There has been a train of thought for a few years now that the football journalists would rather the England football team fail rather than succeed as it creates better headlines and helps sell more papers,well I have never really subscribed to that view until this week.
It's not the sacking of Capello ,he was a dead man walking after 2010's pathetic display at the World Cup and should have gone then ,rather its the appalling story in the Sun accusing the caretaker England manager Stuart Pearce of racism.
Now the story has been around for a while and dates pack to words said to Paul in 1994,18 years ago,Pearce apologised Ince accepted that apology and the world moved on,so what the hell are the Sun doing plastering across the front pages as if it had happened yesterday with no mention that it was an event from history and insinuating that in addition to John Terry England had another major rascism problem within their football team.
Ok you may say it's the Sun yet another News International rag that should have been closed down at the same time as the News Of The World and that was my initial reaction,what has really worried me though is the reaction of other well respected journalists who have either said nothing or in a couple of cases supported the right of the Sun to publish the story in the way they did.I have challenged a number of journalists via Twitter to condem the story and the way it was presented but to no avail.
So it appears that anything England related is fair game and if the peoples choice and the darling of the majority of the press Harry Redknapp takes the job you can guarantee that at the first chance Her majesty's Gutter Press will look to bring him down and take great relish in doing so with whatever dirty trick they feel like using
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