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Media bias against City
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For me, the observations you've made about the capacity of a football supporter's mind to warp reality is actually one of the more annoying aspects of bias within the media, as there are a wide range of pundits, former players of united and Liverpool in particular, who are clearly incapable of any meaningful form of objective thought when commenting upon their former clubs and the clubs around them.
Take Phil Neville. Last season he predicted united would win the league on BBC Sport, at the licence payers' expense it should be said, just before the season started. This was a prediction so outlandish, so far fetched, so absurd it could only be formed in the clinically deluded mind of a football supporter. No club in the Premier League era has gone from 7th to win the league - and that is because the gap is too great. It is a prediction that was (and remains) completely without logic or foundation - and therefore the inane ramblings of a supporter. Yet that clown, and there are others like him (Yorke, Thompson), are allowed to spout their tendentious drivel without being kept in check. That they are allowed to continue to do so speaks volumes about how sports media operates in this country. Clowns who cannot be professional enough to take an objective view on a subject, yet we, and supporters of other clubs, are supposed to listen to it.
That a man as palpably stupid as Phil Neville has been interviewed and chosen by the BBC to talk about football, who then did so in such a cringeworthy, biased way, using licence payers' money to reward him for so doing, sums it up for me.
If Phil Neville had only played for Everton he wouldn't have even got an interview. It really is that simple.
When interviewing former players for such a role, surely the most important quality should be an ability to be professional enough to leave a decent proportion of their club loyalties at the door, when on air. This particular part of the job description doesn't seem to apply if you've played for united or Liverpool, however.
bang on the money.
andyhinch
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Is that better, I struggle posting on my phone with this new format.or try to use a quote button.
Mikejl
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For me, the observations you've made about the capacity of a football supporter's mind to warp reality is actually one of the more annoying aspects of bias within the media, as there are a wide range of pundits, former players of united and Liverpool in particular, who are clearly incapable of any meaningful form of objective thought when commenting upon their former clubs and the clubs around them.
Take Phil Neville. Last season he predicted united would win the league on BBC Sport, at the licence payers' expense it should be said, just before the season started. This was a prediction so outlandish, so far fetched, so absurd it could only be formed in the clinically deluded mind of a football supporter. No club in the Premier League era has gone from 7th to win the league - and that is because the gap is too great. It is a prediction that was (and remains) completely without logic or foundation - and therefore the inane ramblings of a supporter. Yet that clown, and there are others like him (Yorke, Thompson), are allowed to spout their tendentious drivel without being kept in check. That they are allowed to continue to do so speaks volumes about how sports media operates in this country. Clowns who cannot be professional enough to take an objective view on a subject, yet we, and supporters of other clubs, are supposed to listen to it.
That a man as palpably stupid as Phil Neville has been interviewed and chosen by the BBC to talk about football, who then did so in such a cringeworthy, biased way, using licence payers' money to reward him for so doing, sums it up for me.
If Phil Neville had only played for Everton he wouldn't have even got an interview. It really is that simple.
When interviewing former players for such a role, surely the most important quality should be an ability to be professional enough to leave a decent proportion of their club loyalties at the door, when on air. This particular part of the job description doesn't seem to apply if you've played for united or Liverpool, however.
Nailed it though may I add - If Phil Neville had only played for Everton he wouldn't have even got an interview. Or won a cap for England or a punditry job it really is that simple.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33745717
A report flogging rags new kit on BBC. Notice the ommision..?
A report flogging rags new kit on BBC. Notice the ommision..?
gordondaviesmoustache
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Arsenal?http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33745717
A report flogging rags new kit on BBC. Notice the ommision..?
manimanc
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Mike summerbee told it how it was at the derby a year before the sick swan.
He exposed sky for what they are, rag cock sucking sympathisers with red tinted glasses.
He dared to question the fact that two teams played on the same pitch .
Then he said we'd come back next season and wipe the floor with utd.
He got accused of being drunk on air and got ridiculed from everybody.
He was right.
And he's never been invited back .
Shithouses.
He exposed sky for what they are, rag cock sucking sympathisers with red tinted glasses.
He dared to question the fact that two teams played on the same pitch .
Then he said we'd come back next season and wipe the floor with utd.
He got accused of being drunk on air and got ridiculed from everybody.
He was right.
And he's never been invited back .
Shithouses.
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He's still cuddling up to bobby mancs dried spunk on his shirt. Hated us since we got rid of his mate.
Robbie Savage thinks Utd will win the League!
Its weird the media ask them these questions and how they come up with the scum to win is indoctrinate in there mind set because of the success of one man for 20 years, before him they were a team in the same bracket as villa Everton Arsenal and Liverpool were streets aheed.. So when these pundits pick the scum as title winners dont they think where are all the goals coming from?
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