Football Pundits Go To War: The Sun’s Rob Beasley Threatens Talksport DJ Andy Goldstein Live On Air
By Alan Duffy
Post London 2012, far too much has been written about the great Olympic spirit on show and how it shows up the greed and downright common behaviour of the Premier League’s football players. This lazy comparison spewed out by writers who, more than likely, won’t cover (or even feign interest in) another rowing or taekwando event for another four years, totally missed the point about the tribal (and bloody popular) nature of football in comparison to the totally different Olympic atmosphere and its plethora of minority sports. Sun journo Rob Beasley was one such lazy writer, coughing up this cheap pile of cack effort entitled “How vile football is back” after the Community Shield.
Beasley subsequently went on Talksport’s Hawsbee and Jacobs show to discuss his article, with Andy Goldstein in for Hawksbee on this occasion. Neither Talksport DJ’s were too impressed by Beasley’s views on the (apparent) horror of football fans “effing and blinding” in front of women and children at football matches. And pretty soon the discussion descended into quite a heated debate, with Beasley first admitting that he himself has sweared at football matches before Goldstein, in a dig at the loose morals of the red-tops, implied that Beasley had lied in some of his articles. From there on in, metaphorical blows are exchanged as Beasley eventually tells the Talksport man “I will see you about this”. More than likely around the back of the bike sheds after school. Fight fight fight!
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He works for The Sun, the most unreliable newspaper in the world. Every second word in The Sun is a lie, so im fairly sure he will have written more than his fair share of deceiving articles.
Bet the tennis was a bit special after that tirade. Knob-jockey.
Yeah, but he’s not wrong though is he? The Premiership is an embarrassment of twats.
Oh dear. Beasley really let the Olympic spirit get the better of his journalistic instincts. What about the manipulated women’s double Badminton game for example? The Olympics can be just as disgraceful as any other sports event.
http://archive.anfieldroad.com/news-archive/200802102836/rafa-rob-beasley-is-a-liar.html/
The Sun and Talk Sport battling for the moral high ground.
Where to start?
Don’t call me a liar
A S*n journo turns out to be a prick?
Who could have possibly forseen that?
[...] then followed it up with a performance on Talksport that even by his loathsome standards of embarrassingly misplaced self-righteousness ranked as a [...]
What a trio of twits. Beasley is probably the most cynical of the three, because as soon as he realised his entire argument was in the process of collapsing all about him he managed to turn the whole discussion into an even madder rant about his ‘honour’. Horrible people.
he is the most inartciulate smug git i have had the displeasure to witness