Rob Beasley on Rafa

[StevieH]

Originally Posted by Kopite This has been lifted from El Mundo apparently and the original article is, ahem, "somewhat" different to what that piece of vermin Beasley has written. Looks like that c*nt Beasley is out to get Rafa. We need to make sure this doesn't happen.

I think this may be our "friends" email address, although maybe a passing visitor who also works for the NOTW could kindly confirm.

rob.beasley@NOTW.co.uk

[G Richards]

We shouldn't place too much thought on what the tabloids say. Beasly has an agenda, but then tabloids are hardly bastions of reasoned journalism. We play Chelsea today, so they are trying to rock the boat because of that. Then the bigger issue of the ongoing struggle between manager and owners is being exploited.

It is underhand, but that's what passes in the tabloids.

Best to ignore it.

We already know Rafa may or may not be here next season, and we also know that the owners may or may not be here. Everything seems up for grabs at LFC at the moment, and Beasly can tell us nothing we don't already know. He is inconsequential.

[Kopite]

Anfield Road » Perfect excuse? Or just a worried Chelsea fan?

[real red]

He's got to be worried about us, got to be. The daft bald twat.

[Josef Svejk]

The Paco comments are the most interesting feature of that interview...

[hamstrung]

Its a nothing article that isn't worth getting worked up about.

[RedKnight]

I agree with Hamstrung.

[theRedHorse]

Originally Posted by Josef Svejk The Paco comments are the most interesting feature of that interview...

Indeed. sounds like he had his heart broken by Paco.

[Captain]

Originally Posted by Hermes Beasley stated on Sunday Supplement a few weeks ago that Rafa likes to give "off the record" statements to the press. He asks them to turn off their microphones at the end of interviews so that he can tell them something that they have no proof of him saying. He can then say he's been misquoted. Beasley referred to it as "classic Benitez".

We know you'd take anyone's word over Rafa's, even Beasley's.

He and Chris Bascombe are like that *crosses fingers*

[StevieH]

Originally Posted by World Party He and Chris Bascombe are like that *crosses fingers*

Who - Rafa and Bascombe or Beasley and Bascombe?

[Scouse Missionary]

Originally Posted by Hermes Beasley stated on Sunday Supplement a few weeks ago that Rafa likes to give "off the record" statements to the press. He asks them to turn off their microphones at the end of interviews so that he can tell them something that they have no proof of him saying. He can then say he's been misquoted. Beasley referred to it as "classic Benitez".

Journalists deliberately change quotes all the time. I've watched interviews with managers and players on the television, which have then been quoted in tabloids the next day, with sentences either misquoted, twisted, added to, or subtracted from. Whatever suits the agenda at the time seems to go. And don't all managers/players/polititians give off-the-record press briefings?

Originally Posted by StevieH Who - Rafa and Bascombe or Beasley and Bascombe?

Bascombe and Beasley, of course.

NOTW bum-chums.

[StevieH]

Originally Posted by World Party Bascombe and Beasley, of course. NOTW bum-chums.

Not necessarily. That's like assuming that Brian Reade and Simon Mullock are bosom buddies at the Mirror.

[Captain]

Originally Posted by Kopite Anfield Road » Perfect excuse? Or just a worried Chelsea fan?

Cheers for the link, Col. Good article, that.

[Moschops II]

Originally Posted by Captain We know you'd take anyone's word over Rafa's, even Beasley's.

Yep - in Hermes' world, the press only lie when they've printed an article critical of Tom Hicks.

[Randy Marsh]

Anyone would think the NOTW had an agenda, withe the huge load of negative LFC articles they publish every sunday. But obviously thats not the case.

[TheHitman]

Rafa's class tells sky there are two papers in Liverpool that cant be trusted the journalist is a LIAR PLAIN AND SIMPLE....

[real red]

Rafa's just called the twat a liar.

[AngryofTuebrook]

God Bless the Gafa
"Everybody on Merseyside knows there are two papers you cannot trust and this is one of them ..... He's lying."

That's fairly unequivocal, that is!

[Kopite]

"He's claiming an exclusive but I never spoke to him"

"He's twisted an article I gave in Spain"

"The journalist is lying"

I love you Rafa.

Originally Posted by Moschops II Yep - in Hermes' world, the press only lie when they've printed an article critical of Tom Hicks.

Texas calling, Texas calling.

[RSM]

Originally Posted by Kopite "He's claiming an exclusive but I never spoke to him" "He's twisted an article I gave in Spain" "The journalist is lying" I love you Rafa.

I'm with Hermes, Rafa has clearly given Beasley an exclusive off the record interview.

Worra knob!

[rebel23]

Originally Posted by RSM I'm with Hermes, Rafa has clearly given Beasley an exclusive off the record interview. Worra knob!

if Rafa told Hermes it was night outside he would put his shades on

[gkmacca]

Originally Posted by Paul They've used quotes, though. He must have used those words.

For some strange reason, football journalists are given far more freedom than other journalists to 'correct' quotes. They will routinely take some comment like 'Terry Mac was agitated' and add something like 'Newcastle assistant manager Terry McDermott was agitated'. Normally you have to put any changes not actually spoken in square brackets. Footie people just stick whatever they like in a quote, I guess on the basis that few players/managers bother to read them. It's basically because none of the other journalists regard the football people with any respect at all. They can get away with murder. Beasley is quite open about being a Chelski fan, and, fawningly, addresses John Terry as 'JT'. I'm just pleased Rafa has made public what a nasty piece of work he is.