Apparently, Urs Meier, the Swiss referee, has been recieving death threats from Sun readers who usually mention cheese and cuckoo clocks. Urs claims to be shocked by the violent reaction of the british tqabloids and their readers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1251098,00.html
Is there any chance we could round up these fucking spastics and shoot them like the ignorant peasant scum they clearly are?
UnoChild
Jul 1, 2004, 12:55
Fucking stupid innit. Thick fucking cunts.
A Sun spokeswoman declined to comment.
Would that have been a Page 3 girl by any chance? I wasn't aware of any other woman working for The Sun.
10 Pence Short
Jul 1, 2004, 14:56
It's probably a load of bullshit, anyway. The guy gets a couple of crank calls to his shop and suddenly half of England is out to get him. If it was ze Germans or French it wouldn't even have made the small columns.
There's only one thing worse than the gutter England fans and that's the gutter England press that they read.
Would that have been a Page 3 girl by any chance? I wasn't aware of any other woman working for The Sun.
Well, apart from the Editor-in-chief...:P
hugo-a-gogo
Jul 1, 2004, 18:09
well his e-mail address was posted to every forum in the world it seems (and was even shown on screen on ITN news) and the papers printed his telephone number so i don't doubt that he got hundreds of thousands of abusive mails and deaththreats. no way would it be 'a couple of crank calls'
^Manta^
Jul 2, 2004, 11:58
I don't read the Sun much, but some of their reporting recently has been utterly disgraceful. Its reporters, and their Editor esepically, are guilty of irresponsible journalism at its very worst reinforcing the public's perception that the newspaper is a vacuous comic aimed at half-wits.
Whatever I think of Urs Meier disallowing the goal, he doesn't deserve to receive death threats and have to go into hiding as a result. And if the Sun's reporting has provoked this, their reporters should all hang their heads in shame. I do believe Urs' decision was a refereeing one due because he saw John Terry foul the goalkeeper - a decision he stands by and supported by his bosses in UEFA following video evidence - and not because he wanted to see England lose as some reporters have suggested.