Media Discussion - 2023/24

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eike said:
On 5 Lives 606 last Sunday our old friend Paul Nolan phones in,seems he's changed his name and now calls himself Micky. He was introduced by Savage as Micky the Man City fan( Micky) then tells us that he doesn't want City to win the Prem he would prefer Spurs to win it and City should concentrate on Chumps League. After this he tells Sutton that he was at Elland Road when Leeds played Norwich and Sutton was playing. Was great back in the day, Stannage used to take the piss as Nolan would change the team he supported on a weekly basis, nice to hear you again Paul.
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I loved listening to Stannage back in the day. Wouldn’t get away with half of what he said nowadays!
 
eyalluvitt said:
Here we go again, the only team in world football to do this
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To be fair Pep`s tactics of a single DM, allowed the FA to target City, the old fable of`if one player fouls 10 times he gets a yellow, if 10 players foul once, no one gets a yellow` As Fernandinho found out, if you reduce the criteria for a foul, ie call it a technical foul that is a lot of cards . City were running at 1 yellow for every 3 fouls last year, this year i think it is 1 yellow every 4 and a half fouls, making City the dirtiest team in the league as you would think only dirty play gets a yellow.
So are City committing more of these so called technical fouls , well the answer to that is no, the more defensive a team is the more of these fouls they commit, as defensive teams need to slow the game down more often.
 
salfordbluetrue said:
To be fair Pep`s tactics of a single DM, allowed the FA to target City, the old fable of`if one player fouls 10 times he gets a yellow, if 10 players foul once, no one gets a yellow` As Fernandinho found out, if you reduce the criteria for a foul, ie call it a technical foul that is a lot of cards . City were running at 1 yellow for every 3 fouls last year, this year i think it is 1 yellow every 4 and a half fouls, making City the dirtiest team in the league as you would think only dirty play gets a yellow.
So are City committing more of these so called technical fouls , well the answer to that is no, the more defensive a team is the more of these fouls they commit, as defensive teams need to slow the game down more often.
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They class a foul you get a yellow card for based on space. 9 players behind the ball not a yellow, doesn’t matter what the foul is, it’s just ignored.
 
cheekybids said:
They class a foul you get a yellow card for based on space. 9 players behind the ball not a yellow, doesn’t matter what the foul is, it’s just ignored.
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Too true, but the technical foul was brought in to stop teams slowing the play down, defensive teams use this foul far more that attacking teams, to the point only attacking teams get punished, mainly City as it is not applied evenly.
 
Kippax77 said:
Arteta's meltdown as at least stopped the rats in the media from writing shit about Erling getting a knock.
It probably would of been "can City survive without their talisman blah blah" for the next week.
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Avoid the media now as much as possible, but how have they taken the Red Arses rant? I can imagine sympathetic?
 
johnevans said:
Don't be bringing up the 'West Lothian Question' in a footy thread.. the punters will be telling you to take it over to the 'Off Topic' threads!
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Well said John Evans. No deviation from the subject matter of the thread whatsoever. Unless, of course, you want to comment on the physical appearance or voice of female journalists like Melissa Reddy !
 
eike said:
On 5 Lives 606 last Sunday our old friend Paul Nolan phones in,seems he's changed his name and now calls himself Micky. He was introduced by Savage as Micky the Man City fan( Micky) then tells us that he doesn't want City to win the Prem he would prefer Spurs to win it and City should concentrate on Chumps League. After this he tells Sutton that he was at Elland Road when Leeds played Norwich and Sutton was playing. Was great back in the day, Stannage used to take the piss as Nolan would change the team he supported on a weekly basis, nice to hear you again Paul.
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He’s certainly a character is Paul. Good to know he’s still around and hasn’t changed one bit.
 
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