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[Tee]

Should be triffic.

[Shanks]

@RorySmithTimes
Just one word from @Marcotti and there's a De Rossi/United rumour flying around the world. City more obvious: Berti+Mancini good friends.

Looks like City might get this one ahead of United..

What fee for a 29 year old..

[Fredo]

Lord Sugar @Lord_Sugar
Total joke 2 seasoned pro's Lennon and van der vaart to give away a mugs penalty .
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Alastair Campbell @campbellclaret
@Lord_Sugar bit of an apostrophe car crash there. Pros should be pros not pro's, and it is mug's penalty not mugs. #oneofmyobsessions

[RichC]

How I'd love for us to try and get him in

Wayne Veysey@wayneveysey

EXCLUSIVE Man City in advanced talks to buy Jovetic from Fiorentina for £23.6m #MCFC http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/...om-fiorentina-

[Fosterbloke]

I'd like us to go for Dzeko if they do buy Jovetic.

[Kenneth]

Yes, that would be an excellent move.

[dom9]

Interesting monologue from Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes today.

[little dave hedgehog]

good of you not to post it

[dom9]

[Lee]

good of you not to post it

Poor work from Dom. Shoddy.

[dom9]

[little dave hedgehog]

dunno why you're shaking your head at us. bit rich, really.

[dom9]

dunno why you're shaking your head at us.

I wasn't. I was in complete and absolute agreement.

[dom9]

For the lazy ones:

Read bottom up.

Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

Some eloquently saying ignoring idiots is the way. Others eloquently saying clubs should be named and shamed. Can see merits to both sides.
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6m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@garyellison That does happen. Chants not printed so as not to encourage, like methods of suicide not published.
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7m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@GraemeKelly1 No, not in the slightest. You're obviously unclear on what a parable is.
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8m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@moolag Yep, that's a fair point. But equally, it's not fair to tar all of the fans of that club/country with the racist brush.
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9m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

And now, I'd better do some work. For anyone late to this: read your TL from the bottom up before sending your abuse to the usual address.
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9m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

...do something and then declare it bollocks when the media (well, me) explains, just because you don't agree or don't want to agree.
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11m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

And yet what I said was disregarded because it didn't fit the agenda. There's people like that on here, too. You can't ask why the media...
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12m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

"Ah, there's no smoke without fire," said the presenter. "It must be true." Now, bear in mind that I was on (probably wrongly) as an expert.
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13m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

Now, a parable: I once went on a radio station to discuss whether Gerrard was leaving Liverpool. No, I explained, he wasn't. It was rumour.
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14m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

In terms of bias: the media's only bias is towards a good story. Utd fans singing bad songs is as good a story as Liverpool fans doing it.
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14m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

What I meant by political capital is that it's always LFC condeming Utd, or vice versa. If you condemn their own, that removes that issue.
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15m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

Is it fair to report that even 10,000 sang something, if 30,000 didn't? That's a genuine question. It's a difficult issue.
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16m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

...and that is that it's both giving publicity to idiots, thereby encouraging it, as well as giving the minority a disproportionate voice.
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16m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

They may choose not to for two reasons: one is that there is a risk it would fill the paper. The second is more significant...
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18m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

All clubs have idiotic minorities. At a lot of games, distasteful chants can be heard. The question the media face is whether to report it.
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18m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

I'm now going to try and make a nuanced point. This is a risk on Twitter. Here goes...
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19m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@PurpleBins @JosephPepper There are. I'll address them generally. And then I may do some work. But they're entirely valid.
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20m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@ian40james That's your call, but not sure why. I'm not condoning anything.
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21m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@jaz_lfc Yeah, I suppose that's natural. But they are still minorities.
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22m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@pauldavies83 You're making excellent points. I may respond to them in general, but they're the ones you've made.
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23m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@AdekunleDimeji No, but I have a live feed of quotes. You're either not very bright or being wilfully difficult. For you, hope it's #2.
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24m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@zicaton Yep, very much so. A lot of the Suarez coverage was distasteful. I think I made that point, at length, at the time.
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24m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@NickNitros I think people see double standards that aren't there.
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25m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@AdekunleDimeji @hitman8976rawk @GraemeKelly1 You'll be surprised to learn that Rupert doesn't have much influence on my Twitter feed.
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25m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@crampinbothlegs You're in a minority, but that's very kind of you.
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26m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@Lukeib Hahahaha. The fact they have a name is not a good sign for my deteriorating mental health.
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26m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@Rebecca_s1 I know they shouldn't. I'd just be more impressed if it was Utd fans reporting their own idiots, or Liverpool theirs.
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27m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@bossy12 @Northeastred None. None of the players did, either. But they were told accusation had been made. That's what they reported.
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28m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@Jabblue Hahahahaha. That's a very good way of putting it.
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28m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@AnalyseSport That tends to be where problems arise. Suppose our job is to make that call. Sometimes we won't get it right.
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45m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

All clubs have idiotic minorities following them. It is unfair on the rest to use those minorities as shorthand for the fanbase as a whole.
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46m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

Appendix: singing about tragedies is disgusting. But trying to use that to gain political capital against a rival sits uneasily with me.
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47m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

So, I know that some United fans are accused of singing about Hillsborough last night. But I didn't hear it, so I can't accuse them of it.
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48m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

2. If fans A are accused of abusing fans B, you report the accusation. If you dont hear the abuse,you can't accuse the fans. This is simple.
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49m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

1. If a good source says a club's interested in a player, journalists report interest exists. They do not speculate the move will happen.
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51m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

That's two conversations today about what is and what isn't reporting. You can take my next two tweets as a basic guide.
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52m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@hitman8976rawk @GraemeKelly1 Suarez a different case: we all reported that he was accused of/charged with doing something.
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52m Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@hitman8976rawk @GraemeKelly1 I said last night Hboro chants, whenever, are wrong. Can't report that they happened, as I didnt hear them.
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1h Rory Smith Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes

@hitman8976rawk Me and Oli are biased against Liverpool? Remarkable. I wasn't there. Not for me to report it.

[little dave hedgehog]