Media Thread 2020/21

[Didsbury Dave]

Nothing about Gough holds up.

Even that story doesn't hold up. I listened to it.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Ronay lost any remnants of credibility he had remaining after his love letter to Putin/Russia during the last World Cup.

There are few good football journalists at the Guardian and every now and then they cover our games, usually we are reserved for the likes of get Ronay, Wilson and Jamie fucking Jackson.

The reason they hang on to the proven false narrative that we are "owned by a state" is because it is the only way they can retain the fake "sportswashing" narrative. The fact we are 76 per cent owned by Sheikh Mansour and 24 per cent owned by US and Chinese investors spoils it for them.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

I see the "don't care about City winning" brigade are out. Its almost as if they read on here what bothers City fans and then do a report on it. They're winding some of you guys up and you're so falling for it.

No one except lfc fans cares when they win it, no one except Chelsea fans care when they win it. That's the way it is. They've made something out of nothing again... A narrative.

 

[Mike Cledford]

I think one of the reasons is that back in November/December we were 8th ish, and the media darlings were fighting it out for the top spot along with box office Mourinho's Spurs, and golden boy Lampard's Chelsea, wuth dark horses Everton, Leicester and West Ham also doing well.
The media's predictions were full of 'what a season, football life is returning to the (borefest) norm that we wrote about in the 90's & 00's' - they were 'so so happy'.

Roll forward to February, and City are embarking on their incredible run streak, accompanied by the streak to the top of the table and then pulling away to 17 points lead (IIRC).

That's an 'inc-red-ib-le' turnaround, which should be lauded from the highest rooftops, accompanied by progressing at the same time on 3 cup fronts.... but sadly it didn't fit well with the mid year predictions of the pundits and media - 'Pep loses it', 'Liverpool are here to stay', 'United are back' etc.

So many pundits and media need to standup and say 'I was so wrong, because I'm blinded by clicks on the past, I endeavour to be a football correspondant, rather than a PR click mouthpiece from now on'.

Unfortunately clicks and ratings rule everything. I took the dog for her belated jabs yesterday and this morning got an e mail asking me to rate them even though l just handed her to a lovely SE Asian lady who brought her back when she was done. From what l could see of the vet under her mask l would give her 10 out ot 10 but that wasn't in the questionnaire.
I digress. It seems that it is more the media companies who dictate opinion and one way they do it is by directing the pundits. The same old names appear on more than one satellite company and the BBC. Lightweight Linekar is said to be the BBC's highest paid presenter. On £1.3m per year the BBC should have some sort of exclusivity clause. Instead he like the others pimps himself round other broadcasters often having different opinions on them than on the BBC. They all do as free agents. And so you never get a clear view of what these so called experts really think.
Just after we won the title Ferdinands ugly face showed how unhappy he was that City had won the title again. The looked even more upset when Savage sand the praises of City. My own naive first impression was that Sky would not want one of their pundits to be seen being so openly biased against the best team for decades.
Mais au contraire mes amis.Sky and the others love it. They want pundits acting like fans. They love Trevor Sinclair and TO Jackie batting for rrCity so they can try and rubbish them and even cut them off.
It appears that this morning Ratboy was shown mocking Liverpool heading for the Europa Cup, just like any of those idiots on Sunday would. Sky love this and it will be played out on a screen near you soon. The media love conflict whether it's between footballer pundits or a couple of B&B landlady's calling each other's doss houses.
Even though broadcasters think this is 'good tv', it's of no interest to me just another move towards another form of ESL which they try again soon.

 

[Mike Cledford]

Do you think that if it was in Liverpool they would have put messages in the bottles they were throwing?

Well when Rooney moved to the Rags, scored and kissed the badge a daft Blue Scouse lobbed something at him. Understandable but throwing your mobile does enable the police there to make a rare arrest.

 

[feelymcfeel]

That mail by whoever wrote it was one of the most bitter things i think i've ever read. Fucking delightful.

 

[old blue]

Well when Rooney moved to the Rags, scored and kissed the badge a daft Blue Scouse lobbed something at him. Understandable but throwing your mobile does enable the police there to make a rare arrest.

Unless of course he had just robbed it.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Unfortunately clicks and ratings rule everything. I took the dog for her belated jabs yesterday and this morning got an e mail asking me to rate them even though l just handed her to a lovely SE Asian lady who brought her back when she was done. From what l could see of the vet under her mask l would give her 10 out ot 10 but that wasn't in the questionnaire.
I digress. It seems that it is more the media companies who dictate opinion and one way they do it is by directing the pundits. The same old names appear on more than one satellite company and the BBC. Lightweight Linekar is said to be the BBC's highest paid presenter. On £1.3m per year the BBC should have some sort of exclusivity clause. Instead he like the others pimps himself round other broadcasters often having different opinions on them than on the BBC. They all do as free agents. And so you never get a clear view of what these so called experts really think.
Just after we won the title Ferdinands ugly face showed how unhappy he was that City had won the title again. The looked even more upset when Savage sand the praises of City. My own naive first impression was that Sky would not want one of their pundits to be seen being so openly biased against the best team for decades.
Mais au contraire mes amis.Sky and the others love it. They want pundits acting like fans. They love Trevor Sinclair and TO Jackie batting for rrCity so they can try and rubbish them and even cut them off.
It appears that this morning Ratboy was shown mocking Liverpool heading for the Europa Cup, just like any of those idiots on Sunday would. Sky love this and it will be played out on a screen near you soon. The media love conflict whether it's between footballer pundits or a couple of B&B landlady's calling each other's doss houses.
Even though broadcasters think this is 'good tv', it's of no interest to me just another move towards another form of ESL which they try again soon.

These football broadcasters , especially SKY and BT, are all struggling. There are many reasons for this but one of the key ones is they have lost touch with their core audience. They have built their content around banter on Twitter. The fact is that 90 per cent of people are not active on Twitter and its minority audience is now declining. SKY and BT are literally cutting their own commercial throats by promoting their childish (often biased) approach to covering football.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

I see the "don't care about City winning" brigade are out. Its almost as if they read on here what bothers City fans and then do a report on it. They're winding some of you guys up and you're so falling for it.

No one except lfc fans cares when they win it, no one except Chelsea fans care when they win it. That's the way it is. They've made something out of nothing again... A narrative.

funny aint it.

Bitter twats

 

[Mike Cledford]

Unless of course he had just robbed it.

Of course.!