Media discussion - 2024/25

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Metalartin said:
O J Simpson,
Harold Shipman.

What will they sink to next?

Is there a term other than Godwin's Law, for the habbit of citing horrible, emotion conjuring comparisons, to mask a weak argument? I know it's a type of logical fallacy(appeal to emotion) but I seem to remember there's another word for it, which escapes me.
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Maybe when it’s about City, it can come under the all encompassing ‘backheel law’ …
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
Who were one of the prime movers to set up the PL? It was Spurs and their then chairman and owner at the time Alan Sugar made a shit ton of money linking up with Sky selling his Amstrad satellite boxes during the tv boom back in the early 90s. They are in essence one of the prime stake holders of the league which allowed them a 15 percent cut of the tv money whilst the likes of City got 10 percent. How Peter Swales allowed them to do it with his standing in the FA at the time is bonkers, but we all know a lot of what he did didn’t make sense back.
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Alan Sugar was chairman of Spurs and on the PL Management Committee when the first Sky deal was negotiated. ITV put in a higher bid than Sky. That didn’t suit Sugar whose main business was selling satellite dishes.

So he leaked the size of the iTV bid to Sky who then topped it!
 
Metalartin said:
O J Simpson,
Harold Shipman.

What will they sink to next?

Is there a term other than Godwin's Law, for the habbit of citing horrible, emotion conjuring comparisons, to mask a weak argument? I know it's a type of logical fallacy(appeal to emotion) but I seem to remember there's another word for it, which escapes me.
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Yes - It's a 4 letter word beginning with a C
 
There was quite an emotional article from the would-be bard that is Sam Wallace published in the Irish Independent and Daily Telegraph today. (The Irish papers source a lot of the Premier League news from English publications).
In the article, Wallace laments the imminemt demise of Jadon Sancho's career.
Alas, "there was no bigger name in the England u/17 squad that won [their] World Cup in 2017, albeit without Sancho at the end..."
(I wonder who won Player of the Tournament that year. Oh well, never mind because there was...)
"No more sought after prince across-the-water [than Sancho] four years later..." and "no player as highly rated in his age group" (to be fair, his own team-mates at Dortmund, Haaland and Bellingham were respectively one and four years younger and so couldn't possibly be considered to be in the same age bracket).
By the end of the piece, he absolves Manchester United of any input into Sancho's relegation from prospective generational talent to the role of a contractual turd that simply won't flush by comparing him to Pogba, Lukaku and Antony or, as he describes them, "[no-risk players who United thought] would guarantee them performances'
Sorry I can't provide a link (read it through my library subscription) but it is worth a read for the utterly weird feats of mental gymnastics involved.
 
Metalartin said:
O J Simpson,
Harold Shipman.

What will they sink to next?

Is there a term other than Godwin's Law, for the habbit of citing horrible, emotion conjuring comparisons, to mask a weak argument? I know it's a type of logical fallacy(appeal to emotion) but I seem to remember there's another word for it, which escapes me.
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Myra a city fan perhaps, c#nts the lot of ‘em
 
mad4city said:
There was quite an emotional article from the would-be bard that is Sam Wallace published in the Irish Independent and Daily Telegraph today. (The Irish papers source a lot of the Premier League news from English publications).
In the article, Wallace laments the imminemt demise of Jadon Sancho's career.
Alas, "there was no bigger name in the England u/17 squad that won [their] World Cup in 2017, albeit without Sancho at the end..."
(I wonder who won Player of the Tournament that year. Oh well, never mind because there was...)
"No more sought after prince across-the-water [than Sancho] four years later..." and "no player as highly rated in his age group" (to be fair, his own team-mates at Dortmund, Haaland and Bellingham were respectively one and four years younger and so couldn't possibly be considered to be in the same age bracket).
By the end of the piece, he absolves Manchester United of any input into Sancho's relegation from prospective generational talent to the role of a contractual turd that simply won't flush by comparing him to Pogba, Lukaku and Antony or, as he describes them, "[no-risk players who United thought] would guarantee them performances'
Sorry I can't provide a link (read it through my library subscription) but it is worth a read for the utterly weird feats of mental gymnastics involved.
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You might find this handy: https://www.removepaywall.com/
 
Blueboy73 said:
This woman beating no mark should stick to dogging.
He's still not got over the fact that Pep had never heard of him.
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I wouldn’t waste my time but I hope someone has asked how his team Villa have spent nearly £1bn and have only managed to to qualify for the Champions League once?
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
First story on Sky News is about the rags new signing, Fernandes! Then about them maybe signing the lad from Brentford, then dippers maybe signing Kerkez, then their reserve keeper going to Brentford, then City making an actual signing…

On the football channel we have: Premier League years 96/97, followed by 2 episodes of Neville interviewing, followed by “prem classics’, Rags v Dippers, followed by 2 x PL 100 clubs, featuring Fowler then Thierry Henry, then 2 x PL I cons, featuring Luiz Suarez, then Van Nistlerooy. After 2 super Sunday highlights, we move to something called ‘PL stories’, featuring Juan Mata, then a documentary about David James, a repeat of the Mata thing and, finally for today, another PL icons episode, featuring Cristiano Ronaldo…….
0030 tomorrow start with PL legends, Gary Neville!!

They don’t seem to realise there are 17 and a half other teams in the PL (Arsenal are the half team as, although they get a fair bit of coverage, compared to the other two, they don’t really.

I’d actually be amazed if anyone bothers with MUTV or LTV, if they’ve already got Sky….
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Whoa there cowboy.
MUTV is essential viewing for the Trafford Tramps fanatics.
They need to know which next home-grown Legend & World-Beater is going to roll off the Carrington Youth Academy assembly-line.
The media always mentions that they have had a youth team player in their match squad, since the Newton Heath Nomads skipped out of town...
 
Platt Lane 59 said:
Whoa there cowboy.
MUTV is essential viewing for the Trafford Tramps fanatics.
They need to know which next home-grown Legend & WIFE Beater is going to roll off the Carrington Youth Academy assembly-line.
The media always mentions that they have had a youth team player in their match squad, since the Newton Heath Nomads skipped out of town...
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