Media discussion - 2024/25

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I don't buy into any conspiracy about the media out to get the club. But I do think a number of individual pundits and journalists have completely gone down the rabbit hole in the last 12 months.

I've just watched a tv segment with people questioning the legitimacy of Haalands' contract.
 
Spurs quarter 69 said:
Compare and contrast the coverage of Dennis Laws passing to Tony Books. Barely mentioned as an after thought on football focus. When you consider all Skip achieved I find it down right insulting.
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Mind you apart from winning the second division title, the league title, the FA Cup then becoming the first British player to lift a domestic and European trophy in the same season, winning footballer of the Year plus winning trophies as a manager and serving a top club for 60 years, what did Skip achieve?
 
TonyColemansbagofapples said:
Mind you apart from winning the second division title, the league title, the FA Cup then becoming the first British player to lift a domestic and European trophy in the same season, winning footballer of the Year plus winning trophies as a manager and serving a top club for 60 years, what did Skip achieve?
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The media with their continual ignoring of the achievements of the club, players etc just demonstrate an orchestrated and disgusting absence of any integrity across the whole industry. Vitriol and clicks being their driver.

Shameful and petty but no longer unexpected, the status quo of the usual suspects controlling the PL has been seriously damaged and only a tiny minority such as Martin Samuel, have the courage to admit the conspiracy so blatantly apparent.
 
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Spurs quarter 69 said:
Compare and contrast the coverage of Dennis Laws passing to Tony Books. Barely mentioned as an after thought on football focus. When you consider all Skip achieved I find it down right insulting.
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Absolutely. The coverage of Law is fine, appropriate and reasonable. The coverage of Skip is egregious and insulting
 
Asa's left peg said:
I do wonder what 'normal' fans of other clubs think about it when they see multiple headlines over a number of years about us being relegated. The scribblers regurgitating the same old drivel, nothing new. I'm sure most are nearly as sick as we are about seeing the headline, never mind reading the same stuff.

There are other stories out there. A quick shout out to Joe Bray at the MEN - just a little piece about the physio that has been dragged all over the place to help Savio adjust physically to La Liga and the PL. Not Pulitzer, but a nice change.
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Was out with a Sunderland fan a York fan and a Huddersfield fan. They all think we are guilty. When asked what we are guilty of though they had no idea.
Media has done a great job
 
TonyColemansbagofapples said:
Mind you apart from winning the second division title, the league title, the FA Cup then becoming the first British player to lift a domestic and European trophy in the same season, winning footballer of the Year plus winning trophies as a manager and serving a top club for 60 years, what did Skip achieve?
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Obviously, City fans will have Tony Book as a club legend.
But, he was unassuming and under-stated, perhaps ignored, despite being the captain of a very successful City team with charismatic players.
Denis Law however had a much higher profile. He played in Italy, was the only Scot to be a Ballon D'or winner, plus he played for the Trafford Tramps.
Unfortunately, for City fans, the media will not contemplate their merits, as MUFC trump every other club (not just City) when it comes to exposure and exaggeration.
What annoys he, is that TB was a successful manager for City.
Very few other players of that era dabbled in management, as punditry began, which Denis Law undertook...
 
Platt Lane 59 said:
Obviously, City fans will have Tony Book as a club legend.
But, he was unassuming and under-stated, perhaps ignored, despite being the captain of a very successful City team with charismatic players.
Denis Law however had a much higher profile. He played in Italy, was the only Scot to be a Ballon D'or winner, plus he played for the Trafford Tramps.
Unfortunately, for City fans, the media will not contemplate their merits, as MUFC trump every other club (not just City) when it comes to exposure and exaggeration.
What annoys he, is that TB was a successful manager for City.
Very few other players of that era dabbled in management, as punditry began, which Denis Law undertook...
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The old school United fans and players have been very respectful of the passing of Tony Book, from an era when fans had grudging respect and the rival players were good friends off the pitch. The media know mentioning TB means they have to admit we were a big successful club way before the last 15 years, which they hate to do
 
asahartford1 said:
I thought the freight terminal and Trafford Park industrial park was a huge economic success and they want to close it down ?
And boost the economy of Liverpool in the process.
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The freightliner terminal doesn't serve Trafford Park. It puts containers on lorries to go all over the north-west (via roads in Trafford Park) and the container trains delay passenger trains. The alternative site at Parkside is next to the M6 motorways - and close to the Liverpool-Manchester line - though stuff online seems a bit vague about some of the rail routes (the Freightliners from southern ports would come via Crewe and Warrington).
 
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