Thousand apologies for being polite
Haresh Says, as published in Mailsport today. IT was witty yet riddled with sarcasm — a back page that would have caused Newcastle manager Alan Pardew to choke on the bacon roll he had for breakfast. England’s Sunday Sun ridiculed Pardew, in an ‘apologetic’ fashion, as the Magpies recorded a series of losses with the recent being a 1-0 defeat to Stoke on Saturday in the Premier League. This was after Pardew blamed the local press for the fans’ anger following the team’s poor outing. It was a clever effort, more cheeky than anything else, but it got the message across loud and clear. In short it read: Dear Mr Pardew, Enough of blaming the Press. You are the reason why the fans are hopping mad. Now imagine a similar piece plastered on our back pages. To be fair, most sports journos in Malaysian have the upper hand of being rather critical and ‘aggressive’, to a certain extent, compared to their counterparts i...