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Sunday Times picks up the RD story

Southbank
Southbank Posts: 5,262
edited November 2015 in General Charlton
A decent article by Rod Liddle today with surprisingly little Millwall bias.
If anybody has a subscription,could they copy and paste the text.
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  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,161
    Decent, considering its Liddle, apart from that paragraph. “Charltonification” isn't what he suggests, is it? Helpful, on balance.
  • Nicholas
    Nicholas Posts: 7,632
    Least it's getting the coverage now, hopefully this will make him sell up and do one or change his ways.
  • kentred2
    kentred2 Posts: 2,338
    Brilliant piece. Be nice to have some Lions at the next two home games to help with the solution.
  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    What with this article and the one in today's 'Football League' paper, perhaps the pressure will start to mount on 'The Hapless One'
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,632
    edited November 2015
    Thanks for the article being pasted.

    Decent for general consumption but he's just been reading the threads on here and couldn't resist adding very insulting Millwall bile.

    If nothing else it helps getting our plight out there.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,056
    "For our part, we view them (Charlton supporters) as “trainspotters” or “anoraks” allowed to turn up and watch their team each week only because Operation Yewtree has a lot of work on its hands"

    ?
  • Ball is rolling.
  • The publicity is much welcome, though making light of a Police Op into sexual assaults is a bit strange.

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  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,056
    I actually think it's a pretty poor article, although all publicity is welcome - especially from a national paper.
  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,406
    A very good piece. How many of us, hand on heart, would not gloat if the boot was on the other foot. I suspect we certainly would not resist more than two pars of contextual gloating. It's the most balanced and (for us) revealing piece in the media so far. And he has certainly put RD's flawed and destructive network into perspective.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,018
    Good article from Liddle ... he does some good stuff occasionally
  • Is he calling us pedo's or am I missing something?
  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,406

    Is he calling us pedo's or am I missing something?

    No more than we call Ipswich and Norrwich sheepshaggers. Don't ignore the 99% positive from this article.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,018
    mogodon said:

    Is he calling us pedo's or am I missing something?

    No more than we call Ipswich and Norrwich sheepshaggers. Don't ignore the 99% positive from this article.
    precisely
  • mogodon said:

    Is he calling us pedo's or am I missing something?

    No more than we call Ipswich and Norrwich sheepshaggers. Don't ignore the 99% positive from this article.
    So he is calling us pedo's?
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,683
    edited November 2015
    se9addick said:

    "For our part, we view them (Charlton supporters) as “trainspotters” or “anoraks” allowed to turn up and watch their team each week only because Operation Yewtree has a lot of work on its hands"

    ?

    I can agree with most of it, however the Yewtree comment is well out of order. Whoever edits his work, should take a long look at themselves.
  • bellz2002
    bellz2002 Posts: 1,362

    Is he calling us pedo's or am I missing something?

    Yeah I got that message too. Strange especially from a top tier journalist piece.
  • se9addick said:

    "For our part, we view them (Charlton supporters) as “trainspotters” or “anoraks” allowed to turn up and watch their team each week only because Operation Yewtree has a lot of work on its hands"

    ?

    I can agree with most of it, however the Yewtree comment is well out of order. Whoever edits his work, should take a long look at themselves.
    Really lowers the tone I feel. Anorak/ trainspotter blah blah banter.

    Jimmy Saville types is well out of order and makes the whole article crap.

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  • mogodon said:

    Is he calling us pedo's or am I missing something?

    No more than we call Ipswich and Norrwich sheepshaggers. Don't ignore the 99% positive from this article.
    Well it's fans that call their close rivals insulting names. Not national newspaper journalists. If he (Liddle) wants to learn to write about sport in an informative, knowledgable and amusing way then he could do a lot worse than dig out some of Kevin Nolans work.

    Nolan leaves Liddle so far behind it's embarrassing.

  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,406
    Come on. We have been endlessly moaning the mainstream press have ignored our situation and when a main paper does - and a Millwall fan as well - and writes an overwhelmingly excellent piece, all we can do is concentrate on one throwaway comment. If any one of us had written about Millwall being taken over by a third-rate, senile Belgian who is killing the club, would we be half as objective and manage to resist a dig or two?
  • Tramp
    Tramp Posts: 202
    Ignore the insults, there is much truth in what he says.
  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,406


    Well it's fans that call their close rivals insulting names. Not national newspaper journalists. If he (Liddle) wants to learn to write about sport in an informative, knowledgable and amusing way then he could do a lot worse than dig out some of Kevin Nolans work.

    If you read Liddle regularly, on any subject, then you will know this is his style. You and I may not like it, but it makes him one of the better-paid journalists.
  • mogodon said:

    Come on. We have been endlessly moaning the mainstream press have ignored our situation and when a main paper does - and a Millwall fan as well - and writes an overwhelmingly excellent piece, all we can do is concentrate on one throwaway comment. If any one of us had written about Millwall being taken over by a third-rate, senile Belgian who is killing the club, would we be half as objective and manage to resist a dig or two?

    Ok, thanks Rod.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,161
    mogodon said:

    Come on. We have been endlessly moaning the mainstream press have ignored our situation and when a main paper does - and a Millwall fan as well - and writes an overwhelmingly excellent piece, all we can do is concentrate on one throwaway comment. If any one of us had written about Millwall being taken over by a third-rate, senile Belgian who is killing the club, would we be half as objective and manage to resist a dig or two?

    I basically agree with you, but the Yewtree comment is out of order, and makes it less than "overwhelmingly" excllent I didn't even understand it earlier when I read the article. It's so unnecessary, and simply pandering to the Millwall image, which so many middle class Millwall "fans" do.( My mate here in Prague being one, and I've told him so, many times). The danger is the Yewtree comment will be picked up and overshadow the main message of the article. He's a twonk.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,056
    mogodon said:

    Come on. We have been endlessly moaning the mainstream press have ignored our situation and when a main paper does - and a Millwall fan as well - and writes an overwhelmingly excellent piece, all we can do is concentrate on one throwaway comment. If any one of us had written about Millwall being taken over by a third-rate, senile Belgian who is killing the club, would we be half as objective and manage to resist a dig or two?

    I'm not sure it's an overwhelmingly excellent piece, it's certainly worse than the other pieces we've seen in other outlets in recent days. The only "excellent" thing about it is that national media are now picking up the story and I'm not sure we should just accept being labels nonces in exchange.
  • IAgree
    IAgree Posts: 1,839
    Momentum building! On with the boycott!
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,270
    I'm shocked ........................a smallwall fan who can write ?????????????

  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,284
    edited November 2015
    He's also never heard of the Watford/Udinese/Granada network it seems. Seems to be working out okay for the Hornets at the moment Rod it's just that our network is full of crap players/managers!

    But on the whole, ridiculous paedo name calling aside, a decent piece.