lmjones1uk said:
He's just been on ssn - spent 10mins bigging up Manures past glories in the CL then started to wax lyrical about Arsenal & Barca's youth policy - then the cheeky twunt closed with the city game, killed him to say we deserved to win and then said that Tevez was educated by the Rags, making out they've done us a favour?
Steve, if you are reading, just keep smoking, drinking and eating unhealthy food you swetty faced fat rag twat...
If I may say so, your mistake, my friend, is to treat Sky Sports News as though it is a news channel run by Sky about sport. It isn't. It is a news channel run about Sky Sports - in other words, one massive promotional video for whatever Sky are showing. (There's a reason why SSN is available on freeview). When the information bar runs across the bottom showing that in the NHL Denver Broncos beat the LA Lakers by 3 to 2 in overtime (or whatever) could you give one? Me neither. But you may find that the game will be shown on Sky Sports 3 at 4 am the next day.
Steve Curry knows which side his bread is buttered on. He is not there to give us an objective balanced view of the world of sport as he sees it. He is there to drum up viewing figures for Sky. That is why the rags are being touted as the best thing to happen to football since, well, the last rags team which was the best thing to happen to football. If he came on to say 'Vidic is a thug and their manager is a cynical old cheat' it doesn't exactly put the audience figures through the roof.
Liverpool and Fulham are in the quarter finals of the Europa League. Not massive, but nonetheless a sizeable story. Heard much about it on Sky? Me neither, but I've just heard all about Lyon v Bordeaux in the champions league. Hear much about our game yesterday on ESPN? No, but if you're watching SSN you'll know all about Ernie Els win in the Arnold Palmer Classic.
Watching SSN is better than not having any sports news channel, but it's not exactly the World Service.
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