Always been somewhat surprised how the BBC would comment quite happily about the lack of English players in the premiership and how something should be done to increase the numbers and thence help the England squad…isn’t that just a bit too nationalistic and Little Englander for the great and the good of the BBC?
So when Jack Wilshere said players with 5 years residence shouldn’t be considered English the lack of the usual progressive outrage from the BBC that would normally follow such a remark didn’t surprise….though it seems to be building a head of steam now from other quarters.
Then I heard Mark Pougatch on 5Live Sport (17:09:30) say:
‘Nevertheless Jack Wilshere is perfectly entitled to his own opinion… Footballers have always been accused of being boring with nothing to say….so if this is what you feel, Jack Wilshere, then say it.’
Is it just me or would they say that to Tommy Robinson?
Curious that they always dismiss the EDL as ‘football hooligans‘…and yet here’s a footballer saying something that goes against every value the self proclaimed progressive left hold dear…..and yet…..
I always found it incredible that certain social groups can burn poppies without any complaints from the Left. An EDL or white Englishman waving a Union Jack slips on a banana skin and he’s a far-right extremist.
Mentioning banana skins on a footie related thread!!! Are you a darn wayciiiiiis sir? The BBC will want to know. 🙂
The Soviet union and their satellite went to great lengths to promote “Nationalism” in their sportsmen and women, to dupe their own public into believing that they were all in this together producing the greatest specimens on the planet…
The BBC still talk up sport now with Nationalistic tones (leftist tones of course), and the SWP are always at hand with their “Let’s kick racism out of football” bollocks, attempting to manipulate the public psyche, into kowtowing subliminally into their way of seeing things….Just like the BBC..
The main rebuttal from bBBC 5Dead to Wilshere’s comment seems to be ‘Mo Farah’. No-one is allowed to say a word against the Somali living in the USA, Patron Saint of the bBBC.
Plastic brit (small ‘b’)
Ah, but Farah is the BBC’s right kind of Non-Brit Brit, but the BBC wasn’t as keen on little 18 year old Zola Budd running for Britain in the 1984 Olympics because she was the BBC’s wrong kind of Non-Brit Brit.
I don’t think their different sexes could have had anything to do with the BBC’s problem so I’m completely at a loss to think of any possible reason why the Beeb should be very supportive of one Non-Brit Brit and not the other.
Good point. Remember it well.
“J’ACCUSE!”
Lettre ouverte a la BBC.
“Vous, racistes et hypocrites de la BBC, vous m’emmerdez!”
Last year Radio 4 ran a play about Zola Budd. The message was clear that she was the wrong kind of non-Brit Brit as her grandfather was born in Britain. (The Blair offspring hold Irish passports, on the same basis, should the family ever need to go into exile ).
All the fault of the nasty Daily Mail of course and introducing a coherent, morally principled politician called Dennis Howell, no connection with the bumbling spluttering idiot who in reality was found jobs as Minister of Sport and later Minister of Drought because watching football and voting Labour was his intellectual limit.
The same Dennis Howell who did rushed through a citizenship application for Precious McKenzie,a black South African weightlifter for the 1966 Commonwealth Games?
From Wiki: “British minister for sport, Denis Howell, fast-tracked his citizenship application to allow him to compete for England in the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Jamaica where he won gold.”
Howell was my MP – your description sounds about right.
Intellectual limit? Be fair! He did suggest that we dilute our water to make it go further.
I thought his performance in winning two gold medals was remarkable and he seems quite a pleasant chap. But he isn’t British is he , I certainly didn’t feel any stirrings of patriotism when he won the medals.
You mean the Somalian-born, USA-residing, “Pay me to run half a marathon” British fella?
As a Gooner I was straight over to BBC football to see what their reaction would be. The last thing Arsenal need at the mo’ is one of their wunderkind under the kosh by the twats brigade. But no, nothing. very odd.
Of course Wilshire is right. There is little point calling a team ‘England’ if non of its players were born here or of English extraction.
Maybe the BBC are fearful of losing England matches if they upset FIFA too much? Who knows?
I couldn’t imagine representing any other country other than the one I was born in………….absolute basic identity
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2452072/Slovakian-woman-taken-Britain-sex-slave-handed-Pakistani-immigrant-Dickensian-sham-marriage.html…just when you thought it cant get any worse,it has,england 2013
A week, preferably longer, without any news from this shower would be a blessing.
Sick of it.
And that lone comment was supposed to be a bad tempered reply to sirus about the content, not his reporting of it.
The BBC didn`t like good ole Harry Redknapp agreeing 100% with wor Jack did they?( Today 8.25 or so).
But the BBCs sports reporters won`t be taking Harry or Jack on, given that they don`t have to talk to them if they upset them.
Come on Tommy Robinson-get practicing…and a decent EDL team might only get the pursed lips and bad body language treatment-as opposed to the heaps of bile n shite as ever.