Media thread 2022/23

[Kmezn]

What the actual fuck? I refuse to click on this article but this seems like desperate clickbate...

 

[give it to gordon]

What the actual fuck? I refuse to click on this article but this seems like desperate clickbate... View attachment 68117

There must be alot of people at City who freely talk to the press


















do people really click onto this click bait shit ?

 

[Kmezn]

There must be alot of people at City who freely talk to the press


















do people really click onto this click bait shit ?

I'm assuming to 'find out what has been said' or 'find out what has been twisted '

 

[jrb]

What the actual fuck? I refuse to click on this article but this seems like desperate clickbate... View attachment 68117

Football365. Lol!

 

[cheekybids]

Is there just a thing ?

Will they be discussing the 4G pitches etc which can not be recycled ? Plus the rumours of carcinogen cancer from all the chemicals in the rubber crumb from the old vehicle tyres ?

Or just be saying some team used an electric coach to get the match lol

Any oil state own clubs will be audited by environmental fair play ……

 

[pauls]

I think that’s a fair headline by Rob Drapper, a London based journalist.

It’s not too dissimilar to the headlines City have been getting for the last 14 years about their transfer spending. ;-) (Isn’t it Rob?!)

View attachment 68116

Gonna be interesting if we go big in the summer.'I,m sure the reception will be similar! Professional journalists my fuckin arse!

 

[ysmsa]

It’s Green Football Weekend so not too surprising that they mention it

Any mention of the millions of Rag and Dipper fans that fly or travel hundreds of miles each season "to watch home games"

No, is there bollocks!

 

[mad4city]

That "off of" really annoys me but the slang money has been around for all my lifetime and doesn't bother me

I agree that "get off" is far cleaner and (for want of a more concise expression) better English but... and this is just a hunch of my own but "get off of" might be older than you think.

Norman French had a huge influence on how the English speak er, English.
"To get off" [insert Sid James gif here, if you like] in French is all one word "descendre".

So you'd say ''descendre du l'autobus" (I suppose they were probably getting off a horse back then but bear with me).

The thing is, I think it's that du (from) in the above sentence that's indirectly at work in this case. When French speakers (who would have been more dominant in certain parts of the country) moved towards speaking English for commercial and cultural (and not wanting to get your head chopped off) reasons, they would have been conditioned to placing an extra word in between "off" and "bus". "Off from the bus" just doesn't work, so they might have gone with "off of the bus" instead?

All this is just the theory of a man with a sick head on a Sunday morning. I'm no Suzie Dent and I could be entirely wrong but it makes sense in my tiny suffering little brain.

 

[bikerblue]

It's total speculated shite reported by some Spanish paper,even a bit tongue in cheek by 365.I knew I shouldn't have clicked.

 

[Ignominious]

lots of beefs with me

I get off the bus or train People down south "get off of the bus/train? whats with this off of?
Why is Berkshire incorrectly pronounced?
It's not spelt Barkshire (Bark of a tree / the sound of a dog)

why do we use slang relating to money? a grand Pony/Monkey etc

Why do the BBC employ female ex footballer pundits who can't pronounce the letter 'G' nuffin/everythin/sumthin etc etc. Was there only 25 letters in the alphabet at there school?

'Berkshire' is the result of the Great Vowel Shift in the spoken English language where pronunciation of long vowels changed but the spelling remained the same. You can also see this in place names like Derby, Hertford, Clerkenwell and the River Cherwell.

Great Vowel Shift - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org