Media thread 2022/23

[andthesunshineband]

Have we finished with all these americanisation (or is it americanization) phrases ?
Have we done the whole 9 yards ?

For sure

 

[Centurions]

I would think that a major issue would be finding a player willing to be potentially tied to a club for 8 years, with whoever is the manager in the future. The player would likely be no more than 23 at the time of signing.

I don't view it as a loophole or particularly annoying - it seems pretty risky to me.

I'd love to know what extra clauses are included in these contracts above and beyond the usual. Surely there must be something to protect both sides?

 

[OB1]

Hate the creeping Americanisation of our language - as one or two posters might have noticed!

I blame Microsoft.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Have we finished with all these americanisation (or is it americanization) phrases ?
Have we done the whole 9 yards ?

You should cascade that and find out.

 

[Centurions]

I blame Microsoft.

Yep, Microsoft, ruining soccer for decades.

 

[Ajm1985]

Decent piece by Simon Bajkowski on attitudes towards Chelsea's spending

Chelsea signings blow up a vital argument from boring Man City spending critics

As recently as this season it was suggested by a rival that nobody could compete with Manchester City financially

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

Have we finished with all these americanisation (or is it americanization) phrases ?
Have we done the whole 9 yards ?

No but we’ll put in the parking lot for now….

 

[domalino]

He's also not very bright, although amazingly I've seen numerous claims to the contrary. I've never thought him in any way smart, but I've been living outside the UK ever since he started on talkSPORT so wondered if I might be missing something. To make that assessment, I've been monitoring for quite a while those clips that the station put out on social media to showcase what are presumably considered his more pertinent comments.

I'm glad to say I've been conclusively vindicated in my original view. His ability to construct any kind of reasoned argument is manifestly pitiable. However, even though being marginally more eloquent than the station's other pundits is really no kind of qualification, some people seem to regard him as well spoken, with an impressive vocabulary.

This notion is bollocks, as well, not least because when he tries to deploy what are big words by talkSPORT standards, he frequently misuses them. For instance, the last time I looked at one of those short videos of him making a point, he used 'patronage' as a verb. That's not indicative of someone who's articulate in any way (the word you were groping for ineffectually, Simon, was 'patronize', in the sense of being a regular customer). All this shows him up as someone who's trying desperately to look clever but is really an impostor, lacking any genuine intellectual prowess.

That's to say nothing of the fact that he's risibly proclaimed an expert in the off-field side of football when his credentials involve inept blundering to lead Crystal Palace into an insolvency event. Only in the British sports media could a demonstrable clown and weapons-grade **** like this be held up as a paragon of informed intelligence.

Talksport is just noise to join up adverts.

White noise through shone through the prism of football to keep minimal engagement of the listener until it's time to blast them with another advert for the builder's merchant.

 

[east2]

No but we’ll put in the parking lot for now….

If you’ve run out of gas, get your luggage from the trunk, hit the sidewalk, follow the freeway and take a vacation…wtf!

 

[andthesunshineband]

If you’ve run out of gas, put your luggage in the trunk, hit the sidewalk, follow the freeway and take a vacation…wtf!

Wowzer, you're obviously the go to guy right from the get go.