Be the Reds (or Be Dead)

Did any catch this story about
the Korean sports commentator who got fired because he pointed out that
the controversial offsides call in the Swiss game was actually correct?

 
 

Shin reiterated inflammatory remarks that cost him his job
late last month, saying a controversial off-side decision in Korea’s
game against Switzerland in the World Cup should not have been played
up. “Korean Football Association president Chung Mong-Joon told the
public he would protest against bad calls by referees over the off-side
issue to FIFA, and it infuriated people and poured oil on the flames by
not offering accurate information on the off-side rule to the people
who didn’t know enough about it.”

 

Shin was branded a traitor by some when he sided with the
referee over his decision to overrule a line judge who signaled Swiss
forward Alexander Frei was off-side in Switzerland’s game with Korea on
June 24. Frei scored a second goal for his team in the 32nd minute of
the second half. Such was the outcry over Shin’s remark that SBS, where
he was meant to work until July 10, sent him home on June 28.

Here's the traitor himself. May he never be allowed to work in this country, nor wear the color red, for the rest of his life.

Kind of reminds me of last year when patriotic Koreans ganged up on MBC
for suggesting that Dr. Hwang conducted fraudulent research. Nice to
see that so much was learned from that painful event.

And finally, I just have to remind everyone that Italy has won the World Cup, as I fearlessly predicted
long ago. The odds that Italy would win the
world cup were 10-1. That was money in the bank had you, my dear
readers, been wise enough to heed my visions.

Now some of you might well ask why I did not follow my own psychic
visions and become rich. Foolish mortals, that is not the Psychic Way.
We float above the masses with their common desires for the petty
rewards of the material world. Our work is to bring healing to the
planet and help humanity connect with the spirit world. It's all in a
book I'm writing that will soon be made available to the public through
my website in the near future (retail $45, all major credit cards
accepted).

Comments from original post

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Posted by: Ders | July 11, 2006 at 05:08 PM

better article here:

http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=070000&biid=2006070831378

Posted by: iheartblueballs | July 11, 2006 at 08:45 PM

Traitor to Tangun~!

To Yodok with you!

Posted by: Hugh | July 11, 2006 at 09:53 PM

Oh those silly Coreans!!! Why can't they just ZERG RUSH kekekeke Damaedo just to make a point about Corean Pryde?

Posted by: Mark | July 12, 2006 at 08:56 PM

"It's all in a book I'm writing that will soon be made available to the public through my website in the near future (retail $45, all major credit cards accepted)."

This sounds discomfitingly familiar...


Kevin

Posted by: Kevin Kim | July 13, 2006 at 05:39 AM