Media discussion - 2025/26

mad4city said:
Wilson wrote a (decent to be fair) history of football tactics called, Inverting the W (I think) about ten or 15vyears ago. It was very well received.
Even though it offered no particularly great insights (again, to be fair, why should it? He's a journalist not a coach) and the book was mostly a very well-researched chronological report of the evolution of football tactics, he has been lauded as something of a guru in the subject by his peers ever since. Why, only his peers can say but it baffles me.
(It can't be because they largely know fuck all on the subject surely but...) iIt'd be a bit like a food critic detailing the history of Russian food service and being regarded as a great chef by other food critics.
His book wasn't without fault/bias. (Remarkably, it entirely overlooks the Revie Plan - the first time an English club successfully embraced European tactics).
Unfortunately, his reporting is so much not without fault/bias that it's difficult to take seriously. Never - in 15 years of sustained domination of English football- has he seen fit to praise City without some degree of straw-clutching mitigation or downright sarcasm of his own.
TL/DR? He's a vaguely competent historian but a tiresome journalist.
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Wilson has written at least one article (sometimes several) predicting Pep’s demise every season for the last five years
 
LongsightM13 said:
Wilson has written at least one article (sometimes several) predicting Pep’s demise every season for the last five years
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He has a clear problem with an anti-City bias.
I'd argue that gven his startling omission of the Revie Plan from a book (written and published in England, remember) about the history of football tactics, it's a bias that possibly even predates the takeover.
Whatever its origins, it's so obvious, he has made it impossible to take his opinions on City seriously.
 
mad4city said:
He has a clear problem with an anti-City bias.
I'd argue that gven his startling omission of the Revie Plan from a book (written and published in England, remember) about the history of football tactics, it's a bias that possibly even predates the takeover.
Whatever its origins, it's so obvious, he has made it impossible to take his opinions on City seriously.
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Agree, it’s one of the most famous tactical innovations in English football history. To omit it from his book can only be incompetence or churlish bitterness. Or maybe both
 
Moss Side's Finest said:
He's a liability. Yes he's a good player on his day, but, as well as it having to be all a out him, and the risk that has on squad morale, there is also his on pitch lack of discipline. He pretty much does and goes where he wants, that could be OK, except he often loses the ball in dangerous positions and is rash in his attempts to resolve those situations. Why do England (and our media) always seem to want figure like this e.g. him, Beckham, Rooney etc...
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Swashbuckling heroes are the stuff of heroic fantasy . And all the journalists wish they were him .
 
Pubteam Lomas said:
Liew at it again on SSN paper review.
Talking about England's defensive frailties, mentioned Stones lack of starts and O'Reilly needing to learn the defensive side of the game (there's something in that but considering he's just faced Adeyemi and Salah it's lazy).
But the coup de gras was 'can you imagine the England backline being run at by Mbappe (fair) or Endrick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

Endrick?????????
Brilliant journalism Jonny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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His didn't just face Salah he had him in his pocket
 
Delboy352 said:
I realised today why I listen to Talk Shite while I’m driving (especially on my own)…It’s so I can shout “Oh fuck off you w@nker(s)/t0sser(s)/cun7(s)/kn0b(s)/fecker(s)/b@stard(s)/tw@t(s)*” at least once every 10 minutes *insert as necessary
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I drive for a living, that is standard with or without the radio on
 
Delboy352 said:
I realised today why I listen to Talk Shite while I’m driving (especially on my own)…It’s so I can shout “Oh fuck off you w@nker(s)/t0sser(s)/cun7(s)/kn0b(s)/fecker(s)/b@stard(s)/tw@t(s)*” at least once every 10 minutes *insert as necessary
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I have just bought a new car which for some reason won't play Talksport. Not missing it at all
 
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