Media Thread - 2021/22

[Barcon]

Who's this Alan Hilal bloke?

Fourth best team in world football at least.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Enjoyed this on two levels.
Firstly, the fact he really does seem to be coming to terms with the cynical British press these days.
Secondly, as you point out, good use of good old dry, sarcastic (almost self mocking) British sense of humour!)

Treats them with the total contempt they deserve

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Wouldn’t it be great if he was arrested for drug smuggling in Abu Dhabi.
I’m sure the authorities could come up with something.
They don’t even have to cut him up into little pieces, just 30 years in prison would do.
Unless there’s a death penalty? That would be even better!

30 years in the nick isn't fair.

Some poor fuckers would have to share a cell with him.

 

[CharliesRightPeg]

The DT this morning bemoans the fact that the 'thunderbastard' from outside the area is a dead art, and the same with bullet headers, as is the pinpoint cross from probably as far away as the halfway line. To illustrate the point they have Shearer powering one in although we don't see the ball, a clutch of defenders, or the goal, but we do see Dickie Dunne looking up to the heavens with a plaintive look on his face, clad in the elegant Eidos kit! And the pinpoint crosses as a specialism? Ah, well, it could only be the Wolfman of Leytonstone with a graphic that has used the month's supply of red ink. But down at the bottom of the graphic is the culprit for spoiling the essence of the 'English' game - none other than Barca's favourite son! I would say that you couldn't make up these reports, but it's another example of a newspaper article becoming a 'story'! But have they seen goals from de Bruyne from outside the area or the one Rodri got the other week? Probably not! And I saw a handful of bullet headers from the FArce Cup games. Yer have to laugh!

Or it could be all the evidence showing that most shots from outside the box go nowhere near the goal and that a header is a third less likely to go in than a shot from the same spot ....

 

[madloaf]

The bbc are on fire today

"0-1 Chelsea
Chelsea have the chance on Saturday to become only the third team after Manchester United and Liverpool to ever be world champions."

Is it possible to make that "world champions" even more lowercase?

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Different view from Sky Sports , Grealish "dropped" but Fakeronaldo was "starting from the bench " last night , that place must be rammed with bitter Rags & Dippers , its been over a decade of their negativity and it is getting them nowhere . We are still top of the league
The steam from their piss and the salty tears must be affected their eyesight ,we play the best football ever seen and they just can't take it ..................take it , take it , take it.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

30 years in the nick isn't fair.

Some poor fuckers would have to share a cell with him.

i would give good money to have 5 minutes in a room with that c*nt.

 

[domalino]

From the current edition of Private Eye

BITTER TO THE END...
THE British journalist Andrew Jennings,
who died last month, won an international
reputation by exposing corruption at the top of FIFA and the IOC (see last Eye).

From Mexico to the Netherlands, newspapers have run long and prominent obituaries. In Germany the magazine Sport & Politics rushed out a special 80-page Jennings issue withtributes from fellow-hacks, lawyers, athletes and administrators - including even a gritted-teeth so-farewell-then from Sepp Blatter. ("I could notcall him a friend," admits the disgraced ex-president of FIFA. "At the same time, I have great respect for him and his work.") Closer to home, the Times and Telegraph and i have paid their respects at length, And the Guardian? Not a dicky bird.

When Aidan White, former head of the International Federation of Journalists, tried to interest the Grauniad in an obituary, he was advised instead to submit an item for "Other Lives", the slot for brief notices about non-tamous people.

After consulting Jennings's widow White declined the suggestion, saying it wouldn't do justice to Jennings and his contribution to journalism. He showed them the Washingion Post obituary,which ran to 1,200 words; but to no avail.

Why can't the Grauniad make space? Perhaps
there's a clue in a tribute by former UEFA official Alex Phillips in the new issue of Sport & Politics: "Another place that he trod, where few others dared to tread, was criticising his fellowJournalists if they were weak or got captured by those they were supposed to be reporting on -abreach of journalistic Omerta surely? He did not
Care, because journalists that were part of the game were part of the Problem”

Jennings criticised Guardian hacks who he thought were getting too cosy with sporting big wigs - and it seems the paper hasn’t forgotten or forgiven

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

It's not disrespectful it's true. We don't play strikers. That may in part be because they are not good enough. Aguero in his last year was not good enough. That's a fact even if City fans don't like to hear it.

I quite agree, Marvin. @gordondaviesmoustache is being an oversensitive mofo, imo.

 

[WesthoughtonJohn]

Moved on from Spot the Ball, tonight it's spot the error(s).
Apparently I can't stop paying my Licence Fee though as I have devices that allow me to watch