked easily. I wouldn't expect media authenticity to be a talking point regarding the boos. Whether Ozil played good or bad and deserved the boos would probably be the smarter argument.
I haven't argued a single point in this thread.
It was simply a question, but just forget about it.
Personally, I'd suspect that the truth is somewhere in between - there may have been considerable disenchantment from the Germans with the whole team, but given his price tag, and evident lacklustre performance, it isn't hard to see how Ozil would be a focal point - in a similar way to our own Rooney. Put another way, if Ozil had turned in a proper shift then the crowd would have made sure not to boo when Ozil came off (as opposed to at the end of the game). The fact that Ozil failed to shine in a different environment does cause me some concern, though. People can say that he will only come good once he's had a season under his belt. Didn't work with our last most expensive signing though, did it?
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
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