Bad news for attention seeking fans, sorry, no sobfest.

[postwhisperer]

[Royal With Cheese]

Is that from the Nicholas Cage version of Bad Lieutenant?

That's a class scene in an otherwise rubbish movie.

[Isaac Hunt]

Wow, that's up there with some of the more delusional posts i've seen on here. A great, post-pub rant if ever there was one (look at the time).

Although there was one bit i agree with....

Tommy burns, the biggest charlaton to ever (dis)grace this club.

...despite the spelling.

[RockheadRumple]

Is that from the Nicholas Cage version of Bad Lieutenant?

That's a class scene in an otherwise rubbish movie.

It's a great film.

[Stuka]

Is that from the Nicholas Cage version of Bad Lieutenant?

That's a class scene in an otherwise rubbish movie.

It's a great film.

I always boycott these kinds of needless remakes, but perhaps some of them could be good in their own right?

[leon]

Is that from the Nicholas Cage version of Bad Lieutenant?

That's a class scene in an otherwise rubbish movie.

It's a great film.

I always boycott these kinds of needless remakes, but perhaps some of them could be good in their own right?

The Ring is quite good.

[murts_the_god]

So standing in silence for one whole minute to remember loved ones and heroes who fight for your fcuking freedom is out of the question as well then you brainless cnut

[1871 Royal]

[dogzbollox]

Thank goodness Fabrice Muamba, a man with absolutely no connection to reading Football Club looks like he is going to pull through. Probably won't play again and no doubt a visit from the careers officer is imminent.
More importantly, this saturdays planned sobfest is cancelled and we haven't got to suffer another of those 'minutes silence' that seem to bring out the attention seeking qualities in some fans, the 'look at me i'm mourning' or 'i must look so adult mourning like this' or even ' i love this American style shit of public mourning and when this minute is up i'm going to shout YESSSSS!' or the worst one ' i never ever met this person, they had no relevance to my life but i am going to shed a tear and hope the camera catches me crying'. These same people that were blogging glowing tributes to Tommy burns, the biggest charlaton to ever (dis)grace this club.
However, for all those that need to seen to be saddened and dutifully mourning, Rolf Harris in well into his seventies and lives in Berkshire, You never know!

So, basically what you're saying is that if it's nothing to do with you, it doesn't affect you or yours & has no bearing whatsoever on you or your life it's not worth giving a flying oxf*rd about then.....is that about right? - can you see the common denominator here?... i.e. the word 'you'

Are you implying that a young mans life that hung in the balance doesn't matter to anyone outside of his family, friends & work colleagues? I don't think I have heard for quite some time such utter selfish, self centered drivel from another human being, where is your human compassion?

And you have the audacity to compound your idiotic statement by making a comparison to Tommy Burns?... prior to Reading he played for Celtic & was player/manager at Kilmarnock (the first football team I ever watched!!) as well and was highly rated at both clubs, of course you being such a colonial imbecile won't give a toss about that eh? it's not in Berkshire is it?

There is a maxim I attempt to live my life by - it is a poem called 'Desiderata', there is a part that says 'Listen to others, even the dull & ignorant, they too have their story' unfortunately I cannot see, for the life of me where your 'story' is in this piece of absolute nonsense, although I can see that you definitely fit in to the 'ignorant' part, because no other reason comes to mind other than you are an insensitive, unfeeling, self-centered ignoramus of the highest degree.

[Big Foot]

I'm all for showing a mark of respect - but players wearing "pray for Muamba" t shirts and fans up and down the country singing his name isn't showing respect, it's about a self-glorification of trying to be seen to be doing the right thing. Almost a competition of grieving.

[Bucks Dave]

What I find most impressive is that Finerain managed to post the best reply of all in just 4 minutes of the original post going up.

[3 veesinarow]

I'm guessing from his moniker that Old Biscuit is potentially someone in the latter half of his life. I would expect a more mature person to have a wiser outlook and a reasonably empathic quality to this sort of thing and less of the 14yo me-me-me generational outlook on life, but if the OP could confirm his age, then at least we'd all know which kind of language to send our abuse in.

As for "attention-seeking" - there is a massive, massive irony in the thread title which the OP has clearly not thought through.

[mr_number]

Very good (IMO) article on the issue here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog ... ratulation
I think she's kinda nailed why I finds it slightly uneasy.

[Snowball]

Excellent article.

The article is right, and to some extent I get the gist of the OP
which, sadly, wasn't phrased that well.

There is a lot of BS "angst" these days.


(My turn in the barrel)

[muddyfeet]

do I need to stop praying?

[Alan Partridge]

I was more offended by one of the comments to that article

Side note #1: MOTD is so utterly horrendous that the sooner they dump Lineker and bring the smarter, wittier and better dressed Colin Murray the better.

[Snowball]

do I need to stop praying?

Feel free to continue. I will hear.

[AthleticoSpizz]

The full arsenal of HNA scorn there Old'un...excellent beer posting

[Rex]

Excellent article.

The article is right, and to some extent I get the gist of the OP
which, sadly, wasn't phrased that well.

There is a lot of BS "angst" these days.


(My turn in the barrel)

Your ego goes before you on this one.

[Jackson Corner]

do I need to stop praying?

No we are second and West Ham have a game in hand.