Media Thread - 2021/22

[jazzy]

God bless the UAE

 

[blue order]

A great article in the Independent an honest review I would say. long but week worth a read

Mike D, you’re not Mig D himself doing a bit of self promotion are you? The article does contain a number of factually accurate points but is nonetheless still soiled in tone with the stains of boiled piss!

 

[lonestay]

So BT got back to me about my official complaint about the arsenal game .
Just a standard reply with my name at the top to make it feel personal.
All about how they have the upmost standards about presentation and impartiality, and the kicker at the end was "keep subscribing to the wonderful BT experience" currently waiting to speak to a BT call person !!!

 

[norman]

Dont know where to start with Deloony’s “article”. Just one point though - he refers to the drawbridge being pulled up, without, apparently, any conception of the wider implications of such a statement. He bewails City’s success, but presumably would have had no problem about any club except utd. liverpool, arsenal and maybe chelsea having no chance win the premier league. In other words there is only a problem because City are successful.
Far better, he implies, to allow the least mediocre of the same 2 or three teams to battle it out every year.
Pep is why we are doing so well on the field, and has revolutionised the style of play.
In sport the bar is raised and the rest must strive to match the new standards. That’s what a competition should be Miguel, rather than an excuse to heap sycophantic praise on the usual suspects

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

So BT got back to me about my official complaint about the arsenal game .
Just a standard reply with my name at the top to make it feel personal.
All about how they have the upmost standards about presentation and impartiality, and the kicker at the end was "keep subscribing to the wonderful BT experience" currently waiting to speak to a BT call person !!!

wouldn't waste your time

 

[laserblue]

Whilst Liverpools dominance might have been in a different financial climate, they still 'somehow' persuaded a very reluctant Shankley to leave Huddersfield and take a step down to Liverpool. They then 'somehow' managed to fund the removal of 20+ players and fund the 20+ that came in to replace them, including making St John the highest paid player in the country. Different times maybe, but still relative.

Not forgetting Liverpool were a failing 2nd division club at the time. Earlier in the same year Shankly arrived (1959) Liverpool were knocked out of the FA Cup by Worcester City. Yet as a 2nd division club they managed to pay the third highest fee in British football history for Ian St John. Dippers go into denial mode when all this is brought up and their go to deflection is that the Moores family poured money into Everton not Liverpool. Bizarre.

 

[laserblue]

No one accuses Dubai of "tourismwashing."

I prefer the word Arsenalwashing.

Alan Davies can shove that where the sun doesn't shine too.

 

[BrianW]

Liverpool (and United) fans are scarcely unique in only remembering and celebrating the bits of history they like, while ignoring, or even denying, the bits that are uncomfortable. About half the country thinks like that.

 

[petrusha]

Thanks mate. That's really nice and hugely appreciated.

His exact words were "You think it's bad now. It's going to get a lot, lot worse and you need to make sure you're on the right side"

Thanks. That wording is very revealing, isn't it?!

Not something along the lines of, "Things will come out that won't pint the club in a good light and you'll lose credibility if you're seen to be defending it." That might be contentious - for example, the FFP 'revelations' in Der Spiegel were dishonestly presented and subsequent discussions were risibly overblown. But at least such an approach would imply that sports journalists generally regarded their overriding objective as being to report the truth.

Your interlocutor may well be a decent guy whose primary interest was to look out for you. But he quite clearly implies widespread hostility among those in his profession, taking the form of a concerted attack on us. We basically knew this already, of course, but it's interesting to have confirmation that it can be spoken of like that in private, too. In contrast, publicly and especially on social media, people like Delaney usually just try to gaslight us.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Thanks mate. That's really nice and hugely appreciated.

His exact words were "You think it's bad now. It's going to get a lot, lot worse and you need to make sure you're on the right side"

Yet some people on here think there's no agenda!