All in all, Wednesday was a pretty good day for Kobe Bryant. First, he watched his favorite soccer team, FC Barcelona, complete a perfect season by adding the European Champions League trophy to its haul of 2009 titles by defeating Manchester United in the final. Over in England, meanwhile, Bryant wasn't earning any votes at the Guardian, which in a pregame column matched celebrity fans of Barcelona against celebrity fans of Manchester United. "Kobe who?" asked the newspaper. "Apparently, he's big in America, but so is shooting your friends. The L.A. Lakers' main attraction claims that he's Barcelona through and through and he loves watching soccer when he's not counting his money."
1. Saying "Kobe who?" at this point is no longer witty, it's just ignorant. As much as I like Rooney I bet there are more Brits who know and appreciate KOBE! than there are Americans who even know who Wayne Rooney is.
2. "So is shooting your friends"?? Wow Guardian, you just lost all credibility as a respected media source. If the Washington Post said anything half that despicable about your cold island and its inhabitants you would demand that the UN wiggle an apology from every American citizen. Get over yourselves.
3. You should be happy that such a huge American icon is a dedicated fan of a sport most people here don't even follow.
4. Funny how you claim to not know who KOBE! is but you make a comment aboot him counting his money. . .
Let's not rush to write off the Guardian just yet. If i may defend the still credible newspaper.
ReplyDelete1. The column that matched celebrity fans of either team was a puff piece as it was about celebrity fans. The Guardian, which is an English paper, would obviously have to rip Kobe for choosing La Liga's FC Barcelona.
2. Though we may have forgotten about Former Vice President Dick Cheney shooting his friend in the face, the Brits have not as they feel that is still pretty hilarious. That is what they're referring to when they wrote "shooting your friends". If they were talking about school shootings, I would agree that it was cold and despicable but they weren't. They were clearly referring to one of Cheney's many accomplishments, so no Abel, they don't need to get over themselves.
3. They are happy Kobe is a fan of the sport. That's why they included him in the column. Again, the rip was because it was an English paper and Kobe was rooting for a Spanish team.
4. The Guardian has never "claimed" to not know who Kobe Bryant is as they have been reporting on him since his high school days.
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Editorials aren't exclusive to American newspapers, get over yourself Slideshow.
now if only the Guardian, or Slideshow for that matter, could just go back and delete their posts when they don't get the response they were after.
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Until you have the stones to stand by your incessant worshipping of media darlings like lebron, jimmy fallon and michael phelps just to name a few, don't tell me what to do.
Haha. Touche salesman.
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