Roy Curtis....how does he get away with it?

**Den Perry** · 19/11/2006, 8:51 PM

How has this guy been getting away with his style of writing for so long? his attacks on people are very personal but thats not what bothers me as much as his style of writing.....it is absolutely shocking? why does he try so hard to be funny? he does not tell us anything we dont already know and his column just seems to be there as a platform for him to show he is a "funny guy"

Anybody agree that he is the worst football writer around at the moment?

**Mento** · 19/11/2006, 9:05 PM

most sundays i will get a phone call from a mate which goes something like this - "see that ***** curtis writing ****e AGAIN, what sort of fool is this guy blah blah.."

i only finish work at 10ish so will read the crap when i get home (see it does sell papers)

last weeks article beggared belief.
he blabbed on about his hero Roy keane after Keane had a go at Divers - some who are Irish.
He then slated Robbie Keane for been a diver and a cheat.
Now I personally dont think robbie dives, he may go down a little bit easier as centre forwards do (think it's to do with the more twisting and turning and running at defenders they do).
I stand corrected but I dont think i have ever seen robbie get booked for diving.
Now if Curtis did his proper research, as all good journos do, he would realise his article is tainted with the highest degree of hypocrisy.
cast your mind back to 1995 Roy when your namesake was sent off for a blatant dive against Blackburn

**Den Perry** · 19/11/2006, 9:14 PM

Originally Posted by Mento

most sundays i will get a phone call from a mate which goes something like this - "see that ***** curtis writing ****e AGAIN, what sort of fool is this guy blah blah.."

i only finish work at 10ish so will read the crap when i get home (see it does sell papers)

last weeks article beggared belief.
he blabbed on about his hero Roy keane after Keane had a go at Divers - some who are Irish.
He then slated Robbie Keane for been a diver and a cheat.
Now I personally dont think robbie dives, he may go down a little bit easier as centre forwards do (think it's to do with the more twisting and turning and running at defenders they do).
I stand corrected but I dont think i have ever seen robbie get booked for diving.
Now if Curtis did his proper research, as all good journos do, he would realise his article is tainted with the highest degree of hypocrisy.
cast your mind back to 1995 Roy when your namesake was sent off for a blatant dive against Blackburn

I know, i remember it well. That said I am a Roy Keane fan. Curtis is way worse this week...its scandalous. I wonder if he is on this site?

**DmanDmythDledge** · 19/11/2006, 9:15 PM

Who does he write for?

**Den Perry** · 19/11/2006, 9:20 PM

The Sunday World....and before you criticise me I also read the Sunday Times and Indo today!

**pete** · 19/11/2006, 9:52 PM

Originally Posted by Den Perry

The Sunday World....and before you criticise me I also read the Sunday Times and Indo today!

I can't believe I any reading a thread where people expect good journalism from the Sunday World & Sindo...

**Donal81** · 20/11/2006, 8:27 AM

Any chance you could post the article?

**OwlsFan** · 20/11/2006, 9:20 AM

Dunphy has been doing this sort of stuff for years so he's trying to ape (I use the word advisedly) him it would appear. It's a tactic that works it seems. Write any old controversial sh**e and get yourself noticed.

That said I have never read this guy's stuff nor have I read anything by Dunphy for years, except the index to his biography of Keane for references to Sheff Wed and each one turned out to be a reference to Sheff Utd

**Billsthoughts** · 20/11/2006, 11:24 AM

I dont think he was personally responsible for the index!
Curtis = moron.
?Begs the question how he got a job?
Better(and funnier) writers on here.

**cheifo** · 20/11/2006, 12:11 PM

Curtis writes with an obvious vanity which makes him a fair target!His constants attempt at macho quips & analogies are cringing.In fairness Eamon Sweeney in the Sindo is very good IMO and they give Sean Ryan a lot more space these days.

**Noelys Guitar** · 20/11/2006, 12:55 PM

Dunphy put through a photcopier 50 times. Bumped into Curtis at Euro 88. Convinced it was him that got 3 of us thrown out of the hotel we had been staying in. Room next to his. Ok having another 10 or 15 people in our room singing at 4am might have ****ed him off!

**lionelhutz** · 20/11/2006, 1:02 PM

Dion Fannings articles in the sunday indo are excellent i think. Especially when he writes about the Irish team and his 'that was the week' column which is hilarious.

Yesterday he wrote about Ireland becoming the new Cyprus of the world (ie a bit of a joke of a team) and the fact that Stan and the boys did a meaningless lap of honour at the end of the utterly meaningless game on Wednesday - twas very good

**Pauro 76** · 20/11/2006, 1:40 PM

the man’s a tool. Sunday World the only Irish newspaper i can get my way, and his articles are cringeworthy to say the least. He had one article during the World Cup slagging off the English as a nation....awful to read it was libellious, if it was the other way around, we’d be up in arms.

**OwlsFan** · 20/11/2006, 2:13 PM

Originally Posted by lionelhutz

Dion Fannings articles in the sunday indo are excellent i think. Especially when he writes about the Irish team and his 'that was the week' column which is hilarious.

Yesterday he wrote about Ireland becoming the new Cyprus of the world (ie a bit of a joke of a team) and the fact that Stan and the boys did a meaningless lap of honour at the end of the utterly meaningless game on Wednesday - twas very good

It wasn't a "lap of honour" and it wasn't a "meaningless" game. It was a farewell gesture to Lansdowne which I thought was good - wasn't there to see it mind as I had fled the minute the final whistle went

Don't like Fanning - he spent most of his time sniping at McCarthy. Now he continues it with Stan.

**OwlsFan** · 20/11/2006, 2:15 PM

Originally Posted by Billsthoughts

I dont think he was personally responsible for the index!.

If that was my book (and I have published a book

) I would personally check the index.

**Donal81** · 20/11/2006, 3:41 PM

The only reason that moronic journalists get published is because people read rags like the Sunday World, the Star, the Irish Sun and the Evening Herald. Stop buying this rubbish and maybe they'll take notice. So much of the tabloids' sales rely on people buying it for sport and instead of playing to that with decent, fan-friendly coverage, look at the horsesh!t they come up with. They've got enough money to do better but they're just not bothered so why bother paying them for the privilege? There's so much better stuff out there, I'm amazed that people still buy them. I'm even more confused when people buy these rubbish papers and are then surprised when they get served with awful journalism. These newspapers will never change; if anything, they're getting worse.

**OwlsFan** · 21/11/2006, 7:26 AM

They don't buy them for the journalism - they buy them for the t*ts!

**Donal81** · 21/11/2006, 8:56 AM

Originally Posted by OwlsFan

They don't buy them for the journalism - they buy them for the t*ts!

Indeed. As the editor of the Sunday World says, "Gah (GAA) and g**."

**Billsthoughts** · 21/11/2006, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by OwlsFan

If that was my book (and I have published a book

) I would personally check the index.

what was the name of your book?
"Lets have one last big cheer folks! - the secret life of a PA anouncer"?

**NeilMcD** · 21/11/2006, 11:31 AM

The PA Announcer was interviewed in the Latest edition of you boys in green. Lookds totally different to what I thought he would look like to be honest.