Media discussion - 2024/25

[invisibleandalone]

Another day, another snide article in the Guardian , gloating about our demise this season

Apparently the aura has gone and we’ll never get it back again

Pep is waning as a manager and PSR means we won’t be able to spend to rectify it

Have they all forgotten where the dippers finished the season after the most glorious prem league title win in history ?
We are 4th with an injury decimated team. These thick fuckers who really know shit about football , they think when introducing new blood the player can just instantly adapt even when not knowing the language. Does any one remember Rodri's 1st season ? Looked very average, but now the best player in the world. It takes time to adapt which reporters wouldn't understand as the only ball they have ever kicked is on a beach. Even then I bet mammy had to rub their little toe better.

 

[Platt Lane 59]

The dips have one tactic if you can call it that, launch it down the right wing for Salah to chase. That’s basically it.

 

[Platt Lane 59]

They have used this "hit & hope" tactic for many seasons.
Remember those long, high balls behind a high-line defence that Surridge/Sterling/Suarez all chased down ?
Think Super Stevie Gerrard was seen as a visionary, amongst other LFC midfielders for this style of football.
In fairness under Klopp, they also whipped some killer crosses from their full backs.
But, they haven't played attractive, skillful football for a very long time...

 

[Asa's left peg]

Two observations:

If Haaland has it so easy, why doesn't Salah play more centrally?

First Carragher, now Salah... littke City tying up the biggest player in the Premier League has really pissed on their chips.

Play out wide facing one maybe 2 defenders running backwards or face 3 centre half's and a defensive midfielder facing your own goal in a area just in front of the box! That's before you throw in all the holding (without going down) and pinching.
Can't compare the two and he couldn't do it.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

A different generation now, they are all self loathing leftie wet wipes

Saw a huge AFD protest in Berlin last year. Hundreds and thousands, mostly young people and families. A lot of the liberals were the 70s and 80s generation. Things have changed in Germany. Shocking to see

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

They have used this "hit & hope" tactic for many seasons.
Remember those long, high balls behind a high-line defence that Surridge/Sterling/Suarez all chased down ?
Think Super Stevie Gerrard was seen as a visionary, amongst other LFC midfielders for this style of football.
In fairness under Klopp, they also whipped some killer crosses from their full backs.
But, they haven't played attractive, skillful football for a very long time...

Not as boring as Arsenal though with their time-wasting and diving.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Interesting article in the ToryGraph this morning. Apparently the maintenance men at The Swamp are having to count out and count back in again any wood screws they use. And a stationery order from Carrington was short changed when it was decided that Sellotape wasn't necessary and had to be returned. Has a cup of Bovril reached a tenner yet?

No but Omar Berrada has to produce a cost-benefit analysis for the board whenever he wants a cup of coffee, and he's been told it has to be black, as milk is an unnecessary additional cost.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

No but Omar Berrada has to produce a cost-benefit analysis for the board whenever he wants a cup of coffee, and he's been told it has to be black, as milk is an unnecessary additional cost.

And here we are being offered milk in our Bovril. How times change.

 

[Leyland Blue]

Typical Sly ref pundit. Changes his mind to match the final decision!

 

[TinFoilHat]

Typical Sly ref pundit. Changes his mind to match the final decision!

Mike Dean got the call from his bookies to STFU.

 

[Greenandblue]

United fans, their vloggers and bloggers across the Internet and media are absolutely outraged at Ashley Young's dive........we have definitely reached the post-truth disinformation parallel universe. One of the greatest divers in their history....and they're shocked and hurt that he dived against them.

 

[Inca Roads Bert]

A different generation now, they are all self loathing leftie wet wipes

Nah, far right Sheikh hating islamophobic snowflakes, sucking Elmo's butt ring á la the ponce Tommeh Wobinson.

 

[TinFoilHat]

 

[Rodri’s ACL]

Some call Carragher England’s best pundit
Would love him to score tomorrow especially now

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Proper ‘disappointed dad’ over the Carragher comment.

Imagine being bombed like that, from the best manager in the world?

 

[city2]

Would have loved it if Pep had said the guy who spits on children.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Proper ‘disappointed dad’ over the Carragher comment.

Imagine being bombed like that, from the best manager in the world?

Complete contempt. No other comment :)

 

[cheekybids]

Messi dealt with him the best. Imagine his excitement when he saw a DM from Messi & google translating ‘Burro’……

 

[Mancity1980]

Anyone seen this one?:

Man City: Why Pep Guardiola's tactics stopped working amid rise of rapid football

BBC Sport analyses why Pep Guardiola's possession-focused tactics have stopped working amid the rise in rapid, direct football.

www.bbc.co.uk

Apparently Pep football has been found out and has been superseded by faster direct football. We have been here before, this is no different to the old “that way won’t work in the premier league” when he first arrived. Instead it does work once he has the right players and they have time to adapt. No one could live with it and so they copied it and they still are doing that.

I have to confess that I think the BBC coverage of city is generally quite fair unlike the rest of the media and I don’t think this article is anti-city bias, I just think it is wrong.

 

[cheekybids]

Utd drop points, arsenal lost, England played Australia in cricket and lost, England beat Scotland is a six nations game and there was 2 boxing fights on last night for titles. And little City is front page, what a way to switch the narrative for the red cunts.