Media discussion - 2025/26

blueste41 said:
You clearly know it is so your obviously about to claim the two are somehow different, so fine carry on.
I except your usually someone who claims that refs are corrupt against us, for the red cartel and don't even hide it anymore? Yesterday we had two marginal decisions go our way against a red cartel team, immediately the ref bias is ignored and the focus shifts to media bias.
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Are you suggesting that Doku wasn't fouled?
 
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ballbag said:
This offside issue seems more like a problem of their own making.

After the wolves game, people were outraged, said it should be disallowed.

So the next time it's happened, they've disallowed it.

But now they say that it should be allowed.

Weird that, innit?
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And , although it's likely that a savvy pundit might have picked up on the Stones goal independently , Slott directly referenced it in his post match presser and set the Media Excuse Ball rolling as a distraction . His team were woeful and he knew it .
 
blueste41 said:
Your last paragraph is, for me, the salient one-there isn't a club on the planet that hasn't benefited from some decisions and been negatively affected by others. Yet a lot of the fans of those same clubs will swear blind that the game is corrupt against them and only them.
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Exactly. You win some, you lose some, and 'twas ever thus (Alf Grey anyone?!). The Doku foot in the chest thing I thought was a marginal call, but more obviously I can remember Raheem Sterling receiving a scandalous offside flag at the Etihad whilst playing for Liverpool against us, with his 'goal' disallowed as a consequence. The difference when it's us who benefit from a duff decision is that the media deliberately create a shit storm about it, because they know all the usual anti-City suspects will click themselves to death with their extended 'cheats' and 'corruption' narratives. Jay Bothroyd will still have dribble on his chin this time next week, as SSN will milk it for days......
 
Can anyone remember that blatant handball by a Liverpool player at Elland Rd, they went on to score from that attack, Var checked it and the goal stood, I think it was 2 or maybe 3 seasons ago, not a peep at the time from the media.
 
surprisedbygrass said:
And , although it's likely that a savvy pundit might have picked up on the Stones goal independently , Slott directly referenced it in his post match presser and set the Media Excuse Ball rolling as a distraction . His team were woeful and he knew it .
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Good point. He seemingly worked harder on getting his distraction tactics sorted out than the tactics for the match.
 
Plenty of scouse cunts tears today and they will continue to flow for a while longer i feel. What a set of cry babies fuck me, the first decision that goes against them and they want everyone hung drawn and quartered involved in their disallowed goal. The most vilest fanbase there is, and the media are no better. City cheats was the narrative today, fuck em all!
 
Fordyboy46 said:
Plenty of scouse cunts tears today and they will continue to flow for a while longer i feel. What a set of cry babies fuck me, the first decision that goes against them and they want everyone hung drawn and quartered involved in their disallowed goal. The most vilest fanbase there is, and the media are no better. City cheats was the narrative today, fuck em all!
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It would appear they are assuming the role of victims and that losing yesterday was not their fault. They seem offended by the decision going against them, but never ashamed by the many dubious ones in their favour already this season. Standard.
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
What that camera angle doesn't show is that Bernie ducked 'in case' Stones' header came in his direction, rather than 'because' it came in his direction, which is what Robertson was doing. Using an image taken down the pitch rather than from the side, it becomes clear that Bernardo is 3 yards to the side of both Stones and the Wolves' keeper.

For what it's worth, I wouldn't have disallowed Van Dykes' goal yesterday, because Donnarumma was neither unsighted nor distracted by Robertson. He just had his weight going through the wrong foot and was late diving for it due to having to readjust accordingly. However, that's not what it says in the rules, which was why it was disallowed. The other argument about Stones' goal is that Bernie fouled the keeper, which is of course complete cobblers. Literally every goalie at every corner gets baulked and bumped before the ball comes in and you would have 10 penalties a game if you awarded them on that basis.

In short......

Stones = perfectly good goal
Van Dyke = correctly disallowed (although personally I'd have given it)

My heart bleeds for Liverpool though. I mean it's not like those plucky underdogs have ever benefited from a bogus decision against us, is it? Leroy Sane disallowed goal in the CL, Milner no second yellow, Foden no penalty at Anfield, no handball by Alexander-Arnold in their area and they break away and score, etc etc.......
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I still havent got over Reeves disallowed goal in 81 against the cunts.....Alf fucking Grey
 
balotellishaircut said:
Can anyone remember that blatant handball by a Liverpool player at Elland Rd, they went on to score from that attack, Var checked it and the goal stood, I think it was 2 or maybe 3 seasons ago, not a peep at the time from the media.
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Not much of a peep at Crystal Palace this season with Salah's handball for the dippers equaliser.
Thankfully Palace still beat them
 
BringBackSwales said:
Souness was the last decent pundit Sly had
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Years ago, they brought in Peter Shilton, just a few times. He was refreshing - good insights and perfectly happy to call out players. Nothing like the bland woke box-tickers they use now.

I remember the panel drooling over the 'brilliant leader' Sol Campbell because he was throwing himself into everything, until Shilton argued that he was a liability and pointed out Campbell regularly leaving his man and gung-ho fashion clearing out strikers and co-defenders alike. They were trying to get him to tone it down, but he wouldn't. I never saw him again.

Another good 'un was Charlie George - they were discussing Bergkamp's fear of flying and he said 'load of bollocks - in my day we'd have taken him out on the piss and he'd have woken up in Istanbul!'

Never saw him again, either, after that :-)
 
Probably the wrong thread but yesterday was in my local here and the usual suspects were in. These include the Bradford born mate of mine who supports both the Toon and dippers and Bradford city and my other mate who is from Accrington and supports Dippers. But the one that was missing was my scouse mate who had the shits so couldn’t attend the demolition allegedly.
 
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