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The Mane Man

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Well obvs Mane is dead boss and everything, we only lost one game and it happened to be one he was out for, but this thread isn't about all that. To be honest I looked for one I could bump coz this isn't that big of a deal, it's a bit of a nothing-international-week post... but all existing Mane related topics are closed.

So, I was just tooling about on twitter and noticed someone I follow moaning about everyone's favourite sycophant Paul Tomkins. He'd been blocked by him. What's weird for me is that as someone who tools around on twitter quite a bit I don't think I've ever seen a tweet by him, and he's got zillions of followers, so he must exist in the opposite corner of social media to me. Long may it continue.

Anyways, last week Tomkins wrote an article in which he compares Mane to a chimp. He went (probably overboard) in his 'i'm absolutely not saying anything racist but' contextualising of his comments, but likened the low centre of gravity and motion which enables him to glide past people and not get knocked off the ball to that of a chimpanzee. I'd have probs said Suarez myself but whatevers. Regardless, his little bit has been copied and pasted all over the place and there's now a global mob of BLM types calling him a racist. Although I can't stand anything he writes and although for a professional writer who charges people to access his site he's clearly made a stupid error, I do feel sorry for him coz, well, I dunno I just tend to feel bad for people who fuck up and get picked on. Having said that anyone trying to talk to him about it is getting blocked and locked out of his site and he's all threatening to quit the internets and everything.

That is all.
 
I hate this PC thing, everyone clearly knows what he was trying to get at, but he's also absolutely stupid in not thinking it through before writing that, particularly for a 'professional' writer.
 
Comparing a black man to a chimpanzee, whatever point he was trying to make, is a bit injudicious in this day and age PC has got nothing to do with it. Coming from a bloke who micro analyses his subject to the tiniest most tedious detail it is very surprising indeed.
 
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This is insane, in today's world how did he not realize he'd get blasted.
When Ellen gets blasted for her Bolt pic he's obviously going to get it for this and in fairness it's a shit comparison. He should have compared him to cheetah
 
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This is insane, in today's world how did he not realize he'd get blasted.
When Ellen gets blasted for her Bolt pic he's obviously going to get it for this and in fairness it's a shit comparison. He should have compared him to cheetah
Another wild animal from Africa? He would be better not making comparisons with animals.
 
A super fast, light on feet, agile strong animal.

What would you use as a comparison if not an animal
 
I'd empathise more if Tomkins actually ever made sense. The way I see it, karma just made Tomkin bitch for all the tireless shite articles he's wrote in the past. He also wrote that book about us ALMOST winning the league which was damn Everton-like.
 
I remember him being a complete tool back in the day but don't follow him on twits and havent read anything of his since it went behind a pay wall. I see he is playing the "i now plan to leave twitter" card.
 
Well obvs Mane is dead boss and everything, we only lost one game and it happened to be one he was out for, but this thread isn't about all that. To be honest I looked for one I could bump coz this isn't that big of a deal, it's a bit of a nothing-international-week post... but all existing Mane related topics are closed.

So, I was just tooling about on twitter and noticed someone I follow moaning about everyone's favourite sycophant Paul Tomkins. He'd been blocked by him. What's weird for me is that as someone who tools around on twitter quite a bit I don't think I've ever seen a tweet by him, and he's got zillions of followers, so he must exist in the opposite corner of social media to me. Long may it continue.

Anyways, last week Tomkins wrote an article in which he compares Mane to a chimp. He went (probably overboard) in his 'i'm absolutely not saying anything racist but' contextualising of his comments, but likened the low centre of gravity and motion which enables him to glide past people and not get knocked off the ball to that of a chimpanzee. I'd have probs said Suarez myself but whatevers. Regardless, his little bit has been copied and pasted all over the place and there's now a global mob of BLM types calling him a racist. Although I can't stand anything he writes and although for a professional writer who charges people to access his site he's clearly made a stupid error, I do feel sorry for him coz, well, I dunno I just tend to feel bad for people who fuck up and get picked on. Having said that anyone trying to talk to him about it is getting blocked and locked out of his site and he's all threatening to quit the internets and everything.

That is all.

I have always and consistently thought Bumpkins was a total bellend and a terribly mediocre writer.

Not sure what I think about this without the full context. Seems weird to directly compare Mane to a chimp, though.

My son thought he looked like a zebra
 
How many chimps have played in the Prem? The square root of fuck all. I can't wait for the day when a chimp plays for West Ham and someone says "Hey, I'm not being racist or anything but that chimp reminds me of Sadio Mane in about 2016. It's the way he glides past people with that low centre of gravity."
The internet has killed journalism as a profession. Every cunt with a keyboard thinks they're Anne Diamond, no skill in it these days.
 
I hope Tompkins quits social media. What an absolute idiot.

Mane is the man to tear the Scummers a new one and win the game for us. Looking forward to it!
 
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