Media coverage 2018/19

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ClaudioDeyna said:
Ray of Man City Fan TV is currently having a twitter spat with Little Miggy and Barry Glendenning. You remember him (via 'The 100 Worst People On Twitter'):

'Barry Glendenning is a man who writes for the Guardian on Sport. He’s mostly known for his appearances on Football Weekly, however, where he’s selected as the comedy counterweight to the European Football Experts and Enganche Enthusiasts that make up the rest of the panel. In theory, a fine idea, but the truth is that his presence has ruined what was once football’s only acceptable podcast (as one Twitter user noted, “Richardson, Steinberg, Auclair and Glendenning. It’s like having a back four of Maldini, Moore, Desailly and Gary Doherty.”)

That’s one side of Baz, but as we keep reminding you, this is the 100 Worst People On Twitter, and Barry likes to relax of an evening with some casual Twitter beef. This is occasionally justified - football writing is different to other writing, because the writers tend to be slightly less privileged, the subject matter is entirely unimportant, and a lot of commenters are blinkered fans - but often not. So we get tedious exchanges of “no, YOU’RE a ****” back and forth with people with 16 followers, partly because Negative Comments On Articles Are The Worst Crime Against Humanity Imaginable, and partly because Glendenning imagines himself as Bill Hicks slapping down the hecklers.

Yes, Glendenning fancies himself as a comedian. We’re all well aware by now that only the most fuck-awful human beings ever consider that as a career choice, and he even gave it a go once. He was pretty awful by all accounts, and while I didn’t see it, I’m surprised the sense of humour that had him cracking along with a “black men have big penises, ha ha ha” riff at a recent football awards show didn’t stand him in good stead with his target audience.

The real issue here, though, is that none of Glendenning’s material has any sort of consistency or logic to it whatsoever. Athletic Bilbao are beating Manchester United? Ha, shows what a two-team league La Liga is! Real Madrid are 18 points clear of the team in 3rd? Ha, shows what an open and competetive league La Liga is! (Irony is one of the foremost subtle literary techniques among the Glendenning oeuvre.)

And if you’re gonna make negativity your schtick (and before you start, we’ve dished out plenty of praise, and you should’ve seen the messages we got after giving a nod to Seth Macfarlane), it’s probably best to ensure you actually do it full-time and to all targets. In reality, every night on Twitter is punctuated with Comedy Baz’s ham-fisted flails in the direction of any woman regardless of age or availability. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen an overweight, ageing football journalist try to flirt, but it has all the grim horror and can’t-look-away amazement as an M25 pile-up.

We’ll finish, as we probably always should, with a short anecdote which perfectly encapsulates the man. A while back, as compliant with Twitter Dickhead Law, yer man posted a photo of some booze on Twitter. What he didn’t realise was that it linked to his flickr account, the previous photo being him, standing, walloper in hand, presumably sent to one of the many girls he talks to. How did he react to the only funny thing he’s ever done? He denied it, deleted the picture, refused to discuss it, and blocked anyone who dared mention it. There’s your sense of humour. He’s like a fat Irish version of Graham Linehan.'
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Quoted for amazement value.
 
jrb said:
All you have to do is read the comments section after a City article. Especially in the Daily Fail.

Bar City fans, every other comment is from Liverpool fans mostly, United fans, and to a lesser extent Arsenal fans. I think they can’t be read anymore. Time is a great healer after what we did to their club.

So, translate that into click bait. More negative stories about City(FFP) will get more clicks than positive stories about City.
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Said the same thing this morning, unfortunately negative stories about us will get shit more clicks than pictures of our players with trophies, by a distance too.

Thats just how it rolls.
 
You add Journalists to that as well. They are much worse.

Independent.

The partisan TV pundits are taking over football - but does it matter?
Today’s product takes elements of the short-lived FanZone option with ex-players failing to conceal their emotions


This column has heard about one pundit, an ex-Manchester City player, who is being pressured by the City hierarchy to argue the club’s case more forcefully in the media. And in recent years, City’s lack of media “advocates” has been a long-running bone of contention among the club’s fans, as well as perhaps the sole explanation for Michael Brown’s surprisingly buoyant television career.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...ary-lineker-sky-sports-bt-sport-a8918826.html
 
jrb said:
You add Journalists to that as well. They are much worse.

Independent.

The partisan TV pundits are taking over football - but does it matter?
Today’s product takes elements of the short-lived FanZone option with ex-players failing to conceal their emotions


This column has heard about one pundit, an ex-Manchester City player, who is being pressured by the City hierarchy to argue the club’s case more forcefully in the media. And in recent years, City’s lack of media “advocates” has been a long-running bone of contention among the club’s fans, as well as perhaps the sole explanation for Michael Brown’s surprisingly buoyant television career.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...ary-lineker-sky-sports-bt-sport-a8918826.html
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Sorry not clicking it, couldn't give a shite, I think I've seen MB once or twice, the rest in the headline are on every f**king day.
 
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