Media thread 2022/23

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Prestwich_Blue said:
Remember the lockdown game v Villa at ours, when Bernardo came back from an offside position, robbed Mings then we scored? The media wanted that goal disallowed, so PGMOL changed the interpretation of the law to rule out goals where someone had come back from an offside position.

When Coutinho does exactly that, and a goal against us is ruled out, the media scream that it's unfair and the law is wrong, totally forgetting they screamed exactly the opposite a couple of years ago.
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Those two incidents were far from similar. The interpretation change following the Rodri incident dealt specifically with a player coming back from an offside position and “immediately impacts on an opponent who has deliberately played the ball”supposedly safe in the knowledge that he was offside and couldn’t challenge him.

Courtinho never challenged a City player. He simply received a pass in an onside position, having come back from an offside position. That has never been offside under any interpretations.
 
Ballosteve said:
Government has been warned about Rwanda's human rights record,well isn't the Rwandan's tourist board one of the sponsors of arsenal and have the sponsorship on the arms of the shirts,it just get ignored and fuck all gets said,it pisses me off about the hypocrisy of sports journalism in this country
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Rwanda and Arsenal, Saudi Arabia and United, Gasprom and Chelsea, Standard Chartered and Liverpool … there’s something about all of them yet the likes of Delaney, who is basically employed by Russian and Saudi owners, doesn’t think it’s worth mentioning and prefers to move against one of the more tolerant Middle East areas.

Oh, and he really is a little wanker.
 
LongsightM13 said:
I played a game at uni with a lad who was severely hungover even at 2pm but unilaterally decided to drop a gram of speed beforehand, to see if it was performance enhancing
He ran about like a lunatic for 15 minutes then collapsed, hurling his guts out and shaking like a shitting dog, almost on the verge of cardiac arrest
Sometimes the simple solutions aren’t actually the best
PS this was the law society team…
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Lawyers!
 
Stephen230 said:
Those two incidents were far from similar. The interpretation change following the Rodri incident dealt specifically with a player coming back from an offside position and “immediately impacts on an opponent who has deliberately played the ball”supposedly safe in the knowledge that he was offside and couldn’t challenge him.

Courtinho never challenged a City player. He simply received a pass in an onside position, having come back from an offside position. That has never been offside under any interpretations.
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I'll happily accept your explanation in the first paragraph but not the second. As I said earlier in the thread, I recall that David Silva was flagged offside, in the opening game of the 2019 season at West Ham, when he came back from an offside position to receive a pass.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I'll happily accept your explanation in the first paragraph but not the second. As I said earlier in the thread, I recall that David Silva was flagged offside, in the opening game of the 2019 season at West Ham, when he came back from an offside position to receive a pass.
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I do remember that game. Sterling or Jesus possibly were involved in probably the first ever controversial VAR offside decision, yes? I’m afraid I’ve no recollection of the Silva incident though, so I can’t comment on that.
 
StillBluessinceHydeRoad said:
But when we won 4-0 at Swansea in early 2018 Danny Murphy wanted to know why none of the Swansea players "had left something on" our lads. Where are the yellow cards? he wanted to know. He didn't advocate kicking opponents but why hadn't they kicked us?
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They demand leg breakers on us but cry about tactical fouling ruining football when we do it
 
Stephen230 said:
Those two incidents were far from similar. The interpretation change following the Rodri incident dealt specifically with a player coming back from an offside position and “immediately impacts on an opponent who has deliberately played the ball”supposedly safe in the knowledge that he was offside and couldn’t challenge him.

Courtinho never challenged a City player. He simply received a pass in an onside position, having come back from an offside position. That has never been offside under any interpretations.
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Let’s be honest that without the media outcry which would not have occurred had it been scored against us, the rules would have changed.
 
inchy14 said:
How would it stop diving? You’ve just guaranteed a goal not even a pen.
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If a player is tripped in the box he gets a direct free kick from the place he's tripped. Given that he's not getting a free shot at goal penalty then a player is much less likely to just dive to the ground at the 1st hint of a contact as the reward is not so great.

A goal would only ever be awarded if the foul stopped a CERTAIN goal, i.e. the ball about to be kicked into an empty goal when the attacking player is fouled. Any other legitimate foul that was not a certain goal is a direct free kick.
 
citymad said:
See Sly are being snidey little weasels again, Bigging up Haaland and then the next headline “which team is under the most pressure to win the champs league” with Erl in the photo. They know what they’re doing.
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To be fair I don’t have an issue with that.

As you say they are bigging up EH and as many have said on here that we need to win the CL to get that monkey off our back.

After many years of domestic success, yes it can be easily debated that we are under pressure to win it.
 
Peter FitzSimons' Cam Smith sledge backfires as pay is revealed


https://mol.im/a/11179691

I like how media rats are finally being shown up for hypocrisy about who you can take money off.

Maybe we should have a list of all our critics & then who pays them a quid & where it comes from.
 
jrb said:
Probably deserves it's own thread.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Manchester City have the costliest squad in world football

The CIES Football Observatory has crunched the numbers and ranked teams in Europe's 'big five' leagues according to the transfer fees paid to assemble their existing squads.
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Ok, fine. Use half the facts to suit the narrative you want to peddle.

Nothing less than the standard tosh from the fail.
 
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