Media thread 2022/23

[trumpton]

Chelsea have been given a free ride , the media forget that they had a sugar daddy before Ra Ra Rasputin turned up , they’ve openly found a loophole this window with giving players 8 year contracts - can you imagine the bed wetting if that was us ? We are closer to home to the evil empire -and that’s a fact.

As I said in the Chelsea thread, they could sign Milner for £150m on a 15 year contract and nobody would bat a fucking eyelid.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64447208

“The industry of the midfield that almost drove the Reds to the historic quadruple suddenly looks laborious and one-paced just a few months later while the younger midfielders - Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain - have never consistently impressed at Anfield.”

Keita is 28 next week and ‘The Ox’ turns 30 before next season starts.

JLingz or whatever he calls himself likes that quote.

 

[ysmsa]

Just been listening to the dulcet tones of Henry Winter on talk shite and he mentioned something on the lines of "we will have to consider Brighton as a big club".

Sorry, but what is the criteria required to be a "big club" and why is it up to Journos to decide who is a big club and who isn't? Why is there also an obsession with labelling clubs as "big"? For me a team is a team, I apply some form of identity to that team.

Also, why should journos who pay nothing to watch football decide who is a "bigg club". Their opinion is void given they aren't fans, just an inconvenience attached to the sport.

It's pathetic lazy reporting and inaccurate labelling.

He should have said a "Top side"

 

[GaudinoMotors]

It's pathetic lazy reporting and inaccurate labelling.

He should have said a "Top side"

Henry Winter - the bard of pomposity, has really lost his way in recent years.

 

[Keeper!]

Just been listening to the dulcet tones of Henry Winter on talk shite and he mentioned something on the lines of "we will have to consider Brighton as a big club".

Sorry, but what is the criteria required to be a "big club" and why is it up to Journos to decide who is a big club and who isn't? Why is there also an obsession with labelling clubs as "big"? For me a team is a team, I apply some form of identity to that team.

Also, why should journos who pay nothing to watch football decide who is a "bigg club". Their opinion is void given they aren't fans, just an inconvenience attached to the sport.

I would say ANY club in the Premier league is a big club, each gets a minimum 100m , the top clubs in Europe struggle to get that.

The definition of a "big" club is debatable, is it (h)istory, stadium, Titles, Attendance etc?

 

[tommybooth]

We are little City and win loads.

 

[Looby blue]

Henry Winter - the bard of pomposity, has really lost his way in recent years.

He's filling the boots vacated by Patrick Barklay, self-important pontificating and grandiose hyperbole. Pompous, posh boy twat.

 

[BlueMoonday]

I would say ANY club in the Premier league is a big club, each gets a minimum 100m , the top clubs in Europe struggle to get that.

The definition of a "big" club is debatable, is it (h)istory, stadium, Titles, Attendance etc?

This is exactly my point, there's no criteria given as to what makes a "big club". I agree, any club in the PL and probably most in the Championship can consider themselves big club.

I think the whole "big club" discussion is very childish.

Some clubs have superb scouting, some play nice football, some spend a lot and are shite, some play awful football, some have a huge following being in major cities, some have small following due to being in small towns, some have large following being a one club town, some have won major trophies in the last century and done FA since, some haven't.

A club is a club in my eyes. Too many variables to make the immature observation as to whether it is a "big club". The media can shove the debate up their arse sideways.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Big clubs is just a magnet name to draw the saddos in the world to them.

We're just City and I love it.

 

[East Level 2]

I would say ANY club in the Premier league is a big club, each gets a minimum 100m , the top clubs in Europe struggle to get that.

The definition of a "big" club is debatable, is it (h)istory, stadium, Titles, Attendance etc?

I don't like the term "big club" but if I had to provide a definition it would be a club in the top fifteen for attendances (current season) and the top fifteen for major trophies won.
it's obviously a loose definition, but it's a definition of a term I don't like so I won't bother refining it further.