Media Thread - 2021/22

[eyalluvitt]

The media bemoaning the fact we can bring on 60M Mahrez whilst ignoring Liverpool replacing 45M Jota with 60M Diaz? Either brain dead or agenda driven?

 

[eyalluvitt]

Wonder if the media ‘wonderful game’ narrative would have been different had the 5 big decisions gone City’s way instead of the bin dippers?

 

[bluegaz13]

Just heard Danny Murphy on Talksport (I actually don't mind him compared to some)
apparently Liverpool only buy 30 to 40 million players and turn them into world class players.......They must have got Van Dyke and Alisson on frees then :).....fits the narrative though !

 

[crazyg]

He can't be thick, he wears clever looking specs

So does Joe 90.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Murphy, “Van Dyke brings down KDB was the right thing to do”.

Wish I could be confident that Stones would do the same thing in the same situation......

 

[Sky Blue]

Just heard Danny Murphy on Talksport (I actually don't mind him compared to some)
apparently Liverpool only buy 30 to 40 million players and turn them into world class players.......They must have got Van Dyke and Alisson on frees then :).....fits the narrative though !

They are full of shit and it's been relentless all day.

 

[BigOscar]

One things for sure, the media have done a world class job convincing people VAR's offsides are 100% factual, without explaining at all how that's true.

Do they have a computer program that automatically detects where the point of an arm that can be used to touch the ball is? As I'd love to know what that program looks like, or even a scientifically 100% accurate diagram of where that line on your arm is. It looks like some bloke just randomly decides to draw lines on a pitch, you even see them moving it manually ffs.

That's before you even get to the obviously not accurate "which frame to use", which we all know isn't perfect.

Yet despite this, the media love to throw out the "offside is offside, there is no debate" line again and again. Weirdly these things seem to always favour one side, probably a massive coincidence though

 

[Newquayblue]

I think it would be more fair to make it so there must be a gap between forward and defender - not able to discern whether there's a gap should be classed 'on side' - much better for the game imo.

 

[waspish]

The media bemoaning the fact we can bring on 60M Mahrez whilst ignoring Liverpool replacing 45M Jota with 60M Diaz? Either brain dead or agenda driven?

Diaz was reported at 37m which was a snip.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Simon “the expert on everything” Jordan, on TalkSPORT this morning commenting on the lack of real rivalry between City and Liverpool, stated “City fans just aren’t engaged”.

Just like his brain.

 

[Seedy Ron]

I think it would be more fair to make it so there must be a gap between forward and defender - not able to discern whether there's a gap should be classed 'on side' - much better for the game imo.

VAR was meant to be for clear and obvious errors right up until the first time they realised the wrong team might get a favourable decision. Twats have been fudging it from that very moment.

The only thing clear and obvious now is the manipulation of it.

 

[Newquayblue]

VAR was meant to be for clear and obvious errors right up until the first time they realised the wrong team might get a favourable decision. Twats have been fudging it from that very moment.

The only thing clear and obvious now is the manipulation of it.

Have to agree if the margins are that fine it's no way a clear and obvious error.

 

[inchy14]

Wish I could be confident that Stones would do the same thing in the same situation......

Problem there though is stones will get an automatic yellow or even a red, Van Dyjk can foul with impunity or should that be immunity

 

[freshie]

Spot on mate.

They witter on endlessly about the CL - which is without doubt a huge achievement - but the reality is an English team has won the competition on 14 occasions since 1955.

It’s good - but it’s far from unique.

No team has ever won the domestic treble apart from City. Ever. Not Ferguson, not Busby, not Shankly, not Paisley and not Mourinho. Just Guardiola.

It’s completely unique.

Yet Guardiola gets no credit whatsoever for doing it.

And the reason can only be that it would require the fully paid up, Americanised UK media constantly pushing the US-owners agenda to admit that City did something none of their Clubs could manage - even through their greatest eras. Never going to happen.

So one of the greatest achievements in English football history barely gets a mention.

That tells you everything you need to know about football reporting in this country.

Baconface said the domestic treble was an impossible feat to achieve

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

Baconface said the domestic treble was an impossible feat to achieve

Impossible for him to achieve, maybe!

 

[Mid Wales blue]

Wish I could be confident that Stones would do the same thing in the same situation......

We all know if Stones did it, there would be a red coloured card out of the ref’s pocket, before you could say, City are the dogs danglers!

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Problem there though is stones will get an automatic yellow or even a red, Van Dyjk can foul with impunity or should that be immunity

Van Dick got a yellow though.

 

[Seedy Ron]

Baconface said the domestic treble was an impossible feat to achieve

They way the sycophantic media used to hang on his every word used to make me sick. Domestic treble not possible, squeaky bum time, not in my lifetime, I'm sorry your honour but I really needed a shit....

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

One things for sure, the media have done a world class job convincing people VAR's offsides are 100% factual, without explaining at all how that's true.

Do they have a computer program that automatically detects where the point of an arm that can be used to touch the ball is? As I'd love to know what that program looks like, or even a scientifically 100% accurate diagram of where that line on your arm is. It looks like some bloke just randomly decides to draw lines on a pitch, you even see them moving it manually ffs.

That's before you even get to the obviously not accurate "which frame to use", which we all know isn't perfect.

Yet despite this, the media love to throw out the "offside is offside, there is no debate" line again and again. Weirdly these things seem to always favour one side, probably a massive coincidence though

The VAR cameras operate at 50 frames per second with a margin of error of 13cms. This means that the decision on when the ball is played is never 100 per cent accurate and never will be. Freezing the frame at the point when the ball is played is a manual process. It is ridiculous to say anyone is offside or onside by less than 13 cms. This also means the Gabriel Jesus goal might have been ruled out by a different VAR operator. It is an absurd process and the broadcasters are complicit in duping the fans.
This is not a fair system but it is not just City that are suffering from it. The referees decison should be final unless it is a clear and obvious error but the Sterling goal would never have been ruled out with the naked eye. When Carragher inisisted: "It is offside" he was talking bollocks because the process and technology is not good enough to prove that 100 per cent.

 

[manimanc]

The VAR cameras operate at 50 frames per second with a margin of error of 13cms. This means that the decision on when the ball is played is never 100 per cent accurate and never will be. Freezing the frame at the point when the ball is played is a manual process. It is ridiculous to say anyone is offside or onside by less than 13 cms. This also means the Gabriel Jesus goal might have been ruled out by a different VAR operator. It is an absurd process and the broadcasters are complicit in duping the fans.
This is not a fair system but it is not just City that are suffering from it. The referees decison should be final unless it is a clear and obvious error but the Sterling goal would never have been ruled out with the naked eye. When Carragher inisisted: "It is offside" he was talking bollocks because the process and technology is not good enough to prove that 100 per cent.

Screech talking bollocks, who'd have funk it!