Football Daily | What do St Pauli and this tea-timely email have in common?
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Where Big Website goes, other wishy-washy, left-leaning hipster havens naturally follow, so it came as no surprise that following Wednesday’s announcement that we would no longer be posting content on the particular Social Media Abomination that known as TwiXer from official accounts, one of Europe’s most right-on football clubs duly followed suit. A traditionally left-wing outfit that was founded in 1899, St Pauli play their football near Hamburg’s Reeperbahn and are famous for their iconic skull and crossbones logo. They were the first Bundesliga club to sign a black player, the first to officially ban right-wing nationalist activities at their games and almost certainly the first purported socialists to charge an eye-watering €37 for a snow shovel in their official club shop.
With all due respect, isn’t it time for the massively overused phrase ‘door marked Do One’ (Football Daily passim) to, well, do one? I mean it was funny the first few times, was getting trite on about its 100th appearance, but after about 178,357 uses, it really has become tedious” – Ric Arthur (and one other).
If Alanis Morissette is looking for an updated line to add to her biggest hit, may I suggest: ‘It’s like Rick Parry accusing the Premier League of undervaluing the football pyramid.’ Admittedly, it doesn’t scan, but the man who helped to create the English game’s ‘global entertainment product’ saying this seems a tad more ironic than rain on your wedding day” – Joe Stafford.
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