Media Thread 2017/18

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Ric's tweet:


Nailed it. The difference in reporting is so obvious.

 

[franksinatra]

Ric's tweet:


Nailed it. The difference in reporting is so obvious.

Great spot by Ric that. He needs calling out on those articles.

 

[Bluekiwi]

United transfers are "genius" and their players are "destined for greatness". .

But the media are right - Di Maria and Memphis are destined fro greatness - just not with the rags!

 

[Damocles]

To be fair, Wilson is an okayish journo normally and he's not exactly a United fan or City basher or anything (and he probably quite admires Pep, still). It's just that his opinion on Walker, i.e. that whole Guardian piece was shockingly absurd and shit in my opinion.

Wilson is a shithouse who has fooled a generation of amateurs into believing he has some insight into a side of the game that he blatantly doesn't comprehend, and with it has spawned a legion of Michael Cox shaped clones who continue to misinform and misrepresent how football works at a fundamental level, contributing to the ever widening gap of knowledge in the Anglosphere compared with other nations whose understand moved on from these singular concepts about 25 years ago and due to this have a far better innate instinct about positional play and the concepts introduced in the modern professional game. While the Paul Merson and Robbie Savage shaped pundits are very obviously damaging to the national footballing culture through misinforming the country on the workings of the game, Wilson and Cox are too yet focused on the other end of the scale, not only continuing the spectacularly wrong causality of "duelling football" but doing so with a form of legitimacy that makes people feel they're being educated. Everybody knows Merson is a fool so they ignore him. People don't know Wilson is wrong so he manages to do more collective damage.

Also he's one of the most unpopular journalists in Fleet Street and most people I've spoken to in that trade consider him a condescending twat who got big from a book that is essentially a big collation of other people's articles.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Wilson is a shithouse who has fooled a generation of amateurs into believing he has some insight into a side of the game that he blatantly doesn't comprehend, and with it has spawned a legion of Michael Cox shaped clones who continue to misinform and misrepresent how football works at a fundamental level, contributing to the ever widening gap of knowledge in the Anglosphere compared with other nations whose understand moved on from these singular concepts about 25 years ago and due to this have a far better innate instinct about positional play and the concepts introduced in the modern professional game. While the Paul Merson and Robbie Savage shaped pundits are very obviously damaging to the national footballing culture through misinforming the country on the workings of the game, Wilson and Cox are too yet focused on the other end of the scale, not only continuing the spectacularly wrong causality of "duelling football" but doing so with a form of legitimacy that makes people feel they're being educated. Everybody knows Merson is a fool so they ignore him. People don't know Wilson is wrong so he manages to do more collective damage.

Also he's one of the most unpopular journalists in Fleet Street and most people I've spoken to in that trade consider him a condescending twat who got big from a book that is essentially a big collation of other people's articles.

So he's a bit of a cockroach, then?

 

[Hungarian blue]

Wilson is a shithouse who has fooled a generation of amateurs into believing he has some insight into a side of the game that he blatantly doesn't comprehend, and with it has spawned a legion of Michael Cox shaped clones who continue to misinform and misrepresent how football works at a fundamental level, contributing to the ever widening gap of knowledge in the Anglosphere compared with other nations whose understand moved on from these singular concepts about 25 years ago and due to this have a far better innate instinct about positional play and the concepts introduced in the modern professional game.

Agree re Cox. :) I think Wilson is or used to be better, but it's like he never really built upon his relatively solid standard, quite the opposite really. Anyway, I wouldn't think he's in any way biases towards any current bigger club in England, he just has too many shit points and useless articles these days (and from time to time, some better).

Also he's one of the most unpopular journalists in Fleet Street and most people I've spoken to in that trade consider him a condescending twat who got big from a book that is essentially a big collation of other people's articles.

This is obviously new for me, but I won't say I'm surprised, so thanks for the info.

 

[MCFC1993]

Not one for making an agenda out of everything but find this ridiculous, using this image in this article:


Remember when Aguero was absolutely snapped at Crystal Palace away in 2015, had to go off injured, ref missed a blatant red card, think he was out for a while. Well they've used that image in a diving article.

Article from that game even refers to it as a 'knee high challenge' from Scott Dann on Aguero:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...ace-after-scott-danns-knee-high-10498070.html


EDIT: I should point out, I know this could look slightly petty as there is every possibility it is a complete accident.

I just remember at the time I was particularly aggrieved with that challenge that Aguero was on the end of because it could have caused serious damage. The ref saw it and still only give Dann a yellow and then for it to be the main picture for a diving related article is a bit disingenuous.

Also, Aguero is actually one of the rare few who tries to stay on his feet.

I'm also sure that there have been far more notorious divers in the premier league that would have been a more appropriate image for that article.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Not one for making an agenda out of everything but find this ridiculous using our/this image in this article:


Remember when Aguero was absolutely snapped at Crystal Palace away in 2015, had to go off injured, ref missed a blatant red card, think he was out for a while. Well they've used that image in a diving article.

Article from that game:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...ace-after-scott-danns-knee-high-10498070.html

Of all the players to put in that article!

 

[City Raider]

Maybe the media love in helps make the rags soft whereas we always have to justify ourselves, keeping the club on its toes. So every negative article actually helps and vice-versa.

Just trying to find positives!!

 

[Shirley]

Not one for making an agenda out of everything but find this ridiculous using our/this image in this article:


Remember when Aguero was absolutely snapped at Crystal Palace away in 2015, had to go off injured, ref missed a blatant red card, think he was out for a while. Well they've used that image in a diving article.

Article from that game even refers to it as a 'knee high challenge' from Scott Dann on Aguero:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...ace-after-scott-danns-knee-high-10498070.html

I don't think I'm looking for these, they just seem to hit you right in the face!!

The Indy are running an article headed "The Football Association to increase the number of drug tests for the new season" and have conveniently filed it under Manchester City club news.

As for comparing the Matic signing headline you just have to love the trollograph......
"Why Nemanja Matic joining Man Utd is the logical next step in the Jose Mourinho masterplan"