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Crafty Blade said:
Even if there was a letter, it was the bare minimum he could have done, and then didn't even bother to follow it up. Fucking coward.
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Writing a letter is all about making the person writing the letter feel better.

If you want to actually apologise, you do it face to face or over the phone at a push, but writing a letter is a total cop-out. It means you don't have to front up to what you've done and means you get the easy way out of not actually having to interact with the person.
 

Might Ainsworth have been advised not to apologise for fear of legal action? So any contact would be limited to an expression of concern rather than an admission of wrongdoing?
 
Just the same shit he's been saying about it ever since. No interest in indulging him
 
Proper weasel, probably wasn't alive when it happened but even sounds like he's lying to me.
 
I'm no Brad Pitt, but I find it odd when people intentionally make themselves look a certain way. It's like he went to a stylist and said, "you know those guys who get arrested for noncing, and you look at their mugshot and you're like, yeah he's proper dodgy? I'll have that please, but with extra grease"
 
Call me controversial but he comes across as sincere tbf and he has always come across half decent on sky/punditry

There have been murmurings that he did send him a letter for years

In the 90's/2000's bad tackles were commonplace and happened every game without fail

Many of our fans celebrate a Robbo cruncher like a goal when he flies in out-of-control studs up so im not sure you can have it both ways

I have never seen the tackle as it is nowhere to be found on the web Perhaps Gareth has ordered all video evidence to be destroyed

I'll happily change my mind but im not sure there would be this anger if it wasn't Whitehouse who was/is a Blades legend
 
JohnDenver said:
Might Ainsworth have been advised not to apologise for fear of legal action? So any contact would be limited to an expression of concern rather than an admission of wrongdoing?
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I'm not sure back in the 90s at a club like Port Vale, the legal side would have been a consideration.
 
I'm of the opinion that regardless of how long ago something happened, there should always be the opportunity to try to make amends. Whether Dane wishes to engage with that is of course his prerogative, but there's nothing, as far as I'm aware, stopping Ainsworth doing that if he really wanted to. Only he will know whether or not any letter was actually sent.
 

JohnDenver said:
Might Ainsworth have been advised not to apologise for fear of legal action? So any contact would be limited to an expression of concern rather than an admission of wrongdoing?
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Why would he suggest that he sent a letter? It would be against that advice if he was expressing his remorse on paper.

Maybe he did write a letter, maybe he didn’t. But he didn’t follow up at all in all this time. He could have asked the club secretary to check with someone at United if Dane has received it if he was too shy or ashamed to approach directly.

It clearly didn’t mean much to him or he would have at least checked that it had been received.

So the sincerity behind the gesture didn’t really ring true or else he would have checked.

Then again, footballers have lots of free time. He could have visited or he could have at least phoned.

Instead he did the bare minimum and as we have no way of checking, he may have done nothing at all.

Yes, he came over as remorseful on the video but after all this time, it feels like damage limitation. It’s his inactivity all this time and failure to even publicly or privately to folk at United, even address the matter that speaks of him.

Dane always came over as a proper man. Salt of the earth. If he’d have apologised he’d probably have respected it.

But that ship has sailed. He shirked most opportunities to play at Bramall Lane if I recall correctly.
 
Champagneblade said:
Why would he suggest that he sent a letter? It would be against that advice if he was expressing his remorse on paper.

Maybe he did write a letter, maybe he didn’t. But he didn’t follow up at all in all this time. He could have asked the club secretary to check with someone at United if Dane has received it if he was too shy or ashamed to approach directly.

It clearly didn’t mean much to him or he would have at least checked that it had been received.

So the sincerity behind the gesture didn’t really ring true or else he would have checked.

Then again, footballers have lots of free time. He could have visited or he could have at least phoned.

Instead he did the bare minimum and as we have no way of checking, he may have done nothing at all.

Yes, he came over as remorseful on the video but after all this time, it feels like damage limitation. It’s his inactivity all this time and failure to even publicly or privately to folk at United, even address the matter that speaks of him.

Dane always came over as a proper man. Salt of the earth. If he’d have apologised he’d probably have respected it.

But that ship has sailed. He shirked most opportunities to play at Bramall Lane if I recall correctly.
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I don’t know - nothing in this reflects well on him.
 
NotFallowfieldBlade said:
Call me controversial but he comes across as sincere tbf and he has always come across half decent on sky/punditry

There have been murmurings that he did send him a letter for years

In the 90's/2000's bad tackles were commonplace and happened every game without fail

Many of our fans celebrate a Robbo cruncher like a goal when he flies in out-of-control studs up so im not sure you can have it both ways

I have never seen the tackle as it is nowhere to be found on the web Perhaps Gareth has ordered all video evidence to be destroyed

I'll happily change my mind but im not sure there would be this anger if it wasn't Whitehouse who was/is a Blades legend
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Stop talking sense, it won't go down well.

We need to let this one go blades. It's not helping anyone to keep dragging it up. Ainsworth wasn't a dirty player, he just mistimed a full blooded tackle.
Yes he should have gone and seen Dane but he didn't, he sent a letter. We need to move on bitterness will help no one, least of all Dane.
 
Gavlar said:
Stop talking sense, it won't go down well.

We need to let this one go blades. It's not helping anyone to keep dragging it up. Ainsworth wasn't a dirty player, he just mistimed a full blooded tackle.
Yes he should have gone and seen Dane but he didn't, he sent a letter. We need to move on bitterness will help no one, least of all Dane.
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Nope. Fuck that bloke and fuck all he stands for.

He sent a letter did he? Seen it have you?
 
Gavlar said:
Stop talking sense, it won't go down well.

We need to let this one go blades. It's not helping anyone to keep dragging it up. Ainsworth wasn't a dirty player, he just mistimed a full blooded tackle.
Yes he should have gone and seen Dane but he didn't, he sent a letter. We need to move on bitterness will help no one, least of all Dane.
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Couldn’t disagree more.

Massive twat and needs reminding for the coward he is. Irritates the hell out of me how he gets a media love in when we all know what he really is.

Well done to Browny for pulling him up on it.
 
unitedbhoy said:
Couldn’t disagree more.

Massive twat and needs reminding for the coward he is. Irritates the hell out of me how he gets a media love in when we all know what he really is.

Well done to Browny for pulling him up on it.
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You are free to disagree with me.

Presumably you feel the same about Chris Morgan for how he treated Hulme?
 
Slim Man said:
Nope. Fuck that bloke and fuck all he stands for.

He sent a letter did he? Seen it have you?
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Whether he did or didn’t send a letter he apologised on the interview.

I don’t know the guy personally so it’s hard to know whether it is sincere. I just think there is enough hate in the world already without adding this to it.
 
Parkin's a fucking slob, he has some funny stories though and is pretty good at this game. Chris Brown's decent as well and again, he has a few things in his locker he can throw into the interviews. That prick with the irritating voice fucking grates on me. Shit drips off the end of his nose, he interrupts with inane crap and offers nothing, it would be so much better without him. As for the adverts they do now, fucking hell if anything's going to convince me not to shell out for NORD VPN it's these three. Fucking cringeworthy and it really does take away from the content.

As for Ainsworth? Piece of shit, not a mistimed tackle, an assault aimed at doing some damage. Maybe Dane got more than was intended but if you've played at any level and gone in with a tackle like that you know you've a chance of maiming somebody. If he sent a letter, good but his other actions say just as much as his written words. Nasty, cowardly twat.
 
He was clearly uncomfortable with the question and tried to gloss over it with ‘I sent an letter’ and move it on. Chris Brown asked a few times to give him some credit but in fairness the interview was about his career not just that tackle so he was never going to hammer him about it.

Ainsworth had the opportunity to truly show some real remorse for it but chose not to. (doubt very much that he intended to end Dane’s career - it was a shithouse ‘tackle’ however not entirely untypical of countless others I have seen)

I understand completely that he was a lot younger at the time and didn’t appreciate the seriousness of it back then. He does now and although it’s too late to show some real remorse now, it would have been something to show that he isn’t the massive tosser that the vast majority of blades fans think he is. (Not that he probably cares) Just sending a letter and not even following it up is cowardly and he obviously didn’t have anyone around him to point that out to him.

I don’t know Dane and doubt that an apology now would make a difference anyway.

Oh - and wash your hair you greasy fucker.
 
Weird to think that Whitehouse could have been with us up until Warnock's season in the premiership. I remember thinking at the time that he'd only have been about 35/36, so could have been in and around the squad even if not a central part of it.
 
Hindsight is lovely and i think Ainsworth and his PV advisors could and shouldve handled it better. However, it wasnt and i understand why (i assume) Whitehouse is angry / bitter about it. The likelihood is until GA got a bit older and thought about it more he probably thought he was doing the right thing /toeing the line. He does apologise on podcast, best thing would be to pick up phone and try and contact DW, but i can see why that wont happen in all likelihood.

Fair play to the UTC team for questioning him on it. He answered it in fairness.

I thought overall it was a good listen and GA was quite entertaining / interesting. Aside from DW didnt know masses about him. Can see why media like him now, intelligent in a way, articulate and down to earth.
 

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