Media Thread 2020/21

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jimharri said:
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Thinking about it Louise Minchin has gone downhill fast.
 
MCFCTrick said:
Somehow, and baffling to me, but several rags and a couple of dippers I (sadly) know claim Sterling is a diver. Like the Emptyhad bolleux, its one of those things that they seem to think if they say it often enough it becomes fact.
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This gets on my tits as well. Sterling, and City in general, has more nailed on penalties turned down than given. It's been like that for several seasons while the diving rag and dipper cheats are given dodgy penalties and the media stay silent.

The classic was the rags at Villa last season when Penandes threw himself at Mings. Even in real time it was clear the goofy twat had fouled Mings but the ref gave it and even more ridiculously VAR confirmed it. The commentator said something on the lines of it wasn't enough of a clear and obvious error to overturn it. WTF?
 
Blue_eyes said:
I am not going to read it, and may be wrong, but I sincerely hope that the "how football became broken beyond repair" special report(in this country anyway) refers to sky and co buying the league, renaming it, and choosing a handful of "favourite clubs" to dominate. While along with uefa, supporting them to that end, to line their own pockets and take money out.

I suspect though, that it will be how a club with a rich history, that has experienced the true ups and downs of football since the 1880s took on the above.

With shrewd owners making sound investments this club flew in the face of the "closed shop" policy of footballs self proclaimed elite with its self preserving financial "rules", and became the record breaking, free flowing,free scoring, domestic treble winning club we see today.

The only thing thats "broken" is the grip of those chosen clubs on football, and the dreams of the sad trolls like delaney and the rest of the medias history club arselickers.
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Well worth repeating. Bang on.
 
stonerblue said:
Pretty sure the other poster is wrong.
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my hunch is that the offside tool wasn't working for some reason but they couldn't admit to it so had to drag Pawson over to rule it out for the foul to save face as they knew they couldn't get away with the offside. If he'd been onside I think the pen would have stood given who it was and the other penalties they've got over the last year, there was no reason to rule that one out as a Rags penalty in a title race other than the offside they couldn't ignore.
 
PannickAtTheDisco said:
I don't get why "shinning" it is seen as bad, like criticising someone for a glancing header because they didn't make full contact with their forehead.
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It’s because you can’t control what happens to the ball after you’ve hit it when you shin it. So what is touted as an outrageous piece of skill is in fact a fluke. Fair play to Fernandes because if you don’t buy a ticket you aren’t in the lottery but it’s a hit and hope, not a sublime volley.
 
PannickAtTheDisco said:
my hunch is that the offside tool wasn't working for some reason but they couldn't admit to it so had to drag Pawson over to rule it out for the foul to save face as they knew they couldn't get away with the offside. If he'd been onside I think the pen would have stood given who it was and the other penalties they've got over the last year, there was no reason to rule that one out as a Rags penalty in a title race other than the offside they couldn't ignore.
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Looked at first 'offence' and no foul. IF there had been a foul given then they would've checked for offside. No pen' as he was well offside. Yellow card for diving.
 
Chris in London said:
It’s because you can’t control what happens to the ball after you’ve hit it when you shin it. So what is touted as an outrageous piece of skill is in fact a fluke. Fair play to Fernandes because if you don’t buy a ticket you aren’t in the lottery but it’s a hit and hope, not a sublime volley.
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The lad that scored for, er, a team in yellow, did it with a sumptuous volley. As did Mings.
 
Chris in London said:
It’s because you can’t control what happens to the ball after you’ve hit it when you shin it. So what is touted as an outrageous piece of skill is in fact a fluke. Fair play to Fernandes because if you don’t buy a ticket you aren’t in the lottery but it’s a hit and hope, not a sublime volley.
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Unlike the Ings goal which was a peach of a volley, that he made to look easy but was very difficult.
 
I try and avoid getting too involved in the 'agenda' discussion but, quite by accident, we ended up watching a Sky documentary type programme last night called 'Outraged'. It's about racism/discrimination/homophobia in football and was fronted by Paul Pogba. They talked to Tyrone Mings regarding the Bulgaria match and the abuse both he and Raheem received that night. They pretty much opened the programme with footage of the incident with Fred at The Etihad, repeated it half way through and then rolled it out again at the end. No background narrative came with it, just the footage, repeated three times which, despite my personal abhorrence of any form of discrimination, I thought created a poor and unbalanced picture of our club given our commitment to both women's football, the LBGT community and our long history of racial inclusion on and off the pitch. I'm sure we're not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it really did come across as grossly unfair.
 
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