Media Thread 2020/21

Status
Not open for further replies.
nijinsky said:
There we have the first indication Peps comment yesterday have given the media oxygen. Arsenal blogger on R5 says “as Pep says, they have unlimited funds” (paraphrased). No correction from presenter of course.
I hope Pep and the club were in control of him saying what he did.
I understand the power of taking the narrative but I’m also sure there are plenty of journos rubbing their hands for the next chance to link the money spent with where it “came from”...
How does he answer that? He was quite careful in only mentioning his 4 years and not prior spending. But that’s far too sophisticated an argument. I hope he’s not played right into a game of never ending whataboutery. Abu Dhabi petrodollars are far worse than Dubai petrodollars, pot noodle dollars, Russian mafia dollars, Iranian dollars, Saudi dollars, US laundered dollars, offshore dollars .... Very difficult to control that unless he just goes back to monosyllabic Pep.
Let’s hope we’ve thought it through.
Click to expand...
Sarcasm used to be one of the best traits of the British, however, reality tv, social media, millennials etc have dumbed a big percentage of the nation down. A foreigner (Pep) is clearly taking the piss and these dumb fucks can't even recognise it - embarrassing.
 
nijinsky said:
There we have the first indication Peps comment yesterday have given the media oxygen. Arsenal blogger on R5 says “as Pep says, they have unlimited funds” (paraphrased). No correction from presenter of course.
I hope Pep and the club were in control of him saying what he did.
I understand the power of taking the narrative but I’m also sure there are plenty of journos rubbing their hands for the next chance to link the money spent with where it “came from”...
How does he answer that? He was quite careful in only mentioning his 4 years and not prior spending. But that’s far too sophisticated an argument. I hope he’s not played right into a game of never ending whataboutery. Abu Dhabi petrodollars are far worse than Dubai petrodollars, pot noodle dollars, Russian mafia dollars, Iranian dollars, Saudi dollars, US laundered dollars, offshore dollars .... Very difficult to control that unless he just goes back to monosyllabic Pep.
Let’s hope we’ve thought it through.
Click to expand...
I would be tempted to tell them to read the accounts which have been audited and cleared by CAS with a sarcastic 'as l am sure you know'.
 
Ribchester said:
Incredible ....the BBC running headline sports story on the serial assaulter... the notorious Welsh manager.

this alleged criminal and alleged sexual predator evidently never played for a club team.
Click to expand...
And it has now mysteriously disappeared from both the news and sports home pages. It's been buried on the Welsh news page:

www.bbc.co.uk

Ryan Giggs bailed again after denying assault

Several newspapers had reported the Wales manager was arrested on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
Groke said:
Sarcasm used to be one of the best traits of the British, however, reality tv, social media, millennials etc have dumbed a big percentage of the nation down. A foreigner (Pep) is clearly taking the piss and these dumb fucks can't even recognise it - embarrassing.
Click to expand...
You're spot on there. The press know exactly the Pep is being sarcastic. The press also know the UK is full of Bennys who will belive everything they write. Sad reflection of society.
 
What's this obsession Sly Sports have with "who can stop Manchester City?"

Of course this is a rhetorical question.

However, I've cast my mind back to Last season and I can't recall one game where the dippers went into it with the tag line attached #stopLiverpool

It was regarded as a foregone conclusion that the dippers would win and win comfortably.

Could you imagine the pre-match build up in the media if it was the rags or dippers going for their twentieth consecutive win?
 
Tracking back said:
What's this obsession Sly Sports have with "who can stop Manchester City?"

Of course this is a rhetorical question.

However, I've cast my mind back to Last season and I can't recall one game where the dippers went into it with the tag line attached #stopLiverpool

It was regarded as a foregone conclusion that the dippers would win and win comfortably.

Could you imagine the pre-match build up in the media if it was the rags or dippers going for their twentieth consecutive win?
Click to expand...
BBC too. Every game now will be pre-faced with "Can West Ham (or whoever) stop City's winning run..."

Predictable and once again the underlying narrative is City winning game after game is boring, bad for the game, needs to end asap.
 
Don Karleone said:


Well worth a read if you have 5 mins.

He nails it, once again.
Click to expand...

Great article but will only be read by us blues and make no difference whatsoever. We know how it is and just have to accept it, I certainly lose no sleep over how the press portrays us, couldn’t care less. We get it and that’s all that matters.
 
Groke said:
Sarcasm used to be one of the best traits of the British, however, reality tv, social media, millennials etc have dumbed a big percentage of the nation down. A foreigner (Pep) is clearly taking the piss and these dumb fucks can't even recognise it - embarrassing.
Click to expand...
Indeed for sarcasm to work the recipient needs to have some sort of knowledge & brain power... otherwise Pep may as well just point and laugh at the trough swillers.
 
homerdog said:
And it has now mysteriously disappeared from both the news and sports home pages. It's been buried on the Welsh news page:

www.bbc.co.uk

Ryan Giggs bailed again after denying assault

Several newspapers had reported the Wales manager was arrested on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
Click to expand...
Not a single mention of the rag cunts in that article... haha they’re that transparent they could be a fucking window!!
 
Don Karleone said:


Well worth a read if you have 5 mins.

He nails it, once again.
Click to expand...

Really good article. Agree with a lot of it, but to me a pretty broad brush to taint all of the media. Still some decent stuff out there, like the article on the BBC today, regarding Moyes’ comments about Pep, being the Blumenthal of football.

Still he is spot on about the likes of Delaney/Harris etc, they perfectly represent everything abhorrent about the Modern media, and this transcends football and touches on the Royal Family, people who voted remain, voted leave, party politics etc. Vilification is a lot easier to sell than a more measured view of both sides of a discussion.
 
blue b4 the moon said:
The FA cup was a strange competition early on...called the Challenge Cup, winners had a bye to the final...a sort of Community Shield thing.

No doubt winning both trophies available shouldn't be scoffed at but only a few teams/games to win the league and cup dosen't really compare to modern day football.
Click to expand...
To be fair to Preston when they won the double and therefore “everything available to them” they had to beat Bootle, Grimsby, Birmingham St George’s, West Brom and then Wolves in the final. A run of similar quality perhaps to Liverpool’s first European Cup triumph - Crusaders, Trabsonzspor, St Ettiene, FC Zurich and B Monchengladbach in the final?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top