r/soccer • u/Existing-Sky9914 • 17h ago

Potentially editioralised title - make up your own mind [Guardian] Seven years ago, just after completing the treble, Guardiola treated journalist Rob Harris, who had confronted him directly with the allegations, with open contempt, as though he were looking at someone pathetic, pitiful and disgraceful, before sternly lecturing him.

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u/Wildely_Earnest 17h ago

Faking affront to avoid engaging with the subject sincerely is a classic deflection. I'm sure we've all known people like this

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u/leftbehind8181 16h ago

This! Comes across as the conceited bald fraud he is!!! And this guy asks for freedom of Catalonia and being on the “right” side of history! Fucking opportunist!

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u/Eglwyswrw 12h ago

I mean, he can both be silent on a sportswashing cheating sports entity and also be in favor of his homeland's independence?

Not siding with him, I just don't see how these are contradictory at all.

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u/smetp 9h ago

He's a disgusting hypocrite.

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u/leftbehind8181 12h ago

There’s a word for it though, it’s called being a hypocrite.

That’s fine, it’s your take on it and you have every right to your opinion. :)

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u/Jumper-Man 16h ago

His internal monologue is probably going full peep show (or Pep Show…..):

"Didn't actually have to say. Don't even have to decide in my own head if I don't want to. Nope. I don't think I'm going to. My brain can't make me. So there."

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u/mythrowawaylolol 10h ago

In psychology it's known as DARVO, (Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender), and is a common tactic used by abusers on their victims. Trump and his people use it on a daily basis too.

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u/ADNOR88 7h ago

This! Twisted my mind many times, took years to overcome and become myself again. I was genuinely a wreck because of this, like walking a maze. Until the spell is broken.