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Medieval bartender duties11/17/2023 Mind you, it is The Guardian.īut now Vilda has been sacked and his reputation is in tatters. Sid Lowe of The Guardian writes that his situation had become ‘untenable’ and we don’t think he is part of the ‘mob’. And they did not just mean Luis Rubiales. He does not mention that 81 Spanish footballers, including all 23 members of the World Cup-winning squad, then released a statement saying they would not play for the national team while the “current administrators” are in place. Syed first lists the achievements of Jorge Vilda, which culminated in a ‘masterclass’ from him in the World Cup final. ![]() And absolutely not that a man has cost a man his job. He means – as he usually does – that ‘mob rule’ (which is always the preserve of the left) has cost a man his job. Fingers crossed.īut Syed does not mean that, does he? Of course he doesn’t. Hopefully this new phase is one in which a statement by 15 international footballers holds some weight, in which the ‘moral cowardice’ of keeping a coach in charge despite the fears of his players about their ‘health’ is over. It’s a shame they did not remove the whole column on the same grounds.ĭismissal of World Cup-winning coach shows us that we have moved into a new phase of this insidious era of mob rule and moral cowardice He clearly wasn’t sacked for clapping his boss, but Syed did admit later in the piece that he had ‘not followed the ins and outs of the controversy’, though that line was later removed, presumably because somebody at The Times realised that made their man look like a buffoon. Let’s start with the headline – ‘Jorge Vilda was sacked for clapping his boss – it is a shameful decision’ – because we’re already angry. Obviously it’s not for Mediawatch to suggest that Syed has a problem with women but we once again find ourselves reading a column in which powerful men are defended and women are not believed. The brighter among you may have spotted a theme. ![]() Most notably when he demanded an apology from Jessica Ennis-Hill for ‘virtue signalling’ about Ched Evans, when he railed against Norwegian women footballers being paid equally to the men (who had campaigned for exactly that) and most notably when he wrote extensively in support of Mark Sampson, who was then found guilty of making racist comments towards Eni Aluko. We’ve been here before with The Times‘ Matthew Syed. Jorge Vilda has been sacked for clapping, which sounds harsh until you do any kind of research, which is not Matthew Syed’s forte.
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