Media Thread - 2021/22

[bluealf]

I wonder if Rob ever asks the same searching questions of his Qatari mates in a similarly aggressive and confrontational way?

Was he the bloke that wrote that nice book about Putin, Russia and their world cup?

 

[laserblue]

By that token we bottled in 1977.

City effectively lost the title in 1977 with a 1-1 home draw against Liverpool over the Christmas period when, with City leading for most of the game, Dave Watson inexplicably passed the ball back to Joe Corrigan in the last minute and Joe couldn't turn on the icy surface and it trickled into the net.

I still have flashbacks about that.

 

[laserblue]

Was he the bloke that wrote that nice book about Putin, Russia and their world cup?

That was the equally hypocritical and reprehensible Barney Ronay.

 

[hammocity]

Oh Aldo, you’ve outdone yourself. Some crackers to save you clicking on the link.

Real Madrid have always been a pretty arrogant club that believes the world revolves around them.

United have put in their worst season in living memory.

Meanwhile, this was the campaign when Liverpool became the first English team to take their trophy wins past the 50 mark, with Manchester City needing another £5 billion of transfer spending and at least a decade to get near that total.

Losing the Premier League title on the final day of the season after it seemed like City were going to bottle it again was tough to take.

More people showed up in the first mile of Liverpool's open-top bus parade than Manchester City attracted for their own badly attended parade to toast their Premier League win.


Rival fans laughing at Liverpool are a million miles behind Jurgen Klopp's winners


https://www.sundayworld.com/sport/s...es-behind-jurgen-klopps-winners-41721172.html

“Immaculately behaved fans” get to fuck you deluded Dipper ****.

 

[Gingers Dad]

By that token we bottled in 1977.

I always reckoned we did. Big losses at Bristol City and Derby did for us

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

See our good friend and pyschopath Rob Harris was escorted and thrown out of the new LIV golf series press conference for consistently asking questions about sportswashing .
He ended up shouting and got thrown out

He needs sectioning this twerp or worse

This Golf story is absurd. The European Golf Tour already makes millions (perhaps hundreds of millions) from taking sponsorship and holding huge lucrative events in the Middle East. Last year its most lucrative tournaments were in Saudi, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Qatar, not forgetting the Volvo China Open.
The Golf tour organisers don't give a toss about alleged human rights abuse and never have. What they don't like is competition from these regions who want to host more of their own tournaments to have a bigger slice of the cash cake and boost their tourism industries. That is the real story.
Hypocrites like Harris, who seemingly earns part of his salary from working for broadcasters in the Middle East, have become fixated on this fake "sports washing" narrative. It is a media construct produced by very clever PR people working for human rights and other related charity groups to get maximum coverage for their campaigns. I don't have a problem with this (those campaigns have a lot of merit) but journalists are supposed to be sceptical and should reveal the whole background to any story not just a distorted and misleading version of events. I don't doubt some of these golfers are being greedy but that is not the only story.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

3 separate reporters asking about sports washing who probably in there working career have also took money from those regions on worked for companies that put sponsors on there sites.

If they were proper journalists they would be in Ukraine not filling their faces in luxury hotels on the Golf Tour gravy train. These hypocrites disgust me.

 

[philiph20]

All I think of when I think about him is the FA Cup final penalty miss v Wimbledon and the shouting match on the touchline for Ireland in the 1994 World Cup in the USA. Can't remember anything else about him - literally. Sums him up - a no mark Scouser with a huge gob who drinks too much.

His face is getting redder and redder with every passing year, he's mingin'.

 

[Shirley]

See our good friend and pyschopath Rob Harris was escorted and thrown out of the new LIV golf series press conference for consistently asking questions about sportswashing .
He ended up shouting and got thrown out

He needs sectioning this twerp or worse

Attention seeking in the search for credibility for his one man crusade.

 

[domalino]

This Golf story is absurd. The European Golf Tour already makes millions (perhaps hundreds of millions) from taking sponsorship and holding huge lucrative events in the Middle East. Last year its most lucrative tournaments were in Saudi, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Qatar, not forgetting the Volvo China Open.
The Golf tour organisers don't give a toss about alleged human rights abuse and never have. What they don't like is competition from these regions who want to host more of their own tournaments to have a bigger slice of the cash cake and boost their tourism industries. That is the real story.
Hypocrites like Harris, who seemingly earns part of his salary from working for broadcasters in the Middle East, have become fixated on this fake "sports washing" narrative. It is a media construct produced by very clever PR people working for human rights and other related charity groups to get maximum coverage for their campaigns. I don't have a problem with this (those campaigns have a lot of merit) but journalists are supposed to be sceptical and should reveal the whole background to any story not just a distorted and misleading version of events. I don't doubt some of these golfers are being greedy but that is not the only story.

I find it fascinating that this section of the media seemingly want to make working for or with Saudi Arabia equatable to collaborating with Aparteid South Africa, not because I agree with their policies or laws, but because Saudi Arabia are so clearly peas in a pod with all the other gulf states and an increasing number of Islamic African countries.

I think it's easy to try and make one state a pariah, South Africa was basically the only country doing aparteid and it's a realtively minor player globally. Trying to make Saudi a pariah because of their islamist governance suddenly brings in 20-30 other countries who must be excluded, and trying to do it based on their extrajudicial killings/war means going after China, Russia, the USA.

I don't see how they can succeed.

And while this usually brings about cries of whataboutism, why wasn't Rob Harris at the Saudi International in Februrary asking these questions to all the players on the European Tour. Why hasn't he done it at any of the races to Dubai?