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hear hear http://bit.ly/3Kyj5p excellent piece by Marina Hyde of @guardianfooty re: Mail & Poppy facism 11 days ago |
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Spare us the phoney poppy apoplexy http://bit.ly/1hy2KA http://ff.im/baotX 11 days ago |
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@am640Brady Wrong, they didn't ALL wear them! http://bit.ly/1hy2KA 12 days ago |
“How Rafa Benitez holds his head up high after this, heaven only knows” - Matt Lawton
101 Great Goals - latest football videos and international soccer goals from the Premier League, Champions League,La liga, Serie A, World Cup, UEFA Cup and more —
... The gloves are off to at the Guardian where Marina Hyde calls out the Daily Mail for their poppy campaign. “With a tedious inevitability, the Daily Mail’s campaign to divide the whole of Britain into people who wear poppies and people who are subhuman scumbags has reached the Premier League… Why must the build-up to Remembrance Day be characterised by these incredibly cheapening, confected rows? What does that sort of focus say? Thank you for fighting for our freedom to ring talk-radio programmes and explain why this is ‘typical Man ...
Poppycock! Or Poppygate!
SoccerBlog.com —
... The Daily Mail goes patriotic after Jan Moir's homophobic innuendo and their divers perp walk. But it seems a bit fascist in its endeavour. After all, the very people they want to honour fought that scourge in World War II. And yes, it is also true that the British Empire was not welcome in many countries. ...
Dimitar Berbatov for Manchester Utd (vs Blackburn Rovers), 31st October 2009
Cheer Up Alan Shearer —
... Of course, you can trust the good old Guardian for an alternative view, and Marina Hyde today has a good rant about this "phony poppy apoplexy": ...
A few thoughts on the poppy fuss
Red Rants —
... where were you when they were drafting people for the war? I find it offensive that someone would say such a thing. Why can’t they just say stuff to the effect of I don’t think I have the courage to do what the great men and women laying their lives down for the country are doing?
A little honesty please, John.
I had to get this off my chest. Match preview will be up later.
Further reading on this subject:
The Republik of Mancunia
The Guardian
"A few thoughts on the poppy fuss" was ...
The Sweeper: The Politics of Poppy Populism
Pitch Invasion —
... and the Guardian’s Marina Hyde. Both argue that bullying clubs like Liverpool and Manchester United to wear poppies against their will denies the freedom of conscience the wars of the past century were fought for. ...
