Comments on: Upset Alert http://www.epltalk.com/upset-alert/1474 Daily News & Analysis of the English Premier League Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:00:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Django http://www.epltalk.com/upset-alert/1474#comment-5115 Django Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:11:41 +0000 http://www.epltalk.com/upset-alert/#comment-5115 Give it a rest...this blog used to be a great place to come to read articles and opinions, now it's just a pissing contest between fanboy bloggers. Neither of you are that clever. Give it a rest…this blog used to be a great place to come to read articles and opinions, now it’s just a pissing contest between fanboy bloggers. Neither of you are that clever.

]]> By: Alex Hleb http://www.epltalk.com/upset-alert/1474#comment-5093 Alex Hleb Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:35:30 +0000 http://www.epltalk.com/upset-alert/#comment-5093 sorry. sorry.

]]> By: Alex Hleb http://www.epltalk.com/upset-alert/1474#comment-5092 Alex Hleb Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:35:07 +0000 http://www.epltalk.com/upset-alert/#comment-5092 even yakuba-cahill match up to your "best striking tandem in the world" even yakuba-cahill match up to your “best striking tandem in the world”

]]> By: Alex Hleb http://www.epltalk.com/upset-alert/1474#comment-5091 Alex Hleb Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:31:55 +0000 http://www.epltalk.com/upset-alert/#comment-5091 michael, rio ferdinand is one of the dirtiest players in the premiership as well if you use eboue's standards. and gary neville. and should i go on? michael, youre biased. ive read some of your articles from your site. here are some things i gathered from them: -so you dont care if kaka wins all the awards, cristiano is still better. OK. -no one can do what ronaldo can do (yeah except ronaldinho, a healthy henry, messi, robinho, kaka, eto, van nistelrooy, should i go on?) -you dont care if arsenal are first, theyll fall by the time winter hits. OK. (you predicted them to finish in 5th!HA!) -and apparently tevez and rooney are the best striking tandem in the world. (except Anelka-Drogba? Henry-messi-ronaldinho-eto? kanoute-fabiano(sevilla)? van nistelrooy-raul? tony-klose(bayern)??) oh. yeah. michael, rio ferdinand is one of the dirtiest players in the premiership as well if you use eboue’s standards. and gary neville. and should i go on? michael, youre biased. ive read some of your articles from your site.
here are some things i gathered from them:
-so you dont care if kaka wins all the awards, cristiano is still better. OK.
-no one can do what ronaldo can do (yeah except ronaldinho, a healthy henry, messi, robinho, kaka, eto, van nistelrooy, should i go on?)
-you dont care if arsenal are first, theyll fall by the time winter hits. OK. (you predicted them to finish in 5th!HA!)
-and apparently tevez and rooney are the best striking tandem in the world. (except Anelka-Drogba? Henry-messi-ronaldinho-eto? kanoute-fabiano(sevilla)? van nistelrooy-raul? tony-klose(bayern)??) oh. yeah.

]]> By: jm http://www.epltalk.com/upset-alert/1474#comment-5088 jm Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:21:46 +0000 http://www.epltalk.com/upset-alert/#comment-5088 Much like your article about Wenger, I simply do not understand the reasons for all of the 'baiting' language in these posts. Was picking Villa to win this match a fair bet? Sure. Was writing a post on that topic fair? Sure. Was your post in that regard fair? Sure. But then you include lines like this: "Emmanuel Eboue will be suspended for this match (frankly, Eboue is one of the dirtiest players in the league)" Regardless of whether or not it is true, it is a bizarre sentence. The clause in the parentheses has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the post. It is not argued for which does nothing to support of the rest of the piece. What point could it possibly serve? Why is that not edited out before it is published? I know I have been a rather selective critic of your recent posts Michael, but choices in style and rhetoric have been consistently taking your posts off their fair targets and on to you and the team, rather than the game. Much like your article about Wenger, I simply do not understand the reasons for all of the ‘baiting’ language in these posts. Was picking Villa to win this match a fair bet? Sure. Was writing a post on that topic fair? Sure. Was your post in that regard fair? Sure.

But then you include lines like this:

“Emmanuel Eboue will be suspended for this match (frankly, Eboue is one of the dirtiest players in the league)”

Regardless of whether or not it is true, it is a bizarre sentence. The clause in the parentheses has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the post. It is not argued for which does nothing to support of the rest of the piece. What point could it possibly serve? Why is that not edited out before it is published?

I know I have been a rather selective critic of your recent posts Michael, but choices in style and rhetoric have been consistently taking your posts off their fair targets and on to you and the team, rather than the game.

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