Media coverage 2018/19

[Barcon]

People need to realise that until our Arab owners fuck off and sell the club to Stan and Hilda Ogden and are sponsored by Tonys chippy, this will continue to happen.

 

[Henkeman]

I don't have such a big problem with Lineker's tweet, he's just trying to be funny rather than anything else. Of course, it gets leapt on by the media as an excuse to put the boot in. Equally, there are absolutely some in the media who love doing this, and we all know who they are. What does happen sometimes is that people start seeing it when it's not there, and that can rather undermine the genuinely snide comments and articles from the usual suspects.

But the crowd stuff is just white noise. Anyone who does go to games knows the score, all those who are social media warriors posting from the comfort of their armchairs are irrelevant. Those who want to have a go will find a reason to do so, if it's not Emptihad stuff it's oil money, Arabs, classless or the rest of it. Pissing in the wind is all they're doing, and I just don't care and don't get annoyed by irrelevance and irrelevants.

 

[blue44]

32k on a midweek, cold January, a few days after selling 52k for Rotherham in the first round, just after Xmas, and a congested fixture list, against a team we're guarenteed to win with no drama or excitement is not bad tbf; but this is not the point. This is:

Unless you attend every game, have enough spare cash to do so, enough time and no other commitments and you have NO ISSUE WHATSOEVER with the price of a season ticket or match day tickets, have no issue with the price of travel in this country or the way we're hearded like cattle into a few train or tram carriages; have no issue with paying nearly a tenner for a pie and a pint. Have no issue with none of this... then by all means go ahead and call out other teams for not selling out every single game.

All you're doing is perpetuating the idea that it's ok to treat fans like this and charge us what they do because you're saying we should be going to every game regardless. Sat at home watching sky sports wanking into your keyboard over pictures of empty seats whilst you hardly attend any games or support any local teams doesn't make you a better fan because another fans team didn't sell out a game. It just means you're part of the problem because you're not in solidarity with the working man who can't afford to go to every game and shouldn't have to fork out as much as he does when he does. The problem isn't empty seats it's you having no sympathy for any man affected by the commercialistion and prophylaxis of football culture.

And don't forget

we are now in the middle of 4 home games in the space of 12 nights,liverpool 3rd to 14th wolves,just after christmas.

makes my blood boil,I will manage all 4 along with my young lad but i know its impossible for everyone,how fkin dare lineker and his ilk have a go at our fanbase,when was the last time he paid to attend a game along with the other expenses around attending games ?

 

[blueian99]

I don't have such a big problem with Lineker's tweet, he's just trying to be funny rather than anything else.

It also gave the MEN the chance to describe him as a "crisp aficionado", so that was good!

 

[waspish]

They all know how good our support is they do it for clicks and keep the Narative going we dont sell out!

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

They all know how good our support is they do it for clicks and keep the Narative going we dont sell out!

I had some dipper giving me grief yesterday about how pathetic our support is, he couldn’t comprehend that if you research average attendances on the World Wide Web it highlights that mighty Liverpool with their millions and millions of knowledgeable fans average over 52000 whilst City with their empty stadium with tumble weeds average over 54000. This does not compute.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I wonder what Ducker and the like would think should the papers that employ them to write about giving youth a chance push them out to give youth a chance at journalism.

When will Ethan the 18 year old intern be given a chance to cover a big Premier League game?

Ducker is just peddling another false narrative. Foden has had more first team appearances at his current age than Scholes and Beckham combined had for United at the age of 18. Scholes and Bekcham were just short of their 20th birthdays when they made their first team debuts for the Rags. Foden has played in the Champions League. It is just more fake news.

 

[Henkeman]

They all know how good our support is they do it for clicks and keep the Narative going we dont sell out!

My favourite one of those was in the Guardian comments one time when a Leicester fan was sneering at empty seats one time until a blue pointed out the attendance was higher than Leicester City's record crowd in their whole history.

 

[aguero93:20]

Ducker is just peddling another false narrative. Foden has had more first team appearances at his current age than Scholes and Beckham combined had for United at the age of 18. Scholes and Bekcham were just short of their 20th birthdays when they made their first team debuts for the Rags. Foden has played in the Champions League. It is just more fake news.

Yep. He's on track to have as many appearances as either Fake Ronaldo or Messi at his age by the end of the season as well (not counting B and C team appearances).

 

[alib]

BBC Radio 5 Live doing a live phone in this afternoon about whether it's "unfair" to put a strong team out when playing a team several divisions below!!!!!