Sometimes Shit Just Happens

[Dangerous]

Holt is being deliberately provocative, stoking a debate that will run and run...and sell newspapers. If he's such a great journalist, what is he doing writing for a rag like the Mirror?

That theory is such a myth, how many people buy papers just because there is x celebrity on the front page, or a certain story that might appear in the paper, or the latest scandal, it's Bullshit.

Everybody I know, buys one paper, and generally stick to it Monday - Friday, nobody I know buys papers just because of what is on the front or back page.

[Petercccccc]

Mirror are tossers.

Only because you have to look at your ugly mug.

[M4 Junction 11]

Mirror are tossers.

Only because you have to look at your ugly mug.

[Gentleman Jim]

You just have to yawn at Chelsea and their neanderthal fans. It just gets boring reading the same drivel after a while on those mail comment sites. It seems we are just another step on their long journey every season of having someone to blame (in case) something goes wrong for them.

But wasn't it just last week that they were turning their pitch into a beach ready for the Barca game?

Doesn't Drogba and Robben get slated every other week for falling over thin air to get opposition players sent off and gain penalties?

Doesn't John Terry get away with palming shots away inside his own penalty area?

Doesn't Jose Mourinho get to make outrageous comments about Reading FC and the local ambulance service with no repercussions?

If Chelsea REALLY believe they can pull these accusations off to the FA, why havn't they summitted a formal complaint yet?

[M4 Junction 11]

Royals were right over Cech

[Gordons Cumming]

Martin Samuel was crap when he was at the Daily Express.

Fully agree with him now.

[FiNeRaIn]

CFCnet is a shit website. Comments have to be approved by mods, no reading views are allowed and its censored to oxf*rd, how pathetic.

[Banjax]

its good to read but i think by now the only people that actualy believe we are thugs are chelsea fans and dicks called jose

oh and Lehman what the funk has it got to do with you? keep your big german nose out

[bobby m's syrup]

Holt is being deliberately provocative, stoking a debate that will run and run...and sell newspapers. If he's such a great journalist, what is he doing writing for a rag like the Mirror?

That theory is such a myth, how many people buy papers just because there is x celebrity on the front page, or a certain story that might appear in the paper, or the latest scandal, it's Bullshit.

Everybody I know, buys one paper, and generally stick to it Monday - Friday, nobody I know buys papers just because of what is on the front or back page.

No theory involved here, just an admittedly cynical opinion. But whilst we are on the subject, why do newspapers bother to advertise particular upcomming story lines if "everybody" is committed to a particular paper Mon-Fri?

Annecdotal evidence doen't really cut it in the real world. Surely any contention based upon, "Everybody I know" ..... is by its very nature, "bullshit".

[warrpp]

one small problem with holts assertions

right at the begining of his article, he says that hunt was yards away when cech collected the ball

BO**OCKS

has he actually watched the clip back ?

coz if he had he would have seen that hunt is no more than one stride away from cech at the precise moment he grabs the ball

and the fact he goes on to say that all the ex-pros have to a man come out in support of hunt are all backing him because they all think it was happening every week "in my day"

slagging off bob wilsons opinion as irrelevent because he used to be a mentor to someone nicknamed "safe hands"

what the f**k has that got to do with the incident, wilson was just giving an opinion as an ex gk

if everything was as obvious as mourinho thinks it was , surely everyone to a man would have come out an backed his view

the fact that they haven't means that he's basically saying "i'm right, and youre all wrong" and this is all further proof that "everyone hates chelsea and they're all jellous of our success and money"

to quote kenneth williams

"infamy........infamy....they've all got in infamy"

[Whitehurst]

Apologies if it's appeared here elsewhere, but this quote by Didier Drogba made me laugh: "I am not paranoid, but people have it in for Chelsea."

When retirement day comes, there's a career in comedy waiting for him.

[If you still hate Futcher]

I used to quite like Oliver Holt when he was on Jimmy HIll's show but that article is awful. The suggestion that Hunt should pull out of a challenge because there's no way that Peter Cech will mishandle on a slippery surface that was partly to blame for the incident is absolute nonsense. Does he not remember when Barthez (much shitter than Cech I know) fumbled the ball against Arsenal in the rain and Henry scored? Perhaps Thierry should have strolled back to the halfway line then?

What a kunter

Actually, if you use the principal of Holt's article to the full, then Barthez should have seen that it was Thierry Henry, most peoples 'best striker in the world' (sorry Spacey) and thought "I have absolutely no right to even attempt to get to that ball and should just let him go on and score".

But then Henry would have to remember that although Barthez is not everyones best keeper he was actually on the pitch when France won the World Cup so he should have left the ball too.

End result is that both sets of players just stand there for 90 minutes trying to work out who has more of a right to have the ball and it all ends up with a best of 3 of Rock, Paper, Scissors.

[If you still hate Futcher]

"I am not paranoid, but people have it in for Chelsea."

:lol::lol:

David Coleman eat your heart out

[Jimpanzee]

Changing horses in mid stream? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... =1779&ct=5

Check out one of the comments on the article:

You Chelsea haters are all the same - a disgrace.

- William Phallus, Melbourne Australia

William Phallus!?!? You are having a laugh!?!?

To have one name that can be seen to have a connection with the male reproductive organ is unfortunate...but both?!?!

[rotherwick_royal]

From Mirror message board, well done Steve, whoever you are!

Message to Oliver Holt. I have just read your piece on Stephen Hunt. You should be ashamed of yourself.
If you were closer than the 30 yards I was from where the incident took place, then I respect the fact that you may have seen something I didn't. However, I can't see how you were. So what on earth possessed you to write such terribly misinformed and ill-conceived nonsense? Your conclusions smack of somebody either (a) desperately wanting to be 'controversial', or (b) desperately wanting to ingratiate himself with the Chelsea PR machine, for whatever reason.
What your piece therefore represents is a disgraceful piece of desperate, attention-seeking journalism. Did it not occur to you when writing it that you were at odds with almost every professional opinion on this outside SW6?
May I respectfully suggest that you read Martin Samuel's column in The Time. That's proper sports writing. You might even be able to try it yourself one day. You are a disgrace to your profession.
[QUOTE=Steve from Belfast, Northern Ireland]

[Jimpanzee]

I'm sure there was a thread on HNA some time ago about a Nobber who was relocating to NI...can't for the life of me remember who it was though

[southbank1871]

I'm sure there was a thread on HNA some time ago about a Nobber who was relocating to NI...can't for the life of me remember who it was though

Wasn't that Tredder?

[lozz2601]

Changing horses in mid stream? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... =1779&ct=5

Check out one of the comments on the article:

You Chelsea haters are all the same - a disgrace.

- William Phallus, Melbourne Australia

William Phallus!?!? You are having a laugh!?!?

To have one name that can be seen to have a connection with the male reproductive organ is unfortunate...but both?!?!

Apparently, according to the same comments, Reading are a disgrace to football.
Shame he spelt Cech wrong!

[Forbury Lion]

A. Realise there is no chance of the world's best goalkeeper spilling the ball, change the direction of your run and jog back towards the half-way line.

If that's the option they're suggesting then the FA may as well hand the Premiership title to Chelsea now and teams not bother trying to give them a game as there's little chance of beating what is on paper the best side in the league.

[lozz2601]

A. Realise there is no chance of the world's best goalkeeper spilling the ball, change the direction of your run and jog back towards the half-way line.

If that's the option they're suggesting then the FA may as well hand the Premiership title to Chelsea now and teams not bother trying to give them a game as there's little chance of beating what is on paper the best side in the league.

lol. Especially if what we saw is anything to go by. Thats like saying there is no point trying to save a shot from Henry, or tackle Ronaldinho. Stupid journalists