Media Thread 2020/21

[remember arthur mann]

I just looked into binning Sky Sports but it seems I can’t do it online. I have to phone them so I’ll probably be on hold for three days.
Just can’t stomach the thought of continuing helping to pay the wages of rent boy, spitty and the whole Red US propaganda machine.

They certainly don't make things easy with this freedom of choice malarkey, money thieving arseholes like everything else in this country.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Thank you and I most certainly will explain myself.

It’s easier to get through to them than you think, usually only a few mins once you’ve pressed the right choices on the buttons.

 

[Protein Junkie]

It’s easier to get through to them than you think, usually only a few mins once you’ve pressed the right choices on the buttons.

Thank you RB

 

[Centurions]

It’s easier to get through to them than you think, usually only a few mins once you’ve pressed the right choices on the buttons.

Yep, Sky aren't bad to get through to at all (and to negotiate if needed), Virgin on the other hand are absolutely atrocious in all respects.

 

[Mike Cledford]

The UK media, especially the press, has lost touch completely with its customer base. When you see people like Matt Lawton (Daily Mail) slagging off fans on Twitter it's totally bizarre. The volume of negative comments a lot of these reporters get is seen as some sort of badge of honour.
But upsetting the paying customers is a disastrous business model and most newspapers are already on their last legs because of the digital revolution (let alone Covid). Thousands of jobs have been lost in the media in the last decade. Trolling your own customers on Twitter is just commercial madness.
Most proper fans I meet despise the way football is covered in the press and on TV. There is no need for this to be the status quo. All anyone wants is honest, balanced, fair, and critical analysis of the sport we all love. What we get is bitter, partisan, and negative coverage where content seems to be designed just to wind people up.

I read the Telegraph for years and one of the reasons l stopped was that the young snotty nosed Jonathan Liew got far too gobby not only about City but with Blues.
Journos posting all over social media in their own names and spouting out purely private and often biased stuff started the decline in the previous standards of professionalism and led to the awful state it is now - low grade advertising copy-writers, drumming up support for their clients.

 

[Brendan110_0]

Could you imagine the wankfest if Phil Foden was a Rag player ? Perish the thought but thankfully he is ours.

There would be talk of making the team (England) fit around him.....an undroppable.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

Don't know why Pep spits so often. Every time the camera focuses on him, on the sidelines, he's seen spitting, for no good reason. I wish someone would have a word with him (perhaps his missus?).

I know people on forty a day who spit less than the average footballer.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

That journalist has been around donkeys years; I remember him years back on Hold The Back Page as a regular with Woolnough - and he was generally a red-lover who had little positive to say about us.

Thought Powell had passed on to that great press box in the sky. In truth he always came across to me as a surly sour faced old misery with nothing much good to say about anyone in any sport. Being a rag would explain it though.

 

[Gingers Dad]

Could you imagine the wankfest if Phil Foden was a Rag player ? Perish the thought but thankfully he is ours.

It was bad enough when Paddy McNair played a handful of games for them

 

[argyle]

I should really know better and stay well away from the mail but just came across this vomit inducing pile of shite...

Fernandes has shown how players should carry on in the Covid era

JEFF POWELL: The most welcome item of football news this week came with Bruno Fernandez being named Premier League Player of the Month for the fourth time out of seven.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Not sure what's meant by "perhaps he knows such infantile behaviour is for the birds" but we're shown hugging in celebration whilst that cock is sucking his thumb!

He's an old school boxing pundit and a Utd fan.

Utd PR is in overdrive this week.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Why on earth is Wayne Bridge on my screen as a pundit?

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

He's an old school boxing pundit and a Utd fan.

Utd PR is in overdrive this week.

Their PR wage bill must be hefty based upon the number of whores that they employ.

 

[chesterbells]

The UK media, especially the press, has lost touch completely with its customer base. When you see people like Matt Lawton (Daily Mail) slagging off fans on Twitter it's totally bizarre. The volume of negative comments a lot of these reporters get is seen as some sort of badge of honour.
But upsetting the paying customers is a disastrous business model and most newspapers are already on their last legs because of the digital revolution (let alone Covid). Thousands of jobs have been lost in the media in the last decade. Trolling your own customers on Twitter is just commercial madness.
Most proper fans I meet despise the way football is covered in the press and on TV. There is no need for this to be the status quo. All anyone wants is honest, balanced, fair, and critical analysis of the sport we all love. What we get is bitter, partisan, and negative coverage where content seems to be designed just to wind people up.

Indeed. What they don’t seem to realise either is that those who respond, Like etc and generally bolster their biased POV on social media are not a representative sample of all footy supporters; they are from a narrow band imho

 

[jrb]

Comments are being moderated.

They Daily United always do this when they know an article by one of their journalists is going to cause a backlash.

2 nice comments have got through.

Mine won't. I've also told the moderator where to go, as well as Powell.

No mention of the United players celebrating together at Burnley!

 

[Bill]

There would be talk of making the team (England) fit around him.....an undroppable.

he'd have 100 caps by now, would have famlies getting steak in free food boxes whilst developing a vaccine in his kitchen ....

... untill he left the rags.

 

[Time gentleman please.]

As long as we can sell it to the majority we don't care about the minority. Politics 101.

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

Watching Burnley at West Ham on Amazon prime, commentator stated Burnley played well against Utd but we're undone by a stroke of genius by Paul Pogba. Guess one man sees a stroke of genius another a flukey deflection.

 

[VP81]

Comments are being moderated.

They Daily United always do this when they know an article by one of their journalists is going to cause a backlash.

2 nice comments have got through.

Mine won't. I've also told the moderator where to go, as well as Powell.

No mention of the Uninted players celebrating together at Burnley.

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So predictable wake up city P R fight. Back for the thousandth time

 

[big gaz]

Why on earth is Wayne Bridge on my screen as a pundit?

There to rate John Terrys performance ;-)

 

[Kippax77]

Why on earth is Wayne Bridge on my screen as a pundit?

Has Frankie finally fucked the old knob off