Any Sunday World readers here?

IRISHSPORTSGUY

Roy Curtis has surely lost his last iota of credibility with the Robbie Keane slagging. :rolleyes:

~Rebel~

what, pray tell, did he say?

CHD

I think the lesson of today is The Sunday World is complete muck and you shouldn't insult yourself by buying it

tdv

Curtis has always been a complete gobsh!te about everything. He's probally the biggest gobsh!te in the world at the moment. Still read his articles tho for some reason.

Davei141

Roy Curtis is a troll. Not one article he writes doesn't involve slagging somebody.

antomorro-sei

I've never read one of his articles, but this thread has intrigued me. Must go and read one, sounds like a "laugh"...

IRISHSPORTSGUY

CHD wrote: »

I think the lesson of today is The Sunday World is complete muck and you shouldn't insult yourself by buying it

Unlike some I don't buy it for the football coverage - if I wanted to do that I could just browse the web. It catches my eye when I'm flicking through the paper though.

Cue "that's how they sell papers" yada yada yada but it just boils my piss as it's so low. :mad:

Headshot

spill the beans

what was said

MagicMarker

Why do people buy papers? I bet they pay for porn as well.

IRISHSPORTSGUY

Headshot wrote: »

spill the beans

what was said

"The risible Robbie Keane (no touch of the ball for 17 minutes, first successful pass after 23, the rest of the game glorying in a goal an AUL footballer would have scored) lacked the composure or the guts to finish the game." :rolleyes:

He ran his socks off chasing balls booted to nowhere. Not his fault the ball is constantly being lumped over his head for such a small lad, apart from a couple of attacks.

TheBigLebowski

I'll start buying the Sunday World when they start writing about LOI. The last time I read a Sunday World, there was not one mention of LOI games played that week or no league table printed, nothing whatsoever. Pretty sure there was a full page write up about Port Vale V Bournemouth or something like that.

I'm not trying to start a crusade or boycotting the Sunday World. It's just that I'm interested in LOI. And I'm pretty sure there is more interest in Ireland in the LOI than a match between Port Vale and Bournemouth. I may be wrong with that though :rolleyes:

bohsman

IRISHSPORTSGUY wrote: »

Unlike some I don't buy it for the football coverage

:eek: Thats even worse. You mean you buy it for the unbiased quality journalism of the rest of the paper?

Chardee MacDennis

IRISHSPORTSGUY wrote: »

Unlike some I don't buy it for the football coverage - if I wanted to do that I could just browse the web. It catches my eye when I'm flicking through the paper though.

Cue "that's how they sell papers" yada yada yada but it just boils my piss as it's so low. :mad:

em why else would you buy a tabloid? the good gossip coverage?

broadsheet the only way to go for good papers...

Y2J_MUFC

IRISHSPORTSGUY wrote: »

Roy Curtis has surely lost his last iota of credibility with the Robbie Keane slagging. :rolleyes:

To be honest, he didn't have any credibility anyway. I try to avoid reading anything he has to write as he tries to be a sensationalist each week. A poor analogy at the start of nearly column is not what constitutes good writing. Thats tabloids for you.

rossie1977

roy curtis would be the perfect pundit to replace giles on rte

JPA

bohsman wrote: »

:eek: Thats even worse. You mean you buy it for the unbiased quality journalism of the rest of the paper?

Buying it for anything other than the sports coverage is worrying.

Neil3030

Upon reading the title to this thread I thoroughly hoped the OP would just be:

"Kill yourselves"

a la Bill Hicks and marketing!

The_Kew_Tour

Curtis is one pain the neck.

read his stuff for few weeks, quickly learned he just pure muck.

CCCP^

TheBigLebowski wrote: »

I'll start buying the Sunday World when they start writing about LOI. The last time I read a Sunday World, there was not one mention of LOI games played that week or no league table printed, nothing whatsoever. Pretty sure there was a full page write up about Port Vale V Bournemouth or something like that.

I'm not trying to start a crusade or boycotting the Sunday World. It's just that I'm interested in LOI. And I'm pretty sure there is more interest in Ireland in the LOI than a match between Port Vale and Bournemouth. I may be wrong with that though :rolleyes:

Alot of the Irish tabloids like the Sun and the Star, there just Irish news for the first maybe 5 pages, then its all English news, lifted straight from the English version. It is for that reason, and the tripe and mockery of journalism that they are, that I wouldn't wipe my facking arse with their papers.

orourkeda

Not only would I not buy the Sunday World, I wouldnt wipe my anus with a free copy.

LuckyLloyd

If Roy Curtis feels Robbie Keane wasn't magnificent over the two legs then he clearly knows little or nothing about football, and his opinion is utterly irrelevant. Add him to a long list of journalists covering football that know **** all about the subject they're working on / deliberately take extreme positions on certain topics.

The Internet has forced traditional media outlets to become ever more sensational when it comes to sports coverage. The likes of Curtis are real life trolls. That fact that I'm noting that on this forum justifies his salary.

Keano

I'm not a huge Robbie Keane fan but over the two legs he was outstanding. For a journalist to say that imo is just looking for some coverage.

Happy Monday

Roy Curtis also maintains that Trap has done a bad job.
And is to blame for Stephen Ireland not returning to the fold.
He's giving the title of football pundit/journalist a bad name.

gucci

orourkeda wrote: »

Not only would I not buy the Sunday World, I wouldnt wipe my anus with a free copy.

Post of the year....I now have to clean my keyboard of the tea I just spat out laughing!

Johner

He basically said stop moaning about Henry it's our own fault for not taking our chances. Which is correct.

happyoutscan

I was at both games and I do not think Keane was magnificent. If he had any composure we would have gone through, the goal scored was a simple one that any half decent footballer is expected to score.

His obsession with turning an easy option into a difficult one is accountable for us not going through if you ask me. Doyle was twice the player Keane was in the play-offs.

Just my opinion of course.

P.S. Agree that Curtis is a troll, as well as being metaphor happy.

Dearg81

He's a poor mans Eamon Dunphy

mormank

Johner wrote: »

He basically said stop moaning about Henry it's our own fault for not taking our chances. Which is correct.

which is also basically what roy keane said. however i would have to disagree with this line of thinking. in that case why ever complain about anybody cheating as if we just scored 100% of our chances we would win all our games. seems a bit too simplistic to me to say forget henry we should have scored before that anyway...im sure that could be said about every dive that has led to a penalty or any form of cheating? and if this is the correct line of thinking why even bother trying to stamp out the cheating!

LuckyLloyd

happyoutscan wrote: »

I was at both games and I do not think Keane was magnificent. If he had any composure we would have gone through, the goal scored was a simple one that any half decent footballer is expected to score.

His obsession with turning an easy option into a difficult one is accountable for us not going through if you ask me. Doyle was twice the player Keane was in the play-offs.

Just my opinion of course.

P.S. Agree that Curtis is a troll, as well as being metaphor happy.

I know he missed chances, tried a couple of things that didn't come off. However, he led the line with Doyle heroically. The amount of work he got through chasing things down, pressuring defenders, providing movement, etc was insane. And he did bury the simplest chance of the lot (which wasn't a gimme by any stretch and a product of his good positioning in the box).

LowOdour

He is an awful, awful journalist. I think he actually writes what he does so that his analogies make him sound smart.

He probably doesn’t think much about the player/match etc, but more about how smart he might sound.
Next week, it will be floods. For example...the floods around Ireland do not compare to the floods of tears in Damien duffs eyes. He would have needed a plane to get to South Africa, now he will need a boat to get anywhere else blah blah blah.

I hate Roy Curtis soooo much

deisedevil

Roy Curtis and his horrible analogies! Can't stand the way he writes and the assumptions he makes about people without having a shred of evidence to back it up are disgraceful. Horrible journalist and if I ever have the Sunday World in my hands I just skip his articles straight away.

newballsplease

Roy Curtis, I think i read about 3 of his articale before and Ive learned my lesson.

Turn Page Over straight away when you come across his sh1te.

x PyRo

IRISHSPORTSGUY wrote: »

Roy Curtis has surely lost his last iota of credibility with the Robbie Keane slagging. :rolleyes:

This is the first time i've ever heard that Curtis had any credibility in the first place.