Media Thread 2020/21

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Doctor Jimmy and Mr Jim said:
What really gets my goat with these commentators and pundits, they make no attempt to hide their bias. And I mean that with any club....I wouldn't want someone on there just happy clapping City either. If they are good say why....if they are crap, also say why - and what did the opposition do to make it uncomfortable. Just tell it as it is.

Ferdinand is the worst. His comment the other week, after City thumped WBA 5-0, about Utd going back to the top of the league the next night (the Sheff Utd game) was shockingly unprofessional - and it backfired spectacularly. You just can't say that. I would have thought if you were asked to comment during play or at half time, at least try to apply some objectivity - a laughable statement I know but it would be nice to have.

What we have at the minute is a blinkered, one-sided view of a game, which normally revolves around the performance of the team of the former player (and many have played for a team in red). I have long thought that any co-commentator/pundit who is asked to comment on a game should have little previous playing history with either club. I can understand the argument that a former player can add a little inside knowledge if his team is playing. The problem with that, it's now morphed into what effectively has become fan tv due to their bias.

On numerous occasions I have listened to Tyler, Neville and Carragher telling stories when the game is in progress and they become private little in-jokes. Nobody else knows what the fuck they are talking about and they end up laughing among themselves. Not everyone is like that....Savage I think tries to be fair, Jenas is a bit boring but tries to be even handed, Gaz Baz is quite good and Souness also. But Sky and BT really need to take a fucking good look at their output, because it's all become a cozy little old boys clique.
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Good post. I absolutely hate the completely open bias including Micah's cheerleading.
Its bloody lazy as well as these so-called pundits are getting money for old rope.
Another thing is it is connected to the cult of celebrity and viewing figures. I was there in the Swamp when Keane butchers Haaland - the worst premeditated attack I've seen in 40 odd years yet people (including some blues) are just waiting for an outburst or some banter with Micah and are half hanging on every word. He can't banter with Souness because he has done it all in the game. Ferdinand not only is a knob end but he's also become a celebrity due to his documentaries and Hello magazine.
Spitty and Ratface have been sold as the LiVARpool Manure double act- big banter man cos " we're such big rivals. "
And this of course all feeds into the big business culture of football. I hate it. Look at the PL note and divisions below - so many teams have copied Pep yet there's no real analysis of why, what the benefits are, the skills needed. Contrast that with the cricket where they are actually showing you how the ball moved the way it does so people can understand it.
Have I said how much I hate the pundit media?
 
Kazzydeyna said:
We don’t know of course the details of any offer made to KDB, but if we have offered him a deal which is anything less than a big improvement on his current deal at the same time as quite obviously putting several hundred thousand per week to one side on the Off chance that the little poisonous 5-years-past-his-best dwarf decides to lower himself and play for us (if we offer him an obscene amount of money, natch) then Kev has every right to feel seriously pissed off. I wouldn’t blame him. I’d go so far as to say he would have every right to demand a transfer in that scenario.
If I was Raheem too, approaching my prime years, I would demand contract parity with any future newcomers. Ditto Bernardo. Ditto Aguero. Ditto Dias. Ditto LaPorte.
These are players that have turned up and done it already for City. Week in week out, season in season out.

Signing Messi would be a huge mistake. Let the twat go to PSG if he ever leaves BArca. They need a superstar to elevate their club and their league. We don’t.

Sign Haaland for a fraction of the total cost, plus one more striker.

If we feel the need to sign a mega star, lets go for Ronaldo at least. He’s proven in every league he has played in. A legend of the game. THE legend of the modern game.
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Great wind up there!
(well I hope it was a wind up!!)
 
Stiff Little Wingers said:
Good post. I absolutely hate the completely open bias including Micah's cheerleading.
Its bloody lazy as well as these so-called pundits are getting money for old rope.
Another thing is it is connected to the cult of celebrity and viewing figures. I was there in the Swamp when Keane butchers Haaland - the worst premeditated attack I've seen in 40 odd years yet people (including some blues) are just waiting for an outburst or some banter with Micah and are half hanging on every word. He can't banter with Souness because he has done it all in the game. Ferdinand not only is a knob end but he's also become a celebrity due to his documentaries and Hello magazine.
Spitty and Ratface have been sold as the LiVARpool Manure double act- big banter man cos " we're such big rivals. "
And this of course all feeds into the big business culture of football. I hate it. Look at the PL note and divisions below - so many teams have copied Pep yet there's no real analysis of why, what the benefits are, the skills needed. Contrast that with the cricket where they are actually showing you how the ball moved the way it does so people can understand it.
Have I said how much I hate the pundit media?
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I hate the cheerleading pundits. I’m sure sky have changed their business model since spitty came in because he can’t be neutral. Before spitty Carragher was at sky both Souness and Neville were very very neutral, Neville to the point where United fans were fuming with him because he used to hammer United and praise us and I used to think fair play to Neville because I could never be as fair if it was me talking about city and United. That’s all gone now, him and carra are a double act for the red sides. Even souness who was the best they had has put on his Liverpool hat in the last couple of years. You can see them trying to push this city v United pundit team with Micah and Keane they are always on together.
 
Its turned onto an old school tie club, they all look after each other.
Doesnt matter if your a drug cheat, spit in little girls faces, shag your brothers wife for years, deliberately try to injure another player etc.
All that matters is you played for liverpool or utd and if you want a job in the press/media you'll get it.

You have Tyler and Neville rambling on about what they had for tea last night instead of the match.

Crooks who is a fucking embarrassment to football let alone the press/media.

My last complaint to the bbc didnt even get a response, perhaps I was to rude ! Lol.
 
give it to gordon said:
Its turned onto an old school tie club, they all look after each other.
Doesnt matter if your a drug cheat, spit in little girls faces, shag your brothers wife for years, deliberately try to injure another player etc.
All that matters is you played for liverpool or utd and if you want a job in the press/media you'll get it.

You have Tyler and Neville rambling on about what they had for tea last night instead of the match.

Crooks who is a fucking embarrassment to football let alone the press/media.

My last complaint to the bbc didnt even get a response, perhaps I was to rude ! Lol.
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