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David Sullivan

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Daily Mail : What football insiders are saying about 'grubby' David Sullivan: A nightmare to do business with, …
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Framed as socially alienating and excluded from professional norms

[loaded_adjectives], [conflict_framing] — Descriptions of his home as 'rich chav' and boardroom practices as 'us versus you' position him as an outsider violating cultural expectations

“Sullivan and co based themselves in a separate ‘chairman’s room’. The message was clear. It is us versus you.”
Daily Mail : What football insiders are saying about 'grubby' David Sullivan: A nightmare to do business with, …
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Framed as incompetent and counterproductive in management

[source_asymmetry], [episodic_framing] — Uniformly negative anonymous accounts depict him as disruptive to operations, undermining staff plans and making impulsive decisions

“Then it would drop on a bloody fans’ forum out of the blue and ruin everything – and we all suspected David had tipped them off because he couldn’t help himself. It was a bloody nightmare.”
Daily Mail : What football insiders are saying about 'grubby' David Sullivan: A nightmare to do business with, …
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Framed as untrustworthy and morally compromised

[loaded_labels], [scare_quotes], [vague_attribution] — Use of derogatory labels, insinuation of misconduct via scare quotes, and reliance on anonymous sources to imply unethical behaviour without direct evidence

“They used to call it his “lunch hour”. Let’s just say the rumours were that he would be in his office and he would be, well, what you might call “otherwise engaged”.”