After not posting or coming here for quite a while, I'm rather
surprised to see this topic hasn't expired yet or whatever. Had
previously wanted to comment but let's just say we all have our own
priorities in life. Besides, sgforums isn't the best place for
football discussion online. It is fun once in a while to come here
and see all the snippets of football news and tabloids gathered by
different people.
I'm not very botherd about the Chris vs Marc that's ongoing
because in terms of within this topic, I don't see either being any
better than the other. I am going to comment about what the topic
starter has said at the beginning of this topic.
As much as I don't agree with the manner of some of Marco
Simone's postings, the things he says at the start of this topic do
carry some weight. About playing the victim card and all.
This started even with one of the previous mod of the Liverpool
subforums, 798, who always liked to potray himself as a victim of
some sorts. He once even called himself the Zhang Wu Ji of
sgforums, which is a total insult to the character that is Zhang Wu
Ji. It's also ironic especially since he has been the one who
threatened people about being banned and has had the admin move and
delete topics on his behalf.
While I'm at it, yes, the admin's response on the first page
says a lot really. I'll let some of you draw your own conclusions
about that without going into detail.
I have previously thought Poolman was an ok person, and even
though I do not outrightly think he is as bad as some others here,
there are two things that made me doubt him.
One is how he considers 798 his 'good friend'. Quite obviously I
do not have a good opinion of this person so I would be doubtful
and sceptical about anyone who considers him a 'good friend'.
Afterall, 798 only took up being mod of Liverpool forums
probably just to be anti Man U. That was always his agenda and
there are too many examples to show how his anti Man U agenda takes
precedence over other football interests. Last time when innosaint,
gansterkiller or whatever other nick was always talking smack about
other clubs beside Man U like Liverpool or even his beloved
Arsenal, he never said anything. Yet happily supported when the
attention was on Man U. Says a lot really about where the
priorities lie at least within sgforums.
The other thing that has made me doubt Poolman is his open
endorsement of Chris the Liverpool cum WWE fan. First off let me
say I do not think Chris is very much worse than a lot of you, and
he did change in his manner of posting after being appointed mod.
But I really don't know if this was what anyone had in mind when he
was appointed mod. As a mod I don't think that badly of him, but as
a poster he is certainly not one of the more well-liked and anyone
would be as sceptical before he became mod.
Having said that, Chris has obviously been provoked no end by
some people and he has reacted. I'm not saying either is right but
that is what has happened. At the same time, he could be being made
use of as being a lightning rod of some sort to draw fire or
whatever. Honestly I don't know if that's the case but if it is I
wouldn't be surprised either. He kind of wasn't the first to be
used this way either.
To some degree I think all are guilty of self-righteousness to
some extent. Maybe even me unknowingly, a lot of humans are like
that afterall. But I fully agree that some Liverpool fans tend to
play the victim card very often and maybe because they think it
works or that there is some reason behind that they believe or know
that it works. And this behaviour was probably made precedent by
individual(s) who were not even Liverpool fans to begin with.
Coming back to 'the others', I find it is only in sgforums that
the response towards you is so heavily based on the club people
think you support. I've been treated so adversely by different
people just because they think I support certain football clubs
while they were posting to me.
I've had one guy being so hostile towards me because he thought
I was a Chelsea fan and he eased off not because anybody was
getting an edge in the arguement but purely because I indicated I
wasn't a Chelsea fan.
I think all of you thoroughly deserve each other and I hope you
continue to 'entertain' each other to no end. End of the day, I
believe offline all of us still have great times watching football
with our real friends no matter what football club it is they
support or whether they even have a favourite club at all.
You see a table of friends sharing a jug of beer with one
wearing A Manchester jersey, another wearing Arsenal, another
wearing Liverpool, another wearing Chelsea and maybe even one
wearing Newcastle. Very often you rib each other about the other
person's favourite club or favourite players, and even though the
words are the same as those of you throwing insults at one another
here, it all has very different meaning and intention.
Cheers to all real football buddies.
