Italian Football: The British Propaganda
i was totally disgusted by the ignorance of these so-called pundits. luckily the guy who uploaded the video posted his opinions which mirrors mine:
"This is Sky Sports' reaction following the match in the UK, which was their main game on Sky Sports 2. Presenter Richard Keys with (left to right) Andy Gray, Jamie Redknapp and Gary McAllister. Here are a few points I picked up from the video...
With 01.02secs gone on the video: McAllister says these "shocking" scenes are like those pictures that come from South American football. He then says the pictures clearly show several South American players invloved - Argentina etc.
01.28secs: Keys says, "[Marco] Materazzi's always involved isn't he?" Not conclusive on the video, Materazzi was in the challenge just before the whistle went, but left before the brawl kicked off?
02.00secs: They then all laugh and 'try' to name the South American/Argentinian players involved - "Another Argentinian, and another...".
04.08secs: Gray 'feels a little sorry for Valencia'. And he talks with Keys about Inter "kicking lumps" out of Arsenal at Highbury a few years ago. Keys adds there were "two or three" Inter players sent off as well for their poor discipline. Reading the official UEFA website, Arsenal and Inter have only met in the Group Stages - twice in the 2003-04 season. Inter won 3-0 at Highbury (no yellow or red cards) and then lost 5-1 at the San Siro (again no yellow or red cards). Looks like Keys mixed things up with Juventus' match at Highbury - just shows his knowledge?
06.19sec: 'Burdisso and [Dejan] Stankovic started it kicking each other' - they're on the same team Gray! He saw the number 5 on the back of Marchena's shirt, and somehow concluded it's Stankovic (who also wears 5 at Inter).
08.15secs: Redknapp says, "Italian football, I mean its just Italian football full stop at the moment, isn't it?" He concluded later, "Italian football at the moment is in complete decline and this is adding to it. Discusting!"
The video clip ends after that discussion. They then quickly rounded up all the rest of the evenings matches. Claire Tomlinson (reporter) did her round-up of results and handed back to Keys who said... "Yes Inter out tonight, and if there's any justice they should be out of this competition for some time to come as well." So he decides the punishments, banning just Inter, does he?"
and this comment on the video by lasanliburd:
"racists! what justifies their rant against south americans?! in the league cup final, arsenal and chelsea were all over each other and when the dust settled, only five Africans were suspended!! did no one from the FA see Caravalho, Fabregas or Lampard's contribution among many?! And Adebayor was fined more than Spain's racist coach was. Nuff said!"
first, let me make things clear, the brawl started with marchena insulting burdisso (i guess that's ok when you're not italian and the victim isn't zidane). burdisso then got angry and tried to retaliate but was held back by players from both teams. then that bitch, navarro sucker-punched burdisso and well, if i was an inter player i would have chased that coward myself.
now i so f**king hate inter and was very glad valencia knocked them out but i hate ignorant f**kers even more. as a fan of italian football i've witnessed countless times how most british football pundits continue to slate italian football and stereotype italians as "cheats" and "thugs" (even after winning the world cup fair and square). now i agree italian football is going through probably it's worst season ever but that doesn't give anyone license to talk trash.
in the video, those clowns kept insisting UEFA should ban inter (nobody mentions valencia). if it was a british team, UEFA would ban blah blah blah. still UEFA bent rules to allow a 5th english team in the CL last year. FIFA bent rules to allow mascherano join liverpool (his 3rd club in one year). uhm... couple that with mr. blatter refusing to present the world cup to italy. seems to me something is going on here.
i've had friends (mostly english football fans) who know nothing about calciopoli make jokes about how we bribed referees with cash when infact no referee saw a single lira from us. none of them don't even know that the scandal started from a phone call. they just heard some piece of trash information from the british media.
still yet to find out what maicon did. oh well, FORZA JUVE! :)
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2 Comments:
fantastic post!!
Dead policemen.
Fans Stabbed.
Nazi banners and racist chants at games.
Outdated stadia.
Mopeds thrown on the pitch.
Haven't even started on "calciopoli" yet.
Agree that the sky sports presenters are ignorant pricks though......
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