Media discussion - 2024/25

[Mike N]

Anyone heard the Ian Cheeseman podcast from Monday with Barry Silkman ? I had to turn off with 20 mins to go. The most pessimistic podcast I’ve listened to. Barry Silkman come across as a typical ex footballer from yesteryear with his old fashion views . We all know we’ve been terrible this season and Pep needs to take some blame but the lack of respect was unreal , totally dismissing what Pep has achieved , he also said we had no defenders who can defend and doesn’t rate Dias as a defender . He said we've been missing Kyle Walker this season not realising he’s been playing and been very poor this season .

Silkman is a grade A knob but to be fair Cheeseman brings the gloom out in anyone!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Have you have dealt with a single person at the council/civil service that you remotely felt were able to do a good job?

Yeah, loads actually. And some of the most inept people I’ve dealt with were in the private sector.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

Despite it being an absolute truth, it's the kind of fact they are willing to airbrush from history in appeasement of the red shirts. They are more than happy letting red shirt fans spout absolute bollocks though.

BBC Sport can no longer be seen as objective or credible and arguably hasn't been for a very long time.

Why don't we organise a bit of a party at BBC HQ when we're found 115% Innocent.

Flares, Back Slapping, Industrial Pyrotechnics, Blue Smokies,The Conga & Oaky Koky.

Some disruption to services may occur as staffers join in or are delayed.

However, as these vile bastards seem to enjoy reporting on the current PL & WC champions, this would be a splendid opportunity for them to continue but with a good news event.

Shirley the great British public deserve to enjoy & be part of this public demonstration of justice.

115% Innocent !!

 

[Mifred]

Why don't we organise a bit of a party at BBC HQ when we're found 115% Innocent.

Flares, Back Slapping, Industrial Pyrotechnics, Blue Smokies,The Conga & Oaky Koky.

Some disruption to services may occur as staffers join in or are delayed.

However, as these vile bastards seem to enjoy reporting on the current PL & WC champions, this would be a splendid opportunity for them to continue but with a good news event.

Shirley the great British public deserve to enjoy & be part of this public demonstration of justice.

115% Innocent !!

Diamonds are forever

 

[chesterbells]

Despite it being an absolute truth, it's the kind of fact they are willing to airbrush from history in appeasement of the red shirts. They are more than happy letting red shirt fans spout absolute bollocks though.

BBC Sport can no longer be seen as objective or credible and arguably hasn't been for a very long time.

It’s the odd, because they manage to be objective and credible to some degree with every other sport - the ones I follow anyway - but not with football.

 

[BlindEyeSeesAll]

Not my wife but the BBC is full of people who can't do the job, it's essentially public sector-it's awash with wasters stealing a living. Have you have dealt with a single person at the council/civil service that you remotely felt were able to do a good job?

BBC 'Verify' have sixty staff in their employ - probably one of the biggest waste of public money going.

Don't get me started with the twats that work for the council (Stockport in my case) bunch of fucking mogadons in my experience

 

[blueste41]

I have worked in both the Civil Service and at the Council, similar to a few others on here. TBH there's a highly unoriginal clown like you everywhere you go, having a pop without really having a clue.

What do you for a living that makes you feel so superior?

Oh no, I'm a waster of the highest order-takes one to know one!
I'm a betting trader.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

Diamonds are forever

What a voice the burly chassis.

And Dusty Springfield !!

 

[BlueRockape]

What a voice the burly chassis.

And Dusty Springfield !!

Springy Dustfield ;)

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

I have just put Paul Merson on Sky sports news.

Wow. How hilarious. May consider binning it off if I get a decent IPTV

 

[mac]

I have just put Paul Merson on Sky sports news.

Wow. How hilarious. May consider binning it off if I get a decent IPTV

Where do you live St Helens Blue

 

[mexico1970]

Springy Dustfield ;)

Hubba!!!

 

[Prophet of Doom]

Silkman is bitter that City walked away from the Paqueta deal which he was involved in.

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Where do you live St Helens Blue

Haydock mate. Right near the race course

 

[waspish]

Silkman is bitter that City walked away from the Paqueta deal which he was involved in.

I guarantee they if we bought him that summer the fa premier would have suspended him indefinitely!

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

It’s the odd, because they manage to be objective and credible to some degree with every other sport - the ones I follow anyway - but not with football.

Which makes it infinitely worse, because they actually can be objective when they want to be, they just choose not to be with football, and that is an editorial decision. It comes from the top.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Which makes it infinitely worse, because they actually can be objective when they want to be, they just choose not to be with football, and that is an editorial decision. It comes from the top.

Current sport page has NO mention of Arses demise last night and, in another effort at impartiality ahead of a Liverpool v Spurs semi final, an in depth look at Connor Bradley…….

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Silkman is bitter that City walked away from the Paqueta deal which he was involved in.

Silkman would be in my top ten worst players ever to turn out for City. But he did score one of the best goals I have seen from any City player away at Ipswich in the 79/80 season. A chip from near the half way line.

 

[pauls]

Silkman is bitter that City walked away from the Paqueta deal which he was involved in.

Yeah,listened to Cheesys pod and Silkman tried to sound authoritative but failed miserable with the nonsense he spoke.Tried to convince he loves City when in fact the only thing he loves is money!
Also had a female fan raving about Nunes, all down to opinions of course!

 

[petrusha]

Silkman is one of my most disliked players ever to pull on the hallowed shirt. In March 1979, when I was just coming up to ten years old, we sold Brian Kidd and brought in Silkman. Kidd had been a great striker for us and was one of my favourites, so I was gutted to see him go. As his replacement, in effect, Silkman was already facing an uphill battle to win my affections, and he never succeeded. Quite the opposite.

Obviously, I didn't do away games back then, so the wonder goal at Ipswich passed me by and I didn't even have that one bright spot to remember him by. He just seemed generally dreadful, but it wasn't only that. Despite playing, at least when he first arrived, in a team full of stars, he seemed to regard himself as the main attraction, a seventies maverick and crowd-pleaser in the mould of Rodney Marsh, Stan Bowles and others who could showboat while the rest of the team put in the effort around them.

But Marsh, Bowles and the several other iconic flair players in the First Division in the seventies could pull that off (though I know Rodney divided opinions among City fans). Of course, Silkman wasn't fit to lace their boots. He simply wasn't up to scratch in a top-flight outfit it was the sheer lack of self-awareness that got to me. But it also made me doubt the recently returned Malcolm Allison.

I was just too young to remember Big Mal from his first spell at the club and wondered what other damage he might go on and do if he really thought Silkman a player deserving of a spot in a team with Corrigan, Donachie, Watson, Hartford, Owen, Barnes and the rest. Regrettably, I was right. Malcolm did rather a lot of damage.