Posts by Sacha
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cheerful intellectual
pleased to see the phrase getting another trot..
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Gold
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Sorry, I was tired and not up to picking any bits to extract for fair warning. Seems a fascinating social reflection that this silly nastiness feels empowered to show its face in public now (again).
Wonder what those nice misters McVicar or McCockrie think about this, representing 1% of the voting population as they do? I'm sure the media will make it their job to tell us. More cute cats needed..
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The Herald is full of it
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I don't think the analogy with the criminal mismanagement of finance companies is at all apt.
No laws were broken in Hanover's case, were they? So it's an even lower standard than Suarez's action. If you asked investors or Ghanaian fans, I imagine you'd hear similar expressions of their deep admiration for the fine and upstanding human beings playing the game to its rules at their cost.
But they should really be addressing the regulators who allow it - and the defenders of such conduct who set the public mood that regulators and politicians respond to. All just a laugh, innit.
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understand the culture of a sport
Well it has been an eye opener and I'm sure to be more understanding now when the same moral elasticity is applied to events off the field. Raising another generation of relaxed merchant bankers, eh.
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I know where the end of your finger has been?
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I'm sure Allied and Hanover investors are saying pretty much the same about Horton and Watson right about now - "gosh, I may think they're slimy thieving pricks but you have to admire how well they went about it, eh"
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Let's just call it the "Hand of Fuckface"
I'm sure there's a Ghanaian translation for that by now
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I'm not aware of a situation like the one that befell Ghana ever happening in a major tournament.
Given the lack of a proportionate response and the scale of benefit (including the perpetrator being feted as a hero, which really gets my goat), I think you'll see it again and again from now on- unless the rules are changed. But hey, it's only a game. As you were.