A Reading fan gets in touch...

[Linz]

... and seems to be slightly touchy about something or other.

Our articles get submitted to ESPN and it seems a chap had some issues with superdannyblade's piece on the Reading match... aggrieved enough to email me.

Hi Lindsay, I admire your pride in being a Sheffield United fan, and the SheffU fans at the Madejski did their team proud, but please, for goodness sake please stop this nonsense about Stephen Hunt. He is an honest, energetic player that any team including yours would be glad to have, and he is NOT 'notorious' - the media have made that up. Moreover, saying he 'cynically scythed down' your player for the free kick is complete fiction. It was a 50-50 challenge in which he won the ball, but was adjudged to have raised his foot too high. Your piece was entertaining, though riddled with errors (for most of the game the United fans were swamped by a blanket of noise from the Reading lot, for example), but if you want to be read seriously by non-Sheff Utd fans you need to get your facts straight.
Good luck for the rest of the season, anyway.

I respond:

Hello.

Thank you for taking the time to get in touch.

Obviously, I write for Sheffield United fans with the same amount of bias towards my team that you feel towards your own. However, I personally was not responsible for the article in question... it was submitted by a member of our site which isn't clearly evident through the ESPN link. The match report in its original form, along with the report I wrote, can be found HERE.

As I have stated many times in many sources, watching a football match is an extremely subjective task and opinions will always differ. What is a cynical challenge to one fan may be a fairly, if strongly contested tackle to another. What is a girly slap to one person, may be a punch which knocks a player to the floor for another. You get my point.

None of us profess to being great journalists or writers but create articles but we do so during our free time to hopefully provide a service primarily to exiled Blades. I will pass on your comments to the author of the piece who happens to still be in school. Personally I think it's wonderful that in the current educational climate, he can string a sentence together, regardless of whether that sentence is of a factual or opinionated nature!

Good luck to Reading for the rest of the season - we hope for our sake you can nick some points off the teams around us, staring with Watford next Tuesday.

Best wishes

Lindsay

Now be good, but what would your response be?

 

[MAQ]

a very well written reply. I dont see how he could have an argument against that

 

[TonyAgana]

Does the guy think this site has professional journalists writing up reports? It seems like he does, so well done SDB!

 

[dingledog]

linz, I have a job tender to write, do you think you could write it for me please. Excellent reply well done

 

[Robbie]

Just a small note linz, they play Wigan next week, not Watford.

 

[Samantha]

What would by response be?

"Shut the F*** up, get a life and stop complaining"

 

[stinkyblade]

what have i done for all this?

 

[7UpJordan]

I'd tell him it's our website and we can do what the hell we want with it and if he wants he can have his stupid comment put up for everyone to mock and make fun of.

 

[Samantha]

what have i done for all this?

looks like you wrote the original match report that this fan disagreed with... Don't worry!!

 

[stinkyblade]

Does the guy think this site has professional journalists writing up reports? It seems like he does, so well done SDB!

dont no what your saying well done too but thanks anyway lol

 

[stinkyblade]

looks like you wrote the original match report that this fan disagreed with... Don't worry!!

well im a blade i write it from my point of view stupid knobhead

 

[Sharpy]

Dunno what he is moaning at really.

Although IMO he does have a point about united fans trying to make Hunt the villan when it was all keefs doing.

Keef shouldny be excused or stuck up for, Hunt didnt make him elbow him.

 

[Samantha]

Hunt didnt make him elbow him.

You sure? All he'd need to do is look at me and I'd gladly smack him!

 

[stinkyblade]

Dunno what he is moaning at really.

Although IMO he does have a point about united fans trying to make Hunt the villan when it was all keefs doing.

Keef shouldny be excused or stuck up for, Hunt didnt make him elbow him.

well i didnt put nothing biased towards gillespie, i agreed with the sending off stupid southern bastard

 

[rotherhamblade]

ill pay 50 quid to head butt him if any one wants to out bid me its ok aslong as i can watch

HATE READING

 

[stinkyblade]

you might a disease off his fat greasy head

 

[rotherhamblade]

ill wear a petr cech-esque head guard

 

[stinkyblade]

just kick his fucking head in

 

[stinkyblade]

to the original post from the reading man, i only put notoroius to his recent antics and i put cynically sythed down as that was my opinion exactly linzs point in the second paragraph, he needs to get a life silly knobhead.

 

[Linz]

to the original post from the reading man, i only put notoroius to his recent antics and i put cynically sythed down as that was my opinion exactly linzs point in the second paragraph, he needs to get a life silly knobhead.

If you're going to write something you have to expect it to be criticised because people aren't always necessarily going to agree with your views.

What you have to learn to do is respond in a sensible way that doesn't resort to personal abuse... like all those posts up there you've just posted.

If you're certain of your own point of view, there's nothing worth getting upset about.

You can't please all of the people all of the time.

Now no more swearing.

 

[stinkyblade]

ok sorry linz

 

[dansufc]

nice to know the site is popular not just with blades though

 

[TonyAgana]

dont no what your saying well done too but thanks anyway lol

For writing an article good enough to have been considered professional.

 

[Bladesman]

Dunno what he is moaning at really.

Although IMO he does have a point about united fans trying to make Hunt the villan when it was all keefs doing.

Keef shouldny be excused or stuck up for, Hunt didnt make him elbow him.

Agree there true Hunt does look like he needs a smack but he is no villan.

 

[Tinoblade]

Good reply linz im sure people will be happy with responses like that and see this is a good website and more and more people sign up!

 

[stinkyblade]

For writing an article good enough to have been considered professional.

thanks matey.