Scholes, ITV disgrace

[The slaughtered lamb]

He was talking about the entire atmosphere and feel of the occasion, I'm not the only city fan to say he was right. Take your silly spectacles off.

Not everyone who was there thought the atmosphere was crap. Many on this thread thought it was OK. I wasn't there, so can't speak from personal experience but even Chiles said at half time that the game was played in a good atmosphere, to which Scholes made the snide remark about that being down to the Roma fans.

 

[andyhinch]

He was talking about the entire atmosphere and feel of the occasion, I'm not the only city fan to say he was right. Take your silly spectacles off.

Not everyone who was there thought the atmosphere was crap. Many on this thread thought it was OK. I wasn't there, so can't speak from personal experience but even Chiles said at half time that the game was played in a good atmosphere, to which Scholes made the snide remark about that being down to the Roma fans.

To be fare to Pidge, he's usually goes all guns blazzing at any anti city stuff out there :)

 

[M18CTID]

FF a few years and we will have a recogniseable face in the pundit team. Until then, who cares? Scholes was right in what he said, after all. Someone had to say it and itv are simply putting faces on who their audience recognise, and as said above, one day we will have someone there who made their name with us. Zabba, kompany most likely.

Pmsl. He was right to have a go at empty seats in a stadium, 45 mins before kick off was he?

Funny because the next game he did was at Old Trafford and guess what? Empty seats on view right up to kick off yet not a fucking word from his rag gob about it!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not surprised in the same way I'm not surprised seeing you play Mr Contrary and defending anything rag!

He was talking about the entire atmosphere and feel of the occasion, I'm not the only city fan to say he was right. Take your silly spectacles off.

And how often does Scholes slag off the atmosphere at Old Trafford? Because there are plenty of times I've turned the box on down the years to find United fans being outsung in a CL game on their own turf by the visiting fans. Unless it's against one of Europe's elite teams (no disrespect to Roma because they're a very good team but they don't quite have the same pull that certain other Italian teams have) or a shit-or-bust match, this tournament doesn't tend to really get going until the knockout stages. And as for criticising City fans for not getting in the ground early enough, what the fuck is that all about? Do I have to abandon my pre-match pint in the pub over the road from now on because the Ginger Pig says we should all be there earlier?

 

[Blue Til Death]

I do not buy into the scholes myth, he was overrated just as many of the so called class of 92 were and a dirty bastard, as a pundit he's below average at best.

I have no problem with anyone slating City if they deserve it, as long as they do the same to any other club in the same circumstance, the fact is they don't and the reason is that City have busted open the cosy cabal at the top of the PL, the reason the other teams and supporters don't like us is because it wasn't their club that did.

Fuck em all, the tide has turned and its all down to the Blue Moon Rising...!

 

[Bilboblue]

I do not buy into the scholes myth, he was overrated just as many of the so called class of 92 were

He's an absolute twat of a pundit, but tackling aside, he was a great footballer.

Is still a detestable character though.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

FF a few years and we will have a recogniseable face in the pundit team. Until then, who cares? Scholes was right in what he said, after all. Someone had to say it and itv are simply putting faces on who their audience recognise, and as said above, one day we will have someone there who made their name with us. Zabba, kompany most likely.

Pmsl. He was right to have a go at empty seats in a stadium, 45 mins before kick off was he?

Funny because the next game he did was at Old Trafford and guess what? Empty seats on view right up to kick off yet not a fucking word from his rag gob about it!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not surprised in the same way I'm not surprised seeing you play Mr Contrary and defending anything rag!

But Scholes' comparison was with our big Champions League games he's seen or been to and ones he's been part of or been to with or to see other clubs. And he was absolutely spot on in everything he said and i'm glad he said it.

I emailed the club the day after the Roma game with complaints about my experience of the Champions League at the Etihad in four seasons so far and i hadn't even heard or read any of this from Scholes at the time. He was just confirming a lot of the complaints i had in the email.


The whole having a pop at Pigeonho about defending Rags is fucking boring, as well, almost as boring as people moaning about agendas!

 

[Pigeonho]

FF a few years and we will have a recogniseable face in the pundit team. Until then, who cares? Scholes was right in what he said, after all. Someone had to say it and itv are simply putting faces on who their audience recognise, and as said above, one day we will have someone there who made their name with us. Zabba, kompany most likely.

Pmsl. He was right to have a go at empty seats in a stadium, 45 mins before kick off was he?

Funny because the next game he did was at Old Trafford and guess what? Empty seats on view right up to kick off yet not a fucking word from his rag gob about it!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not surprised in the same way I'm not surprised seeing you play Mr Contrary and defending anything rag!

But Scholes' comparison was with our big Champions League games he's seen or been to and ones he's been part of or been to with or to see other clubs. And he was absolutely spot on in everything he said and i'm glad he said it.

I emailed the club the day after the Roma game with complaints about my experience of the Champions League at the Etihad in four seasons so far and i hadn't even heard or read any of this from Scholes at the time. He was just confirming a lot of the complaints i had in the email.


The whole having a pop at Pigeonho about defending Rags is fucking boring, as well, almost as boring as people moaning about agendas!

Small time mentality they have mate.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Pmsl. He was right to have a go at empty seats in a stadium, 45 mins before kick off was he?

Funny because the next game he did was at Old Trafford and guess what? Empty seats on view right up to kick off yet not a fucking word from his rag gob about it!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not surprised in the same way I'm not surprised seeing you play Mr Contrary and defending anything rag!

He was talking about the entire atmosphere and feel of the occasion, I'm not the only city fan to say he was right. Take your silly spectacles off.

And how often does Scholes slag off the atmosphere at Old Trafford? Because there are plenty of times I've turned the box on down the years to find United fans being outsung in a CL game on their own turf by the visiting fans. Unless it's against one of Europe's elite teams (no disrespect to Roma because they're a very good team but they don't quite have the same pull that certain other Italian teams have) or a shit-or-bust match, this tournament doesn't tend to really get going until the knockout stages. And as for criticising City fans for not getting in the ground early enough, what the fuck is that all about? Do I have to abandon my pre-match pint in the pub over the road from now on because the Ginger Pig says we should all be there earlier?

But not the big CL games. Fair enough i will expect our game v Moscow in a couple of week to have a shit atmopshere...but Roma, Barcelona and Bayern last year, Madrid Dortmund and Napoli in previous years were all pathetic.

You have to give credit to United for their CL atmospehre against Madrid the other year as it was really good. They can be fucking shite week-after-week, just like Anfield can be...but on big CL nights they know how to get their atmosphere going and we do not.

 

[blueinsa]

Fuck me I've heard it all now!

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Fuck me I've heard it all now!

But i felt that strongly about how bad the experience of Etihad CL nights have been that i've emailed the club with a complaint, so you obviously haven't heard it all as you haven't heard how bad we are. I've never complained to the club once in twenty five years of attending matches but these CL nights are a fucking joke!

 

[Pigeonho]

Fuck me I've heard it all now!

But i felt that strongly about how bad the experience of Etihad CL nights have been that i've emailed the club with a complaint, so you obviously haven't heard it all as you haven't heard how bad we are. I've never complained to the club once in twenty five years of attending matches but these CL nights are a fucking joke!

You sir, are a rag :-)
Ooo I felt 5 years old then!

 

[BlueTG]

Is this thread still focused on the comments made over two weeks ago, or has he brought anything else up since?

 

[bernabias home shirt]

Is this thread still focused on the comments made over two weeks ago, or has he brought anything else up since?

No its still the same
Theres ten times worse than what that ginger fucker said on our own Atmosphere thread on here........

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

He was talking about the entire atmosphere and feel of the occasion, I'm not the only city fan to say he was right. Take your silly spectacles off.

Not everyone who was there thought the atmosphere was crap. Many on this thread thought it was OK. I wasn't there, so can't speak from personal experience but even Chiles said at half time that the game was played in a good atmosphere, to which Scholes made the snide remark about that being down to the Roma fans.

Once a Rag cnut, always a Rag cnut!

 

[dario2739]

The point is that ITV, the BBC, Sky and BT have no City representation at all - that's the fucking disgrace!
And what's more disgraceful is that they have rag cnuts like Scholes – who is a shite pundit anyway – commentating on our matches... so we not only have no representation, they get one of our rivals in for his 'fair and unbiased' views!
I look forward to the day Mike Summerbee is invited on to be a pundit for a rag match!

 

[Blue Til Death]

The point is that ITV, the BBC, Sky and BT have no City representation at all - that's the fucking disgrace!
And what's more disgraceful is that they have rag cnuts like Scholes – who is a shite pundit anyway – commentating on our matches... so we not only have no representation, they get one of our rivals in for his 'fair and unbiased' views!
I look forward to the day Mike Summerbee is invited on to be a pundit for a rag match!

Ha ha, Buzzer will never be invited back I remember him saying City were ready to completely destroy the rags a few years back as the other pundits smirked behind his back, not fucking smirking now are they...!!! Buzzer says it as it is and that's the reason he wont be a TV pundit anytime soon, the rag cunts are biased, ill informed and stupid, Gary Neville aside who is probably the best pundit out there by a mile...!

 

[Pigeonho]

The point is that ITV, the BBC, Sky and BT have no City representation at all - that's the fucking disgrace!
And what's more disgraceful is that they have rag cnuts like Scholes – who is a shite pundit anyway – commentating on our matches... so we not only have no representation, they get one of our rivals in for his 'fair and unbiased' views!
I look forward to the day Mike Summerbee is invited on to be a pundit for a rag match!

A large percentage of their audience won't know who he is. That percentage will know who scholes is. That is why he's there.
In a few years that audience will be treated to kompany, who they will know.
That's the game. We have nobody of any worth at present to represent us to that audience, basically because we have been too shit.

 

[dario2739]

The point is that ITV, the BBC, Sky and BT have no City representation at all - that's the fucking disgrace!
And what's more disgraceful is that they have rag cnuts like Scholes – who is a shite pundit anyway – commentating on our matches... so we not only have no representation, they get one of our rivals in for his 'fair and unbiased' views!
I look forward to the day Mike Summerbee is invited on to be a pundit for a rag match!

Ha ha, Buzzer will never be invited back I remember him saying City were ready to completely destroy the rags a few years back as the other pundits smirked behind his back, not fucking smirking now are they...!!! Buzzer says it as it is and that's the reason he wont be a TV pundit anytime soon, the rag c**ts are biased, ill informed and stupid, Gary Neville aside who is probably the best pundit out there by a mile...!

And, of course, Buzzer was spot on!

 

[Blue Til Death]

The point is that ITV, the BBC, Sky and BT have no City representation at all - that's the fucking disgrace!
And what's more disgraceful is that they have rag cnuts like Scholes – who is a shite pundit anyway – commentating on our matches... so we not only have no representation, they get one of our rivals in for his 'fair and unbiased' views!
I look forward to the day Mike Summerbee is invited on to be a pundit for a rag match!

Ha ha, Buzzer will never be invited back I remember him saying City were ready to completely destroy the rags a few years back as the other pundits smirked behind his back, not fucking smirking now are they...!!! Buzzer says it as it is and that's the reason he wont be a TV pundit anytime soon, the rag c**ts are biased, ill informed and stupid, Gary Neville aside who is probably the best pundit out there by a mile...!

And, of course, Buzzer was spot on!

Indeed he was, I have just read his book and used to watch him lots years ago, he's a City legend but has far too much football nous to ever be invited as a regular pundit...!

 

[RyanP3609]

The point is that ITV, the BBC, Sky and BT have no City representation at all - that's the fucking disgrace!
And what's more disgraceful is that they have rag cnuts like Scholes – who is a shite pundit anyway – commentating on our matches... so we not only have no representation, they get one of our rivals in for his 'fair and unbiased' views!
I look forward to the day Mike Summerbee is invited on to be a pundit for a rag match!

A large percentage of their audience won't know who he is. That percentage will know who scholes is. That is why he's there.
In a few years that audience will be treated to kompany, who they will know.
That's the game. We have nobody of any worth at present to represent us to that audience, basically because we have been too shit.

Sorry but that's rubbish.

List of pundits we have the privilege of being subject to on our screens, the well known names such as;

Danny Mills, Clark Carlisle, Garth Crooks to name but a few.

To say he was picked purely as he's a recognizable name/face is a complete cop out. Why wasn't it one of the usuals in the ITV punditry circuit? Ian Wright being one that comes to mind. The point is that he shouldn't have been there as a pundit, I could have understood if he was an ex Roma player who happened to play in the Prem with United. But to have someone on who knowingly hates City (as he's United to the core) is a choice purposely chosen by ITV.

Saying that I can't even remember what the ginger twat said, and nowadays I don't listen to any sort of "punditry" at all, turn it on just before kick off and goes over/mute at half time.