Media Thread 2020/21

[manchester blue]

He has darting eyes like a rat and giving the impression he doesn't really know what's going on. He blunders about in the league but it is hardly mentioned let alone highlighted.
I'm my completely unbiased opinion he comes 4th on that quartet. And it's easy even for me to be completely unbiased on the back four.

Even United fans I know think he's shit.

 

[pirate]

Yep, the best version was Fivepenny Piece's...


Saw them when I was a kid at the old Davenport Cinema in Stockport. Brilliant old group, combining funny songs with some lovely balads. All now long gone sadly.

saw them in the 80's
a good night out

 

[Blue Mist]

According to the latest BBC figures, despite a £400k pay cut, Lineker is still the highest paid employee on £1.36M. Can't blame him for that salary as the fault lies entirely with the dolt who thinks he's worth it.
I would hazard a guess that nobody watches MOTD because HE presents it and nobody would not watch if HE didn't.
Personally I don't like the guy, I see a tendency for snide comments and put downs but a none to happy reaction when bounced back.

And that is where the BBC are so out of touch. I record Motd so in a years time I can marvel in Kevs brilliant pass to Aguero for our 3rd goal. I skip the intro, the post match comments and every other match that is on. The BBC is cash strapped at the moment so cut out the no marks and just show the match highlights.

 

[manchester blue]

Your sentence is a bit strangled but are you saying that nobody watches MotD because Lineker presents it? Viewing figures would tend to dispute that despite all matches being available somewhere for the last 18 months. The second part of your sentence looks like you think that anyone who doesn't watch it, purely because he currently presents it, would suddenly tune in? Is that regardless of who replaces him?

I think he's saying that people watch it for the football not just because he presents it. So they don't watch it for him but despite of him being on it. In other words it would have the same audience figures regardless of who presents it so why is he worth so much of our licence fee? And yes, I know I shouldn't pay it!

 

[manchester blue]

Yes because of course this is an English spelling and grammar forum. Pompous twat

LOL. I think the previous poster deserved it to be fair. The poster cut no slack whatsoever for a young girl where the occasion just got too much for her! Why should he get any?

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

The punditry of Rio Ferdinand last night, saying England will win as we are miles better than Italy and Denmark. Bloody hell he doesn’t half get giddy doesn’t he. Remember when he was saying United were back after beating Psg?

 

[manchester blue]

The punditry of Rio Ferdinand last night, saying England will win as we are miles better than Italy and Denmark. Bloody hell he doesn’t half get giddy doesn’t he. Remember when he was saying United were back after beating Psg?

We are not miles better than Italy if better at all. That'll be a tough game if we beat Denmark.

 

[nmc]

The punditry of Rio Ferdinand last night, saying England will win as we are miles better than Italy and Denmark. Bloody hell he doesn’t half get giddy doesn’t he. Remember when he was saying United were back after beating Psg?

He's not only deluded - he's rude shouting over other people. I notice the BBC Sport website is more like a copy of the Red Issue this week with Simon Stone churning out a high volume of his Yoonited Fanzine twaddle... quite how the BBC justify this clown on the payroll is beyond me... still it means that there's more focus on United than the other 19 PL clubs combined - so objective achieved.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

We are not miles better than Italy if better at all. That'll be a tough game if we beat Denmark.

Disrespectful f*cker obviously thinks we'll just breeze past Denmark. Even if we do, beating Italy is not a given by any means.

 

[waspish]

Bbc don’t understand if they say to Liniker unless we half your wages to 600k a year you can go! Now who will give him a better job that lets him go to the euros the World Cup and get paid for it watching all that live football?!

 

[Protein Junkie]

I’m pretty sure the year would be 1415, and the English archers would have been putting two fingers up to the French.



What’s he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:
If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more, methinks, would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian:’
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

English Archers ? Ahem cough splutter

 

[Protein Junkie]

Technically he was invited in by the protestants as they didn't want a catholic king (James II), but yes, you could argue it was the last successful conquest of mainland Britain. A couple of little corporal's tried in later years, but never got anywhere! :-)

Not only a Catholic King but not a very competent one.

 

[Protein Junkie]

In 1990, I took a coach party to Belgium to watch a re-enactment of Waterloo (175th anniversary). Before it kicked off, There was long delay while the Frenchies were trying get the promoters to change the ending to a truce settlement rather than a English/Prussian win.
England 4 - France 1
Crecy 1346 Hastings 1066
Poitiers 1356
Agincourt 1415
Waterloo 1815

Trafalgar ?

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

He's not only deluded - he's rude shouting over other people. I notice the BBC Sport website is more like a copy of the Red Issue this week with Simon Stone churning out a high volume of his Yoonited Fanzine twaddle... quite how the BBC justify this clown on the payroll is beyond me... still it means that there's more focus on United than the other 19 PL clubs combined - so objective achieved.

Luke Shaw gets a couple of assists and Maguire gets on the end of a corner and suddenly the rags are back. Funny how they can’t do it in the champions league group stages or in Europe’s second tier club competition. Not to mention finishing a country mile behind the Premier league champions, they don’t like to talk about that do they?

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Bbc don’t understand if they say to Liniker unless we half your wages to 600k a year you can go! Now who will give him a better job that lets him go to the euros the World Cup and get paid for it watching all that live football?!

Why are they paying him that much? You don’t tune into match of the day to watch Lineker and his snide remarks, does anyone actually watch of the day these days? Highlights are easy to find elsewhere before half 10 if you miss anything.

 

[Kazzydeyna]

Yep, the best version was Fivepenny Piece's...


Saw them when I was a kid at the old Davenport Cinema in Stockport. Brilliant old group, combining funny songs with some lovely balads. All now long gone sadly.

Just made me sad that. Reminds me of my dad.
He loved fivepenny piece.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Bbc don’t understand if they say to Liniker unless we half your wages to 600k a year you can go! Now who will give him a better job that lets him go to the euros the World Cup and get paid for it watching all that live football?!

Market forces tbh. He's clearly popular. I'd much rather have Lineker than neville or carragher (who both earn double Lineker)
For me it's more like well done Lineker for not fucking off for more money.

 

[Mike Cledford]

Even United fans I know think he's shit.

He is great with his head according to some BBC employee and that's why he is called 'slabhead'.

It would be easy to make a compilation of his cock ups to rival Phil the Face although he expressionless slab face doesn't move so he is behind Phil in the gurning stakes.

 

[IrishBlueSince92]

Shaw's the next Roberto Carlos after a few assists against Ukraine LOL

And Maguire's performances in two games seem to be getting more credit than Stones' who's played in every game and still not conceded, barely put a foot wrong either.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Shaw's the next Roberto Carlos after a few assists against Ukraine LOL

And Maguire's performances in two games seem to be getting more credit than Stones' who's played in every game and still not conceded, barely put a foot wrong either.

Rag's PR machine at full throttle.