Guardianläsare: alltid lika civila

Daniel Taylor skriver på GuardianUnlimited att Sven-Göran Eriksson förtjänar en ursäkt av engelsk media efter Manchester Citys succéinledning i Premier League. I kommentarsfältet händer sedan något mycket roligt.

goondog
September 29, 2007 4:20 PMMinneapolis/usa
He gets NO APOLOGY because he agreed to work for a man who has been accused of human rights violations and abusing his power when he was in office in Thailand.....an extremely wealthy man in a country full of a lot of very poor people. City fans should be disgusted at what has happened to their club. Its a disgrace.
And before anybody says "nothing has been proven"....wise up.

Opinionxpress
September 29, 2007 4:32 PMLondon/gbr
Goondog your comment is ill-informed and ill-thought out. Ericsson is not a politician. The British government ratified Shinawatra's buy-out of City as it there position to do so. I hope your stand from on high stopped you watching Arsenal v Man City. Didn't stop me. Come on you gooners!

goondog
September 29, 2007 5:05 PM
Opinionexpress - "Ericson isn't as politician"...that reverberates with me along the lines of...the Nazi soldiers were "just following orders"...
You say I'm ill-informed... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaksin_Shinawatra

salarat
September 29, 2007 5:16 PM
Goondog - first of all, using Wikipedia as substantiation for anything is ridiculous, and you know it. You could have written the content in that link, for all anybody knows.

Second, writing this from Bangkok as I am, with the benefit of a point of view a lot closer to the reality than yours in Minneapolis, I can confidently say that the majority of Thais would rather have Thaksin still in power than the bumbling military-controlled civilian government in power now. Don't talk about what you don't know.

Third, Sven has always been a great club manager. I don't know about the quality of the England players at his disposal - personally I think they should have done better in the various international competitions under his rule. But I do think his specialty is club management, not country management. The two are two very different animals. I predict great things for City under his stewardship.

goondog
September 29, 2007 5:23 PM
Okay fair enough.