is it much different to saying "Blitz" , "Carpet bombing" "Crusade" "inquisition" - for some reason the world is STILL apologising for what happened in Eastern Europe 60-80 yrs ago.
I once went on a phone in and said my team had conceded an avalanche of goals in the second half - you want to have seen the hate mail i got from families of people who died in mountaineering acidents
RH should should leave the Laws interview until last cos once he starts his weekly blaming rant you can't shut the ****er up . For crying out loud his interviews go on for about 8 minutes compared to the Burns/Bruce natter where you're luck to get 3 or 4 minutes. "Brian, your thoughts on the game.." off button. He'll be reading the news next.
Laws was like it in his previous 2 spells as the South Bank ****ers too. Always takes for ever in a bloody interview. As soon as Scunny announced it was Laws as their manager again, I think I died a little inside...
It was the Humberside studio that messed it up. You heard Mike White tell Laws that it would be deleted before transmission. But oh no, it all came out. I bet many had missed it anyway.
It was obviously a slip of the tongue. A bit like this one... [video=youtube;g9dzEt917oY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9dzEt917oY[/video] I will never tire of watching that
It was a live interview... 3m Mike White ‏@mikewhitesport To clarify a misunderstanding re my post-match interview with Brian Laws on Saturday, it was live not pre-recorded (1/2) Mike White ‏@mikewhitesport (2/2)...My comment about 'editing it out' at the start of it was a jokey remark about the fact the microphone didn't work to begin with.
I heard him say it, me and my dad just looked at each other in a 'did he really just say that?' kind of way. I suppose in a literal sense he was right, they lost 4-0 which in football terms was a 'complete devastation and destruction' (though dictionary definition specifies usually with fire). But I'd like to hear him use that as an excuse! Given nowadays it basically only means to kill millions of jews, which can't really be related to football...
im curious to why people are offended on behalf of others a few thousand miles away ,so long ago especially when its so clear that no offence was ever intended .
I suspect they were apologising because there's quite a large Jewish community in the area, who may well have been offended.
but what happened from the early 1930s-45 was a human tragedy and not just limited to those who are Jewish
Indeed, but since the 60s, the term has come to be used mainly to refer to the genocide of Jews and I'm sure they were apologising to anyone who was offended, I don't think they specified their Jewish listeners. Simple fact is, it was a really stupid term to use in relation to a football match and I'd have been surprised if they hadn't apologised(ditto Laws).
"Alright mate, you have a good weekend?" "Yeah not bad mate, how about you?" "Sorted mate yeah, what do you know?" "Ah not much, you know how it is. Heard there was a bad pass in a Scunthorpe match, that's all really." "A bad pass eh? How bad would you say?" "If I had to give a point of reference, erm, about as bad as The Holocaust, I'd say" "****" "Tell me about it" "Anyway, nice to see you, in a bit mate" "Tarrah" The fact people in football mention it the same breath is just stupid. It shows ignorance and arrogance in equal measure. It's just football, whereas that was mass extermination. Not the same.
And before all the Holocaust deniers and Jew-haters jump down my throat, I don't actually believe that that conversation took place anywhere in the world today. It was just my way of trying to articulate that it's that level of ignorance and/or flippancy that needs to be recognised in this event. It's disappointing for a few reasons, I'm sure I don't need to explain. FYI, I am not Jewish and am not saying the Holocaust is a subject that should ever be out of bounds for anything, but it was what it was and it's a shame a lot of people don't know much about it, such was its importance in history. Yet they do seem prepared to use it as a barometer for telling how bad stuff is... And if you don't know about it then no, it probably can't be reasonably compared to a bad pass at a Scunthorpe match, no matter how depressing I'm sure that was.
