Media thread 2022/23

[Gorton_Tubster]

Please tell me all the times the manager of an elite club has said in a press conference that a £50m player couldn’t train or play cause he was overweight.

It doesn’t ‘happen all the time’. Far from it. I’m first to slag the unfair media coverage City get, but this is valid story.

I think it’s a fucking joke that Phillips has come back from Qatar overweight and hopefully the headlines will sort his head out. I’d be very concerned that a player that has so far contributed fuck all to City is not professional enough to keep his weight correct.

Friminho, Maguire, Luke shaw, everyone talked about how fat he was... Did not see headlines blazened across all chanels, in fact that was mostly gossip with the beeb staying mostly away from negative utd headlines. Same with the firminho stuff. Anyway not sure what your angry about, Pep saying it or the player for being overweight.

How about vvd, his manager claiming he's not fat, did you see all that all over the bbc and sky?

Cmon admit it, those headlines are for our gullible haters, they love it.

Player comes back overweight is just never a massive news story. And the media love negatibve City news

 

[blueju]

Yesterday we had just witnessed the two most successful teams in the country fight out a 5 goal thriller, BBC coverage pitiful to non existent. Today BBC obsessed with the non story of Kalvin Phillips returning from the world cup overweight. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE

Answer lies in the score line.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Ermmm the behaviour of Phillips having one job to turn up for training at the correct weight.

Like every other professional at City manages to do.

Pep has an obsession on players weight. If Phillips doesn’t know that by now then he needs to wise up quickly.

It’s hardly a bad behaviour trait, more like a mistake and proof that Gareth is crap compared to Pep. Thank fuck Gerry CreamTea doesn’t play for us any more

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

It's probably more likely that they took a player that had just come back from injury to the World Cup, instead of putting him through a tailored training regime to get him back to full match fitness he just did the same tactical training and match practices as the other England players.
Southgate was only ever going to use him as a substitute so all he had to worry about was him being up to speed with the tactical plan of the team and that he could play for 20 to 30 minutes at a time. Southgate and the England staff have no interest in making sure players are fit and ready to play a full league season, their only remit is the tournament they're managing these players in, not the competitions their parent clubs are involved in.
Pep then used a phrase in his conference that a native English speaker may not have done (isn't the first time) then the press make a huge thing of it because there's no football on and they've got a 24 hour sports news channel to fill/papers to sell/clicks to gain and the only other football news is related to Liverpool fans misbehaving yet again. Can't have negative headlines and stories about Liverpool so suddenly every easily manipulated football follower is up in arms because Phillips is suddenly an unprofessional fat bastard.

Absolutely! He comes back from an England 'camp' and he's overweight. I had Southgate and the backroom staff pinned as the culprits as soon as the story unfolded but, hey, St. Gareth is never gonna get saddled with a bad story when MCFC are ready to be put on the coconut shy.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Yesterday we had just witnessed the two most successful teams in the country fight out a 5 goal thriller, BBC coverage pitiful to non existent. Today BBC obsessed with the non story of Kalvin Phillips returning from the world cup overweight. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE

Were I studying for a PhD in clinical psychology then this would provide me with a ready made dissertation.

 

[Aguerooooooo93:20]

Yesterday we had just witnessed the two most successful teams in the country fight out a 5 goal thriller, BBC coverage pitiful to non existent. Today BBC obsessed with the non story of Kalvin Phillips returning from the world cup overweight. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE

Corrected below for you ?-)

Yesterday we had just witnessed the most successful team in the country beat liVARpool

 

[Spanishbob]

Just got an email wishing me merry Xmas from the company dealing with my diesel claim. It then went on to tell me of other class actions involving claimants from Brazil about the dam bursting and right at the bottom of the email it said they were also dealing with 200 dipper fans who couldn’t get into the stadium in Paris. Wish I could change lawyers.

 

[jimharri]

Yesterday we had just witnessed the two most successful teams in the country fight out a 5 goal thriller, BBC coverage pitiful to non existent. Today BBC obsessed with the non story of Kalvin Phillips returning from the world cup overweight. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE

How long have you got?

 

[JASR]

Yesterday we had just witnessed the two most successful teams in the country fight out a 5 goal thriller, BBC coverage pitiful to non existent. Today BBC obsessed with the non story of Kalvin Phillips returning from the world cup overweight. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE

There's a reasonable piece posted today on the BBC about the state of play of the PL after the WC

Premier League: State of play as English top flight returns after World Cup

As the Premier League returns following the World Cup break, BBC Sport brings you up to speed on where it left off.

www.bbc.co.uk

Attention was drawn to the following excerpts:
'In addition, the Premier League's top scorer Erling Haaland has been able to rest for five weeks, ready to return and try to add to his remarkable tally of 18 goals in 13 games. The Norway striker played his first match for City since November's defeat by Brentford in a 2-0 friendly win against Girona on 17 December, and scored, as did Belgium's Kevin de Bruyne.'
&
'Between now and the end of January there are five rounds of English top-flight fixtures. These all come after some clubs have featured in the Carabao Cup fourth round, with those games having taken place on 20-22 December.'

Great, City get a paragraph on matches played since the WC, mentioning De Bruyne and Haaland scoring... marvellous.
Then you realize that the big match on thursday in the Carabao cup doesn't get a mention for the latest match played, nor the players involved from both clubs, let alone the result.

 

[Kazzydeyna]

Absolutely! He comes back from an England 'camp' and he's overweight. I had Southgate and the backroom staff pinned as the culprits as soon as the story unfolded but, hey, St. Gareth is never gonna get saddled with a bad story when MCFC are ready to be put on the coconut shy.

I hate Southgate more than almost any other person in the game but you can’t blame him for Philips lack of professionalism. All the other City England players came back at the correct weight.