Media Thread 2020/21

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Sheik Battle and Goal said:
Both of them were urging Sheff Utd to go long and hoof the ball forward. I thought they were there to comment on the game not coach from the commentary box.

Im becoming immune to BT. They’ll fold when Amazon muscle in a tear them a new one
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That for me just proved that Chris Wilder had a lot more idea about the game than McPointalot. Would have been great for us if they'd kept conceding possession by hoofing the ball up to the big bloke, who doesn't have the skill to hold it up
 
cheekybids said:
I actually thought pointy & Fletch were fairly balanced, they said things like squad size bigger & cost of defence since Kompany retired but it felt like someone had been in their ear warning them.
Normally I put them on mute, they were biased but not as bad as normal.
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As I posted in the matchday thread, six minutes the commentary lasted before I muted it
There's an hour of pre match build up and those two just carried it on instead of Fletch describing the action and Pointy giving his expert opinion on what has happened and what tactics are unfolding
 
The Future’s Blue! said:
Morning BBC is the Blue Peter of news programmes.
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Waiting for boris speech yesterday, the amount of mistakes by the presenter was amazing and earlier in the day one of the presenters said that the BBC ' had put in place level 4 in some areas of England'. I thought it was the government but no it was the bbc.
Yesterday was the first time I have watched bbc news for sometime ( missus wanted it on ) and it was awful like you say so many mistakes, and every other word was 'er'.
It's not right that such a poorly run organisation is funded by the tax payer.
 
Sheik Battle and Goal said:
Both of them were urging Sheff Utd to go long and hoof the ball forward. I thought they were there to comment on the game not coach from the commentary box.

Im becoming immune to BT. They’ll fold when Amazon muscle in a tear them a new one
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It was the constant urging of Sheffield United to cross the ball in earlier from out wide from both of them that became more and more noticeable "if they do this, then they've got more chance" all said with the feeling of hope and expectation rather than an air of neutrality. You could tell they were both hoping for an equalizer. Same narrative from BT as always.
 
give it to gordon said:
Waiting for boris speech yesterday, the amount of mistakes by the presenter was amazing and earlier in the day one of the presenters said that the BBC ' had put in place level 4 in some areas of England'. I thought it was the government but no it was the bbc.
Yesterday was the first time I have watched bbc news for sometime ( missus wanted it on ) and it was awful like you say so many mistakes, and every other word was 'er'.
It's not right that such a poorly run organisation is funded by the tax payer.
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Boris was clearly watching the Rugger and kept on putting the speech back. The presenters were working off the cuff. Which is a bit unfair because they are usually only expected to read out loud for north of £200k a year
 
stan bowles said:
It was the constant urging of Sheffield United to cross the ball in earlier from out wide from both of them that became more and more noticeable "if they do this, then they've got more chance" all said with the feeling of hope and expectation rather than an air of neutrality. You could tell they were both hoping for an equalizer. Same narrative from BT as always.
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It's also the way McManaman appeals on behalf of the opposition that does my head in; "that's a free kick" (following a clean challenge from one of ours) "that's a booking" (following an innocuous challenge), "that came off a City player last"(when it clearly didn't), "he got the ball first" (when he's clearly gone through the man to get there), "he's dived" (following an assault on one of our players in the box for which the referee has failed to give a penalty again) and so on. Very fucking irrritating.
 
stan bowles said:
It was the constant urging of Sheffield United to cross the ball in earlier from out wide from both of them that became more and more noticeable "if they do this, then they've got more chance" all said with the feeling of hope and expectation rather than an air of neutrality. You could tell they were both hoping for an equalizer. Same narrative from BT as always.
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Shades of Andy Hinchcliffe’s commentaries on us - regularly talking about what our opponents ‘need to do’.
 
give it to gordon said:
Waiting for boris speech yesterday, the amount of mistakes by the presenter was amazing and earlier in the day one of the presenters said that the BBC ' had put in place level 4 in some areas of England'. I thought it was the government but no it was the bbc.
Yesterday was the first time I have watched bbc news for sometime ( missus wanted it on ) and it was awful like you say so many mistakes, and every other word was 'er'.
It's not right that such a poorly run organisation is funded by the tax payer.
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I've switched to Sky News. They are a lot more professional than BBC News.
 
We must have missed 5 minutes of action yesterday whilst BT focussed on somebody sat in the stand, or countless replays of an earlier incident

That actually irritated me more than McManaman laughing when one of their players got away with a terrible challenge on De Bruyne.
 
bbc are worse unless use same company to direct game, they showed a tree outside the ground while quiet clearly the game had restarted
my lads laugh at me pointing it out
 
cheekybids said:
I actually thought pointy & Fletch were fairly balanced, they said things like squad size bigger & cost of defence since Kompany retired but it felt like someone had been in their ear warning them.
Normally I put them on mute, they were biased but not as bad as normal.
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At one point, after the bigger/more expensive squad comment, he, McMinimum, did correct himself by saying "or stronger squad rather", definitely sounded to me like they've been told to tone the bias down.
 
chesterbells said:
Shades of Andy Hinchcliffe’s commentaries on us - regularly talking about what our opponents ‘need to do’.
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What was it that Richie Benaud once said..."if you can't say anything that adds to the pictures, then don't say anything". This constant back and forth chatter between pairs of commentators is incessant, ill-informed babble. The fact that most of it is driven by an anti-City agenda makes it grate even more.
 
half & half derby scarf said:
Already been proven that the BBC online sports editor is a rag when they failed to defend the 'Bertie' article. Best to avoid anything BBC related really.
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I learned the hard way by copying and pasting part of a BBC article and ending up getting thread banned here on BM.

At least the BBC have a complaints procedure.
 
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dadnlad said:
bbc are worse unless use same company to direct game, they showed a tree outside the ground while quiet clearly the game had restarted
my lads laugh at me pointing it out
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Thats because they are young enough to know nothing else from the bbc and its normal to them, while you can perhaps remember when coverage was professional, fair and unbiased..........even fron the bbc!!!!
 
Independent? The Skewed Reporting on our National Game

The football page of The Independent on-line today (and any day) would be laughable if it was not so skewed.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football?CMP=ILC-refresh

Its coverage is red tops galore save for an old knocking piece on Kun on a non-incident; a skewed headline about City's win at Sheff U; and Everton (no mention of City in the headline) playing in the Women`s Final today.

it was an Important win yesterday, an overall good team performance with very good individual performances, and a sense of beginning to find more rhythm was evident, but will this help stem the off field media hysteria and the orchestrated undermining campaigns for a week before we play the humorous ones from the end of the M62?

Its happened before, it happened again, and it will happen in the future if Salah`s theatrics are not punished. Whilst it happens to some extent with other players in some teams, Salah and Mane have perfected an art form of exaggerated falling and flailing. Contact can be made in the box. The `winning` of many penalties and free kicks by Salah and Mane is a stain on the game. Souness spoke out. The rest of the media mainly brushed it under the carpet yet again.

Independence in the media`s football reporting has largely disappeared. The Independent - could it be a more misleading title?
 
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