[quote author=peterhague link=topic=42529.msg1209955#msg1209955 date=1288685680]
i didn't accuse you of being a hypocrite for your comments about benitez. what i was getting a bit fucking sick of was your habit of cheaply trying to undermine 'our side' (i'll call it that because it's quick and easy) by suggesting that we're some sort of benitez-obsessed cult (rafatollah, rafa worshipper, rafa wankathon) given to constant hyperbolic praise that you're having to endure as peacably as possible. these are my objections to that:
1. we could just as easily call you rafa-haters or whatever, but i don't recall anyone sinking to that sort of caricature.
2. the habit of name-calling is itself provocative, and bound to start and exacerbate these arguments.
3. these arguments are far more commonly started by 'your side' criticising benitez with us then reacting than vice versa. given that, i think it's a bit rich for you to witheringly and condescendingly moan about our posts littering and spoiling the forum, when it's *at least* as much from your side.
4. you complain that all your posts on the subject are fair and balanced, and that people like me ignore them - honestly, that's exactly the complaint i'd have about my own posts. the very best i could say of your side is that you're no better than us. i don't know how many times i've spent ages giving considered answers to every point levelled at me only for them to be completely ignored.
basically i think that while you've every right to fight like cat and dog with us on the subject, it's hypocritical to try to imply, as i think you often do, that we're the unreasonable, unbalanced, aggressive ones, when you, and people like you, are at least as responsible for starting and sustaining the disagreements. fine, join in and give as good as you get, but don't try and complain about it and pretend that you're not just as big a part of the problem as anyone else. it's not just me - i saw neil post about how he was sick of being accused of highjacking threads when he merely reacts to others. i'm probably repeating myself by now, but essentially it's pretty exasperating to be having these arguments day-in-day-out and then to have one of the main protagonists absolve himself of any blame for the fights and ignore the seemingly obvious truth that every single time he's right in the thick the action, provoking and bickering with the best of them.
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I don't have a side.
Whenever I've made post critical of Rafa, I'd say that 9 times out of ten it's in reply to a brainless or sarky post made by one of 'your side' as you put it.
'Endure as peacably as possible'.
I no longer know what you're talking about, postalhague.
I really don't care that there are so many people who are blind like you to Rafa's faults; what I did not like was your personal attack on me when I've never ever been a hypocrite.
Anyway, this thread has now turned into another Rafa thread, and is sure to cause more groans from other posters sick of this.
Which was why I started that thread, so that the Roy thread woiuld not turn into another Rafa thread.
1. I've been called Rafa-basher plenty of times, I don't mind that, mainly because I think I've been very fair in my posts concerning Rafa, something you scrupulously fail to see.
2.What name calling are you referring to?
Calling Hodgson an old cunt, like you just did like a fucking hypocrite?
3. I don't have a 'side'.
If you's actually read my posts, you'd see that I've been as critical of people calling Rafa a 'cunt' or 'fat waster' as often as I've been critical of 'your side'.
4. You perceive that you've made fair and balanced posts when the vast majority of the time all you is deflect the arguments to relate to points not even raised. The only person who thinks your posts are fair and balanced is you and 'your side'.
In any event, your comments in THIS thread have shown that your claim to be a fair and balanced poster is complete bullshit.
One final thing, please don't call bloody call someone a fucking hypocrite and then say you weren't being personal.
Cheers, postalhague.