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Footballer Marcus Rashford fights for free school meals
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Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Oh, aye, I see... He bought property "for his mum", he accepted an OBE "for his mum"...
I look forward to him opening an account in the Cayman Islands "for his mum"
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Sigh.
Nobody is entirely virtuous all the time and the constant pulling down of others for not being 100% clean and ideologically pure in a system that fundamentally prevents that from happening in the hellscape of 21st century capitalist shit is one of the more tiring aspects of subscribing to leftist ideology.
Nobody is entirely virtuous all the time and the constant pulling down of others for not being 100% clean and ideologically pure in a system that fundamentally prevents that from happening in the hellscape of 21st century capitalist shit is one of the more tiring aspects of subscribing to leftist ideology.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
...but again nothing is that black and white....Mourinho helped Age UK feed elderly people at the start of COVID, was involved in a charity match for Grenfell, etc etc, Rashford's just done an ad for Levi's, not the most ethical of companies
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Yep. Honestly, if I was a brilliantly talented footballer instead of the two-left-footed donkey that I am I would have taken the money. And from there there's always going to be something isn't there?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Kind of, it's not his £20m, but money he has raised.
An incredible achievement none the less.
Ah, ok thanks.
GarveyLives
Well-Known Member
I believe you will find that he is the same Marcus Rashford who is referred to in these earlier news reports:
Manchester United's Marcus Rashford target of racist abuse on Twitter
Marcus Rashford: Racism 'spike' is unbelievable - Man Utd & England striker
'This has to stop': Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford join calls for change
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England footballer, Marcus Rashford with his mother Melanie. In May 2016, aged just 18 years and 208 days, Rashford became the youngest player to score on his England full international debut. Young Rashford has stated: 'My mum would go days without sleeping, worrying about how she would cover the next round of bills, worried that I could get in trouble, mixing with the wrong crowds, if she couldn’t keep her eyes on me while working every hour of the day. Even at seven or eight years old I recognised her worry, but I also recognised that she was trying her best. I’ve said it once and I will say it again: this system was not built for families like mine to succeed, no matter how hard we are working.'
Marcus Rashford: England striker 'won't apologise' for who he is after receiving racist abuse
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i wonder, would it be ungenerous to suggest that the government should have some inkling of governing without making a complete cock-up of everything they turn their hands to?
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
That damn mutt is howling his head off again, must be someone blowing a whistle.
ruffneck23
front left
Marcus Rashford got a statement out first on social media about it, they should know better than to pick a fight with him as they will lose...
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I think that, in the broader court of public opinion (ie., outside of racists, gammons, vermin, and their more reactionary constituencies), Rashford is pretty much untouchable. I'd say "bring it on", because it can only backfire on them...given that whatever poison piece the Spectator decides to run, it'll almost certainly be clumsy, inept, and over-egged.
ruffneck23
front left
I am a bit concerned that this, along with the cummings stuff, is a distraction for some other nefarious stuff to pass us by.
Cos tories gonna tory
Cos tories gonna tory
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Race plays a part in intelligence is the oldest and hoariest racist trope going, God Almighty does anyone still take that seriously? I mean come on it's 2021 not 1921.
Rashford's public perception took only a limited knock on U75 with the discovery that (shock horror) that he was a landlord. Out in the real world where most other people live, it doesn't seem to have taken much of a knock from him missing the England penalty as far as I can see. Even my sister's husband a devout Man U fan has said "Well the boy tried his best".
Rashford's public perception took only a limited knock on U75 with the discovery that (shock horror) that he was a landlord. Out in the real world where most other people live, it doesn't seem to have taken much of a knock from him missing the England penalty as far as I can see. Even my sister's husband a devout Man U fan has said "Well the boy tried his best".
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
They've got a supine media. They don't need "distractions", and I'm a bit miffed that this trope keeps getting trotted out because there's an implicit assumption that the public are all idiots. Don't mistake the media narrative for the what public cares about.
ska invita
back on the other side
Marcus " I actually enjoy reading bits from The Spectator now and again but this is just a none starter.”
Please say it isn't so....
Please say it isn't so....
tonysingh
Random Clever and Witty Strapline
I suspect he was either mildly taking the piss or trying to be a nice guy n diplomatic
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Yes, probably all sorts. I posted a couple of things in this thread the other day:
Tory Long term plan for the NHS
elbows
Well-Known Member
Well I suppose there is more than one way to derive enjoyment from reading something - maybe he enjoys taking the piss out of it.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
sat on the toilet before making proper use of it: a modern Izal
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Nicely done. I'd say he's spiked their guns rather well.
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