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If Aberdeen fans are tired of the tackle being brought up every time we travel to Pittodrie to emphasise any rivalry, then you'd think Aberdeen fans would maybe, eh, stop bringing up and singing about the tackle to emphasis said rivalry every time we face them? You can't have it both ways.

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1 minute ago, AJF said:

If Aberdeen fans are tired of the tackle being brought up every time we travel to Pittodrie to emphasise any rivalry, then you'd think Aberdeen fans would maybe, eh, stop bringing up and singing about the tackle to emphasis said rivalry every time we face them? You can't have it both ways.

It’s actually very funny how your media portray it. 

Very odd behaviour over a dive from decades ago. 

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1 minute ago, Dons_1988 said:

It’s actually very funny how your media portray it. 

Very odd behaviour over a dive from decades ago. 

Aye, if VAR was around back then, I imagine it would've been cleared up in seconds and Durrant would've got a retrospective ban.

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Just now, AJF said:

Aye, if VAR was around back then, I imagine it would've been cleared up in seconds and Durrant would've got a retrospective ban.

No because, surprisingly, rangers didn’t get a penalty for it. 

An educational course in sportsmanship would suffice for me. 

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With McGrath now supposedly going to England, that’ll be three big transfer stories that Scott Burns has looked stupid over (McGrath to Aberdeen basically done, McGree to Celtic done, Souttar going to England). Doesn’t seem to be as ITK as previously thought.

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21 hours ago, MacDonald Jardine said:

I can't say there's much wrong with that article. 

In isolation? Sure. However the world does not work in isolation. The Simpson/Durrant incident is very (very) well known as an extremely emotive flash point and to use it as a headline is reckless.

What's more the Daily Record knows this, it's intentionally trying to raise the heat in order to create clickbait and "anger porn", two sources of fuel for their revenue.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Ric said:

In isolation? Sure. However the world does not work in isolation. The Simpson/Durrant incident is very (very) well known as an extremely emotive flash point and to use it as a headline is reckless.

What's more the Daily Record knows this, it's intentionally trying to raise the heat in order to create clickbait and "anger porn", two sources of fuel for their revenue.

 

 

Reckless!!

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On 16/01/2022 at 14:23, MacDonald Jardine said:

I can't say there's much wrong with that article. 

That's not really a surprise since your username is made up of two players that played over 1000 matches for Oldco.

We've seen a similar type of article from this rag, and others like it, nearly every time we've hosted a team from Govan for at least the last 25-30 years. As @Ricmentions, it's directed at a Sevco audience. A national newspaper is reviewing a Scottish League fixture like it's the good guys going to some Mafia-riddled backwater in the North Caucasus (no offence meant to the North Caucasus region just an example of how the Scottish (and indeed, British) football media has a tendency to portray 'foreign').

Besides, although Albertz admits in the article that his information is coming from biased source ("the Scottish boys") and admits that he "doesn't know if the rivalry was as bad before the tackle" ("the Scottish boys" have obviously provided him a one-sided perspective), the reader is invited to accept THAT (another irritation where they always describe it as thus) tackle was pretty much the foundation of the "hatred".

Where's the balance? If it was a Gruesome Twosome match we'd get POV from both sides.

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2 hours ago, Bogbrush1903 said:

That's not really a surprise since your username is made up of two players that played over 1000 matches for Oldco.

We've seen a similar type of article from this rag, and others like it, nearly every time we've hosted a team from Govan for at least the last 25-30 years. As @Ricmentions, it's directed at a Sevco audience. A national newspaper is reviewing a Scottish League fixture like it's the good guys going to some Mafia-riddled backwater in the North Caucasus (no offence meant to the North Caucasus region just an example of how the Scottish (and indeed, British) football media has a tendency to portray 'foreign').

Besides, although Albertz admits in the article that his information is coming from biased source ("the Scottish boys") and admits that he "doesn't know if the rivalry was as bad before the tackle" ("the Scottish boys" have obviously provided him a one-sided perspective), the reader is invited to accept THAT (another irritation where they always describe it as thus) tackle was pretty much the foundation of the "hatred".

Where's the balance? If it was a Gruesome Twosome match we'd get POV from both sides.

So are you saying they never interview Aberdeen players?

As I say in itself the article is fine and Albertz is quite complimentary about Aberdeen and Scottish football in general. 

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On 15/01/2022 at 17:04, VincentGuerin said:

The latest Private Eye has a good section on this 'unrecognisable' trend for pictures where people look completely recognisable.

I wonder if this stuff is produced by someone on a wage or by some chump getting by on 'exposure' and 'experience'.

Thomas Magnum?

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