I've just read his quote in AS. He said, "I saw that the goalkeeper was really up for it and smiling, and I thought about doing it to put pressure on him and demoralise him."

Calvert W. McCutcheon wrote:


Oh, no!

Papers in Sweden used to be about making one paper sell more papers than the other, but with the most important news, some sort of sencitivity what was important in the scheme of world reports.

Tabloids, well....

Before I talk out my arse....

What is tabloids?
Is it the poster thing outside a store giving you the headlines, or is it the commercial part, is a tabloid how to sell a story?

I would agree with you Rustic if a championship side had done that to a premier league side then the reaction would have been different

On the Pirlo penalty, I wonder if the fact that the England team had studied the Italian takers and Hart was so obviously 'cramming' before the penalties were taken also helped Pirlo to decide to do something a bit different.

Also, who would England's fifth taker have been? Johnson, Terry?

Pirlo's done that before and come a cropper.

Whether you agree with it or not, it is fairly obvious that what people are taking against is him changing into his kit to receive the trophy

Wow, that Gazetta rebuke is really pathetic.

Including shinpads.

Bored of Education wrote:


Not just the kit, but also the shinpads!

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Well, that and the fact that he's a complete and utter cunt.

Does PPV really not know what a tabloid newspaper is or am I imagining this?

Maybe Hart's dicking about was even more counter-productive than we thought;



Perhaps he should have focused on trying to save them after all.

Hart said on Five Live in the build-up that he wanted to be amongst the first five.

Calvert W. McCutcheon wrote:


Fair question.
Tabloid for me is the thing (news) papers throw out to make you buy the paper, that one sheet you'd have paper boys plaster all over the city when something huge in history happens.
Here, on OTF, I've learned that tabloid also means the shit end of journalism. Like The Sun.
Or am I wrong?

PPV, formally, "tabloid" refers to the size and format of the newspaper, with the distinction being between the smaller tabloids that aren't folded horizontally, and the larger "broadsheets" that are. Now we have "Berliner" papers that are in between, but considered broadsheets.

Because a large majority of tabloid sized papers tend to be more sensational, less serious, etc, the term has come to mean that kind of paper, no matter what size it is.

So, Aftonbladet would be considered a tabloid, while Svenska Dagbladet wouldn't.

In New York, the Daily News and Post are tabloids, the Times is a broadsheet.

ursus arctos wrote:


So tabloid = sensationalistic journalism.
(Jesus, you know the difference between Aftonbladet and DN!?)
I thought "tabloid" was to do with size, mostly. Number of people reading it.

I don't get what Joe Hart was doing. People talk about Dudek, Dudek was dancing about in the goal, the idead being that he was a moving target and the penalty taker had no idea where he was going to dive.

Hart was rooted to the spot and looked like he was taking a crap on one of those Japanese toilets. Surely it's not the best starting position when you are about to dive for a penalty? I don't know anything about being a goalkeeper though.

According to Radio 4, there was a study that goalkeepers should stay in the centre due to the amount of the penalties struck down the middle but the majority dive one way or the other.

Indeed. A Panenka special by Totti.

Except for Pirlos, every single Italian penalty was to Hart's right, wasn't it and he threw himself left, from his point of view? Must have been a brilliant piece of paper they showed him ahead of penalty kicks.

Sorry, Hart did actually almost save the first one. Now I think of it.