"I wanted to try to make an assist for him but I didn't have a chance"
In last few months, contempt and slanderous attacks on
Edin Dzeko in English
tabloid media
are more ferocious then ever before. I will mention but won't wast too
much of my time and effort on xenophobe scribbler from
Bleacher Report called
Rob Pollard, whose lack of objectivity, ethnic and cultural pride and prejudices utterly influencing
his biased scribbles against Edin, in which he shows amazing consistency, and which now interestingly begin to
extend to yet another Bosnian footballer, Asmir Begović !
Dzeko
was accused of being all kind of shits, from being immodest, proud,
arrogant, disrespectful, to being lazy and inept, unskilled, etc. -
among all this, he was even accused as being
selfish player !?!
This Pollard character made Bosnians go completely nuts over his recent rant on Edin Dzeko in Bleacher report in article
"City should have no fear selling Dzeko to Arsenal",
and republished in Daily Mail (or Sun or Mirror, doesn't matter).
Bosnian on-line community, and especially Bosnian on-line football
magazines, often lead by semi-literate people, think of Pollard as if
guy is some journalistic messiah. But one just need to visit Bleacher
Report, and read through his ramblings on Dzeko, and from recently on
Begovic, very fast, and then carefully read through the comments made by
readers and Pollard himself, as he enjoys debating with his audience.
There you'll find something very interesting - these comments of his
offer telltale clues for his attitude toward Edin Dzeko.
Rob Pollard is not Jonathan Wilson, for crying out loud people !
Rob
Pollard, is not objective observer nor writer, and if it's allowed and
even expected from average Man City and football fan to let loose
his/her objectivity, for someone pretending to be objective
analyst-columnist of sport thats worst possible thing. His analyses are
long and beautiful, but poisoned with his emotions (mostly contempt) for
the subject of that "analysis", because of which they are completely
pointless and/or utterly erroneous, not to mention slanderous.
Thing
is, in case of Edin Dzeko, and most recently Asmir Begovic
(interestingly both Bosnian footballers !?), Pollard allowed his pride
and prejudices to cloud his reason and influence his writing, and in
such obvious and transparent way that he became laughing stock across
numerous club forums (i.e. Bayern, Inter, Roma, Napoli, even Blue Moon -
especially after this particular article). Unfortunately, in Croatia
some Internet media gloated on Robs' shit, while in Bosnia uninformed "journalists" lost their heads.
Amazingly, Pollard actually turned some City fans, who by the way
already abandoned Edin, against himself, that's how obvious and
unreasonable his bias and open contempt for Edin Dzeko is. Even many of
those fans who would say that Edins' time in City is up, can't agree
with Pollard ramblings, simply because most of these guys never felt
same grudge against Edin, and they simply trying to be objective as
possible.
On
top of that every truly devoted City fan knows that all three most
important moments in clubs' last 40 years came as a result of Edin
Dzekos' goals - first against Notts' in dying moments for the FA Cup, the first trophy in 40 years; second
against Blackburn, again in dying moments of the last week for the
victory and the first ever Champions League in clubs history; and third
and probably most important goal against QPR for the title - yeah, no
one lives of old glory and history, some of his lot would say, and of
course they would be venomous and wrong again, because this is kind of
glory which remains in history, and Rob Pollard is unable to show at
least a bit of objectivity, let alone amount of respect Edin deserved.
Quite a City fan this Rob !
He
will keep celebrating Negredo, who managed to score couple more goals
than benched Edin, despite all that "blossoming" partnership with
Aguero..., but we know how bad is Edins' "first touch" so that only some
80-90% of goals Edin ever scored, with rate and accuracy even Messi
wouldn't be ashamed, came from that flawed first touch of his ! The same
first touch from yesterday and his second goal. Oh but that first touch
isn't that "first touch" ?! He's no analyst, his writing is fit for
tabloid mythmaking, not for column !
English "love" of Bosnia(ns)
A rare place in the world which was completely out of reach for Bosnian
refugees during the Bosnian War was England (UK). Those allowed to enter
UK were mostly some "special" cases, like horribly injured and in
needing special medical treatment. Just few made to UK on their own, as
refugees from the Bosnia burned by Serbian aggression, while UK
political stance was pretty much clear if you knew how to look at it -
Major and his party sided with Milosevic, while explaining their
position with some amazingly ridiculous and transparent apologia. So,
you could find four friends in London, one Serb, one Muslim, and two
Croats brothers, all from the same neighborhood in Sarajevo, and all
with completely different sets of papers for staying in UK (visas, etc.)
- Serb friend could work and extend his permits and all papers at will,
and soon enough he could apply for passport and even full citizenship
(which he holds today), Muslim friend could only wait for the war to end
on most basic papers, so that government could throw him out as soon as
war ends, Croats brothers held Croatian citizenship and passports so
they could extend their visas accordingly, but couldn't apply for
passport, etc. They are close friends, born and raised in Sarajevo, few
blocks from each other, and they came to UK with same Bosnia papers.
But maybe the most famous case of "English love of Bosnians", after Lord
Ovens' political activities during the war and if we skip case of
Bosnia ex-vice-president Ejup Ganić arrest on Heathrow airport, comes in
shape and form of Sanela Diana Jenkins, born Sanela Čatić. Her case was
high profile, with lot of public attention, and in that regard it bears many
similarities with Edins', but I believe this is enough background for
this odd attitude toward Bosnians in England, so I am leaving you with a
link to article about her incredible story, and with ultimately
competent person to make an overview and give you insight, Dr Marko
Attila Hoare, English historian - article is on his own blog
HERE > "Sanela Diana Jenkins, misogyny and anti-Balkan racism". Also you should take a look at this article about book, and the book
"Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia", on British media and politics toward Bosnia since 1990.
Fuck Pollard
Gosh, it's hard to avoid being trapped in generalization and
stereotyping ! This means - of course not every writer, reporter or
columnist in England look at Edin Dzeko through his/her prejudices and
bias, most are as objective as possible, and look at Edin in a way he
deserves, however don't expect to find these guys in English tabloid
media (press or Internet) too often, and in large numbers. But in all
this cacophony of bashing and slandering best Bosnian and one of the
best strikers in Europe and world, one can find and read some positive
stuff on him as well. Not too often, but often enough, positive articles
pop-up and they are certainly quite reasonable and insightful, without
poison of personal feelings and prejudices like in case of "infamous"
Pollard. For every two, three negative there is one positive report on
Edins' contribution to Man City and football in general. Here's
yesterday, for example,
John Wragg of Express.co.uk thinks that
Edin deserves more football
in Pellegrinis' team, not to mention more respect from manager, clubs'
hierarchy, supporters and media, and that he showed that last night,
again.
Humble, modest, ultimate team-player !
"Against Leicester he made two assists and I wanted to try to make an assist for him but I didn't have a chance."
In
this statement Edin was talking about James Milner, my favorite English
footballer after Steven Gerrard, who assisted him at both occasions in
last night
Capital One game, when Edin scored two great goals.
Dzekos' second was worthy of Ronaldinhos' goal for Barcelona vs. Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in 2005 Champions League.
Edin Dzeko amazing second goal vs. Leicester City
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WSjoJuGd5U&w=420&h=315]
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Unfinest
Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia - See more at:
http://www.thesamueljohnsonprize.co.uk/node/92#sthash.h7MtUC6K.dpuf
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