Media Thread 2020/21

[@BluePhil8]

Lukaku’s touch makes Bony’s touch look feather light. Absolute bull shit.

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

I like Mowbray but he did prattle on about it being Klopp's 200th Premier League game today and the fact that only Mourinho had won more games as a manager in the 'first 200 games'.. which is true but..

- Klopp has won 127/200 games so far (64%)
- Mourinho has won 211/348 games so far (61%); sorry, don't have his first 200 games stat
- Guardiola has won 122/168 games so far (73%)

So, Pep is almost at the same level as Klopp but having played 32 games less. And his win percentage far outstrips the rest, including both 'The Special One' and 'The Amazingly Dentate One'.

I wonder if Guy will return to this one when Pep gets to game 200? I doubt it.

Yet another example of media Johnnies hyperventilating over made up, meaningless statistics.. which, when analysed and challenged, fade into thin air with their breathless commentary..

Might be better if commentators got all their usual stat's out of the way before the game starts -
Aguero hasn't scored since 1066.
City's defence cost the same as the entire GDP of Burundi.
City have made their worst start to a sesaon since 1899.
The goals have dried up.
Now, can we get on with the game please?

 

[mat]

Not scored for three games. Defence fucked. Title defence going tits up.

Media: Klopp deserves a bit of slack for everything he's done for Liverpool

Compare and contrast with.

Media: Pep has lost the dressing room etc.

 

[Horlocksleftpeg]

In all the reports I’ve seen there is no mention of a game in hand & certainly no talk we could be top before the Rags next play.

I read that we had the chance to go third after the Liverpool draw??

Ive also seen somewhere this morning that Liverpool fall a point behind Leicester on goal difference??

Theyll do anything to try and keep them relevant.

Imagine city had just picked up 3 points from Southampton, West Brom, Newcastle and United and hadnt scored in the last three games

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

To be fair- It is common knowledge City looked seriously at Lukaku last summer so wouldn't be a shock if we were to renew our interest in him.

It would be a hell of a shock to me and I suspect thousands of other City fans.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Not that common. News to me. Where did you hear that?

Jennifer Aniston told him whilst they were having dinner naked together.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I will tell you how big this United and Liverpool rivalry is (At risk of people being appalled by what I say). I asked a girl out in 1991. She was pretty fit (different league to me). I thought she would say no but she was a United fan so I told her I had 2 tickets for Utd v Liverpool that weekend (then I thought she would say yes). It worked and she said yes. I then went to Old Trafford on the Thursday to buy tickets for the match THAT WEEKEND. And got 2, easily.
That year United capacity was c47500. Two weeks earlier they had played Sunderland at home in front of 45,394 and then for the huge clash versus Liverpool they attracted 43,690. Not even a sellout, hence I could wander up and get tickets with 3 days notice. Biggest rivalry my arse

I have always thought it was contrived by the media and fuelled by Ferguson. Liverpool v United was never as big as City/United when I was growing up in Manchester, not even close. There was a broader Manchester v Merseyside hooligan rivalry.
It changed when football went global and the Liverpool v United match is now the ultimate derby for the fanboys from Essex to Mumbai.

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

Lukaku’s touch makes Bony’s touch look feather light. Absolute bull shit.

I remember an Everton fan quoting that "Lukaku trapped the ball further than I could kick the fucker"

 

[Tracking back]

He’s already being touted as player of the year,he can fucking have it,we’ll concentrate on winning trophies and not individual awards...

And subjective awards at that.

You can't argue if the club's name is etched into the trophy.

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

Lukaku’s touch makes Bony’s touch look feather light. Absolute bull shit.

In the England v Belgium match (2018 World Cup-3rd place play off), KdB played at least a dozen excellent through balls to Lukaku who messed up every time.
Not sure how the "Lump" finished runner-up on total goals scored-4 (2 more than Stones!).

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Mike McGrath, the clueless ex-Sun clown now trolling for the Telegraph, now insisting City are ready to spend big on a striker this summer.
Kane? Haaland? Dybala?
No, he insists we are going all out for the red reject, flat track bully and ‘second touch is a tackle’ ultimate antithesis of a Pep player, Romelu Lukaku
A reminder that he was responsible for this work of genius only a couple of weeks ago

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Fucking clown, stealing a fucking living.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I have always thought it was contrived by the media and fuelled by Ferguson. Liverpool v United was never as big as City/United when I was growing up in Manchester, not even close. There was a broader Manchester v Merseyside hooligan rivalry.
It changed when football went global and the Liverpool v United match is now the ultimate derby for the fanboys from Essex to Mumbai.

Don’t think entirely correct mate. I think united Liverpool was the bigger fixture in the 80’s, partly because we spent four seasons outside the First Division.

 

[Tracking back]

Is there a mass hysteria on here? It's like as though unless we are are being talked about positively it's time to sink into s depression.
A united Liverpool game is always going to be the game of the season. For the masses I'll add.

We are the most talked about club in world football the last decade. Good or bad.
We used to be the club from Manchester who did nothing.

We are top dog. Everything points to that.

It's slightly more nuanced than that I think LB?

For example Slabhead or Pogshite have a mare of a game and not once will their price tags be mentioned.

The Chelsea keeper has disappeared into the ether and not a peep from the pundits or media

We just don't seem to get that kind of latitude from media

 

[Aba452]

Just had the displeasure of reading Jamie Jackson's musings on our game in the gonad. Spent most of it staying KdBs crosses were whipped in too fast, how a penalty was correctly not given etc. Last para he acknowledged it was an inspirational performance.

The poor lamb's hurting.

 

[ZanteWeatherman]

Don't worry there will never be another Aguero moment due to VAR

I watched one of the live matches on Saturday and it was on a Brazilian stream. Strangely enough the commentator still did the 'gooooooooooooooooooooooooooool' thing. That would have been piss funny if VAR denied the goal.

 

[LongsightM13]

I read that we had the chance to go third after the Liverpool draw??

Ive also seen somewhere this morning that Liverpool fall a point behind Leicester on goal difference??

Theyll do anything to try and keep them relevant.

Imagine city had just picked up 3 points from Southampton, West Brom, Newcastle and United and hadnt scored in the last three games

Having been gifted longer breaks between games than anybody else...

 

[LongsightM13]

Just had the displeasure of reading Jamie Jackson's musings on our game in the gonad. Spent most of it staying KdBs crosses were whipped in too fast, how a penalty was correctly not given etc. Last para he acknowledged it was an inspirational performance.

The poor lamb's hurting.

Apparently some of our crossing was ‘Sunday league standard’ according to the ‘Forest fan’ with a faker exaggerated Manc accent than Mitten

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

In today's Daily Mail, you'll find the first mention of City's game with Palace, 3/4 down the sports page, just after the more prominent article about a tennis player's girlfriend washing dishes in the bathroom sink while quarantined in Melbourne.

 

[johnnytapia]

Don’t think entirely correct mate. I think united Liverpool was the bigger fixture in the 80’s, partly because we spent four seasons outside the First Division.

´80s

 

[Rochdale Blue]

I have always thought it was contrived by the media and fuelled by Ferguson. Liverpool v United was never as big as City/United when I was growing up in Manchester, not even close. There was a broader Manchester v Merseyside hooligan rivalry.
It changed when football went global and the Liverpool v United match is now the ultimate derby for the fanboys from Essex to Mumbai.

It wasn't long ago that tarquin fans were taking a copycat view from the medias nonsense that the rags/dippers game was the biggest derby in the north west that Spurs were no longer their biggest game.
I think Spurs fans would probably agree with them now.
Yesterday's over hyped bore fest isn't a derby, whatever they claim, but would they claim a Tranmere/rags cup game was a derby?