Louise Taylor lies in the gutter.
Posted on April 11th, 2010 | 229 Comments |
Obviously distressed by the competition, her latest piece of astoundingly hypocritical venom is entitled “Blog standard lies in the gutter”. It concentrates on Louise’s latest hobby horse, the alleged incident between Andy Carroll and Steven Taylor and also a recent rumour about Aston Villa’s manager, Martin O’Neill which have allegedly been doing the rounds on Aston Villa sites recently. I’ll leave that section for the Villa fans to get furious about, and concentrate on the latest chapter of Taylor’s hateful screed about Newcastle United, it’s staff and it’s supporters.
After casually describing football supporters (her own readers) and the ‘web as an “increasingly noxious mix” who should have their fingers taped together every time they go near a keyboard, she then smears us all by association with the tags of racism and homophobia. As she has in all her stories in the past few weeks, she then moves on to her own latest smear story, which she simply will not shut up about, her mischief making about the “ALLEGED altercation” between Andy Carroll and Steven Taylor. In what could be a remarkably accurate description of her own jaundiced drivel, she rants:
“At Newcastle United the alleged altercation between Andy Carroll and Steven Taylor, which left Taylor nursing a doubly broken jaw and feeding through a straw, prompted a surfeit of septic, completely unfounded rumours on some Newcastle United sites” (the ones Louise trawls for her own poison pen pieces, including this one). Incidentally, in Taylor’s parallel universe, “sufeit” means one story, but I digress.
Of course, it goes without saying that Taylor would never stoop to the same level as the Newcastle United supporting guttersnipes, spreading “septic, completely unfounded rumours”. She would never write things such as:
“Steven Taylor is understood to feel badly betrayed by Newcastle United and now believes he has no future at the club. The former England Under-21 centre-half had his jaw broken in an alleged altercation with a team-mate, striker Andy Carroll last Sunday. Taylor, who spent two nights in hospital and required surgery, has been dismayed by the support Carroll is receiving both from within St James’ Park and from Newcastle’s supporters.
“It seems Chris Hughton, Newcastle’s manager – who resolutely refuses to comment on the incident – accepts the two Geordies can no longer work together and has decided the centre-forward is the player he wants to keep…”
She also wouldn’t dream of writing speculative rubbish such as:
“Back home in Newcastle Taylor was feeding through a straw and turning down requests to photograph his newly wired jaw. Those close to the player, arguably Newcastle’s best defender, do not buy the view that he provoked Carroll in what is thought to have been an argument over a woman.
“Carroll is thought to be part of a powerful dressing-room clique that Taylor has never really fitted into. Kevin Nolan is a key figure inside St James’ Park and, significantly, the midfielder now shares an agent with Carroll. Taylor, meanwhile, was perhaps always too close to Hughton’s predecessor Alan Shearer for the former Tottenham coach’s liking. Taylor has only 14 months left on his contract and Newcastle are unhappy about the prospect of him leaving on a Bosman transfer in the summer of 2011. Selling him now would give them the chance to avoid doing so.
“With a return to the Premier League now almost within touching distance, Hughton – whose side are at home to Nottingham Forest tomorrow night in a key Championship promotion clash – does not want either to disturb the dressing room’s political power balance or risk jeopardising results by dropping a striker currently on a hot scoring streak.
“Even so Carroll’s continued involvement appears a thoroughly depressing victory for pragmatism over principles and Hughton has surely been diminished by the entire sorry affair.
“Newcastle’s manager won a UN commendation for anti-apartheid campaigning but as Carroll waved insouciantly to fans at Doncaster it seemed Hughton had suddenly lost sight of the bigger picture.
“After doing brilliantly to keep Newcastle top of the table this season, he now looks weak and it is not impossible that this affair could yet spark a chain of events that may lead to him being replaced by a manager such as Mark Hughes or Steve McClaren next season.”
No sir. Louise believes that:
“There is an unfairness inherent in seeing people ridiculed and their reputations trashed by anonymous, factually challenged, half-wits who would probably never dare say “boo” to the object of their vitriol’s face.”
Seemingly oblivious to her own constant toxic rumourmongering on the issue, which has only helped to fuel more gossip, she lays the blame at the feet of Newcastle United’s supporters, the weakness of Chris Hughton, and the club itself for having the nerve to hold an internal enquiry to find out what actually happened. The club’s discretion, and also the concept of someone being regarded as innocent until proven guilty doesn’t sit very easily with Louise’s journalistic pack mentality, so she has constantly screeched and whined that the club should engage in some kind of fingerpointing and censure before the enquiry has been completed, writing:
“Newcastle’s enduring, ill-advised, silence on the Taylor-Carroll affair is a pollutant at the heart of an otherwise renascent club”
A fitting riposte to this abject guff, which I could put no better, came in one of the comments for Taylor’s Blog standard piece from a potentially noxious, computer owning fan with the username “safeasmilk”. In response to Taylor’s rank hypocrisy, the comment read:
“How she has the gall to accuse people of muckspreading over the ‘alleged’ punch-up at Newcastle is quite astonishing. Like everyone else I saw this story on the news (BBC website in my case). After a couple of days the story died – except in her columns: I’ve even had a little bet with myself over the last few occaisions as to how long it would take her to mention it.”
So has this writer, incidentally. Moving on to one of Louise Taylor’s favourite target’s for insinuation, Newcastle United’s manager, Chris Hughton, safeasmilk adds:
“Her constant sniping at Chris Hughton who, as far as I can see, is a decent, honourable man who took on a job nobody else wanted, is disgraceful.
“In her last column but one she even managed to insinuate that it was a “Politburo” of senior players rather than Hughton who was responsible for Newcastle’s success.”
Let’s take a look at that piece too. After the obligatory “Although the alleged altercation between Andy Carroll and Steven Taylor, which has left Taylor nursing a broken jaw serves as a reminder that life at St James’ Park is not quite nirvana…” we find yet more oft repeated insinuations, this time about Hughton:
“A new, powerful, players’ committee was running a surprisingly harmonious changing room…”
After mockingly referring to Hughton as “Shearer’s cutprice successor” she blathers on:
“Giving power to Kevin Nolan, Alan Smith, Steve Harper and Nicky Butt, a man who as a Tottenham full-back had mixed in Trotskyite circles watched that ‘Politburo’ ensure his coaching drills and game plans were strictly adhered to.
“Meanwhile the still left-leaning Hughton and the right-wing, brashly capitalist, Ashley formed an unexpectedly close union, their bond arguably deepened by mutual mistrust of the media. Whether this unlikely partnership endures over the long haul depends partly on whether Ashley – who took Newcastle off the market in mid-season – renews his efforts to sell up.
“Without a change at the top it would be a shock if the modestly remunerated Hughton is replaced by Mark Hughes, Steve McClaren or AN Other. Even so, doubts persist as to whether his brand of dressing‑room democracy can continue succeeding. Will Hughton prove a strong enough man manager at the highest level? How might he invest an anticipated £20m transfer kitty?”
So esentially, what Louise is saying is that it’s IS permissable to be a factually challenged, completely hypocritical, monomaniacal half wit who can ridicule and trash reputations when you would probably never dare say “boo” to the object of your vitriol’s face, but only if you are an accredited journalist like her.
Louise, wouldn’t it have been much easier if you had simply written that in the first place?
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I was planning an witty and intelligent reply, but then I realised she isn’t worth it and I wouldn’t piss on her if she was on fire.