John Aizlewood Says Liverpool Supporters Are Excessively Sentimental

John Aizlewood is apparently an "award-winning author, writer and broadcaster" who "scrubs up quite well and always speaks in proper sentences." John also kindly informs us he knows "the difference between it's and its." What John's insipid blog-bio doesn't tell us about is John's worryingly obvious xenophobic attitude.

John's self-indulgent blog-bio also doesn't educate the reader about his Victor Meldrew outlook on everything from "having to carry a laptop too far across a car park" and "having to share a press-room with non-journalists" to "having to wait for his free, luke-warm pie longer than should be expected" and "writing an article before a game has finished, only to have to re-write it when (shock horror) a goal or two is scored in the final 10 minutes."

Victor, sorry, I mean John, does however happily explain his strong feelings about, amongst many other things, the city of Liverpool. The "award winning writer" believes that Liverpool supporters are "weakly and excessively emotional and foolishly sentimental" in their mourning of the dead.

He unashamedley depicts how the city of Liverpool "will always be the place where teenagers give away their unwanted babies and then spend the rest of their lives regretting it" with John proudly stating that "this city's curious mix of mean and maudlin means it could never be my kind of place. Never ever." John loves Liverpool, honest he does.

• "Colin from the Sunday Express gives me a lift to Putney Bridge, the tube's full of drunken Scousers." —John Aizlewood

Thanks for that pointless and irrelevant piece of information John. People in Liverpool drink and use trains. Call the police.

John Sees Dead People

John "Award-Winning" Aizlewood's latest blog entry is simply entitled "I see dead people."

Was this latest offering—from the writer who thinks it's worthwhile noting that he can write and speak in full sentences—about his assignment to a local morgue? Or perhaps it was an indepth film review about Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense? Well, it was infact John's labourius experiences of attending a League game between Liverpool and Blackburn that just-so happened to precede the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster by four days.

John confidently remarks on how the Liverpool supporters are in a mawkish and belligerent mood as the rapidly approaching anniversary of the day fellow men, women and young children where crushed to death thanks to the mistakes of several people in charge of safety during the game.

After the "leading football correspondant" complains about the "hostile and hopeless" Anfield stewards and the "mawkish and maudlin" Liverpool supporters, he tries to imply that the Hillsborough families are hunting for "closure" masquerading as "justice."

• "People are still seeking closure, or as they put it "justice" —John Aizlewood

Of course the man who "has interviewed almost every major pop music figure of the last two decades" doesn't stop there. He tries to belittle the mourning of the Hillsborough dead by comparing it to the Hysel disaster and claiming that nobody here [Liverpool] speaks of the victims of the that disaster and their families' suffering.

• "The pain is still raw, just as raw, I'd imagine, as the pain of the relatives of the Liverpool fans' Heysel victims is in Turin, but nobody speaks of them here." —John Aizlewood

John then moves on to a favourite subject of his which, judging by some of his other blogs and articles, he clearly enjoys writing about. John apparently loves it when Rafael Benitez is in "cocky gibberish mode" despite John never being able to fully "undertand what he says." He proudly claims the foreigner is "covertly bonkers" and "brought up Alex Ferguson without prompt."

• "I don't understand his [Benitez] reply, but he smiled at me, so the answer was probably yes." —John Aizlewood

Apparently the "award-winning writer" has "no idea" as to why Rafa would bring up "Sir Alex Ferguson" again and he doubts "Rafa knows why either." It is strange that such an acclaimed writer has such a selective memory when it comes to "Sir" Alex Ferguson and it's interesting that there is rarely any meldrew-type criticism for the British-born, Manchester United manager from the propagandist, John Aizelwood.

The Xenophobic Article

The Sunday Times has felt it perfectly acceptable to publish John Aizlewood's latest article that is fundamentally underpinned with a xenophobic attack on a foreign manager. The article boldly claims the Spaniard has given an interview to John and the "multi-award winning" writer has instead created a deluded version of his desired response and laced it with a large amount of subtle and not-so subtle digs at the Liverpool manager.

The article not only consistently mocks a Spanish-born man attempting to speak English but also throws-in a few cultural stereotypes as humour.

• "...he [Ferguson] is attempting to bait me [Benitez] into saying something rash, into responding like a bull to a red rag (ah, sweet blood-stained memories . . .)" —John Aizlewood

The stunningly biased article is simply one big fallacy hiding behind humour, but clearly rooted in the "journalist's" true feelings which are evident in many of his other ramblings. The Ad Hominem approach to addressing the points raised in his article are basically a straw-man fallacy that does nothing but discredit someone in a blatantly biased manor and completely failing to address anything near the truth in any of the issues he mocks.

But it was obviously not the intention of John "I love Rafa" Aizlewood to produce an article filled with truth or factual balance.

The fact that The Sunday Times have felt this article is within any standards of decency is slightly worrying. But perhaps not when you realise that The Sunday Times is in fact part of the Rupert Murdoch News Company that also owns The Sun newspaper.