Media thread 2022/23

[mac]

I wonder which bellend voted for Rashford?

Ogden the fat.

 

[Rory Bluelow]

I wonder which bellend voted for Rashford?

Stevie Wonder

 

[PPT]

The online Daily Telegraph have not even reported about Haaland winning the Football Writers award. Not one jot. Blatantly ignored it. The media in this country are rotten to the core.

 

[crazyg]

The line is an inch or so into the white boundary line, if it was on the edge I’m sure it would make the ball in

The ball has to be totally over the line to give a goal, throw in etc.
Ask John Stones.

 

[Oldtraffordblue1]

Absolutely. Would you ever see this level of media coverage over such a minor and vague issue as this if it was the rags or the scousers who had just grabbed themselves a draw at the Bernabeu?

Yet City are routinely subjected to this sort of thing. So often, you'll see half-time discussions in our games focused purely on "Should that really have been a penalty?" or "Haaland looks slightly offside to me, has VAR got that one wrong?" or "I think Rodri should have seen a red for that challenge!" instead of just commending the level of play on display or discussing tactics and strategies. They'll do anything to get a little dig in, to sow some seeds of doubt, to suggest that somehow WE, of all teams, are fucking favoured by referees.

Of course, those kinds of discussions can happen about games involving other teams, but it feels far less common than it is with us. And this is one of the worst examples, truly. The fact that certain media outlets and figures are STILL somehow talking about a ball that may or may not have crossed the line for a freaking throw-in just sums up how the media treat us. Can you imagine how they'd be reacting if the rags had just got that result? The "phantom throw-in" wouldn't have been mentioned a SINGLE time.

I mean just look at the whole Rashford offside thing when we played them. Yes, there was a bit of media fuss, but it was VERY quickly shuffled under the carpet, and it didn't even make the BBC's recent list of big VAR fuck-ups of the season. But you can be sure if we go on and win the CL, there'll still be prats talking about how the ball crossed the line and Real were robbed.

It's tiring. But fuck em, we'll just keep doing our talking on the pitch.

Didn’t United score a goal at WHU a couple of seasons ago where the ball looked a lot further out than this and there was no media outcry?

 

[urban genie]

Alyson Rudd (in the Times):
"Why I voted for a different Norwegian"

Well there's a shock!
Yawn...

clickbait woman, writes shite like this for likes and views with no valid opinion or sense

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

Fuck off it's miles out - it's practically in the first row of the Bernabau.........

I really hope it was out, the bigger the distance the better.

 

[argyle]

Alyson Rudd (in the Times):
"Why I voted for a different Norwegian"

Well there's a shock!
Yawn...

She did it because she gets a clickbait article out of it.

People on twitter bite and she gets what she wants.

 

[SWP's back]

Agreed, although I think it’s fair to say that only Spurs got the ‘rub of the green’ is wholly inaccurate :-

‘It is rare for Pep Guardiola to get knocked out of any cup competition on home soil. It happened in Europe against Liverpool in 2018 and then against Tottenham 12 months later, although I think it's fair to say Spurs got the rub of the green that night’.

That’s entirely accurate isn’t it. He means they got lucky.

 

[freshie]

It's a slow news day at the........

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Rivals?

Go on Martin, tell us!

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Getting tactical tips off Martin Keown is like getting maths lessons off Diane Abbott

 

[remember arthur mann]

Getting tactical tips off Martin Keown is like getting maths lessons off Frankie Abbott

Sorted.

 

[horlock_was_super]

The ball has to be totally over the line to give a goal, throw in etc.
Ask John Stones.

Unless the line in question is wider than it should be and the grass extra long too.
That’s a fact a dipper told me.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

The ball being over the line is for the haters. Don't engage.

 

[the blue panther]

Getting tactical tips off Martin Keown is like getting maths lessons off Diane Abbott

Mogadon man - and woman.

 

[Dirty Harry]

That’s entirely accurate isn’t it. He means they got lucky.

It was more the fact they left the dippers out of it than anything mate (regardless how you want to interpret ‘rub of the green’).

 

[crazyg]

Unless the line in question is wider than it should be and the grass extra long too.
That’s a fact a dipper told me.

It wasn't our fault! Not like clearing the snow on half the pitch.

 

[xgorton]

She did it because she gets a clickbait article out of it.

People on twitter bite and she gets what she wants.

Clitbait

 

[BerkshireBlue]

is there any point in Football Focus?

 

[chesterbells]

You clearly have to be a member of the WhatsApp group to get that gig.

Yep, looking at who else they have on, I’d say you’re 100% correct.

 

[FantasyIreland]

is there any point in Football Focus?

It still ticks a few boxes.....