Media Thread 2020/21

[LongsightM13]

He needs to make sure he doesn't sneak off knobbing birds or get caught on the Hippy Crack or whatever.

Point taken but you’re doing that thing that people do on here, overplaying the significance of online football articles/click bait. The media with the biggest reach and biggest ability to “hype” is TV, with MOTD, Sky, Football Focus, MNF etc followed by radio with Radio 5 and Talksport. Sometimes just a few little montages on MOTD, or a single impressive performance like Sunday’s or a match winning one for England, are all it takes for a football “truism” to take root as the accepted truth amongst 80% of football supporters.

Foden elevated himself to “next Paul Gasgoine” territory amongst neutrals on Sunday and a few stunning goals or dribbles for the highlights over the next few months will cement it.

The irony for me, who watches him every week and has seen it coming, whilst he did some brilliant things on Sunday he wasn’t even our Man of The Match. For me is was Bernado! But he’s not English or 20.

Yeah the game changed completely when Bernardo was pushed forward

 

[moggymoz]

Wanted him sacked before he signed. Imagine what Sven could have done to set things up for Bobby? We'd have won the title a year earlier I reckon.

Agree to some point but he did sign some top class players in his tenure.

 

[aguero93:20]

Agree to some point but he did sign some top class players in his tenure.

Was he the one picking them or was Marwood?

 

[bakerdave76]

Just the 27 articles about Utd on the bbc sport Twitter page ...

 

[dickie davies]

Only this

Yourra bum ago squeaky squeaky

 

[Chris in London]

Yourra bum ago squeaky squeaky

No more wine

 

[Didsbury Dave]

It’s~a important is something he’d say a lot

That’s it. “Eez Importante”.

 

[lasereyes]

Very poor article in the NY Times about Man City and Liverpool by so4. me dude who is apparently their football correspondent in Manchester. It starts off: "sometimes the easy explanation tells the whole story" and proceeds to blame Liverpool's collapse purely on injuries and failure to strengthen in the summer.

Ignorantly ignoring the fact that
1. We have been without arguably the best midfielder and best striker in the history of the Premier League
2. VVD is the only meaningful miss. Gomez and Matip are mediocre at best and Thiago's injuries probably benefitted Liverpool given his quality (or lack of it) when he has played.
3. Comparing our last season to Liverpool's current is bogus. He should be comparing our title defence in 2018/19
4. Of course citing the money we have spent, apparently oblivious of the fact that VVD and Allison both cost more than any City signing (and of course he quotes the bogus Dias transfer fee)

I'd like to say Yanks should stick to baseball, except the English press are arguably even worse!

 

[lasereyes]

Patronising fat useless brain dead fucker

Foden's got more talent in his small toenail than Crooks

 

[lasereyes]

Classy from the rag infested, no fans in the crowd but they still manage to have a song with the words “why don’t City fuck of home”

Yeah we'll fuck off back to Manchester, a nice safe haven devoid of scum fans