Monday, January 05, 2009

When is a thug not a thug?

While we are on the subject of thugs I find this whole Steven Gerrard thing a bit strange. Quite a while back a football player, Joey Barton, was arrested and charged with ABH, just like diver Gerrard. Before he was convicted of the offence both the Daily Mirror and The Sun were calling for him to be kicked out of football abd have kept up a vendetta against him ever since, despite him being convicted and serving his time. Every match report about a game he is involved in is now considered incomplete unless they label him a thug somewhere along the way.

Now as Gerrard has been accused and charged with exactly the same offence as Joey Barton you would assume that his treatment by the press would be exactly the same. Far from it! As far as they are concerned it's all a big mistake!

Could this be because the biggest cheat in football also has a wife who writes a column for the Mirror and the thug himself gives regular exclusive interviews to The Sun's sister paper The News of the World?

Nice to see our popular press are as unbiased as ever isn't it?

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