Media Thread 2020/21

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johnevans said:
Your posts on this 'pathetic' article, as you put it (and that's 'pathetic' with a capital 'P'), reminds me of one of my favourite film quotations of all time, from 'JFK', when Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) says 'We are through the looking glass here people.. what's white is black and what's black is white..'

So-called 'journalists' like Wilson live in an 'other' world to the rest of us..
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Just listened to Marcotti asking another journo who was the best player, Bellingham or Foden. The predictable answer was of course Bellingham, apparently in the few games he has played he runs about a lot more helping the defence out. Well it didn't help Dortmund much on Wednesday as Phil scored the winning goal that may possibly help him add to his already impressive haul of winners medals.
 
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Rochdale Blue said:
Just listened to Marcotti asking another journo who was the best player, Bellingham or Foden. The predictable answer was of course Bellingham, apparently in the few games he has played he runs about a lot more helping the defence out. Well it didn't help Dortmund much on Thursday as Phil scored the winning goal that may possibly help him add to his already impressive haul of winners medals.
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Can’t remember him doing much after half time!
 
KPXBLN said:
More than anything else it was lazy. His final paragraph reads like it should be where he transitions to his argument about sport washing, whatever it might be. But instead he just stops. It was like, 'hit my word limit, fuck it - send'
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There is no such thing as "sportswashing." There is no evidence that investing money in football boosts your reputation. In fact the opposite is true because people are usually jealous and suspicious of money. Do you think California-based Silverlake invested £389m in City because they are worried about their reputation? Is that why they are developing the UK's biggest indoor arena next door to the Etihad? There is not a single line in that article by Jonathan Wilson that stands up to any scrutiny. He is a published writer but has zero journalistic skills. He's another bluffer and the Guardian is full of them.
 
tweety said:
''How quickly things change. Of course it helps, enormously so, that City have the resources they do – and nobody should ever allow themselves to forget the source of that wealth.'' The scribblings of Jonathan Wilson in the Guardian just now. I don't know how people like him have the brass neck to turn up at our ground, accept our hospitality and churn out shite like that. Thankfully he decided not to allow comments on the article.
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Posting more hateful crap about our semi-final against PSG today in The Guardian. He slags off both sets of owners but fails to make any points - just a rant and very poor quality journalism.
 
He and his ilk are still bewildered at the spectacular fall from grace of the “big” clubs. This coupled with sheer envy at City’s achievements and set up makes them try to rationalise their hurt by peddling nonsense about sportswashing, cheating FFP (Ignoring the legal and actual reality) and the usual City bingo.
Who the hell do they think they are? Imagine making a living writing about football, even though you haven’t a fucking clue. That summarises for me just how worthless their opinions are. (Advice to self - stop reading it then!)
 
Rochdale Blue said:
Just listened to Marcotti asking another journo who was the best player, Bellingham or Foden. The predictable answer was of course Bellingham, apparently in the few games he has played he runs about a lot more helping the defence out. Well it didn't help Dortmund much on Wednesday as Phil scored the winning goal that may possibly help him add to his already impressive haul of winners medals.
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Someone actually came out and said Bellingham was better?
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
There is no such thing as "sportswashing." There is no evidence that investing money in football boosts your reputation. In fact the opposite is true because people are usually jealous and suspicious of money. Do you think California-based Silverlake invested £389m in City because they are worried about their reputation? Is that why they are developing the UK's biggest indoor arena next door to the Etihad? There is not a single line in that article by Jonathan Wilson that stands up to any scrutiny. He is a published writer but has zero journalistic skills. He's another bluffer and the Guardian is full of them.
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Saw an interesting clip from Newsnight on Twitter. Question was about the enviroment and what America was going to do to bring China to heel on human rights issues. The guy ( a yank), went off on one. He said 'why are you framing the question like that? We (the west) have no right to take the moral high ground given whats doing on in America right now' The newspapers do this. They frame any issue around, West is good and blameless and Arab/Muslim/Chinese is the oposite. Half of the shit we get is jealousy, but it fits right in, like a glove, with this 'we perfect, them bad' deflection.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
There is no such thing as "sportswashing." There is no evidence that investing money in football boosts your reputation. In fact the opposite is true because people are usually jealous and suspicious of money. Do you think California-based Silverlake invested £389m in City because they are worried about their reputation? Is that why they are developing the UK's biggest indoor arena next door to the Etihad? There is not a single line in that article by Jonathan Wilson that stands up to any scrutiny. He is a published writer but has zero journalistic skills. He's another bluffer and the Guardian is full of them.
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To be fair, different investors could have different motivations for getting involved in football. What's going on for Silverlake isn't necessarily the same as for ADUG. But as I said here, Wilson's article doesn't explain what it is that he's complaining about, which I think is true for everything I've read on the subject.
 
KPXBLN said:
To be fair, different investors could have different motivations for getting involved in football. What's going on for Silverlake isn't necessarily the same as for ADUG. But as I said here, Wilson's article doesn't explain what it is that he's complaining about, which I think is true for everything I've read on the subject.
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The definition of what actually constitutes and motivates ‘sportswashing’ has changed more often than the name of Sachin ‘Charlie Clitlicker’ Nakrani’s burner accounts on Twitter
 
blueju said:
Someone actually came out and said Bellingham was better?
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Can't remember who it was but it was a well known msm journo talking to Marcotti. I'm sure Bellingham has a brilliant future in front of him, but to make a claim on what is purely his personal preference would be better left to the idiots that haunt twitter. Why can't they just let two players at two very good clubs develop without adding pressure on them.
 
cheekybids said:
Great clubs like Redstar Belgrade no longer deemed important to European football, the usual suspects have a lot to answer for.
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I don’t really think you can blame the usual suspects for the decline of the likes of Red Star. That was always going to happen when Yugoslavia split into seven different countries with seven different Leagues. Similarly with the break up of the USSR into 15 different counties. Croatia still seem to be able to produce great footballers but few, if any, of the best will play in the Croatian League.

Also the rush of money to the five biggest European Leagues has messed up club teams from Holland, Portugal, Scotland, etc., who used to be able to win European Trophies. The likes of Porto, Ajax, and Benfica have really suffered.
 
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