That's what the papers are like though, let's face it they probably wouldn't have bothered as much if it was a footballer at any other club.
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That's what the papers are like though, let's face it they probably wouldn't have bothered as much if it was a footballer at any other club.
They wouldn't have bothered if he wasn't in Jordan's knickers. It's still tomorrow's chip paper.
Well thousands of your fans (probably including you) sang 'we scored 3, you scored 1, Brighton take it up the bum', which you repeated over and over. And then you sang similar the following season.
So are you going to say that you think the behaviour of thousands of Palace fans was unacceptable, or not?
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Conveniently forgetting it was 6 years ago when he was at Everton. It just suits your agenda, doesn't it, to try and accuse us of double standards.
The Large One
Who's Next?
No-one is brushing off Duffy's tweet. It's only you claiming that anyone is. No-one is impressed with his tweet, and no-one is supporting him in it nor dismissing his behaviour.
The issue is about what sanction is appropriate and proportionate. You want to scream and shout and harangue him - principally because he's now at Brighton. If Jay Rodriguez was here, you'd be all over this site like a rash. Meanwhile, back in the real world, an apology, internal sanction, and maybe even a crash-course in social behaviour (which doesn't have to shouted from the rooftops to your slavering satisfaction) ought to suffice.
Unless you have suddenly now become society's arbiter of all social wrong-doings, and feel something different and inappropriate is required.
So, please. Don't ever lecture anyone on tackling homophobia, nor talking about double standards.
Is he a Palace goon ?
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Yes.
I'm not the arbiter of anything, I really could not care less. But if this had been someone like Zaha then he would have been vilified for it over and over. From what I have read on here from some it's okay as he was young at the time, when he wasnt exactly that young. Or because he was at Everton at the time, so when Jay Rodriguez moves clubs all will be forgiven and his alledged past will have to be forgotten. I really don't care as I have said before, it's just the double standards that make me laugh. You either have a zero approach or you do not.
I don't want to harangue Duffy at all as genuinely I do not care about this, there are worse things to think about. But I stand by my original point that if this was Zaha you lot would be up in arms.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Obviously. Zaha is our pantomime villain, we'd stick the boot in at any opportunity.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
You don't care so much that you keep hanging around like a bad smell, to tell us how much you don't care.
We wouldn't have to wait for the Sun to dig up some old tweets about waxing eyebrows (homophobic?) to have a go at Zaha, we could be having a go about his criminal family. But we don't because we couldn't care less.
We stick to laughing at his diving in every game.
Goodnight.
Is that not double standards though. You would do it to any Palace player and I'm fairly sure players at other clubs.
Nope you are right. I have never ever read on here anything about his Brother, nope, never ever. For the record his brother is a 24 carat prick of the highest order.
You carry on laughing at Zaha, I laugh a lot at him as well. Normally when he's scoring goals against you lot.
Anyway no doubt you will reply but I will let you just have your say as I don't have a spare 22 hours per day to go back and forth with you.
Goodnight.
Simon Morgan
New member
I like WAB and personally rate the fact they go a bit close to the bone sometimes.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Zaha would certainly get the full "faux outrage" there would be letters to the FA and all sorts.
Others would get a bit of stick from the offended on others behalf brigade I suspect. Duffy has had a bit of stick on here but most think it's a bit of a non-story.
That said if it gives you something to get involved with, you knock yourself out. Have fun.
But you're not comparing like-for-like.
Other than the abject failure when he tried his hand at a big club, Zaha has been with you throughout his development. Tweets from Zaha at the same age as those from Duffy would have come from him as a Palace squad member / employee.
Selecting one of your players at random, the Shane Duffy incident would be more like Patrick van Aanholt tweeting something when he was at Wigan in 2011. He then moved to Sunderland (Duffy: Blackburn) before moving to Palace (Duffy: Brighton).
So, let's turn this round, what would you expect Palace to do/say about something van Aanholt did when considerably younger at Wigan?
As I've said, I'm surprised that the Albion have not made a statement of any kind about this, but I also know that most/all football clubs are somewhat hypocritical with how they treat fans and players. There's no way the Albion, Palace or any similar club would be sacking a £10m player (or whatever he is worth) and telling him to go and find another job right now. It would be commercial suicide. That's not to say I personally think Duffy should be sacked, but I'm trying to guess at where your faux outrage is pretending your expectation lies here.
I am a big fan of the WAB guys.
They are very good writers and churn out some excellent content on a regular basis, as evidenced by their nomination for a (National) Football Blogging Award.
They can be a bit arsey when they've had a few and some of their tweets have been a bit near the bone. Most of the time though, they are just saying what the rest of us are thinking and are prepared to put their heads above the parapet.
Proper fans and good blokes - long may it continue.
They are very good writers and churn out some excellent content on a regular basis, as evidenced by their nomination for a (National) Football Blogging Award.
They can be a bit arsey when they've had a few and some of their tweets have been a bit near the bone. Most of the time though, they are just saying what the rest of us are thinking and are prepared to put their heads above the parapet.
Proper fans and good blokes - long may it continue.
The Football Blogging Awards?
No disrespect to anyone, but I'm not sure those awards are indicative of anything at all, and I say that with NSC having been shortlisted on several occasions before. Mr and Mrs [MENTION=31]El Presidente[/MENTION] seemed to have a good night when they went representing NSC though.
Sorry, still waiting for you to criticise all your fans for their behaviour:
You have to remember the football season is over and the only vaguely interesting thing to do in South London, other than stab each other, set fire to things or eat Nando's has just been taken from them. They'll be populating every thread they can like a bad smell until the season starts because the only legal alternatives involve Ikea or knocking one out. However, if they have another start like last term then they'll all be off like rats off the Mary Rose. Again.
Why is a Palace gimp posting on this thread anyway? It's got absolutely nothing to do with Palace and (as Bozza has pointed out) even his desperate attempt at a comparison is tenuous bullshit and makes no sense.
Go burn your town down or visit your sister's caravan for some family time. You tit.
Go burn your town down or visit your sister's caravan for some family time. You tit.