You'd struggle to get the opportunity to slap Harris. From what I can make out the silly **** doesn't leave the house. I don't do twitter but often look when one of the WhatsAppTwats are linked on here and within minutes of reading the orifinal tweet and then the first dozen or so replies I want to punch fuck out of something.A handful of journalists have perfected the art of "victim". Absolutely perfected it. They know how to tweet, what to tweet, and when to tweet it. Then they just sit back and wait for the abuse that they can use to further punchdown onto supporters. I would not tire of slapping any one of them. But then I'd never ever waste the energy because really, they are pretty inadequate professionals.
While I'd fully agree with the sentiment of this, it's quite depressing seeing some City fans on twitter make homophobic remarks to Crafton or jokes about Harris' deceased wife.
I know that the replies will be "every fanbase has them" and "Twitter is a cesspit" etc. but it's the main point of contact between these journalists and our fanbase and those interactions with the worst 0.1% is bound to colour their opinion of the entire group.
I don't really thinks there's much we can do to address it other than reporting those comments, but it's very regrettable that it happens.
He needs to get rid of the 'intelligence' part of any of his Twitter/online blogHe's just released a spreadsheet showing we earned more in sponsorship than Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal from 2011 to 2020 and cannot think of any reason why.
Personally I would have thought having 10 seasons in the CL vs 7 for Arsenal, 4 for Liverpool and 8 for Chelsea might be a starting point. Seems like getting all that extra exposure in the sports premier competition could have value, but what do I know?
That's what you should write to the BBC about, they shouldn't be acknowledging these shite articles from the daily Star and other likewise quality sources.Come on mate, it’s the BBC gossip page mentioning a Daily Star article. It’s not worth even acknowledging.
Forrest play in red :)Just to put this point into context, in the last 10 years the title has been won by a redshirt team twice - rags in Taggart's last season and Liverpool's covid-interrupted season.
In the four decades prior to that - 1973-2012, it is easier to count the number of times a redshirt team (rags/Arsenal/Liverpool) did not win the title.
The answer, as I count it, is 12.
First Division: Leeds 1974 and 1991, Derby 1975, Forest in 1978, Villa in 1981, Everton in 1985 and 1987
PL: Blackburn in 1995, Chelsea in 05,06 and 10, and us in 2012.
So 28 seasons out of 40 in the period 1973-2012 the league was won by a redshirt team.
In the same period a redshirt team won the FA cup 19 times. Almost half. And in the same period the league cup was won by a redshirt team 14 times. Together with a series of European wins that I'm not going to bother with.
Going back to the last 10 years, a redshirt team has won the FA cup 5 times (four of them Arsenal) but has not won the League cup at all.
The fall from grace of those three teams has been fairly clear in terms of their trophy counts in the last decade. But it's not surprising that once upon a time the people writing about football thought the redshirts' domination would last forever.