Brian Reade - Platini is a Cunt

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Was reading this before while bored in ASDA, nothing we didn't know but Reade's column is always good stuff.

 

 

Michel Platini’s shown he is racist.. and FA must challenge him now - mirror.co.uk

 

I spotted Michel Platini walking through the first-class curtain on a flight between Seoul and Tokyo after the opening game of the 2002 World Cup.

 

Ever-conscious of my duty to Mirror readers, I walked into the realm of clinking Krug glasses, politely explained I was an English journalist and asked if I could have his reaction to Senegal's shock defeat of France.

 

He looked down his nose at me (which took a while), went “pah!” followed by “non.” When I asked why, he sighed and said it was because we were on a plane.

 

“No problem. Stay in your seat,” I replied. “No. You go back to yours,” he said, and stared past me at the clouds over the Sea of Japan.

 

A colleague who’d had dealings with him reckoned it was because he disliked the English and thought I was gloating. So I’ve watched with interest the debate over whether the UEFA president is anti-English or not. And I’d never fully bought the racist line.

 

Until this week when he addressed the European Parliament about the problems facing football. Now I think it’s proven beyond doubt.

 

Once again Platini laid the blame for the game’s ills at the door of the English, singling out Manchester City’s recent £100 million bid for Kaka. “Is it morally acceptable to offer such sums of money for a single player?” he implored the Brussels politicians.

 

And he may well have a point but how does he have the gall to suddenly finger City, when this was his reaction last July to Real Madrid preparing an £80m bid for Cristiano Ronaldo:

 

“The big clubs always want the best players and I can understand why Real would love to have him. It is normal for a club to want a player if they have the finances.”

 

A view endorsed by Platini’s silence when Real were reported to be offering £75m for Kaka back in 2007, and when AC Milan said it was putting aside £90m to buy Ronaldinho. As he says, vast sums will always be paid for the world's best players and if the club has the finances it’s OK? So why are City, who have the finances, suddenly immoral? The clue is the league in which they play.

 

When he gave his blessing to Real’s £80m bid for Ronaldo he ignored Manchester United’s justified allegations that he was being tapped up. It’s as though Platini wanted the best player in the world out of the Premier League to weaken it.

 

Hadn’t he been riled at England providing three of last year’s Champions League semi-finalists and claimed United and Chelsea had “cheated” their way to the final because technically they were in debt to their rich owners? Wasn't he delighted that the national side failed to make it to the Euros, saying: “Will we miss England? No.”

 

Doesn’t he ignore the situations at AC Milan, kept afloat by Silvio Berlusconi’s fortune and Juventus (by Gianni Agnelli’s), and the constant allegations that public money is siphoned into Real Madrid?

 

Platini may be right to advocate salary and transfer caps. But by continually citing the Premier League as the root of all evil, he proves his critics right. He is anti-English.

 

And it’s time someone at the FA loudly challenged this unacceptable bias from the leader of European football. Because if they don’t, at the very least they can wave goodbye to their precious 2018 World Cup bid.

 

[RobbieOR]

Nice Stuff! Just finished 43 years and It's one of the best books I've ever read. Platini is a cunt, everybody knows that.

[Guest Ulysses Everett McGill]

I'd fucking love Platini's comments on why we shouldn't be allowed to defend out Champions League in 05/06 to be made public.

 

Wonder whether he still feels guilty celebrating like a giddy child at Heysel?

[philyhamann]

I honestly believe he had a word with the ref before Athens, and will never forget him wearing an AC Milan scarf and looking made up after we picked up our losers medals.

[halewood pete]

i have never yet disagreed with anything brian has written

[Ted]

Someone present me with evidence tha Platini does NOT intefere with poodles.

[King Emlyn]

I've not been his greatest fan in the past but he's bang on form lately, his other weekly column is even better.

[Sangria]

Platini's a cunt. I think deep, deep down he is a blue, it is the only thing that makes sense.

[Ted]

He really is a horrible cunt though. He even makes Blatter look fucking OK.

[Anubis]

Someone present me with evidence tha Platini does NOT intefere with poodles.

It's an absolute disgrace to suggest there may be evidence that a man of Platini's standing is not a fully paid-up and daily active member of the Poodle pumping community.

[Sangria]

I've not been his greatest fan in the past but he's bang on form lately, his other weekly column is even better.

 

His book is well worth a read, pardon the pun.

[Special K]

Wonder whether he still feels guilty celebrating like a giddy child at Heysel?

 

I think this is EXACTLY why he hates English football so much. He's embarrassed by his celebrations that night and wants to gloss over them.

[Dirk]

Eef eet adeenerrr been ferrr ayzel.

[RedKnight]

Obnoxious twat, who's just Blatter's lap dog. His comments about us in 05 were disgraceful. Part of me hopes English clubs dominate the CL for years to come, simply because it would piss all over his plans.

[Royal Family]

I'd fucking love Platini's comments on why we shouldn't be allowed to defend out Champions League in 05/06 to be made public.

 

Wonder whether he still feels guilty celebrating like a giddy child at Heysel?

 

Well, why can't you make them public? There was a blog on here in 2007 as well that hinted at these comments, but we've never heard them in public - I'm intrigued to know, especially given some other comments Platini made about us down the years (especially 2 weeks before the game versus Juventus). By not publishing them, you're protecting him.

 

Paolo Rossi once said that Platini never got over the fact that a Frenchman was among the dead at Heysel - not difficult to see where Platini lays the blame for that. As soneone posted above, the 2007 UEFA final ref was an utter disgrace, right down to knocking a minute off the stoppage time!

[Fugitive]

What did he say about 2005?

[Dirk]

What did he say about 2005?

 

It was alleged that he'd said that we hadn't been punished enough for Heysel and shouldn't be allowed in to defend our crown on that basis.

[Anubis]

How about a PM UEM.

[JER]

In his defence he did try and get Cantona to sign for us

 

Former Anfield Legend Greame Souness says he turned down the chance to sign Eric Cantona while manager of the Anfield side.

The offer to buy the French star came in 1991 after Liverpool's UEFA Cup victory over Auxerre. But Souness told Platini he did not want any ''problem players''.

The ex-Liverpool boss told Liverpool's official website: ''Michel Platini said he had a player for me, a player who'd had some problems back in France but who would love to come and play for Liverpool.

''That player was Eric Cantona. But at that time we didn't really need any more problems, so that was one that got away."

 

 

He is, however, still a cunt.

[King Emlyn]

He does appear to have a problem with all things English, a man who i think would not be very nice. Shame really because he was a magnificent footballer.

[Fugitive]

It was alleged that he'd said that we hadn't been punished enough for Heysel and shouldn't be allowed in to defend our crown on that basis.

 

I never knew that. Disgraceful comments.

[drewy]

How did we let the rest of Europe snatch away any semblance of power within football? A game we fucking invented.

 

Fuck Platini the shit haired, bog eyed, cheese eating, Vichy loving, frog eating, fucking surrender monkey.

[Guest Ulysses Everett McGill]

Ok fuck it

 

It's basically what Dirk said

 

Basically in the Summer of 2005 there was a meeting between UEFA board who were going to vote on our participation in the following seasons tournament.

 

There were only 2 (I think out of 11, although I could be wrong) votes against, I think one may have been Portuguese, which is incidental, and the other was Platini, which is his perogative and could have voted that way for all kinds of reasons.

 

No one on said board were obliged to justify their vote, but Platini felt the need to state that

 

"Liverpool should not be allowed to participate, as they have not been punished enough for Heysel"

 

Which puts a whole different slant on the matter

 

For the simple reason of protecting Dave, I must state that all of the above is allegedly

 

Of course it isn't, it happened, but there you go.

 

As an aside, Platini always denied dancing around Heysel and did his best to cover it up, until a journalist presented him with the footage, and since then has threatened all kinds of litigation and a news blackout against anyone who mentions it in the press.

[Anubis]

As an aside, Platini always denied dancing around Heysel and did his best to cover it up, until a journalist presented him with the footage, and since then has threatened all kinds of litigation and a news blackout against anyone who mentions it in the press.

Do you mean dancing round after they'd received the trophy, or jumping up and down chanting with the rest of the Juve squad before they went up for it? If it's the latter, I can certainly find you footage of that.

[Acid]

Do you mean dancing round after they'd received the trophy, or jumping up and down chanting with the rest of the Juve squad before they went up for it? If it's the latter, I can certainly find you footage of that.

 

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