Media Thread 2020/21

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Mike Cledford said:
Off topic slightly but the other day l watched something about 30 years of HIGNFY on BBCi player. It was interesting to see how Ian Hislop ticked over the years.
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His 'place in town' was a small terrace in Wandsworth Common. He was often seen collecting his newspaper still in his dressing gown. Bet he don't do dat now.
 
Mike Cledford said:
Could you tell me from your experience why some families get vouchers whilst others get the packs? Is it the way certain councils choose to do it. There has been a lot of talk about these packs but mention of where its happening regionally or otherwise although a very generic word 'companies' is mentioned but that's about it.
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Mike Cledford said:
Could you tell me from your experience why some families get vouchers whilst others get the packs? Is it the way certain councils choose to do it. There has been a lot of talk about these packs but mention of where its happening regionally or otherwise although a very generic word 'companies' is mentioned but that's about it.
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Yeah Sure,
Basically the government guidelines were very vague and basically said do what you deem to be the best for you i.e; food parcels or vouchers.

My school made the call to stick with vouchers as it worked well last time, was well received and made more sense.

Some schools (from what I can see from the ages of the kids of the parents who received these pitiful packages were Primary Schools) who have much smaller numbers of kids chose to use private providers to send out food parcels.
As many were so piss poor and not fit for purpose this has quite rightly caused a huge outcry.

The providers could have been private companies offering this service or even their own provider as some schools have privately run provision however as we've never gone down that particular route I'm not as well versed in this process.

Our own Kitchen Manager recommended vouchers and said that families would get far more if you gave them vouchers than anything he would be able to put together (our school meal provider is a privately contracted company)

The main point is though that it was so obvious what was going to happen once the guidelines came out.

A national scheme (Edenred) was in place last time that schools could order vouchers through rather than ordering direct (Edenred gives recipients a choice of supermarkets whereas ordering direct you can only choose a named supermarket).
Last time round there were problems with schools getting onto their sites to register however most schools I have contact with including ours eventually got onto this and they could quite easily have picked this up again and saved all this furore.

It's yet another example in a long list of government cock-ups and U-turns with schools and they keep making the same mistakes over and over again.
 
blueju said:
So just to redress the balance I tried quoting this little gem on the DM comments section under the ‘exclusive’ they penned about us. They have chosen to moderate this article and as you’d expect the Neanderthals have been given free pass yet none of my comments have seen the light of day.
Seeing as they printed the original article about the rags pinching the ‘new Totti’ off Roma and giving his dad a gardening job by the corner flag you’d have thought they’d have been happy to stand by it.
If there are still any anti agenda theorists out there Shirley this would be the final example that swings you?
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Really? Hahahaha they won’t even accept their own article
 
DorisBlue said:
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I'm guessing (unless it's changed since) that it's the two articles listed regarding goal celebrations.

The first (Referees told to remind captains of social-distancing rules) has a picture of the dippers being oh so proper.

The second (Guardiola: Following Covid-19 protocols by not hugging is too tough for players) of course has the picture from last night.

There is a third that claims 'Foden firing City's title resurgence' which even the commentators last night admitted is not a resurgence as we've always been there, it's just circumstances and games in hand that's made it look worse. Interesting that yet again they made mention of how good our defence is while gushing over Dias & Stones. It's only the idiots that are still going with the 'City are easy to get at' line.
 
LongsightM13 said:
A lot of the #TopReds flapping their gums today seem to have never heard of Louis Edwards and World in Action...
Interesting interview here from last summer with the acclaimed film director Paul Greengrass, who was behind the Granada TV investigation.
Turns out Edwards was not only bribing the families of young players and supplying rotten meat to the poorest children in Manchester and Cheshire, he was also cynically ripping off the families of Munich disaster victims
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I know a commercial butcher whose firm (ran by his dad at the time) lost many of the school contracts to Edwards in the 70’s. By all accounts, under the table deals were very much part of the success story.

Behind every great fortune, lies a great crime...
 
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cheekybids said:
a little bit of research of how it’s affected him wouldn’t have gone a miss.
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I am not a beliver in media out to get CITY but after what I heard and seen on BBC this morning they do have agenda on CITY - why keep going on about CITY hugging only when other teams all doing it and other sports? and why so much coverage?
 
Centurions said:
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regarding goal celebrations.

not hugging is too tough for players

how good our defence is
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Three articles this morning in the DT - must be a record. One is a match report and the others include a large graphic showing players huddling and a comment from Pep about how difficult it is, and the denial by City that they coughed up £10k for Almeida.

I wonder if my Rag cycling club member will still insist that our defence is wobbly. But there again he may go back, with Raheem's hoof over the bar, to how many chances Sterling has missed. What they miss is the fact that we create so many chances a good proportion of them will be missed. We could have won by five last night.
 
seantheduck said:
I am not a beliver in media out to get CITY but after what I heard and seen on BBC this morning they do have agenda on CITY - why keep going on about CITY hugging only when other teams all doing it and ll taken skother sports? and why so much coverage?
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Other parts of the media have jumped on the same bandwagon complete with the obligatory pics of City players (just showing Fodens goal on Channel 5 as l type) .
But why have they taken till now to realise what is happening especially as us 'muppet' fans were questioning the problems of football contact months ago?
 
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