The Guardian article about us

If somebody has rubbish all over their land and somebody takes a photo of it who is to blame for the situation?

 

Ostrich.

 

The guardian.

More agendas than readers.

 

I'm guessing the dirty sods who dumped it

 

So you're saying it's fine to not check the criminal history of people hired to work around children and thinking otherwise is just left wing propaganda?

 

Another ****ing ostrich. If the Guardian only hadn't printed this story there wouldn't be one. Right?

 

He's a ****ing pillock.

 

They should have been checked but there are far bigger stories- the abuse, paying people to be quiet ...

 

They've used a sombre, depressing image of Oakwell to lead on a depressing subject. Who'd have thought?

Jesus Christ.

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I seldom bother with The Guardian but fortunately there are other sources of news.

 

Where did I deny anything? I just take issue with a deliberate attempt to make us look third rate, something the national media do frequently. I have no issue with the story, just the way we're represented. I'll probably read it at some point. Get over yourself.

 

There is nothing sombre about a load of rubbish and it certainly doesn't change the tone of the story; it was an unnecessary image to use. I wonder what the reaction from some on here would have been had this been in the Mail or the Telegraph.

 

The Tommy Wright story came from the Torygraph and it don't think anyone disregarded it because of the source. Stuff like this is more important than the pettiness of personal politics.

 

Incredibly paranoid to take it personally it is no barbed attack it's a statement of fact to cast aspersions on the game as a whole. The source is irrelevant, if you think a national newspaper has a vendetta against us you are possibly the one that needs to get over himself. It is shaky ground when you get so defensive over any story that pints the club you support in a bad light.

 

The funniest thing about all this is the reaction, if it had been the Mail, Express or whatever there would have been ruptions, because its the Guardian for some reason people stand up for it. Unbelievable, they all have their own agendas the Guardian is no different unless possibly worse.

 

So basically you think it's fine to employ someone to look after kids who is a criminal because you don't like the people who broke the story. Genius.

 

I didn't say that though did I? ,Its obviously not right I was just commenting that whether the subject is factual or not if it was in a different paper especially one classified on here as Tory press there would be loads of folk querying, source fact et al before there was any chance of acceptance, but Guardian is taken at face value

 

As was said earlier the tommy Wright story was broken in the telegraph who on here disputed it? I'll wait

 

As I said I don't have an issue with the story, it's content or the source (despite my dislike of it). I just think the picture was unnecessary and typical of the 'national' media in general and it's constant attempts to cast us as third rate club supported by flat cap wearing, toothless, imbeciles.

It's commented on by Barnsley fans regularly, not just when The Guardian do it. Had the story been published in a newspaper that I read I would have taken issue in the same way.

Just to clarify 'I don't have an issue with the story, I'm not denying it in any way, shape or form and I'm not trying to deploy deflection tactics to avoid a difficult shadow cast over the club'.

 

Agreed, It seems to me that no one said "typical tory press" when the telegraph story broke, its only the anti-Guardian brigade using the source of the story as an excuse to try and undermine it. Regardless of the paper, not veting people working in the academy is a disaster - parents suspicious of sending their kids, who knows how much that could cost the club, plus opening ourselves to sanctions from the FA, and the all round bad view it gives of the running of the club. The club must know who was in charge of making sure this guy should have had a CRB check, and if they're still at the club they need sacking.