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King setback?

Babylon22

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Jul 26, 2007
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I actually watched the story unfold. The Evening Shit Standard had a story saying that King had had a setback (not stating when this had taken place) and that they had been the first to reveal this 2 months previously (now giving us some kind of time reference) Spurs had then said there was not a problem (clearly there was or he would have been back by now).

Thus we can see that this is a rehash of the original story they had referred to and not any "new" news. Unfortunately for them and the rest of the media sheep who then ran the earlier Standard story from wednesday, on Thursday morning pictures emerged of King training quite happily with the rest of the squad.

Now instead of admitting they were wrong and actually reporting that King was training they did everything but. We now see several stories reporting that Bale may be fit for Sunday's game after "returning to training" even though he was not among those photographed in training the previous day. But still absolutely not one mention of King being in training. Why? Because it will expose the Evening Standard as being a bunch of lying pricks and it would expose the rest of them as publishing stories that they have not actually checked out.

The sad fact is that we have become fair game, especially for the standard for obvious reasons, and football news is essentially like chinese whispers. The majority of the news "sources" on newsnow for example simply rehash the stories that any of the other "sources" come out with. They use stock phrases like "reports suggest" or "a source close to the player/club/coach/ add as appropriate today emerged" etc etc etc.

Like many have pointed out, far from being injury prone King has had several fairly bad but completely unrelated injuries over the last 2 seasons. Somebody like Gardner or Anderton for example had consistent and related injuries over prolonged periods. When King has returned, other than being clearly unfit, he has looked as good as ever. He is also young and has not actually played that much football.

I think that he will be fine and all of these stories of him being like Paul Mcgrath are just media speculation. He should be given as long as it takes to get healthy before being gently introduced back into the team.

If the situation was such that he could not play any longer the club would sell him and not be spending 2 million per year on his wages. He clearly believes he will play again and is eager to do so.

spot on.
 
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