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reefoid said:
That may be so, but everyone is entitled to an opinion and there is no need for SAF to talk about him in those terms. All he has to say is he doesn't agree with it.

"There is a wee guy, sitting down there in the Midlands, probably never been recognised in his life, managed to elevate himself to whatever it is in the police force."

I'd suggest this police officer's role is more important than SAF's so why talk down to him like that?
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Part of a senior police officers job is not to talk out of his arse and make statements with no hint of truth in them.
 
Not sure where to post this so....

As expected, Gerrard is out for the rest of the season with a(nother) groin injury. With Agger also out for the rest of the season, Kelly and Johnson out for a month and the terrifying thought of Skrtel and Kyrgiakos playing along side each other, it will be interesting to see how we'll line up over the next few weeks.
 
fez said:
Part of a senior police officers job is not to talk out of his arse and make statements with no hint of truth in them.
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Have you read the blog? At what point is he talking out of his rear end? I think if you spoke to most police officer's they would air a similar view. Would they all be talking out of their arses as well?

The bloke has expressed an opinion, is he not allowed to?
 
It's none of this copper's business, why is he talking utter crap in public? You'd think someone in his position would know when to keep his trap shut, especially when he's going to talk rubbish.
 
Shamikebab said:
It's none of this copper's business, why is he talking utter crap in public? You'd think someone in his position would know when to keep his trap shut, especially when he's going to talk rubbish.
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He wants his five minutes of fame. S'all, "LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME".
 
I still don't get the talking crap? Where has he talked crap? He's expressed an opinion ffs, millions of us do it everyday on the internet.
 
jakeke said:
I don't think it was because of Torres/Drogba diving, I just think that we need a huge shake up of the refs and systems in place as what we have is failing abysmally as they're simply of way too low a standard. If humans can't do it then we need cameras. That penalty was so obvious I bet 99% of people at home knew it, and pretty much all of the stadium knew it too, how can't the ref? Who should be better than us all, as he's a professional, how are they worse?
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I disagree, before we have camera's we should raise the level of refereeing to as high as it can get.
 
reefoid said:
Have you read the blog? At what point is he talking out of his rear end? I think if you spoke to most police officer's they would air a similar view. Would they all be talking out of their arses as well?

The bloke has expressed an opinion, is he not allowed to?
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If Rooney had behaved like that in Wolverhampton on Saturday night, I would have expected my officers to lock him up.

Thats the boy...

Most of the article is fine, he expresses an opinion and then decides to justify his disgust by claiming that someone swearing on a weekend in the city will get them arrested.

That would not happen in a million years. The two incidents are not the same.

A. Some lagered up idiot who won't calm down, is trying to fight and will cause trouble if left on the streets.

B. Rooney scoring a hatrick that wins united a game they looked certain to lose after he has put up with 20,000 hurling abuse at him for an hour or so.

Very similar situations... Would they arrest someone who had just won £1000 on the horses because he was overexcited and swore.

I can't see how the two are similar in the slightest and due to his position of authority I don't think he should be making idiotic statements like that.

Giving his opinion is what got Fergie in trouble and gave him a 5 match ban so its hard for me to agree that he should be sticking his oar in here.
 
fez said:
If Rooney had behaved like that in Wolverhampton on Saturday night, I would have expected my officers to lock him up.

Thats the boy...

Most of the article is fine, he expresses an opinion and then decides to justify his disgust by claiming that someone swearing on a weekend in the city will get them arrested.

That would not happen in a million years. The two incidents are not the same.

A. Some lagered up idiot who won't calm down, is trying to fight and will cause trouble if left on the streets.

B. Rooney scoring a hatrick that wins united a game they looked certain to lose after he has put up with 20,000 hurling abuse at him for an hour or so.

Very similar situations... Would they arrest someone who had just won £1000 on the horses because he was overexcited and swore.

I can't see how the two are similar in the slightest and due to his position of authority I don't think he should be making idiotic statements like that.

Giving his opinion is what got Fergie in trouble and gave him a 5 match ban so its hard for me to agree that he should be sticking his oar in here.
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I think we're disagreeing on little things here then. I can see your point, but I can see his as well.

Meh, Rooney and SAF always get me embroiled in pointless debate:p
 
Sir Alex expressed an opinion that he was talking out of his arse, it's an opinion. An opinion I agree with entirely.

Let's not start with all the police officers ring more important than football managers nonsense. He wanted publicity, he certainly got it.
 
DanH84 said:
Sir Alex expressed an opinion that he was talking out of his arse, it's an opinion. An opinion I agree with entirely.

Let's not start with all the police officers ring more important than football managers nonsense. He wanted publicity, he certainly got it.
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He's prefectly entitled to say the copper is talking out of his arse, I've no problem with that, but its the way he did it. Talking down to someone. Its usual SAF stuff, if he doesn't agree with them he treats them with contempt.
 
reefoid said:
Don't expect anything else from SAF these days. And quite why he feels the need to belittle a police officer who was expressing an opinion in that way is beyond me, I'd have thought he's a bigger man than that.
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Who is this policeman to get involved in the first place is the real question?

Massive LOLZ at jakeke in this thread :D
 
This is whats wrong with the information / internet age

Idiots like this get their 15 minutes of fame too easily , and it spreads like wildfire. 10 years ago that statement would have died a death before it got anywhere (as it deserved to do)

What a complete plonker
 
Benfica fan here, great win for us last night! Last time we were in a European semi-final was in 93/94 vs Parma in the Cup Winners Cup... nearly through... a no nonsense game required in Eindhoven now (will be there)

Road to Dublin! Benfica!
 
I really like Benfica, I'm glad Saviola is somewhere where he's playing regularly. I thought after his move to Madrid that he might end up a career bench player, that was just a terrible move.
 
skippi90 said:
I'd love to see him arrest someone for swearing. I'd be doing life.
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People are arrested for swearing all the time.

Its used to get aggressive drunk morons off the streets.

I find it hilarious that some people are defending Rooney, and comparing swearing on the pitch to his behaviour.

Even GIGGS who should know better has opened his trap. Obviously a total moron like Rio Ferdinand you would expect to come out with nothing other than complete ********, but I expected more from Ryan Giggs.

Most players swear on the football pitch, but I have never seen anyone behave like Rooney apart from Drogba, who actually had legitimate cause to be riled.

Rooney had just scored a hat trick, put his team into the lead, and might well have won the premiership, and he STILL felt the need to run up to the camera, in a SNARLING, ranting, threatening manner, and swear aggressively to MILLIONS of families with children on a Saturday lunchtime.

Yeah, that compares with doing some creative lip reading on players faces from tens of yards away when the camera just happens to zoom in on them.

Now what made it even WORSE in my eyes was his and Alex Fergusons UTTER disrespect for the situation and his behaviour.

IF the little thug had actually felt any remorse, then he would have taken the opportunity to apologise right after the match, in his own words, when he was being interviewed. What actually happened? The club prepared the usual generic apology statement which Rooney would have never even seen, let alone actually issued the apology.

Furthermore, on top of all that, he has the gall to APPEAL, and THEN show even more disrespect to the process and for his contemptuous behaviour he complains that his appeal failed and that the punishment was too harsh. Even going as far to say that he wont be the last player to swear. Yeah sure Wayne. He might well be one of the last players to scream obsceneties directly down a camera to millions of viewers, but I would have thought even someone as braindead as Wayne Rooney would understand its not remotely comparable to swearing on the pitch during the match.

Wayne was not sorry at all, and anyone that thinks he was, or he had anything to do with the fake apology needs to wake up and get a grip!!

Well done the FA, his behaviour was disgusting, and im so surprised that people like Rio in his position as captain, AND someone as professional as Ryan Giggs can effectively endorse this sort of behaviour.

Insane!!
 
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