Media discussion - 2024/25

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GOULDYBOBS said:
Can I just add one of my finest ever moments involved the camel gobbed ****.

I came out of Greggs at Manchester airport and came face to face with the entire United team coming home from an away in 12/13.
I was peering into my packet, fishing out my sausage rolls, I looked up and it was bacon face and the squad.

My body's initial response was to shout out "agueroOOOoooooo". The perfect reaction.
The entire squad groaned and dropped their heads. Camel gob called me a ****. Best day of my life
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Cracking post but didn’t know you were a City fan Luke.
 
petrusha said:
You're right about the turd that is Max Rushden, but he isn't as bad as his mate IMO. Glendenning is one of the most vile operators out there. An utterly witless buffoon, who thinks he should be starring at the Edinburgh festival but lacks any wit, insight or talent. The phrase 'stealing a living' was invented for the likes of him.
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A good summary of the man but you forgot the bit about online sex pest.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
‘Potentially sinking ship’. Talk about hedging your bets. Spineless fucking ****.
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That's possibly the most grudgingly, warped article against us that I've seen in a long while. His comments and insults are supposed to be clever but, I submit, it comes across as pathetically puerile, and without any balance whatsoever. As well as his mind, he seems to have lost his apostrophe too.

Obviously, he's from the "De Looney" school of journalistic bias. I would love to read an analysis of the article by a fair minded journalistic lecturer - or someone with gravitas in the industry, such as, perhaps, Martin Samuel.
 
madloaf said:
"Chat GPT. write a stupid article about manchester city that is neither funny or interesting. include the usual barbs about being state owned. do not use proper grammar so i seem like a bloke."
Red shirt fans satiated, cheque cashed. Job done.
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The ‘potentially sinking ship’ barb tells you straight away that they really do not understand the nature, ambition and long term planning that our owners have.
It’s a kind of rather pathetic re-working of the ‘sheikh getting bored and walking away’ routine.
 
madloaf said:
"Chat GPT. write a stupid article about manchester city that is neither funny or interesting. include the usual barbs about being state owned. do not use proper grammar so i seem like a bloke."
Red shirt fans satiated, cheque cashed. Job done.
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This is chapgpt with that prompt

alright mate here’s the deal innit, Manchester City. the so-called “football club,” yeah? but really it’s just a big cash machine run by some oil lads with pockets deeper than the Mariana Trench. they’ve got more money than sense, innit. like, how’s a club that couldn’t fill Maine Road suddenly buyin’ players like they’re pickin’ up milk at Tesco?

used to be no one cared about city, right, just that club down the road from united, their “noisy neighbours” or whatever Fergie said. now it’s all “oh look at city, they play the best football, Pep this, Haaland that.” yeah mate, ‘course they’re good, they’ve got like 400 million quid sittin’ on the bench.

and don’t get me started on the fans. you’ve got the old ones who are like, “I was there when we were in league two, mate,” and the new ones who think city’s been good since the dawn of time. nah, mate, you was nobodies before 2008. everyone knows that.

but yeah, city, they win trophies now, innit. congrats on buyin’ the treble last year or whatever. enjoy it while you can, cos when the oil runs out, you’re back to fighting for midtable. history? nah mate, you can’t buy that. keep polshin’ them empty Etihad seats tho.

anyway, up the reds or the toffees or whoever you support, just not them. cheers.

I should be a journalist.
 
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I've just read the most scathing article I have ever read about the Rags, not that I spend much time reading Rag articles, but it's probably the most scathing article ever printed in an English broadsheet. Jim White in the ToryGraph sticks it into the Rag management for trying to overcome their strangling debt by screwing the ST holders. Long may the debt continue to strangle them.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
I've just read the most scathing article I have ever read about the Rags, not that I spend much time reading Rag articles, but it's probably the most scathing article ever printed in an English broadsheet. Jim White in the ToryGraph sticks it into the Rag management for trying to overcome their strangling debt by screwing the ST holders. Long may the debt continue to strangle them.
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you coudve linked it to cheer us all up
 
Platt Lane 59 said:
David Meek in the MEN, although the MUFC correspondent, was another proper journalist.
Think Glendinning teams up with Max Rushden - the bloke who helped send Soccer AM to the retirement home.
Trying to be an "alternative journalist" is completely different to trying to be an "alternative comedian"...
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Yes re. David Meek.. I included him in a similar list some time ago. Even though he was a dyed-in-the-wool Red, he wrote fairly about them (in both good and bad times) and he was always fair when occasionally reporting on City and wider footballing matters.

For all the faults they may have had, that generation of football journalists wrote properly and didn't seek to push anyone's agenda, most importantly their own, ahead of the subject they were writing about.

Far too many of the 'teenage scribblers' churning out 'click-bait' on a daily basis are satisfied to be wrapped up in their role as client journalists doing the Red Cartel's bidding. They never, ever question things in the way many of us on here would wish them to.

And several of them are so wrapped up in their own self-importance that they cannot bring themselves to acknowledge sources when they go into print.. for example, a few weeks ago, one of the Irish correspondents lifted Johnny Cash's 'My empire of dirt' from his version of Trent Reznor's/Nine Inch Nails' song 'Hurt', using it to describe 'Pep's empire of dirt' during this recent, dreadful run. No acknowledgement quoting where it was from, just plagiarising a wonderful, creative image.

But, sadly, that's the way the world has gone. We can't change it.. but we can still call it out when these client 'journalist' attempt to pull the wool over our eyes..
 
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johnevans said:
Yes re. David Meek.. I included him in a similar list some time ago. Even though he was a dyed-in-the-wool Red, he wrote fairly about them (in both good and bad times) and he was always fair when occasionally reporting on City and wider footballing matters.

For all the faults they may have had, that generation of football journalists wrote properly and didn't seek to push anyone's agenda, most importantly their own, ahead of the subject they were writing about.

Far too many of the 'teenage scribblers' churning out 'click-bait' on a daily basis are satisfied to be wrapped up in their role as client journalists doing the Red Cartel's bidding. They never, ever question things in the way many of us on here would wish them to.

And several of them are so wrapped up in their own self-importance that they cannot bring themselves to acknowledge sources when they go into print.. for example, a few weeks ago, one of the Irish correspondents lifted Johnny Cash's 'My empire of dirt' from his version of Trent Reznor's/Nine Inch Nails' song 'Hurt', (which had originally been 'My empire of sh*t'), using it to describe 'Pep's empire of dirt' during this recent, dreadful run. No acknowledgement quoting where it was from, just plagiarising a wonderful, creative image.

But, sadly, that's the way the world has gone. We can't change it.. but we can still call it out when these client 'journalist' attempt to pull the wool over our eyes..
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Problem is its not just the sports press.
The press in general are utterly shameless uncaring fukin gutter snipes.
If in any other job they would have the shit kicked out of them most days
 
BlueRockape said:
Problem is its not just the sports press.
The press in general are utterly shameless uncaring fukin gutter snipes.
If in any other job they would have the shit kicked out of them most days
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Most are totally unprincipled, we used to protect the idea of the freedom of the press but nowadays I am not too sure about that at all.
 
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