Should Everton Ban The S*n

[Sarnia Kevin]

I can't understand why anybody wastes their money on any of the tabloid rags to be honest. Anyway it isn't up to a football club to dictate what a fan can or cannot buy, so cheese on toast.

 

[Khalekan]

The scouse jibes will continue for generations to come. Harry Enfield did a tremendous job on us and I wouldn't want the media to get so sterile that you can't have a go at different parts of the country. It's cruel British humour.

The problem is that McKenzie has significant previous. Where his lies caused deep unimaginable pain to grieving families and a city trying to support its own. Any other person in his situation would have left the Liverpool people topic well alone.

So it shows the contempt he truly has for scousers that he feels he can type what he just did. That leads me to believe there's no remorse on his behalf. The self serving rat.

Enfield was funny.
I guess the lack of Brookside on telly is also oddly relevant. ( loved Harry Cross ) and now you get Ricky Tomlinson and his greasy haired banjo as the only thing some associate with the city.

We can laugh at eachother. We can critise our own, especially Ross.

But if anyone else dares.. The game changes.

It goes back even further than Harry Enfield or even the Brookside scallies.

Joey Boswell was the archypical Scouse "scrounger" and his persona of a wide boy layabout whom could charm the dole woman into buying his family all manner of things was regarded by many viewers as how people on the dole, not just in Liverpool, but all over England were in actual fact living it large on benefits.

And of course Joey was the illegitimate son of Alf Garnett's son in law, the layabout's layabout in Til Death Do Us Part for whom the phrase "lazy Scouse git" was coined and has stuck ever since.

Then you had Yozzer Hughes and his Kirkby kiss stereotype.......Lucien and his flaming rabbits in the Liver Birds......and when Clement and Le Frennais were creating Auf Wuedersehn Pet, where would the rogue outlaw on the run turn out be from?

Liverpool, of course.

All these images were burned into the English subconscious from the 1960s onwards and they still stick today.

McKenzie wouldn't have dared write that crap about Pakistanis, Jews, the Irish or the Scots.....the previous butt of ignorant English humour.

No sir.

The people of Liverpool are the last acceptable target for these Neanderthals.

We have become the nation's Everyman.....when they use us as the butt of their humour, they are dissing every minority in the country.

Now, anyone taking the time to read my musings on here over the years know I have a healthy disdain for the England football team.

This is because I spent the best years of my life following my beloved EFC the length and breadth of this green and pleasant land, and been greeted with songs about signing on, calming down, looking for sommat to eat in dustbins or having fivers waved at my face by some scrote in Barnsley or flaming Luton and then the flags of these no mark clubs would appear at England games and the same cretins who sang songs to insult me would do the same to Johnny Foreigner then smash up his bars.

No thanks, McKenzie.

You can stuff your idea of England right up your fat hole, where the sun don't shine.

We are reviled by the majority of people in this country and although we are righteously upset with McKenzie, be assured his comments will strike a note with a heck of a lot of your fellow countrymen.

But he knows that all too well.

Already he is portraying himself as the victim in this and we are, once again in the eyes of many outside the Liverpool ramparts, thin skinned buggers, offended by everything and ashamed of nowt.

The sooner we declare UDI and proclaim a People's Republic in Liverpool, or in Melling at least , the happier I will be.

Viva the People's Republic of Liverpool.....

 

[osat]

The hubris involved here is sickening and McKenzie's actions are deplorable. No right thinking person could condone the rhetoric that was included in this 'article' and it's blatantly clear that it was always intended to provoke a reaction. That's the level of ego we're confronted with here.

I would suggest that the S*n organisation has clearly engaged in a base and snivelling attack on the people of Liverpool once more in a bid to finally vent the anger and misappropriated injustice they feel for having to admit they were wrong. However, as an organisation, it beggars belief that they can interpret their 'right' to be angry as an opportunity to just be downright cruel, disrespectful and frankly vile.

@Khalekan has a point in believing that McKenzie is simply thumbing his nose at the people of Liverpool and doing it in order to win further favour with the organisation that has always resented the apology they had to issue.

That a national 'newspaper' could publish this, considering the levels of scrutiny and authority that an article such as this would go through before it went to press is nothing short of deplorable - and, in my opinion, it's indicative that their full intention was to provoke, hurt and ridicule the people of Liverpool without reservation.

For that to even be borne in fruition is staggering.

Absolutely staggering.

I reckon it must be quite difficult to be editor of the sun when having Mackenzie on the staff, it can't be easy editing his stuff, given his previous and closeness with Murdoch. I reckon he's been through it, and probably not been aware of the Hillsborough date (even though Mackenzie would have). the brown stuff has then hit the fan with Joe's intervention, Brookes has got involved and recognised the calculated insult, and insisted he be dropped for good

 

[LostLegend]

So they were lying about not knowing Ross' heritage... never saw that coming... honest...

 

[Tin-Tin]

Official

 

[Liam-EFC]

Good move Everton.

 

[Tin-Tin]

A statement of the official club site said: "Yesterday Everton Football Club informed The Sun newspaper it was banned from Goodison Park, the USM Finch Farm training ground and all areas of the Club's operation.

"Whilst we will not dignify any journalist with a response to appalling and indefensible allegations, the newspaper has to know that any attack on this City, either against a much respected community or individual, is not acceptable."

 

[Durham Toffee]

Official

Well done.

Well bloody done.

 

[Clint Planet]

Of course they should. They should have banned it long ago, in fact. Can't believe we're even debating this.

Nice to see that snake McKenzie get his comeuppance, though.

 

[Groucho]

I'm glad they've acted.

 

[Amw79]

 

[hetion]

Official

Excellent

 

[Tin-Tin]

Of course they should. They should have banned it long ago, in fact. Can't believe we're even debating this.

Nice to see that snake McKenzie get his comeuppance, though.

Liverpool only banned it last year. But at least now, they are completely banned from the city.

 

[Clint Planet]

Liverpool only banned it last year. But at least now, they are completely banned from the city.

Yeah, nice one.

From David Schneider on Twitter:

"The impressive thing about Kelvin Mackenzie is how he hacked the Sun and smuggled his article into the paper without any editor reading it."

 

[tsubaki]

As long as it is a ban in relation to what they said about Barkley, that is an eminently sensible move.