Media discussion - 2024/25

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Had my weekly run in with Delaney last night, the bastion of human rights and Sportswashing in Saudi Arabia.
Asked him if he was that concerned why would he not take in a family from Saudi to assist them in escaping such atrocities. He didn't come back.
Also asked why his latest article was released the day after Newcastle won the cup and not 6 months ago. He is a whopper.
 
Centurions said:
The inevitable "Reports in Spain" tag...
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Erling Haaland - a correction

On 8 February 2023, we published an article under the headline "Erling Haaland ‘makes request to lawyers' with Man City star planning to jump ship" which reported claims in the Spanish media that Erling Haaland had asked lawyers to bring forward the release clause in his Manchester City contract...
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Chris in London said:
www.express.co.uk

Erling Haaland - a correction

On 8 February 2023, we published an article under the headline "Erling Haaland ‘makes request to lawyers' with Man City star planning to jump ship" which reported claims in the Spanish media that Erling Haaland had asked lawyers to bring forward the release clause in his Manchester City contract...
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I wish the club was as aggressive as Haaland's representatives in handeling this nonsense !
 
Pablo ZZZ Peroni said:
I notice you post every Monday when he is on the Chapman show :)
He's been my number 1 despised guy in the media for a long time. Master of the subtle dig or snide comment.
Micah Richards actually outed him as a LIverpool fan on there a couple of years back and took the piss but obviously his allegiances well know before then and posted on here many times re his Anfield Wrap associations etc.

This is from about 10 years ago:

"Do you ever have any problems because of who you support?

No, it’s not that important. I support Liverpool, and I always have, and I’m not ashamed of that. But what I should say is that I’m a Liverpool fan from my childhood, I consider myself probably slightly lapsed as a fan. It’s really hard as a journalist – you try and explain this on Twitter and people don’t react well, but you meet people and you work with teams and you develop friendships and relationships with people at those teams. Not necessarily players and managers but it can be people behind the scenes, and you tend to want them to do well.

So I really like Leicester’s press office because they’re really helpful, so I’m delighted that they’re top. My Dad’s a Leicester fan as well so that helps. I like Roberto Martinez so I’m really happy when Everton do well. There’s other clubs I like less, and I like them losing. So you are biased but it’s a more complicated thing than people think. I get on really well with City and I have done for years, but you quite regularly get people saying ‘You hate City like everyone in the media’ – I love Man City, their food is amazing, their press people seem really nice, their press lounge is comfortable, I’ve got two or three good friends there. So it’s more complicated than just saying ‘I am a Liverpool fan and that is it."

Funny enough I heard him on something else the other week describing himself as a "lapsed" Liverpool fan. That is fucking hilarious - simply a spineless piece of shit.
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Haha, yeah, guilty as charged on that one I’m afraid ;-)
For some people it’s Delaney, or Herbert, or Wallace, or Harris, etc etc, but for me it’s him.

It’s probably because I can easily avoid the others, but him apart, I really like listening to the Monday night show. He’s the only one who has the national platform for 2 or 3 hours - every single week. I would love to know how he got that gig full time, out of every journalist out there. If he’s there to represent “the written press” angle, his day job isn’t even with a UK publication.

His obsession with saying ‘nation state’ and my obsession with him saying it …

In every other context everyone I know has always just called them a country. 1) no one else on the show every picks him up and says no they aren’t owned by countries, or to prove what he’s just thrown off as an aside mid sentence, and 2) it doesn’t matter who any clubs owners are now, a pound sterling is a pound sterling whoever owns it, and thanks to good old PSR who a club’s owners are makes no difference in how much you can spend does it?
I could go on with 3), 4) and 5) but it’ll turn into another one of my weekly posts.

By the way, it won’t surprise you I say this, but superb post mate - those quotes from him are pure gold.
 
TinFoilHat said:
"The only winner of Manchester City's 115 charges trial is already clear - and it's bad news for the future of English football, writes OLIVER HOLT"
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He needs to stick to his beloved Stockport who are his club apparently. Another one who should be made unwelcome at our stadium.
 
Chris in London said:
www.express.co.uk

Erling Haaland - a correction

On 8 February 2023, we published an article under the headline "Erling Haaland ‘makes request to lawyers' with Man City star planning to jump ship" which reported claims in the Spanish media that Erling Haaland had asked lawyers to bring forward the release clause in his Manchester City contract...
www.express.co.uk www.express.co.uk
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Strange, I remember the original story but can't recall the retraction, was it that well buried?
 
give it to gordon said:
Anger towards Liverpool fans’ stance on the anthem reached a peak in 2022 when supporters booed God Save The Queen before that year’s FA Cup final, also against Chelsea. Klopp defended their right to do so, saying the club’s supporters were “wonderful people” who “wouldn’t do it unless there’s a reason for it”.
Not everything is better than in the past, but thank God we have the freedom of free speech and freedom of opinion. It was clear something like this would happen, everybody knew it. That is fine, nothing else happened, there were no chants"

Interesting free speech doesn't exist if it's to criticise the dippers !
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you'd be beheaded for booing or not singing the national anthem. :-)
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
You don’t have to sing it but you can just remain silent. Booing is just provocative. I’m an atheist but I don’t jeer at funerals,
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I'm agnostic about religion and atheism. Two sides of the same coin me thinks. One argues for the existence of, while the other argues against.

Reminds me of that old joke: " what did the Bishop say to the Buddhist?....... hey! your karma has just ran over my dogma!"

I'll get me coat. ;-)
 
jrb said:
Not City, but it was City when we won cup finals.

The ultimate feel good story would be if the Tory Telegraph went out of business, and cunts like Oliver Brown became unemployed.

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Such a predictable, bandwagon-jumping, yawn-inducing take that is.

I expect a slew of other articles in tomorrow’s edition critical of the UK’s trading and business links with Saudi too.
 
jrb said:
Not City, but it was City when we won cup finals.

The ultimate feel good story would be if the Tory Telegraph went out of business, and cunts like Oliver Brown became unemployed.

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I hope the Saudis are taking note about who's disrespecting them. Some of these people, or their colleagues on the Mail & Telegraph, will have to go there and report on the World Cup in 2034.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I hope the Saudis are taking note about who's disrespecting them. Some of these people, or their colleagues on the Mail & Telegraph, will have to go there and report on the World Cup in 2034.
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They don’t have to go there; they will absolutely choose to do so.
 
chesterbells said:
Haha, yeah, guilty as charged on that one I’m afraid ;-)
For some people it’s Delaney, or Herbert, or Wallace, or Harris, etc etc, but for me it’s him.

It’s probably because I can easily avoid the others, but him apart, I really like listening to the Monday night show. He’s the only one who has the national platform for 2 or 3 hours - every single week. I would love to know how he got that gig full time, out of every journalist out there. If he’s there to represent “the written press” angle, his day job isn’t even with a UK publication.

His obsession with saying ‘nation state’ and my obsession with him saying it …

In every other context everyone I know has always just called them a country. 1) no one else on the show every picks him up and says no they aren’t owned by countries, or to prove what he’s just thrown off as an aside mid sentence, and 2) it doesn’t matter who any clubs owners are now, a pound sterling is a pound sterling whoever owns it, and thanks to good old PSR who a club’s owners are makes no difference in how much you can spend does it?
I could go on with 3), 4) and 5) but it’ll turn into another one of my weekly posts.

By the way, it won’t surprise you I say this, but superb post mate - those quotes from him are pure gold.
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It's Smith for me as well and, looking back at my post history, we've exchanged posts a couple of times about him a few years ago :) i described him as the biggest **** in the media albeit there was a time I found him entertaining. Like you I've listened to MNC for years and Chapman, for a United fan, is good and will often pull up Smith for his nonsense.

Although he worked for the New York Times (but now the Athletic) he was always based in the UK. R5Live often had journalists on over the years and he was one and they liked him. Hence he got the MNC gig which is renewed each year. Living in Didsbury (but now in Yorkshire) it was easy to get him into theSalford studio at a time that was the BBC preference before they had loads of guests on remote.
 
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