Press at it AGAIN!!!

[kronas]

tabloids will be tabloids, as much as i love this news its morally wrong, and i think the paper should publish an apology.

it does teach him to be a fair ref next time, he did make some quite outrages decisions.

And what are they gonna do?

When ever the tabloids get in trouble nothing happens, they may get fined but that is not enough! They should be harshly punished, everytime they print lies they should have to print a retraction of the front page which was to retract the statement and admit they lied (or in this case behaved childishly)

I have a feeling that the people doing this sort of thing are not football fans and rather those people who become interested and are suddenly Massive football fans with a opinion about everything when a euro cup or world cup comes by! Those who watch football day in and day out are used to refs making bad decisions and take losing better. This is awful blaming the whole thing on the ref

What papers actually printed the information

[gazzae]

Meier forced into hiding

Swiss referee Urs Meier has been forced to go into hiding after a hate campaign waged by the English media following his decision to disallow Sol Campbell's goal in the Euro 2004 quarter-final.

Meier has seen details of his private life splashed all over The Sun, who also published his e-mail address and laid a giant England flag outside his home in Switzerland.

He has received death threats and a barrage of hate mail after being held accountable for England's exit from Euro 2004 with his decision during the clash with Portugal.

Meier has even called upon the police to protect him and his family.

"I have security problems and this is not the right way to handle referees' decisions, whether they are right or wrong.

"The police are here with me now as we speak. I'm not going to leave Switzerland but am somewhere where nobody knows me."

Meanwhile 22-year-old Swiss girl Manu Peyer was attacked by England fans and left with a broken arm on a Greek island - and she believes that she was being punished for Meier's actions.

"I think they beat me up because of Meyer's ominous call on the goal," Peyer told Swiss radio.

Originally Posted by gazzae

Meier forced into hiding

Its a sad day to be english

This is the worst behavior I have ever seen from football fans. They are appalling and should be ashamed. We have sent a person into hiding and broken a girls arm because we cannot take losing a football match?

We really need to sort out the tabloids in this country they have gotten away with too much as the past few months have shown us, tabloids cannot be trusted and the sun has shown and appealed to the worst nature of some of the moronic filth that call them selfs 'fans'

[gazzae]

It seems they always have to find someone to blame. Beckham, Seaman, Meier.

[Matth]

Escalation:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2...00994,,00.html

Zurich radio station Energy NRJ hit back by launching †œThe Big Revengeââ‚à ‚¬Ã‚ÂÂ�.
DJ Roman Kilchsperger told listeners to †œGive the s*** back to the English.ââ‚à ƒâ€šÃ‚¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚ÂÂ�

He gave out our phone number on air and goaded fans into making †œabusive callsââ‚ƚ¬Ã‚ÂÂÂ�. Then they came in their dozens †â€ÂÂÂ� many of them from the DJââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s own foul-mouthed colleagues.

- Time to return the favor -
Now YOU can get your own back on cocky DJ Kilchsperger by phoning his mobile on 00 41 793440922 or emailing him on roman.kilchsperger@energyzueri.ch. Or call the radio station direct on 0041 1 250 90 00. Give †˜em hell!

And keep on it:

http://www.ursmeier.ch/referee/ref60.html

EDIT (Richard M) - Added some quote tags

[TheBlueRaja]

Originally Posted by Matth

Escalation:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2...00994,,00.html

Zurich radio station Energy NRJ hit back by launching †œThe Big Revengeââ‚à ‚¬Ã‚ÂÂ�.
DJ Roman Kilchsperger told listeners to †œGive the s*** back to the English.ââ‚à ƒâ€šÃ‚¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚ÂÂ�

He gave out our phone number on air and goaded fans into making †œabusive callsââ‚ƚ¬Ã‚ÂÂÂ�. Then they came in their dozens †â€ÂÂÂ� many of them from the DJââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s own foul-mouthed colleagues.

- Time to return the favor -
Now YOU can get your own back on cocky DJ Kilchsperger by phoning his mobile on 00 41 793440922 or emailing him on roman.kilchsperger@energyzueri.ch. Or call the radio station direct on 0041 1 250 90 00. Give †˜em hell!

And keep on it:

http://www.ursmeier.ch/referee/ref60.html

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It was DISGRACEFUL that the english press did this - and the fact that there is a backlash against it isnt surprising, yet you now want to escalate it again.

Get a god damn life.

Jesus - i give up with this god damn country.



Edit : Inappropiate comments removed (pem)

opps he was only quoting the sun. Sorry matth. Can someone green rep him to cancel out the bad one i give him

[TheBlueRaja]

EDIT:- Ah - quote tags - makes a hell of a difference to that one. *humble pie time*

(And green repped)

If only i could bad rep the Sun.

Originally Posted by theblueraja

EDIT:- Ah - quote tags - makes a hell of a difference to that one. *humble pie time*

(And green repped)

If only i could bad rep the Sun.

You can e-mail abuse at them....not that i condone that sort of activity

[TheBlueRaja]

Ach, thats just stooping to their level.

I'll refrain from buying their paper instead (not that i ever do unfortunately).

[Russ]

Originally Posted by theblueraja

EDIT:- Ah - quote tags - makes a hell of a difference to that one. *humble pie time*

(And green repped)

Granted but your post was a bit over the top IMO, plus we recieved a complaint about the wording. I understand that if Matth had used the quotation as his own words (as you believed initially) it would have been very provocing but in such cases it would be better to report the post instead of reacting to it....

[TheBlueRaja]

Agreed,
It was strong and i appologise. But it really annoyed me to think that people were advocating this and encouraging it.

Qutoes in that post changed the entire meaning of it.

[Russ]

Yeah, it's ok, I think it would have thrown most people.

But if someone HAD posted such encouragement, they would get their botty spanked

[Plonking]

Originally Posted by theblueraja

Ach, thats just stooping to their level.

I'll refrain from buying their paper instead (not that i ever do unfortunately).

paper? there was me thinking the sun was a comic !