Media Thread 2020/21

[citymad]

This bellend preaching there is no bias and commentating is neutral across the board.
So telling viewers that 60m dias passes it to 24m gundogan who in turn gives it to 50m de bruyne is the same as Maguire gives it to wan bissaka who in turn gives it to pogba?
The guy is living in cloud cuckoo land.

Someone needs to Twitter this reply to him.

 

[whipper]

A positive piece

 

[LongsightM13]

Imagine the intellectual dishonesty involved in citing Scudamore as some sort of guardian of the purity of football. Laughable that Neville thinks we should accept ethical guidance from the man personally responsible for the doomed “39th game” proposal and who demanded a £250k bung from each PL club just because he was retiring from his already highly paid position.

 

[SharpesEagle]

A positive piece

Love this, it makes me emotional lol I'm sick of SSN and rat face and others it really p****s me off, my sons put a swear box by the TV as I'm always swearing when they are on, as you can imagine its full to the brim lol he says mum you can't say that, but I can and I do, BTW my sons 21 lol.

 

[Bald fraud]

Watching Neville spit venom with Scudamore was embarrassing. I get that there needs to be some kind of repercussions but Neville with his scoured look was trying to get Scudamore to be more aggressive with the punishment. TBF to Scudamore he wasn’t having it and wouldn’t commit and Neville seemed furious. What a bitter bastard he’s turned out to be.

He’s desperate for them to dock us enough points we lose the league. Obviously his beloved rags would miss out also, but so would the dippers and Chelsea so he’d be happy to take the hit. But it ain’t happening rat boy so do fuck off!

 

[BeerIsTheBest]

Imagine the intellectual dishonesty involved in citing Scudamore as some sort of guardian of the purity of football. Laughable that Neville thinks we should accept ethical guidance from the man personally responsible for the doomed “39th game” proposal and who demanded a £250k bung from each PL club just because he was retiring from his already highly paid position.

Good post. But you forgot to add the charges of sexism and bullying from 2014. Another ‘do as I say‘ merchant.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

A positive piece

It is good to know that in a conversation with other footballing brains, they all had the same things to say.

Sometimes, esp with in game punditry, I feel like what has been achieved and how gets overshadowed by the agenda of the day and the game being played.

This was a proper “football” discussion, where people who know interact with a top football journo, and all come to the same conclusion:

We are being treated to a level of football and coaching that English football has never seen before.

Almost silently and stealthily, English football has become “Do we have the players to play Pepball, because that’s the future of football?” We are even seeing it at the likes of Brighton, ffs! They just don’t have the talent to regularly pull it off!

We are living in an era that we may reflect upon as seismic. The technical ability of the Continent that we have always looked at jealously has been added to the cut and thrust of the 90 minute slog that is British football.

Pep has melded the physicality of British football with the finesse of the technical football played on the Continent to come up with a team that plays at maximum intensity over 90 minutes by CREATING recovery periods within our game, while using it to continue to tire the opposition.

As we consolidate our game early in the second half, we are actually punishing the opposition by making them constantly have to come to a ball & player they already know are not going to win & challenge…but they have to do it! It is literally destroying the energy reserve and motivation of players WHILE it is aiding in recovery for the next 5/10/15/30 minutes for our own players.

Why run when it is the ball that needs to move? A good pass can make 3 of 4 opposition players have to sprint 10-20 yards, without making the City player run at all. While this is happening, the supporting cast of City players is relaxed in moving into their next position, giving the player in possession multiple options. As the City players move to receive, it creates another short sprint from the opposition. And on and on and on…

The things that amaze me are the first touch. We really “ping” our passes, but we have (most) players who kill the ball on a dime. Mahrez’ control of the long cross field ball with the outside of his left foot is a marvel of physics, even though it is accomplished almost subconsciously.

We are such a technically proficient team that it scares other teams. No-one likes to be played for a mug on the field, but almost every City player has that ability. That ability often actually creates the space you need to make it happen! Some teams have tried to pressure us to the point of stopping that technical ability from being used against us, but they have to be “on it” for 90 minutes, because it only takes being taken to the cleaners once.

We are in high cotton, rarefied air, at the top of the mountain…however you want to put it…and regardless of outcomes, as Pep says, it is the WAY WE PLAY that should give every City fan pause.

These are the “Good Old Days!” of tomorrow, and we should enjoy every moment of it.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

He’s desperate for them to dock us enough points we lose the league. Obviously his beloved rags would miss out also, but so would the dippers and Chelsea so he’d be happy to take the hit. But it ain’t happening rat boy so do fuck off!

What’s funny to me is that none of the ESL clubs wanted to get out of the Premier League AND they’re the teams that have CREATED THE $$$$$ THAT THE PREMIER LEAGUE LIVES ON!

I’m certainly not condoning what was attempted, but the Premier League/Champions League is what created the $$$, and the clubs mentioned are the ones that drive the big contracts. Teams like Burnley & Sheffield Utd & Fulham need to remember that!

 

[Aba452]

Good post. But you forgot to add the charges of sexism and bullying from 2014. Another ‘do as I say‘ merchant.

Didn't scudamore also have the infamous "strategic" plan for a new name on the PL trophy every few years?

Parasites all.

 

[discopop]

Didn't scudamore also have the infamous "strategic" plan for a new name on the PL trophy every few years?

Parasites all.

And let’s have it right Neville staffing his juice over this whilst ignoring the two red shite clubs were allowed to Interview Masters with I presume Scudamores blessing and yet he didn’t utter a fucking rat squeak stinks of hypocrisy the fool is doing nothing more than feathering his profile nest.

At least Simon Jordan sees him for what he is which is Peter Lim’s bagman.