This has easily got to be one of the worst hack jobs I've read by the GP media, and most of it is absolute ..... It's not Yellow tinge, it's a sea of Yellow sewage. Kropo should be ashamed to have this hack feature on his site. Then again, I'm willing to bet Kropo agrees close to 100% with this utterly one sided piece.
Oxley isn't some nameless hack, he's a prominent figure in GP's media. So if he can write this .... and pass it off as "journalism"" says everything you need to know about the plight of Rossi’s competitors. Notice how he glossed over the most epic whine by Rossi, in magnitude that anything anybody ever says in comparison from hence forth should be considered the size of a quark. He says, maybe we shouldn't blame these guys...but I'm going to completely blame Lorenzo. Notice Mat Oxley claims Lorenzo said Rossi didn’t have to pass, then argues that's the point of the sport. Except that's not what Lorenzo said, he said Rossi's didn’t need to pass this way knowing he was probably faster. The message being you can pass, just do it more conventionally. Mat says Lorenzo shouldn't expect a written offer to pass. Can Mat link me to his article lambasting Rossi for asking not only for a written offer, but him wanted it written in gold at Sepang. Not to mention his accusations that Marc not executing a pass at Valencia was tantamount to cheating.
Missing from this hack piece was Rossi whining that Pedrosa passed in a Marquezesk fashion. Wait, no mention of it? Oh he must have missed the message. Newsflash Nat Oxley, Rossi was whining and bitching, moreover, he took a dig at Pedrosa (the poor guy who Lorenzo stole his moment of glory) and a dig at Marquez to boot, Rossi just wrapped it in smiles.
Oxley is a hack. He wouldn't survive on this forum. He's chickenshit and aids Rossi to use the media as a weapon.
If you live in a glass house, don't throw rocks.