Re: Matt Le Tissier Sacking
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superfeathers
This.
And the video lost me at “I was talking to Nigel farage the other day..”
That was the interviewer who said that and at the end of the day thats his job, so why wouldn't he speak to Nigel Farage. What has it got to do with the Matt Le Tissier situation anyway ?
Re: Matt Le Tissier Sacking
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Originally Posted by
superfeathers
This.
And the video lost me at “I was talking to Nigel farage the other day..”
😂😂😂😂😂
Re: Matt Le Tissier Sacking
Batsh!t crazy former excellent footballer (who decided not to join a bigger club) has lost his role at Sky because he’s starting to attract attention to his rantings.
Whilst he’s entitled to his opinion, he is in the public eye and his assertions are at the very least controversial and to many people - disrespectful, particularly when so many have died from COVID or the war in Ukraine.
Sky is the very media that he distrusts, so is it any wonder that they don’t want to be associated with him?
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The Hooded Claw
Batsh!t crazy former excellent footballer (who decided not to join a bigger club) has lost his role at Sky because he’s starting to attract attention to his rantings.
Whilst he’s entitled to his opinion, he is in the public eye and his assertions are at the very least controversial and to many people - disrespectful, particularly when so many have died from COVID or the war in Ukraine.
Sky is the very media that he distrusts, so is it any wonder that they don’t want to be associated with him?
He has said on numerous occasions that people don't have the ability to think for themselves, that's code for not agreeing with him.
Re: Matt Le Tissier Sacking
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Wash DC Blue
I do, if he wasn't English...he'd be considered an all time great.
Be it the England thing or the looks I get when I respond to the question of who's the best player in the Premier League era.
Fabulous player.
He was stunning, and he scored some of the best PL goals of the 90s - but an all-time great? I'm not sure he did anywhere near enough for that.
It's nice that he stayed at Southampton, but he never played at the champions League level, or in Europe at all as far as I remember (may be wrong). Serie A was a bigger deal in his era. I'd love to have seen him play there, though I just can't see him measuring up against the all-time greats like Zidane, Baggio, Batistuta, or even the "second string greats" of the time like Mihajlovic or Hagi.
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Tuerto
He has said on numerous occasions that people don't have the ability to think for themselves, that's code for not agreeing with him.
At the end of that undr the cosh video I posted the link to...he says that people do have the ability to think for themselves.
I think his biggest beef is not fully trusting the media at the moment.
I certainly don't trust the established media at the moment but that doesn't mean that I trust any other Tom Dick or Harry online either.
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lardy
He was stunning, and he scored some of the best PL goals of the 90s - but an all-time great? I'm not sure he did anywhere near enough for that.
It's nice that he stayed at Southampton, but he never played at the champions League level, or in Europe at all as far as I remember (may be wrong). Serie A was a bigger deal in his era. I'd love to have seen him play there, though I just can't see him measuring up against the all-time greats like Zidane, Baggio, Batistuta, or even the "second string greats" of the time like Mihajlovic or Hagi.
This is why I think he's underrated :)
Re: Matt Le Tissier Sacking
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Originally Posted by
The Hooded Claw
Batsh!t crazy former excellent footballer (who decided not to join a bigger club) has lost his role at Sky because he’s starting to attract attention to his rantings.
Whilst he’s entitled to his opinion, he is in the public eye and his assertions are at the very least controversial and to many people - disrespectful, particularly when so many have died from COVID or the war in Ukraine.
Sky is the very media that he distrusts, so is it any wonder that they don’t want to be associated with him?
That goes for a lot of people though; Gary Lineker springs to mind, but a lot of this is twitter chip paper. It passes, and I don't think it's reasonable or remotely healthy for all media personalities to have to toe the line and support political positions they don't agree with, which is why he says he was sacked.
It does feel rather like having to show sufficient support for a religious or political cause and we should be better than that
Re: Matt Le Tissier Sacking
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Wash DC Blue
This is why I think he's underrated :)
Fair enough!
For me, the consensus on him is just about right.
Re: Matt Le Tissier Sacking
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Wash DC Blue
At the end of that undr the cosh video I posted the link to...he says that people do have the ability to think for themselves.
I think his biggest beef is not fully trusting the media at the moment.
I certainly don't trust the established media at the moment but that doesn't mean that I trust any other Tom Dick or Harry online either.
I don't particularly trust the Established Media either, not so much in terms of outright lying, but more so in following a Narrative and not investigating or reporting in a nuanced manner. I know that you were never a fan, and i fully concede that he had his failings, but Jeremy Corbyn was given plenty of treatment by the media that was almost always negative, when some of it just wasn't true. I kind of like Matt Le Tissier, seems a decent bloke who would probably sit and listen to both sides of an argument, it's just a shame that he seems to have dived in with two feet, which is a first in his career :thumbup:
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Originally Posted by
Wash DC Blue
At the end of that undr the cosh video I posted the link to...he says that people do have the ability to think for themselves.
I think his biggest beef is not fully trusting the media at the moment.
I certainly don't trust the established media at the moment but that doesn't mean that I trust any other Tom Dick or Harry online either.
The link you posted has a headline of something like those criticising me in football are morally bankrupt.
This from Le Tissier who admitted being part of a spread betting scam in a game he was involved in.
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Didn't Charlie Nicholas and Phil Thompson leave sky at a similar time to him? Even if he hadn't made those mad tweets like the Anne Frank one he could have been out anyway. It was badly in need of freshening up.
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lardy
Didn't Charlie Nicholas and Phil Thompson leave sky at a similar time to him? Even if he hadn't made those mad tweets like the Anne Frank one he could have been out anyway. It was badly in need of freshening up.
Yes. Same time I believe.
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lardy
Didn't Charlie Nicholas and Phil Thompson leave sky at a similar time to him? Even if he hadn't made those mad tweets like the Anne Frank one he could have been out anyway. It was badly in need of freshening up.
Can you remember when that show had the likes of Rodney Marsh, Frank Mcclintock, George Best etc? Some of the shit they spouted on air was disgusting. I think that it was a case of shipping out the dead wood and modernising a bit.
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Sky also got shot of Charlie Nicholas and Phil Thompson. Perhaps someone within the Sky corridors of power thought it was a good idea to freshen Soccer Saturday up a bit.
If they did, they were right. I’m a big fan of the show, but it had definitely become stale and Matt Le Tissier was never the most entertaining of pundits to start with. Throw in a few of his self-publicised batshit crazy conspiracy theories and the simple fact is he was an obvious candidate for replacement.
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Tuerto
I don't particularly trust the Established Media either, not so much in terms of outright lying, but more so in following a Narrative and not investigating or reporting in a nuanced manner. I know that you were never a fan, and i fully concede that he had his failings, but Jeremy Corbyn was given plenty of treatment by the media that was almost always negative, when some of it just wasn't true. I kind of like Matt Le Tissier, seems a decent bloke who would probably sit and listen to both sides of an argument, it's just a shame that he seems to have dived in with two feet, which is a first in his career :thumbup:
I agree with you 100% and due to my bias against him (and more so some of his shadow cabinet)....I was guilty of being able to overlook it.
I've found Al Jazeera to be the best coverage I can find on Ukraine and I'm thinking about subscribing to this https://ground.news/ which was advertised on The Caspian Report...which is a Geopolitical channel that I like.
Re: Matt Le Tissier Sacking
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Originally Posted by
Hilts
The link you posted has a headline of something like those criticising me in football are morally bankrupt.
This from Le Tissier who admitted being part of a spread betting scam in a game he was involved in.
It's a headline grabber isn't it.
He said that once in an interview that lasted well over an hour, he also discussed his involvement in the spread betting scam.
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Wash DC Blue
I agree with you 100% and due to my bias against him (and more so some of his shadow cabinet)....I was guilty of being able to overlook it.
I've found Al Jazeera to be the best coverage I can find on Ukraine and I'm thinking about subscribing to this
https://ground.news/ which was advertised on The Caspian Report...which is a Geopolitical channel that I like.
Yeah, Al Jazeera is very good. The Ukraine situation is another subject that i steer clear of on here. Putin is a scumbag gangster, people on both sides of the political divide have been saying so for decades, yet it was the right who accommodated him, and i include Blair in that. That's not to say that some on the Left weren't or haven't been sympathetic. Corbyn was calling him out for years. What Putin has done to Ukraine is a crime, i hope that he gets what he deserves, although i doubt that he will. The issue i have is that there is a problem (in my opinion) in Ukraine with the far right neo Nazis, and there has been persecution towards ethnic Russians from these groups, but because of what Putin has done it makes it a difficult subject to address, because i may be accused of being Pro Putin, which i'm not and never have been, and whatever has happened to the ethnic russians in Ukraine, does not justify an invasion. It's a difficult subject to address though, especially at the moment :thumbup:
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Luckily everything is measurable over time, so it's probably a good idea to return to this thread around 2005, and see where we are then.
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Tuerto
Yeah, Al Jazeera is very good. The Ukraine situation is another subject that i steer clear of on here. Putin is a scumbag gangster, people on both sides of the political divide have been saying so for decades, yet it was the right who accommodated him, and i include Blair in that. That's not to say that some on the Left weren't or haven't been sympathetic. Corbyn was calling him out for years. What Putin has done to Ukraine is a crime, i hope that he gets what he deserves, although i doubt that he will. The issue i have is that there is a problem (in my opinion) in Ukraine with the far right neo Nazis, and there has been persecution towards ethnic Russians from these groups, but because of what Putin has done it makes it a difficult subject to address, because i may be accused of being Pro Putin, which i'm not and never have been, and whatever has happened to the ethnic russians in Ukraine, does not justify an invasion. It's a difficult subject to address though, especially at the moment :thumbup:
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