Media thread 2022/23

[JASR]

Hi fella, the sneaky bastards have changed the text now - "It has become increasingly difficult for clubs to compete financially with sides that have backers from wealthy states, such as Paris St-Germain (Qatar), Manchester City (Abu Dhabi) and Newcastle (Saudi Arabia)."

Hang on, the US is the wealthiest nation on earth, the owners/backers of Trafford, Kopites, Chelsea et al, are therefore according to that mangled sentence, the ‘big bad boys’ that mean any owners from less wealthy nations have ‘no ability to compete’ by that edited published logic.

Bollox, as ever, when dealing with City.

Edit: further thinking about it, theyve actually made the piece even more egregious. The whole piece was about the lack of competitive ability of Liverpool and it’s owners, with City, Newcastle and PSG painted as the sole reason, they’ve now, correctly, taken out the City ‘state owned’ part, but replaced it with an even bigger load of bollox about a club’s owners domicile country’s wealth being the reason for Liverpool’s ‘inability to compete’, blithely and wilfully ignoring the US as the wealthiest nation on earth, with the Gulf states various notches below even the UK.

The piece is now effectively saying ‘Liverpool and it’s US owners can’t compete against lesser nonUS owners and other US owners, despite the overwhelming wealth of the US’ . Ie Liverpool as an football entity is run like shit.

 

[Elbow beards]

Hi fella, the sneaky bastards have changed the text now - "It has become increasingly difficult for clubs to compete financially with sides that have backers from wealthy states, such as Paris St-Germain (Qatar), Manchester City (Abu Dhabi) and Newcastle (Saudi Arabia)."

Which now doesn't make any sense, as most have backers from wealthy States, how many yank owners now? They might as well go the whole hog and say dirty Arab States.

 

[Elbow beards]

Hang on, the US is the wealthiest nation on earth, the owners/backers of Trafford, Kopites, Chelsea et al, are therefore according to that mangled sentence, the ‘big bad boys’ that mean any owners from less wealthy nations have ‘no ability to compete’ by that edited published logic.

Bollox, as ever, when dealing with City.

Doh, just read yours after typing mine. Great minds :)

 

[halfcenturyup]

Hi fella, the sneaky bastards have changed the text now - "It has become increasingly difficult for clubs to compete financially with sides that have backers from wealthy states, such as Paris St-Germain (Qatar), Manchester City (Abu Dhabi) and Newcastle (Saudi Arabia)." So by that rationale they are saying the USA and UK are not wealthy states!?

Ha ha. Classic.

I don't know if you guys had any impact (well done if you did, and well done, in fact, even if you didn't) or the club had a word, but that is funny as fuck. The whole introduction to the piece now makes no sense whatsoever. Brilliant writing. Not.

Whatever happened to the BBC? It's becoming a joke.

 

[andyhinch]

Ha ha. Classic.

I don't know if you guys had any impact (well done if you did, and well done, in fact, even if you didn't) or the club had a word, but that is funny as fuck. The whole introduction to the piece now makes no sense whatsoever. Brilliant writing. Not.

Whatever happened to the BBC? It's becoming a joke.

I’m trying to work out how it’s not overtly racist and failing.

 

[bikerblue]

Manchester United fans narrowly avoid jail following 'disgraceful' disorder

United's game against Liverpool last season had to be abandoned

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Well, when I saw this link my eyebrows raised a little,proceeding to detach themselves from my forehead the more I read.It refers to the mass violent protest at the swamp.I fail to understand why these rag thugs have "narrowly escaped jail" imagine if it was our fans they would have been boiled in oil, which seemed to be of the less severe options available as punishment to one of our supporters during our end of season pitch invasion.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Ha ha. Classic.

I don't know if you guys had any impact (well done if you did, and well done, in fact, even if you didn't) or the club had a word, but that is funny as fuck. The whole introduction to the piece now makes no sense whatsoever. Brilliant writing. Not.

Whatever happened to the BBC? It's becoming a joke.

The problem for the BBC is they politicise everything. Just reporting the truth about the incredible riches generated by football is a great story. The digitisation of football across the world will make the current wealth in the sport seem like chickenfeed. Football has nowhere near peaked in terms of its potential streaming audience.

 

[Tommy_Catons_Perm]

Hi fella, the sneaky bastards have changed the text now - "It has become increasingly difficult for clubs to compete financially with sides that have backers from wealthy states, such as Paris St-Germain (Qatar), Manchester City (Abu Dhabi) and Newcastle (Saudi Arabia)." So by that rationale they are saying the USA and UK are not wealthy states!?

OK. Erm "wealthier states" then.

 

[Tommy_Catons_Perm]

Good. Shows they know they were out of order! Odd they don’t count the US as a wealthy state ? Makes the whole piece nonsense ;)

OK. Erm. "wealthy states from the Middle East" then.

 

[Tommy_Catons_Perm]

Which now doesn't make any sense, as most have backers from wealthy States, how many yank owners now? They might as well go the whole hog and say dirty Arab States.

OK. Erm. "Dirty Arab Oil money" then.