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Tuesday, 05 June 2012 05:19 |
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There's a lot of clueless people on here. The same few clowns keep defending Ronaldo so vigorously you would think he was their relative. That weirdo 'Voice of Reason' has the temerity to name himself that when his posts show he's the very antithesis of reason or logic one example being his extreme tribalism i.e. claiming that because Messi is Argentinean and they once eliminated England partly because of Maradona's Hand of God goal in 1986 (a year before Messi even existed) that that should somehow mean that they an English guy in 2012 should somehow have a bias against Messi. Guilt or blame by association? You call that being the 'Voice of Reason'? Troglodyte. I'd argue that comments like that are xenophobic in nature.
I hate the England team (not England the country, but their team and vile media) and loved that Portugal put them out in 2004 and 2006 and agree that their media's vilification of Ronaldo was atrocious. The difference between you lot and me though is that I am a fully-functioning adult who can separate the circumstances of one situation from that of another i.e. the fact that I feel Ronaldo was persecuted by the English media in 2006 doesn't somehow lead me to believe that this means there's a world conspiracy to favour Messi as a player due to non-footballing matters. The facts are that most of the world rates Messi as comfortably superior because, well, to any smart football fan (rules some of you out) he quite clearly is.
We do have that strange cult minority in this world though, who are infatuated with Ronaldo and defend him to the death. These people are to be pitied.
I always felt that English football fans by and large were ignorant of the game due to what I have seen and read, but the ignorant and petty comments here from Portuguese fans and their sympathisers are disappointing. I won't let it taint my view of all Portuguese/Portugal NT fans, and will assume this is an isolated site which attracts the very worst type of Portuguese fan. Most Portuguese people are friendly - they can't be held accountable for the odd Portuguese cretin who posts on here, or the Canadian and American glory-hunters who have attached themselves to Portugal because they're in love with Ronaldo.If I was using VoR's 'fantastic' logic of blaming people for their countymen's behaviour, then perhaps I would hold all Portuguese fans accountable.
Ronaldo will flop this summer, by the way, and Holland won't make the quarter-finals. Might even finish bottom of the group. Perhaps Portugal should concentrate on improving their sportsmanship on the pitch before getting too big for their boots.
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