Rich Ragheads want Manchester City to be England's biggest club, and break into the top 4 this season - get with it
-- djmartian, Monday, 1 September 2008 16:17 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 1 September 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
It is also true that some Jewish people have exercised significant influence on finance, and have been involved in or owned some of the richest corporations in the world, in the last century at least. I'm not sure that this should be a pejorative claim.
-- the pinefox, Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:33 PM (4 days ago)
― DG, Monday, 1 September 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Desperate times
Rod Liddle The Sunday Times
August 31, 2008
Is the president of Uefa, Michel Platini, anti-English – in other words, a racist?
The accusation has been levelled at him in the English press following his criticism of the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool for buying success on unsustainably borrowed money.
For his part, Platini has responded by saying: ‘I am not anti-English. Napoleon was anti-English, not me.’
As a bone-headed little-Englander of the most appalling kind, I can usually be expected to find an anti-English bias in a handful of dust; but I can’t see it in Platini. You would have to accept, firstly, that Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool are English in anything other than name for the thesis to hold water. Samuel Johnson said that patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel – but that was in 1775.
Today it is perhaps more the case that howling ‘Racist!’ is the last refuge of somebody whose rational arguments simply do not add up.
― blueski, Monday, 1 September 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link