Other Games - 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup Edition (+ warm-up matches): Villa-watch

[Hookeysmith]

BBC news, while whipping up reaction to "that banner" just attributed an interview quote to "goalkeeper Emi Martinez" while accompanying footage shows his namesake Lisandro making said statement. Unprofessional to say the least.

I phoned the BBC and made a complaint, which was logged. I also stressed that Emi Martinez was owed an apology. Yet this is still available on iplayer (2mins 46sec).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/l0058ly2/argentina-face-action-over-falklands-banner

More proof that the BBC is a complete shit show and cannot be trusted on anything

People like Naga Munchetty on a reported £330 per year - FFS  We should move to defund the whole lot of it

[martin o`who??]

There is also quite a compelling argument that a certain Herr Hitler didn't die in Berlin in 1945 as is claimed but was smuggled across Europe and then moved by U-boat via the canary islands - to South America.

There really isn't. Serious historians on the subject of Nazi Germany, Hitler and WWII virtually all conclude that he died in Berlin.

The operative word there being "virtually" As with all alternative/conspiracy theories there is much that is open to interpretation. It depends on how open minded the the viewer is.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Didn't he lead the racist France song last time?

Yep. Argentina as a country, having been a couple of times isn’t exactly kind to those of a darker complexion. In large part it’s just cultural. Not many black, Asian folk down there and they don’t see the world as diverse as the rest of us.

There used to be a large black population in Argentina, if memory serves it was about a third of the population but they were systematically reduced through war, disease and emigration to safer neighbouring countries. It's a brilliant country but the stain of racism lies deep to its core.

[PeterWithe]

It's bit weird their fixation with the Falklands, I mean if its meant to wind us up everyone I was with just shrugged and went back to slagging off Tuchel.

[Richard E]

There is also quite a compelling argument that a certain Herr Hitler didn't die in Berlin in 1945 as is claimed but was smuggled across Europe and then moved by U-boat via the canary islands - to South America.

There really isn't. Serious historians on the subject of Nazi Germany, Hitler and WWII virtually all conclude that he died in Berlin.

The operative word there being "virtually" As with all alternative/conspiracy theories there is much that is open to interpretation. It depends on how open minded the the viewer is.

Only if by ‘open minded’ you mean ‘gullible.’

[Coop]

BBC news, while whipping up reaction to "that banner" just attributed an interview quote to "goalkeeper Emi Martinez" while accompanying footage shows his namesake Lisandro making said statement. Unprofessional to say the least.

I phoned the BBC and made a complaint, which was logged. I also stressed that Emi Martinez was owed an apology. Yet this is still available on iplayer (2mins 46sec).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/l0058ly2/argentina-face-action-over-falklands-banner

More proof that the BBC is a complete shit show and cannot be trusted on anything

People like Naga Munchetty on a reported £330 per year - FFS  We should move to defund the whole lot of it

This isn't an attack on the BBC as an institution, its funding, or Naga Munchetty. It's an attack on poor, lazy journalism.

[Richard E]

It's bit weird their fixation with the Falklands, I mean if its meant to wind us up everyone I was with just shrugged and went back to slagging off Tuchel.

Apart from when they bang on about it, nobody in Britain apart from the veterans of the conflict and those who lost loved ones ever gives the Falklands a second thought. Let’s face it, until they were invaded barely anyone in the UK knew where they were- if they were aware of their existence at all.

[cdbearsfan]

It's bit weird their fixation with the Falklands, I mean if its meant to wind us up everyone I was with just shrugged and went back to slagging off Tuchel.

Yeah, it's mental. Why do they keep banging on about a war they lost rather than all the tournaments they have won?

[Monty]

BBC news, while whipping up reaction to "that banner" just attributed an interview quote to "goalkeeper Emi Martinez" while accompanying footage shows his namesake Lisandro making said statement. Unprofessional to say the least.

I phoned the BBC and made a complaint, which was logged. I also stressed that Emi Martinez was owed an apology. Yet this is still available on iplayer (2mins 46sec).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/l0058ly2/argentina-face-action-over-falklands-banner

More proof that the BBC is a complete shit show and cannot be trusted on anything

People like Naga Munchetty on a reported £330 per year - FFS  We should move to defund the whole lot of it

£330 p/a is surely below minimum wage. Maybe if this is all the BBC can afford, excessive funding isn't the issue?

[Sexual Ealing]

There is also quite a compelling argument that a certain Herr Hitler didn't die in Berlin in 1945 as is claimed but was smuggled across Europe and then moved by U-boat via the canary islands - to South America.

There really isn't. Serious historians on the subject of Nazi Germany, Hitler and WWII virtually all conclude that he died in Berlin.

The operative word there being "virtually" As with all alternative/conspiracy theories there is much that is open to interpretation. It depends on how open minded the the viewer is.

[Monty]

It's bit weird their fixation with the Falklands, I mean if its meant to wind us up everyone I was with just shrugged and went back to slagging off Tuchel.

Yeah, it's mental. Why do they keep banging on about a war they lost rather than all the tournaments they have won?

It's bizarre to invest so much of your national identity in staking a claim on what is, let's face it, slightly more than one rock.

Like, I know it's a dodgy history, and I know it's a bit weird that the people there want to stay with Britain, but it's an anomaly isn't it? Like, honestly, whatever!

(How sometimes you meet progressive people who take Argentina's side on it by the way, ignoring the self-determination principle in favour of a kind of tankyish 'anti-imperialism', never fails to boggle.)

[cdbearsfan]

Argentina helped plenty of horrific pepple after WW2. There really isn't any need to make stuff up.

[PaulWinch again]

Fair play to Richards for continuing his pundit role after his father had passed away.

[SamTheMouse]

It's bit weird their fixation with the Falklands, I mean if its meant to wind us up everyone I was with just shrugged and went back to slagging off Tuchel.

Yeah, it's mental. Why do they keep banging on about a war they lost rather than all the tournaments they have won?

It's bizarre to invest so much of your national identity in staking a claim on what is, let's face it, slightly more than one rock.

Like, I know it's a dodgy history, and I know it's a bit weird that the people there want to stay with Britain, but it's an anomaly isn't it? Like, honestly, whatever!

(How sometimes you meet progressive people who take Argentina's side on it by the way, ignoring the self-determination principle in favour of a kind of tankyish 'anti-imperialism', never fails to boggle.)

The irony of a woman called *checks notes* Victoria Villaruel opining that the inhabitants of the Falklands are an artificially implanted population and should go back to England.

[Somniloquism]

BBC news, while whipping up reaction to "that banner" just attributed an interview quote to "goalkeeper Emi Martinez" while accompanying footage shows his namesake Lisandro making said statement. Unprofessional to say the least.

I phoned the BBC and made a complaint, which was logged. I also stressed that Emi Martinez was owed an apology. Yet this is still available on iplayer (2mins 46sec).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/l0058ly2/argentina-face-action-over-falklands-banner

More proof that the BBC is a complete shit show and cannot be trusted on anything

People like Naga Munchetty on a reported £330 per year - FFS  We should move to defund the whole lot of it

Or it could be proof that there is a reduction of quality across the board DUE to the initial defunding of the BBC demanded all the time.