Media thread 2022/23

[Centurions]

Occurs to me reading the article that for content that is recently being claimed as boring, it don’t half make a lot of money from a hell of a lot of people who - get this - want to pay decent money to watch it.

The standout bits for me was "Direct subscribers paid £10 a month to watch every Premier League game, compared with about £80 a month for legal services from Sky, BT Sport and Amazon Prime" and "Some pubs and bars also use illegal streams to show unavailable matches, or to avoid the cost of official services, which can be more than £20,000 a year for commercial premises".

The moral outrage they try to engender takes a backseat for me when it's all about not making as much money for the legal broadcasters.

 

[Bobby Taylor's Pub Team]

The standout bits for me was "Direct subscribers paid £10 a month to watch every Premier League game, compared with about £80 a month for legal services from Sky, BT Sport and Amazon Prime" and "Some pubs and bars also use illegal streams to show unavailable matches, or to avoid the cost of official services, which can be more than £20,000 a year for commercial premises".

The moral outrage they try to engender takes a backseat for me when it's all about not making as much money for the legal broadcasters.

The same legal broadcasters who often do their best to belittle the content, or even spoil it at times. Done paying for it myself, much prefer the more positive and insightful foreign feeds. Brand me immoral.

 

[BrianW]

If this stupid **** was capable of critical thinking, he would surely see that ownership of successful football clubs attracts far more attention than it deflects.

Eggzactly! I was about to post the same thing.

To be brutally honest, no one gave a single shiny shit about human rights abuses in the UAE until Mansour made the mistake of buying City and the second mistake of organising the club so it succeeded. If the object is to improve the UAE's image, it is a disaster.

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

Binged watched Ten Pound Poms last night in one of the final episodes a girl from Stockport and a boy from London are talking about the 1958 World Cup. The girl raves about Duncan Edwards the boy about the ticket tout. YCMIU

 

[Skip Donoghue]

Well she claimed she started to support Liverpool to annoy her Everton supporting grandad but she missed out the bit annoying everyone else as well.

That says it all for me, it's really not a surprise

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

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city: City City, Bang Bang: Manchester City have not merely raised the bar, they have changed the game - The Economic Times

Manchester City secured their fifth Premier League title in six seasons, winning with two games to spare. The team is on course to win the treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League this season. City's dominance has resulted in altering the rules with their supreme talent, versatile...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

The so called sports washing will go down well in India. That s what the IPL is doing

 

[bluemanchester]

Just read the David Squires one in the guardian, maybe someone can do the archive.ph link to save clicking. Well if thus is whats coming at the start of the week its gonna get worse. And if we win Saturday next week will be full of City bingo stuff as it is this week as well. Jaysus these guys are hurting and I for one hope we can inflict more pain on them. Looking forward to them doing Pep's team talk this week and hopefully next week as well. Come on City, just do it.

 

[manimanc]

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city: City City, Bang Bang: Manchester City have not merely raised the bar, they have changed the game - The Economic Times

Manchester City secured their fifth Premier League title in six seasons, winning with two games to spare. The team is on course to win the treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League this season. City's dominance has resulted in altering the rules with their supreme talent, versatile...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

So can we deduce from this nerds bitter ramblings that any American owners of football clubs are using soft power to deflect things like Racism, Gun crime and that they spend more money on space expeditions than they spend on poverty stricken areas.

Four eyed prick jumping on the band wagon with all the other mardarse pricks.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

They could have chosen ANY image... but NO, they chose THIS one.

FFS!!!

 

[chesterbells]

Genuinely gonna give the wider media - and also this thread - a wide berth at least until Sunday.

 

[Mr Fraser]

Playing out from the back?

Coming from behind

 

[manimanc]

Joe90 who written the article is an Arsenal fan, surprise surprise.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

So can we deduce from this nerds bitter ramblings that any American owners of football clubs are using soft power to deflect things like Racism, Gun crime and that they spend more money on space expeditions than they spend on poverty stricken areas.

Four eyed prick jumping on the band wagon with all the other mardarse pricks.

If he had more brain cells he might have realised that City Football Group has also invested in countries like China, Uruguay, Brazil, and even Mumbai. This wouldn't make any sense if our only motive was to deflect attention away from human rights abuses. The entire concept of "sportswashing" is false. It was invented by PR firms working for Human Rights charities as a way of attracting attention to their cause.

 

[bluenova]

They could have chosen ANY image... but NO, they chose THIS one.

FFS!!!

FFS? Representing the attractiveness of illegal streaming of the Premier League, by showing the Premier League's biggest star, playing for the Premier League's best club, holding the Premier League trophy aloft?

 

[Bodicoteblue]

If this stupid **** was capable of critical thinking, he would surely see that ownership of successful football clubs attracts far more attention than it deflects.

He doesn’t even need to stretch his obviously flabby mental abilities to do any critical thinking.
He simply needed to do some research, and even then he could have got an office junior to do that.

 

[Maly]

If this stupid **** was capable of critical thinking, he would surely see that ownership of successful football clubs attracts far more attention than it deflects.

Considering Abu Dhabi are already major players across the world, why on earth would they want, or need, football fans to be ‘sportswashed’?

It really is bizarre thinking that the Abu Dhabi government care what a load of football fans think of their politics

 

[manimanc]

If he had more brain cells he might have realised that City Football Group has also invested in countries like China, Uruguay, Brazil, and even Mumbai. This wouldn't make any sense if our only motive was to deflect attention away from human rights abuses. The entire concept of "sportswashing" is false. It was invented by PR firms working for Human Rights charities as a way of attracting attention to their cause.

I mean take away that paragraph about sportswashing and the article is a really good read. It's just a shame they throw these stupid inaccurate comments in to tar their work.

 

[Norbert D]

Considering Abu Dhabi are already major players across the world, why on earth would they want, or need, football fans to be ‘sportswashed’?

It really is bizarre thinking that the Abu Dhabi government care what a load of football fans think of their politics

That’s the elephant in the room, wtf do the UAE need to gain approval from the rest of the world? They don’t. The west has done a great job when it intervenes in oil rich states. They soon become failed states. Unfortunately the masses are by and large poorly educated and believe any old shit they hear.

 

[Norbert D]

I mean take away that paragraph about sportswashing and the article is a really good read. It's just a shame they throw these stupid inaccurate comments in to tar their work.

The biggest sportswashing activity by far is LFC and Standard Chartered (fined one billion dollars for money laundering), closely followed by the Visit Rwanda mob.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

FFS? Representing the attractiveness of illegal streaming of the Premier League, by showing the Premier League's biggest star, playing for the Premier League's best club, holding the Premier League trophy aloft?

Not the point. They could have just as easily used the Rag's, Dippers or the Arse (all bigger teams with a larger number of worldwide supporters in the eyes of the media), but they chose us in order to perpetuate the drip,drip, drip of negativity against us.