Media Discussion - 2023/24

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Man City stay above Real Madrid in UEFA rankings, West Ham leapfrog Arsenal

Manchester City remain as UEFA’s top-ranked club for the 2024-25 season despite losing their Champions League title to Real Madrid. The Spanish club won their second Champions League season in three seasons — defeating Borussia Dortmund in last month’s final — but remain behind Pep Guardiola’s...
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FSG will love this headline in their favourite paper.
 
Protein Junkie said:
Nauseating gaslighting from the bbc - the boy prince now ffs
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Jude Bellingham: How a Birmingham City prodigy became England's driving force at Euro 2024

BBC Sport takes a closer look into the footballing journey of Jude Bellingham as England prepare for the Euro 2024 final.
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The problem with the media and it shows with articles like this is that they think they can tell people what to think, they assume that everyone watching cannot see what is actually happening during the games and we should all just think what they tell us and its infuriating, this pathetic narrative of the england team showing heart, grit etc etc is pathetic and the reality is that they have been very lucky and there is nothing wrong with that sometimes it is better to be lucky than good, tent peg has shown that in his last 2 seasons but the press telling us that we were too stupid to understand football and its all part of a masterplan is galling.
 
The problem with so many journalists is they think they are qualified to speak.

They are qualified to write. That is their qualification.
The rest is just opinion. No more/no less valid than yours or mine.

Except on certain subjects. We watch Foden, Walker, Stones week in week out. We are better qualified to speak about them.
But even on here we have different opinions.

Henry Winter talks like he's an authority on all things football. He's now a 'football writer' cos he was sacked.... I mean made redundant.
Just because he speaks with a very 'correct' accent doesn't make him a font of knowledge. Majority are like this.
Only Martin Samuel stands apart really.
 
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Pubteam Lomas said:
The problem with so many journalists is they think they are qualified to speak.

They are qualified to write. That is their qualification.
The rest is just opinion. No more/no less valid than yours or mine.
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Not sure we can call them journalists anymore, very rare that they either ‘investigate’ or ‘report’, as the majority are opinion pieces, specifically written to sell engagement and influence.

In short, there’s no longer an art to journalism, just the art of gaining money or power.
 
The Future’s Blue! said:
Not sure we can call them journalists anymore, very rare that they either ‘investigate’ or ‘report’, as the majority are opinion pieces, specifically written to sell engagement and influence.

In short, there’s no longer an art to journalism, just the art of gaining money or power.
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Bang on.
Employers wants clicks. They generate money through advertising, so they play to the masses.
 
Pubteam Lomas said:
The problem with so many journalists is they think they are qualified to speak.

They are qualified to write. That is their qualification.
The rest is just opinion. No more/no less valid than yours or mine.

Except on certain subjects. We watch Foden, Walker, Stones week in week out. We are better qualified to speak about them.
But even on here we have different opinions.

Henry Winter talks like he's an authority on all things football. He's now a 'football writer' cos he was sacked.... I mean made redundant.
Just because he speaks with a very 'correct' accent doesn't make him a font of knowledge. Majority are like this.
Only Martin Samuel stands apart really.
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They also know that association with a far reaching news outlet on an open forum such as Twitter gives their opinion more credence, than mine or yours, to millions.

Large numbers of the public believe that everything written in a paper, on Twitter or is spoken on Sky Sports is gospel*

*Unless it is disparaging to their team obviously
 
mancboy said:
The problem with the media and it shows with articles like this is that they think they can tell people what to think, they assume that everyone watching cannot see what is actually happening during the games and we should all just think what they tell us and its infuriating, this pathetic narrative of the england team showing heart, grit etc etc is pathetic and the reality is that they have been very lucky and there is nothing wrong with that sometimes it is better to be lucky than good, tent peg has shown that in his last 2 seasons but the press telling us that we were too stupid to understand football and its all part of a masterplan is galling.
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Same with the studio pundits who have watched a completely different game to the one on the TV !
 
mancboy said:
The problem with the media and it shows with articles like this is that they think they can tell people what to think, they assume that everyone watching cannot see what is actually happening during the games and we should all just think what they tell us and its infuriating, this pathetic narrative of the england team showing heart, grit etc etc is pathetic and the reality is that they have been very lucky and there is nothing wrong with that sometimes it is better to be lucky than good, tent peg has shown that in his last 2 seasons but the press telling us that we were too stupid to understand football and its all part of a masterplan is galling.
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All of this above.. and in addition, they throw their toys out of the pram the moment any one of us Blues dare to counter their points of view online, usually with well reasoned argument based on observing the football we have been privileged to watch since 2010 under Mancini, Pellegrini and (most of all) Guardiola.

They don't like it when one of us 'Little Boys (or Girls!)' points out that 'The Emperor' truly hasn't got any clothes on!
 
Finally some good news to report about the Euros.
Jonathan Wilson the Guardian hack is moaning. Not about the lack of goals in the tournament, not about the French tactics or even the fact that you are expected to stay awake during a Southgate press conference. This sad fuck is moaning the journalists in the press box were showered with beer after the final whistle in the semi final. Oh cry me a fucking river.
He's lucky alcohol is banned from the stands in England.
 
Blue Mist said:
Finally some good news to report about the Euros.
Jonathan Wilson the Guardian hack is moaning. Not about the lack of goals in the tournament, not about the French tactics or even the fact that you are expected to stay awake during a Southgate press conference. This sad fuck is moaning the journalists in the press box were showered with beer after the final whistle in the semi final. Oh cry me a fucking river.
He's lucky alcohol is banned from the stands in England.
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It wouldn't be beer I'd be showering the prick with,that's for sure....
 
Blue Mist said:
Finally some good news to report about the Euros.
Jonathan Wilson the Guardian hack is moaning. Not about the lack of goals in the tournament, not about the French tactics or even the fact that you are expected to stay awake during a Southgate press conference. This sad fuck is moaning the journalists in the press box were showered with beer after the final whistle in the semi final. Oh cry me a fucking river.
He's lucky alcohol is banned from the stands in England.
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The pseudo-intellectual hacks at the Guardian are precious feckers.
Don't they realise German beer has a "purity law" protecting it from dangerous additives
 
Visiting a friend this afternoon, I ( a Northern Irish blue) had the misfortune to see an 'Irish Independent' article by our friend Eamonn Sweeney. In a piece ostensibly about the egotism of Christiano Ronaldo, he ends with a complaint that the Premiership is invariably won by the 'fraudulent conspiracy that is Manchester City'. Some folk make no effort to conceal their prejudice!
 
Les McDowellRIP said:
Visiting a friend this afternoon, I ( a Northern Irish blue) had the misfortune to see an 'Irish Independent' article by our friend Eamonn Sweeney. In a piece ostensibly about the egotism of Christiano Ronaldo, he ends with a complaint that the Premiership is invariably won by the 'fraudulent conspiracy that is Manchester City'. Some folk make no effort to conceal their prejudice!
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So basically his problem is that we have the best manager with the best tactics, use our money wisely to buy great players with great attitudes, and generate money by investing in a world class football academy. What fraudulent conspiracy cunts we are.
 
Les McDowellRIP said:
Visiting a friend this afternoon, I ( a Northern Irish blue) had the misfortune to see an 'Irish Independent' article by our friend Eamonn Sweeney. In a piece ostensibly about the egotism of Christiano Ronaldo, he ends with a complaint that the Premiership is invariably won by the 'fraudulent conspiracy that is Manchester City'. Some folk make no effort to conceal their prejudice!
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Is he the one who looks like a cross between the Les Dawson character Cosmo Smallpiece and a threadbare bog brush?
 
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