Thursday, February 23, 2006
A different beat - Boyzone
I respect people's views - even if it does not make any sense to me. Or even if i totally and strongly disagree wif them. It's their view and they have the right to hold such view.
What drives me up the wall is when these views shift! Yeah, i'm talking about double standards. I totally lose respect for such a person. I mean, make up yr mind and stick to it - or be gracious and admit you were wrong and then stick to yr new stand. Dun take a stand and change it as when you like to suit your own interest.
Yeah, i'm talking about the Chelsea FC's coach.
In a typical lawyerly fashion, lemme say first how much i respect him as a coach (and his taste for clothes - nice coat, Jose!). Chelsea did extremely well last nite - there were so many moments when Barca fans (and those who were supporting Barca for that match - yours truly included) groaned in disbelief when time and time again, the Chelsea defence seemed to defy the odds and kept the ball out of their net!
But his latest tirade has gone too far. The papers today are filed wif views of people about it. I was surprised at how many were complaining against his reaction. They say that he's just a sore loser, needing to find someone else to blame whenever he loses. Even some Chelsea fans wrote in to voice their embarrassment over the latest incident (to you non-footie fans, read the post-script in me previous post for context).
What really irked me - and a whole load of others - is the hypocrissy in the whole thing. The double standards. He complained about how the Barca player "acted". What about his own player? Del Horno looked like he sufferred a heart-attack (according to one paper) and then made a miraculous recovery when he was given the red card!
Of course, just like me, many others highlighted the Robben-Reina incident a couple of weeks ago (which all agreed was far, far worse) - and when Benitez rued about it, Jose implied that the former was just sour grapes. Well, look who's talking now?
You can't have one standard for your own players and another one for players of team who beat you fairly. Be consistent. I'm not asking him to speak out publicly against his own players, of course. But he could keep quiet about other players - and not be like the pot calling the kettle black!
I'm pretty worked out over this cuz of another incident back home. I was reading this local blogger from M'sia when i found the link on a mate's blog. He's supposed to be one of the best. Well, IMHO, he's not. I was utterly disgusted. All this fella does is just sensationalise matters regarding the govt and highlights gossips - for the sake of just that, nothing else! As bad - or even worse than tabloids!
What made it worse was his apparent double standards too! Two incidents highlighted this:-
1. There was this post about M'sian University students being involved in politics. At first, he seemed to be speaking out against the ridiculous law we have back home which prohibits such involvement. But then in the same post, he complains about certain political parties (of which he is obviously against since those parties are part of the coalition govt party) being allegedly involved in M'sian students' activities in the UK!!!!
So wat is it now? Are you against the law prohibiting political involment? Or are you for it when it involves the political parties which you dun like??? Dun blow hot and cold. Make a stand! As Russell Peters sadi "Be a man! Do the right thing!!!!!!" :-P
2. There has been 2 earlier incidents back home involving the disciplining of newspapers over the Dannish Cartoons. of course, our fren has been blogging about it, speaking out against the government, advocating freedom of the press etc.
This week, another local paper (which many feel is govt runned) published a comic which in sum way is connected to the reactions of the Muslims over the Danish Cartoon incident.
Now our good fren started hitting out at this paper and indirectly called for it to be disciplined just like the other earlier 2. Why? he doesn't like the paper cuz he feels it's govt biaised!
But wat about all the free press thingy he was preaching about earlier????
And how can he complain of the insensitivities of the newspaper for publishing that comic when he himself republished it in his blog????????
So when it's govt-backed newspapers, they gotta pay for it. If it's not govt-backed papers, they dun!
I'm glad to read from the comments to his blog that i'm not the only one who is seeing this double standards and hypocrissy. One blogger puts it so well when he said that even if he din like the allegedly govt-based papers, this issue is bigger than that - it's about press freedom! You may win this small battle by getting that newspaper into trouble but you lose the war on the larger issue - govt clamping down on the press.
But i guess our fren is just so caught up to speak out against the govt and those associated wif the govt that perhaps he doesnt see how poorly he has potrayed himself over the recent incidents.
What drives me up the wall is when these views shift! Yeah, i'm talking about double standards. I totally lose respect for such a person. I mean, make up yr mind and stick to it - or be gracious and admit you were wrong and then stick to yr new stand. Dun take a stand and change it as when you like to suit your own interest.
Yeah, i'm talking about the Chelsea FC's coach.
In a typical lawyerly fashion, lemme say first how much i respect him as a coach (and his taste for clothes - nice coat, Jose!). Chelsea did extremely well last nite - there were so many moments when Barca fans (and those who were supporting Barca for that match - yours truly included) groaned in disbelief when time and time again, the Chelsea defence seemed to defy the odds and kept the ball out of their net!
But his latest tirade has gone too far. The papers today are filed wif views of people about it. I was surprised at how many were complaining against his reaction. They say that he's just a sore loser, needing to find someone else to blame whenever he loses. Even some Chelsea fans wrote in to voice their embarrassment over the latest incident (to you non-footie fans, read the post-script in me previous post for context).
What really irked me - and a whole load of others - is the hypocrissy in the whole thing. The double standards. He complained about how the Barca player "acted". What about his own player? Del Horno looked like he sufferred a heart-attack (according to one paper) and then made a miraculous recovery when he was given the red card!
Of course, just like me, many others highlighted the Robben-Reina incident a couple of weeks ago (which all agreed was far, far worse) - and when Benitez rued about it, Jose implied that the former was just sour grapes. Well, look who's talking now?
You can't have one standard for your own players and another one for players of team who beat you fairly. Be consistent. I'm not asking him to speak out publicly against his own players, of course. But he could keep quiet about other players - and not be like the pot calling the kettle black!
I'm pretty worked out over this cuz of another incident back home. I was reading this local blogger from M'sia when i found the link on a mate's blog. He's supposed to be one of the best. Well, IMHO, he's not. I was utterly disgusted. All this fella does is just sensationalise matters regarding the govt and highlights gossips - for the sake of just that, nothing else! As bad - or even worse than tabloids!
What made it worse was his apparent double standards too! Two incidents highlighted this:-
1. There was this post about M'sian University students being involved in politics. At first, he seemed to be speaking out against the ridiculous law we have back home which prohibits such involvement. But then in the same post, he complains about certain political parties (of which he is obviously against since those parties are part of the coalition govt party) being allegedly involved in M'sian students' activities in the UK!!!!
So wat is it now? Are you against the law prohibiting political involment? Or are you for it when it involves the political parties which you dun like??? Dun blow hot and cold. Make a stand! As Russell Peters sadi "Be a man! Do the right thing!!!!!!" :-P
2. There has been 2 earlier incidents back home involving the disciplining of newspapers over the Dannish Cartoons. of course, our fren has been blogging about it, speaking out against the government, advocating freedom of the press etc.
This week, another local paper (which many feel is govt runned) published a comic which in sum way is connected to the reactions of the Muslims over the Danish Cartoon incident.
Now our good fren started hitting out at this paper and indirectly called for it to be disciplined just like the other earlier 2. Why? he doesn't like the paper cuz he feels it's govt biaised!
But wat about all the free press thingy he was preaching about earlier????
And how can he complain of the insensitivities of the newspaper for publishing that comic when he himself republished it in his blog????????
So when it's govt-backed newspapers, they gotta pay for it. If it's not govt-backed papers, they dun!
I'm glad to read from the comments to his blog that i'm not the only one who is seeing this double standards and hypocrissy. One blogger puts it so well when he said that even if he din like the allegedly govt-based papers, this issue is bigger than that - it's about press freedom! You may win this small battle by getting that newspaper into trouble but you lose the war on the larger issue - govt clamping down on the press.
But i guess our fren is just so caught up to speak out against the govt and those associated wif the govt that perhaps he doesnt see how poorly he has potrayed himself over the recent incidents.
# posted by imissw : 8:33:00 pm
