Media thread 2022/23

[Centurions]

Back page of today's Mail has 'Hands Off Rash' headline, regarding the rags wanting to tie him down to a new contract. The byline includes the legend '100 Goal Rashford' .... ffs :-)

I've been pissing myself at Merson's piece in the Mail about Rashford.

"I nearly fell off my chair when I heard Marcus Rashford had scored 100 goals for Manchester United. I could not catch my breath. I could not believe he had scored that many. If someone had told me he scored 45 goals I'd have thought that would have been about right, but 100 goals is phenomenal."

His first 6 full PL seasons have seen him score 5, 7, 10, 17, 11 & 4. Merson must surely be on the booze again?

 

[johnevans]

News feed this morning flagged up the annual Collins' Dictionary 'New Word(s) of the Year' (and btw, how's everyone dealing with the economic 'Permacrisis'? getting by at least, I hope..)

Included among the list of new words was our old chum 'Sportswashing'. Collins now defines this as:

'Sportswashing: The sponsorship or promotion of sporting events in order to enhance a tarnished reputation or to distract attention from a controversial activity.'

So, I was wondering, given this definition, what the media moralisers of recent years and the supporters of other teams threatened by us will make of that?

I mean, since long before Sheikh Mansour was even born, such as the motor racing and horse racing industries have been taking the Middle Eastern riyals by the sackload to promote their events; while if Mansour's intention when buying City was solely to deflect our gaze away from the problems in the Middle Eastern nations in general and his own home state in particular, then he's hardly made a good job of it, in fact I'd say he's made a right 'Town Halls' of it given the press coverage over the years..

Mind, I don't think the poor loves in the media will give it much consideration given the amount of work they've got on creating articles on why everyone's being beastly mean to Liverpool and hailing Marcus Rashford's return as England's World Cup saviour..

'Permacrisis' word of the year? 'Permab*ll*cks' more like..

 

[Dodgy Gangster]

Hendo, the footballing equivalent of either Ant or Dec, but not both - never has so little talent been spread so thinly and so widely! The pauper's Rodri!

Made me chuckle :-)

 

[old blue]

I remember Jackie! He's still kickin, a ball at 85. There's a lovely article about him on the HibernianFC website. He played in the period 60-63 WWWS - my formative supporting years. That period galvanised me for anything else that turned up on a Saturday at Maine Road.

Not forgetting a centre half named Savage. He had a bad run of own goals and the crowd at the opposition corners used to shout "mark Savage". Typical Blue humour.

 

[old blue]

Not forgetting a centre half named Savage. He had a bad run of own goals and the crowd at the opposition corners used to shout "mark Savage". Typical Blue humour.

Further to my above post I checked when he played for us and to my surprise he is not listed in the history section. Am I imagining him or is it the ramblings of a FOC. Help me please.

 

[old get]

Further to my above post I checked when he played for us and to my surprise he is not listed in the history section. Am I imagining him or is it the ramblings of a FOC. Help me please.

Try Roy Gratrix !!

 

[Centurions]

Further to my above post I checked when he played for us and to my surprise he is not listed in the history section. Am I imagining him or is it the ramblings of a FOC. Help me please.

Looks like we had a goalie in the 50's called John Savage, can't see any CB though.

 

[Centurions]

Try Roy Gratrix !!

Ahh, Gratrix = Savage...

Yes, I can see how you got the two mixed up ;)

 

[old blue]

Looks like we had a goalie in the 50's called John Savage, can't see any CB though.

I think the keeper was known as Jack. Back to my problem I think I need input from Gary James.

 

[LongsightM13]

BBC doing their best to keep the Dippers relevant , just watched an interview with that football goliath "Hendo" , where they asked him about nurses pay and other football related subjects , they did manage to ask him about the World Cup not sure why , he won't be going.
if ever a footballer over achieved he s the perfect example , how he has won trophies with such little talent is commendable, tomorrow there will be an interview with Terence Trent and how he combines his singing career with football and how he has dragged himself up from the slums of Bootle to be the "best fullback in the world"

Reputational PR rebuild after the Arsenal ‘DON’T MENTION THE WORD RACIST’ incident