Eaststand wrote:Hes not, dont worry. I dont know who this geezer is, but he sounds almost exactly like him, hes called chris something, dunno.
Stan will never work on mainstream TV again, thankfully.
Lee Hendrie.
"Berkshire delays on the M4 from junctions 14 to 16..I'm only little"
"There's no need for anyone to apologise for anything given the fact the great one shocked and offended is that cop killer porn tribute vid fetishist, Cecil B DNeil
Thick as shit Stanley "yeah I broke her jaw, she looked at moy funnoy" Collymore is cunted to fuck once again by our friends at football365:
Stan Collymore uses part of his Daily Mirror column on Tuesday to applaud Premier League managers for playing their own style rather than copying Manchester City’s pressing, and it set off several alarms in Mediawatch’s head.
‘It looks like we are seeing a welcome return to clubs choosing their styles based on the players they can get into their club rather than trying to be a Manchester City-lite,’ Collymore begins, as if most teams haven’t been literally doing that the whole time.
‘That happened when clubs tried to copy Barcelona. Now clubs work out their own defined style and try to get the best out of what they have got.’
The one Premier League club Mediawatch remembers trying to mimic Barcelona was Swansea City, and that went pretty well. In fact, it was when they lost that identity that things began to fall away. But do carry on.
‘We are seeing five or six different styles, and that is much better than what we see in La Liga, were everyone wants to be Barcelona, only with inferior players.’
Collymore cannot have watched much La Liga football if he honestly believes that every team tries to copy Barcelona. So far this season, Barcelona have attempted 711 passes per game on average. Alaves have attempted 256. That’s a little bit different.
But the biggest issue with Collymore’s argument is that it’s entirely nonsensical. Because here’s what he says about Watford:
‘Watford have done it and won all four games… City and Liverpool are fantastic pressing teams. Are teams further down trying to copy them? No.’
Well, yes. Because here’s Javi Gracia talking just last week:
“It is a very important element but to be a team that you want to be – do the high press, recover the ball in our opponents half, you need not only to be physically strong but mentally as well as a team.”
It certainly sounds like they are trying to press.
Raheem Sterling has kicked up a storm but as ever the outrage will pass
The England forward’s Instagram post has got people, journalists especially, talking about racism but nothing will change – it never does
Stan Collymore
Sun 9 Dec 2018 21.59 GMT
With one early-morning Instagram post Raheem Sterling has got everyone talking about racism. Racism in football, racism in the media, racism in society as a whole and from certain high-up quarters the response has been to show sympathy and support for Sterling and call for change. But here’s the thing: nothing will change. It never does when it comes to racism in this country.
Britain now is as it was in the 1970s, when I was growing up in Cannock, a mixed-raced child within a community that was, and remains, 99.9% white. In this post-Brexit vote environment, people again feel free to be openly racist, saying and writing the types of things that vilify certain sections of society for no other reason than the way they look. There’s a blame culture at play and, more often than not, it’s black and Asian people who get the blame.
That is what Sterling picked up on in his post. Two footballers, his Manchester City teammates Tosin Adarabioyo and Phil Foden, have bought expensive properties at a relatively young age but, while one is portrayed as the nice kid next door doing something for his mum, the other is made out to be greedy and thick. You don’t have to be a genius, or indeed have seen Sterling’s post, to figure out which is which.
Sterling has, of course, experienced this first-hand – the stories about his expensive sink and his easyJet flight, lazy tabloid tales told by lazy tabloid journalists, painting him out to be a villain, the black kid riding around in a hoodie ready to knife you and your family at any given moment – and he’s finally had enough. What is alleged to have happened to him during City’s 2-0 defeat by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Saturday has tipped this usually quiet, shy young man over the edge, which in itself speaks volumes.
So yes, we have a race problem in this country and it’s nice to see so many people acknowledge that. Especially all the white middle‑class men who work in the national, mainstream media who simply couldn’t wait to get on Twitter on Sunday and tell the world how they feel Sterling’s pain and how it’s time to ease not only that pain but the pain of all young black people in this country. Yet how much do you want to bet that, come Monday morning, this will all be forgotten by those same people? They’ll move on to the next story, feeling they’ve done their bit, while in truth they have done nothing at all.
Because that’s what race is to the national, mainstream media in this country – a story for today. It’s not something they actually want to tackle or rectify. And why would they when practically all the people in power – the CEOs, the editors, the main broadcasters and main writers – are all white? They make the decisions and, ultimately, they look after themselves.
Black people are allowed in but only if they play certain roles. Hence why you see jovial types such as Ian Wright and Chris Kamara go far, or safe, nice types like Jermaine Jenas and Alex Scott do the same. They are the acceptable faces of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) representation in this country’s media, a minority within a minority, so is it any wonder that the coverage of BAME sportspeople, and young black footballers especially, is so skewed and harmful?
I’ve made this point countless times on Twitter and, more often than not, been told to stop playing the race card. This has come from people who have no idea, or chose to ignore, the fact I am qualified to speak on this topic, partly because of my upbringing – someone who was raised by a white mother and had only white friends but was made to feel an outcast because of my negro features – and partly because I have been there both as a footballer and as a broadcaster. I, too, bought my mum a council house when I could afford to do so and have also seen my career after retiring as a player suffer as a consequence of my outspoken nature.
As far as the British media are concerned, someone who looks like me is not allowed to talk like me. I’m dangerous, not to be trusted and tolerated. Of course it’s OK for Roy Keane to be outspoken and controversial. If anything, he’s not controversial enough. But me – no, it’s not accepted. Hence me finding myself off screens and radios in my own country and having to work instead in Russia.
Some people will call me paranoid or outright wrong but I’m not and I have recent proof of this. In June I did an interview with the Guardian in which I made similar points to those I’m making here – calling out racist attitudes in the media. Did anyone in the media pay attention, show sympathy or an appetite to change things? Of course they didn’t. Instead the whole thing was reduced to a “war of words” between Stan Collymore and Ian Wright, and of course “Wrighty” won because everyone loves “Wrighty”. He’s the guy with the cheeky grin and infectious laugh, while I’m the big, bad black man that’s not to be trusted. All of which ignores the fact Ian works for the Sun, a newspaper which has done as much as any other to vilify Sterling.
But that’s what always happens – the double standards and hypocrisy get swept under the carpet because nobody in this country, and in the media especially, actually wants to tackle race in this country. Everyone’s speaking about it now because one of our most famous, and brilliant, footballers has raised the issue, but it will soon be forgotten. If not tomorrow then certainly in the days and weeks that follow.
So thank you to all the white, middle-class media personalities in this country for showing you care. But until you actually turn your words into actions and get more BAME people into your organisations to make sure BAME coverage is fairer, kinder and more balanced, I don’t want to know. And, judging by his Instagram post, I’m pretty sure Raheem Sterling feels the same way.
I like how he made Sterling getting a load of really quite odd stick from some massive retards, whether they said "black" or "manc" all about him within 2 paragraphs.
Eaststand wrote:I like how he made Sterling getting a load of really quite odd stick from some massive retards, whether they said "black" or "manc" all about him within 2 paragraphs.
Yeah. I think he mentioned his former employers no less than 6 times. Kept banging on about quotas and nothing about the deafening silence from Chelsea FC.