Media Thread - 2021/22

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Lovely article from Neville on the state of Ronaldo and the whole utd squad. https://www.skysports.com/football/...-whingebags-after-dismal-display-at-newcastle

I said ages ago, the politics of Utd wont let Ragnick achieve what he wants, Ronaldo is in charge there. Pogba and his agent have yet to come back, and whilst all thats going on players like beeky whatshisface and lingard are not being given games, they're going to be so fucked off.

The very least I would have through from the new manager, after looking at his career, is that he would bring discipline... Not based on what Ive seen so far. Surely this cant be yet another fuck up from Utd, I mean Carrick was actually good!
 
Stone at it again, downplaying rags spend:

Sevilla thought they could get Martial during January's transfer window but it is understood the offer only covered half of his wages, which are thought to be around £150,000 a week.(Note. I have read a few non Rag bias reports he is on 210k a week)

Martial signed for United in 2015 from Monaco for £36m, (Note. It was 36 plus add ons, which reported in 2018 was already at 44 million and up to 56 million)
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
Lovely article from Neville on the state of Ronaldo and the whole utd squad. https://www.skysports.com/football/...-whingebags-after-dismal-display-at-newcastle

I said ages ago, the politics of Utd wont let Ragnick achieve what he wants, Ronaldo is in charge there. Pogba and his agent have yet to come back, and whilst all thats going on players like beeky whatshisface and lingard are not being given games, they're going to be so fucked off.

The very least I would have through from the new manager, after looking at his career, is that he would bring discipline... Not based on what Ive seen so far. Surely this cant be yet another fuck up from Utd, I mean Carrick was actually good!
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They are prisoners of their own success, and they are obsessed with their glorious past, which is why, as you say,, they are letting the one player who is an icon and a symptom of that past, run the show.
How many times do you hear poor, desperate raggies on phone-ins calling for a ‘return to where we once were’ because they are incapable of even considering a future where not only are they not top dogs, but their ’noisy neighbours’ actually are.
No plan long term, and seemingly none short term either.
Happy days!
 
Bodicoteblue said:
They are prisoners of their own success, and they are obsessed with their glorious past, which is why, as you say,, they are letting the one player who is an icon and a symptom of that past, run the show.
How many times do you hear poor, desperate raggies on phone-ins calling for a ‘return to where we once were’ because they are incapable of even considering a future where not only are they not top dogs, but their ’noisy neighbours’ actually are.
No plan long term, and seemingly none short term either.
Happy days!
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Day after City win and extend lead at top… what can you do to appease the red crowd … ah yes put out a heart warming story with a link to united:
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That ex-united player with a total 45mins playing time in a 4-0 loss to Milton Keynes iirc.

if it was an Ex City player, you can bet that the word ‘defender’ would be replaced by ‘flop’ or ‘outcast’.
Or rather, there would be no news article.
 
I think BBC Radio 4 Today programme in the Championsmorning has Raheem as guest editor. Starts at 6am but l don't know whether he will do an early start with the match tomorrow night.
I heard it in the car but thought l would be able to make sure later. No exact date given so there's something to bring up Raz - the crap coverage the League Champions get from the BBC. Raz is expected to push his pet subject of giving underprivileged kids support in sport.
It will be a pleasant change from the pro Redshirts crap from Silly Sally and Nagging Naga and the weak men they have on.
 
Bonzo Nododo said:
I think BBC Radio 4 Today programme in the Championsmorning has Raheem as guest editor. Starts at 6am but l don't know whether he will do an early start with the match tomorrow night.
I heard it in the car but thought l would be able to make sure later. No exact date given so there's something to bring up Raz - the crap coverage the League Champions get from the BBC. Raz is expected to push his pet subject of giving underprivileged kids support in sport.
It will be a pleasant change from the pro Redshirts crap from Silly Sally and Nagging Naga and the weak men they have on.
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Yeah, good to flag it up. I’ve heard a few of these “guest editor” versions of the programme before, and it’s not really hands-on, it’s more a case of they meet well in advance with the regular editor and agree what pre-recorded features or live interviews should appear. I’m actually not convinced the guest editors need to be on hand live in the studio 6-9am on the day of the show.

I would expect them to patch him in for a live conversation at some point in the show though, I’m guessing either from home or from the team hotel (?).
Gonna give it a listen anyway
 
Bodicoteblue said:
They are prisoners of their own success, and they are obsessed with their glorious past, which is why, as you say,, they are letting the one player who is an icon and a symptom of that past, run the show.
How many times do you hear poor, desperate raggies on phone-ins calling for a ‘return to where we once were’ because they are incapable of even considering a future where not only are they not top dogs, but their ’noisy neighbours’ actually are.
No plan long term, and seemingly none short term either.
Happy days!
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Fully agree.

They remind me of Liverpool in the 90's and 00's. Desperately trying to recreate the glory days by clinging as much as they can to the past and a sycophantic media willing them on.
 
chesterbells said:
Yeah, good to flag it up. I’ve heard a few of these “guest editor” versions of the programme before, and it’s not really hands-on, it’s more a case of they meet well in advance with the regular editor and agree what pre-recorded features or live interviews should appear. I’m actually not convinced the guest editors need to be on hand live in the studio 6-9am on the day of the show.

I would expect them to patch him in for a live conversation at some point in the show though, I’m guessing either from home or from the team hotel (?).
Gonna give it a listen anyway
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Yes some of it might even be prerecorded. The fact l have not been able to be sure it's tomorrow shows once more the churlishness of the media.

I note the bloke who gets rather more publicity
for everything he does seems to have taken a very low profile at a time when the additional £20 benefit has been withdrawn.
I always get stuff for food banks when shopping but at the end of last week l saw a number of people queuing outside a chapel to receive food parcels just before Christmas. Off topic but a very sobering thought to see families and individuals queueing like that.
A group.of Blues set up a stall on thebzB of the Bang site to collect food for the needy at every home match packing up the stall half an hour before home kick offs. There is also a room in Mary Ds for any food fans can give.
 
“Grim” day apparently.
All these turds miss the fact that our brilliance is extracting more from what we have given the rules that are in place restricting spending and the actual spending that has occurred over last 5/10 seasons.
You only need to look at our bench most weeks to see the myth of our squad being massive
 
meltonblue said:
Not sure, when we weren’t involved, I wouldn’t particularly care about who won the title but I’d at least like it to either be close and not a foregone conclusion or the team that won it played football that was way above anyone else and worth watching.

I think we more than count as the latter.
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Haven’t you heard??? We play boring football.
 
LongsightM13 said:
It’s as much led by finance as anything else. They want the biggest fanbases clicking on a story and thus driving up the associated ad revenue - and we all know who they are.
A story about City with a negative slant or headline is almost as good as the usual, nonsensical redshirt propaganda, because they know it will get engagement from the plastic sheep.
Cynical and void of ethics but it’s the reality of modern football ‘journalism’.
It is why the likes of the Independent will be delighted with Delooney’s output, no matter how transparently bitter, hypocritical, biased and insane.
Slagging City is great for business.
I worked in the industry for decades so I know all this is true from first hand personal experience
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Spot on, mate. It's been going on for years.

Think I've told this story before, but when I first started in the media industry, I used to analyse sales data for a newspaper marketing and logistics company based in Bredbury (in case anybody is curious who I'm talking about).

My two biggest accounts were News International and Trinity Mirror.

Negative City stories would often outsell positive united stories in many of the more traditional 'red' postcode areas.

Biggest example I can think of was the infamous Mirror backpage after the Mansfield Auto Windscreen game. Sold around the same number of copies than the edition on sale after the scum beat Bayern in the Champions League final.

As the industry has shifted to it's current, online clickbait model, the issue has extrapolated to riduculous levels.
 
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Great read you 2. An insider insight into what Football Journalism was and still is.

City winning at CAS must have got some of the biggest amount of clicks in the history of Football Journalism.

The bile and hatred spewing from the red shirt fans that day and days after was off the scale and epic.

Oh how we laughed at them all. :-)
 
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