Media Thread 2020/21

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willipp said:
Football focus and Ashley Williams on his first ever appearance on the show took all of 60 seconds to lose any credibility. Talking about Arsenal he said they need to be like united who are now back to where everyone wants them to be. Cliched utter bollocks and just shows they have zero credibility and just say what they think the masses need to hear.
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Media City hymn sheet.

Got Fatty Shaw on now. Babbling about the Rag's PUMELING of Southampton. No talk of disrespect, obviously.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Klopp's a lying turd, trying to deflect from his own and his team's shortcomings.

We both played on the 19th of December, us at Southampton and them at Palace. Since then, we've played 13 games while they've played 11. Our 13 includes the 2 League Cup games away at Emirates and Old Trafford (a competition we take seriously unlike them). So our "2 weeks off" involved 2 more games than them.

I wonder if any journalist has done some basic research and pointed that out. The club PR team should be all over this, with an official statement to make Klopp look like the lying hypocrite he is, rather than leaving Pep to deal witb.
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bobbyowenquiff said:
Stone's question was pathetic. He essentially said: "Are you concerned that you will be criticised for having a two-week Covid break over Christmas following Jurgen Klopp's comments." He couched it as if it was true when in fact we had multiple players affected and only one match was actually postponed. In fact we had more games and less rest time than LFC so the Klopp claim was just false.
Stone must know the claim by Klopp is false (he can check on Google). A fair and legitimate question would have been: "Were you surprised by Jurgen Klopp's comments." Stone is a disgrace.
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Bein sports Andy gray using the Christmas 8 day break narrative as a positive for city without any mention of number players out with covid. It’s therefore worked
 
willipp said:
Football focus and Ashley Williams on his first ever appearance on the show took all of 60 seconds to lose any credibility. Talking about Arsenal he said they need to be like united who are now back to where everyone wants them to be. Cliched utter bollocks and just shows they have zero credibility and just say what they think the masses need to hear.
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Bet he's been practising those lines all morning
 


Of all the cringeworthy lines James Pearce has had to put out over his career in order to satisfy his Liverpool propaganda quota, this might be one of the worst.

That's right, Jurgen Klopp went on a rant about how Lierpool aren't top because unlike City, they didn't have the luxury of a...2 day break.

This is the "corrected" quote.

"We need to play football, train and recover and use each minute to train. We haven't had a break, City had 2 days for covid reasons. It's a tough year. Some teams it looks less, but for us, it's tough."​
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It's even more stupid than the original.
 
domalino said:


Of all the cringeworthy lines James Pearce has had to put out over his career in order to satisfy his Liverpool propaganda quota, this might be one of the worst.

That's right, Jurgen Klopp went on a rant about how Lierpool aren't top because unlike City, they didn't have the luxury of a...2 day break.

This is the "corrected" quote.

"We need to play football, train and recover and use each minute to train. We haven't had a break, City had 2 days for covid reasons. It's a tough year. Some teams it looks less, but for us, it's tough."​
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It's even more stupid than the original.
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
 
Gingers Dad said:
Maybe I do misrember it all. But there was definitely more positivity around our 2011 and 2012 successes
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They used to go on about our 'poor defence' despite the Goals Against column showing a very different story.
And that belief has stuck even this season with some of the Football Knowledge-Challenged who claim to be professional sports writers.
 
domalino said:


Of all the cringeworthy lines James Pearce has had to put out over his career in order to satisfy his Liverpool propaganda quota, this might be one of the worst.

That's right, Jurgen Klopp went on a rant about how Lierpool aren't top because unlike City, they didn't have the luxury of a...2 day break.

This is the "corrected" quote.

"We need to play football, train and recover and use each minute to train. We haven't had a break, City had 2 days for covid reasons. It's a tough year. Some teams it looks less, but for us, it's tough."​
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It's even more stupid than the original.
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So they need to have senior sources to help their multi millionaire manager with simple words?
There used to be an expression 'so daft he doesn't know what day it is'.
Heute ist Samedi Herr Klopp.
 
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willipp said:
Football focus and Ashley Williams on his first ever appearance on the show took all of 60 seconds to lose any credibility. Talking about Arsenal he said they need to be like united who are now back to where everyone wants them to be. Cliched utter bollocks and just shows they have zero credibility and just say what they think the masses need to hear.
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There is an enduring myth within the game that what's good for United is good for football in general when there is plenty of evidence to tell you that this is not the case.

There also seems to be a rule that you don't criticise the footballing establishment i.e. the red teams. It just isn't done. Williams was both treading carefully and buttering up the establishment as he made it pretty clear he wants to be a pundit.

Think of all the young kids that want to be footballers. Well, it seems young footballers want to be pundits!
 
Did Liverpool not get a 7 day break between 19th and 27th?

Wasn't there some stat about having the largest average number of days rest between games (all competitions) over Christmas for Liverpool and City the shortest?

Klopp's gone full Trump on us and the whole sports media have become his OAN.
 
madloaf said:
Did Liverpool not get a 7 day break between 19th and 27th?

Wasn't there some stat about having the largest average number of days rest between games (all competitions) over Christmas for Liverpool and City the shortest?

Klopp's gone full Trump on us and the whole sports media have become his OAN.
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Yes but now 2 day break is the optimal rest
7 day break is like when the say you can have too much sleep it's not beneficial
 
There’s also the narrative about Liverpool being unlucky with their injuries compared to us. Have they also got their best player out for weeks? Have they had their top scorer out for months? Ok they’ve got their best defender out but we’ve hardly had an injury free season. Quite the opposite.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Stone's question was pathetic. He essentially said: "Are you concerned that you will be criticised for having a two-week Covid break over Christmas following Jurgen Klopp's comments." He couched it as if it was true when in fact we had multiple players affected and only one match was actually postponed. In fact we had more games and less rest time than LFC so the Klopp claim was just false.
Stone must know the claim by Klopp is false (he can check on Google). A fair and legitimate question would have been: "Were you surprised by Jurgen Klopp's comments." Stone is a disgrace.
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It was worse as he said no one else got a game off - obviously Everton did but there were also Fulham and Newcastle games postponed (my memory may be incorrect here but we weren't the only team)
 
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