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The Sun front page today...
- Thread starter HawkTheSeagull
- Start date
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
Indeed.
Liverpool supporters must be in a strange place today, claiming to never read The Sun yet commenting feverishly (around the 'net) on a front page that rips the ass out of a despised former manager!
I'm sure Roy will be comforted by his £10million pound contract.
Marshy
Well-known member
We will be wacing up the world wankings...
Seagull58
In the Algarve
It's in bad taste and offensive. Just like the Murdochs. Not fit to run a bath.
Gazwag
5 millionth post poster
Quite, and the teacher that tells the 7 year old with a speech impediment not to get depressed as one day he could become manager of England will get the reply "I get bullied enough at school"
Birdie Boy
Well-known member
- Jun 17, 2011
- 4,267
I had a small smile when I read it. Only until I read this thread did I think it could be offensive. People need to get a life. All the ones disgusted by the headline, did you laugh at the Only Fools and Horses episode with the Elvis impersonator singing "cwying"? Bet you did..
Edit: http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjF7GMP28X8
Edit: http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjF7GMP28X8
Gazwag
5 millionth post poster
I never read the Sun but now know what is on todays front page because I found out on the internet
I'm not outraged....as is indeed the norm these days, but!..... With all that is going on with the current enquiry and hearing in to phone hacking and journalism in general, I'm amazed that this newspaper thought it even remotely sensible to print this headline. I'm even more amazed that supposed 'England fans' still buy this pile of shit.
The paper will be crying out for the countries support in a few weeks and jump on the band wagon when they are successful again, which I think RH can achieve.
The paper will be crying out for the countries support in a few weeks and jump on the band wagon when they are successful again, which I think RH can achieve.
Seagull58
In the Algarve
It is offensive no matter how much time you have on your hands.
Marshy
Well-known member
Spot on. Chill out people.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,499
One wise NSCer has already mused via Twitter today that The Sun would never have a front page mocking Harry Redknapp's disfigurement, so why Roy Hodgson's voice?
Yes, we've all had the occasional titter at his lisp, but you'd never be so rude to the bloke's face. I can't help feeling their front page today was the result of a load of sniggering journalists and sub-editors sitting round in the Sun canteen, giggling like Beavis & Butthead about their brilliant idea, and that as it gathered momentum, not one of them had the balls or wit to step up and say "You know what, this is pretty pathetic actually".
It's not the worst thing in the world, but it's low, it's unkind, and it's clearly an attempt to undermine the bloke before he's even sat down in his chair at FA HQ. It's quite obvious who the chimpanzees writing for The Sun wanted to get the job and they must have been hugely disappointed that their vast media campaign to appoint him has failed. Looks to me like they're pissed off to discover that perhaps they don't exert as much influence as they liked to imagine.
They seem to think they're speaking for the nation in their assessment of Hodgson- I have a feeling they might have misjugdged the mood on this one. A lot of people are sick of the whole bullshit and charades that seem to follow Redknapp everywhere he goes. Moreover, we're fed up of the players taking the piss and being over-indulged in their behaviour by managers, which I think Redknapp, in his desire to be everyone's mate, would only have exacerbated.
I don't suppose Hodgson would have got the job if there were many other outstanding candidates, but seeing as the only other opposition appeared to be 'Arry (dodgy, hardly ever won anything), O'Neill (yesterday's man, dull football), or the foreign manager route (Guardiola, Mourinho etc), then I think he's probably the sensible appointment. I'm confident he won't allow the superstars of the team to take the piss like they have previously. And in the meantime, I'd rather get behind the bloke than doom him from the outset.
Roy seems like a nice guy. Let's give him a chance.
Yes, we've all had the occasional titter at his lisp, but you'd never be so rude to the bloke's face. I can't help feeling their front page today was the result of a load of sniggering journalists and sub-editors sitting round in the Sun canteen, giggling like Beavis & Butthead about their brilliant idea, and that as it gathered momentum, not one of them had the balls or wit to step up and say "You know what, this is pretty pathetic actually".
It's not the worst thing in the world, but it's low, it's unkind, and it's clearly an attempt to undermine the bloke before he's even sat down in his chair at FA HQ. It's quite obvious who the chimpanzees writing for The Sun wanted to get the job and they must have been hugely disappointed that their vast media campaign to appoint him has failed. Looks to me like they're pissed off to discover that perhaps they don't exert as much influence as they liked to imagine.
They seem to think they're speaking for the nation in their assessment of Hodgson- I have a feeling they might have misjugdged the mood on this one. A lot of people are sick of the whole bullshit and charades that seem to follow Redknapp everywhere he goes. Moreover, we're fed up of the players taking the piss and being over-indulged in their behaviour by managers, which I think Redknapp, in his desire to be everyone's mate, would only have exacerbated.
I don't suppose Hodgson would have got the job if there were many other outstanding candidates, but seeing as the only other opposition appeared to be 'Arry (dodgy, hardly ever won anything), O'Neill (yesterday's man, dull football), or the foreign manager route (Guardiola, Mourinho etc), then I think he's probably the sensible appointment. I'm confident he won't allow the superstars of the team to take the piss like they have previously. And in the meantime, I'd rather get behind the bloke than doom him from the outset.
Roy seems like a nice guy. Let's give him a chance.
34064 Fighter Command
New member
Wow. Here's hoping. Never thought I'd say this but I'm less confident than you are about England's near future.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,499
Yeeeeeeeah, but that's a fictional character, albeit one that's being mocked for his voice. Roy Hodgson is a real person, you know, who doesn't really deserve to be abused before he's even sat down. It's not a crime not to be Harry Redknapp, you know.
Falkor
Banned
- Jun 3, 2011
- 5,673
Why do people comparre to films and shows, One is a complete fictional character the other is a real life person that is being mocked on the front page of a national news paper, you cant really compare.
Would you say the same thing if they mocked someone with one leg or another issue.
I really dont see how A, people find it funny or B, that it's in any way acceptable to mock a person all over the front page of a national news paper.
Would they be mocking Harry's twitch?
Would you say the same thing if they mocked someone with one leg or another issue.
I really dont see how A, people find it funny or B, that it's in any way acceptable to mock a person all over the front page of a national news paper.
Would they be mocking Harry's twitch?
Marxo
Well-known member
Whether it's offensive or not it's embarrassing that a national newspaper has that kind of thing on the front page. The press where I live is mostly useless, there's no tradition of investigative journalism or much shaming of corrupt officials so I wouldn't want censorship in the British press but this kind of thing along with the kind of stuff they produce when we play the Germans is just embarrassing.
bluenitsuj
Listen to me!!!
That sums up the Scummy SUN. You think they would have checked the spelling before they printed. tut.....tut 
SK1NT
Well-known member
Total shit paper....
Looks like that headline was written by a 5 years old...
Says it all.. highlighting his speech impediment but not the fact he can speak around 5 different languages
Poor Roy is going to get slated by the media and England haven't even played yet... Anything less than the euro title and he's in trouble
Looks like that headline was written by a 5 years old...
Says it all.. highlighting his speech impediment but not the fact he can speak around 5 different languages
Poor Roy is going to get slated by the media and England haven't even played yet... Anything less than the euro title and he's in trouble