The Daily Mail: Blame the foreigners!
Whilst the storm troopers prefer the Sun for it’s brash xenophobia, racism in short easy to understand words - and tits - the higher echelons of the modern National Socialism phenomenon prefer something a little more highbrow; but nonetheless obvious.
The sports section is surely pretty innocuous in any newspaper? Or is it… this little gem courtesy of Football365’s ‘Mediawatch’:
United’s Right-Wing (Get It?)
The various rags perused by Mediawatch this morning offer a variety of reasons for Manchester United’s ongoing crapness, ranging from a lack of confidence/team spirit to the simple observation that a midfield trio of Fletcher, Richardson and Smith is, by definition, utter toss. Only in one place was one man willing to actually confront the problem:
‘No more pussyfooting around. No more Europhile posturing…there is absolutely no evidence that Carlos Queiroz has the slightest idea which ingredients go into a traditionally rip-roaring United team. To hell with the thinking man’s game, and if that means unseating the Continental professor at Old Trafford, then so be it.
‘United have been marching to the beat of a different drummer. The thunder of Ferguson’s sound and fury have given way to the slower, less insistent lilt of his assistant’s native fado. Here is Scottish rage diluted by Portuguese melancholy.
‘Queiroz seems unable to recognise, let alone stimulate, that quintessential way of playing which has been the basis of United’s half century of glory.
‘Not for nothing is Ferguson known as the Godfather of Premiership managers. He had called for a revival of the cavalier spirit. Still the dead hand of Queiroz was on the sterile tactics and tempo.
‘Unless Ferguson takes action without pity, Queiroz will drag him down with him’.
The man? Jeff Powell. The newspaper? The Daily Mail. The problem? The foreigner.