so this agenda thing.

[Tarzan41]

Anyone else notice this? On Tuesday I was watching the rags game after they went 1 down and following the other scores on the BBC site on my iPad. They showed live scores from the first 10 or so games, then you had to hit the 'More Scores' button to see the rest. The games were supposedly listed in alphabetical order but the MK Dons v the rags score wasn't there on the main page where it should have been.

When I pressed the 'More Scores' button, it was listed between West Brom and West Ham, as though they wanted to hide it away. Very odd.

Yes I thought that to be very strange.

At first I thought they had decided that they were Wimbledon not MK Dons but that is not alphabetic either.

Wierd!

I am a firm believer in the agenda. They do always place the 8pm kick offs at the end of the list however.

 

[blue_paul]

Article in the Telegraph last week: their nine football journalists gave their tips for who will win (a) the Premier League and (b) the FA Cup this season.

0/9 predicted City to win the Premier
1/9 predicted City to win the FA Cup

Man United got 6 nominations.

It does seem a bit odd / hard to explain.

Anyone who predicted united to win the league knows the princely sum of fuck-all about football.

This in a nutshell. These hacks were marginally better than their peers at written English and fell into the journalism profession. I cannot understand why people get upset by their frequent outbursts of idiocy. They know as much or as little as the average punter in the stands.
Yes, some write well such as Mcilvanney or Samuel but they offer no professional insight.

It's the clichéd former pro's that get on my nerves, bowing to their former clubs wherever possible.

 

[Henkeman]

Anyone else notice this? On Tuesday I was watching the rags game after they went 1 down and following the other scores on the BBC site on my iPad. They showed live scores from the first 10 or so games, then you had to hit the 'More Scores' button to see the rest. The games were supposedly listed in alphabetical order but the MK Dons v the rags score wasn't there on the main page where it should have been.

When I pressed the 'More Scores' button, it was listed between West Brom and West Ham, as though they wanted to hide it away. Very odd.

It was highly prominent in the live text coverage, to say the least. They were printing people in hysterics of laughter writing in. So I'd say a glitch.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Anyone else notice this? On Tuesday I was watching the rags game after they went 1 down and following the other scores on the BBC site on my iPad. They showed live scores from the first 10 or so games, then you had to hit the 'More Scores' button to see the rest. The games were supposedly listed in alphabetical order but the MK Dons v the rags score wasn't there on the main page where it should have been.

When I pressed the 'More Scores' button, it was listed between West Brom and West Ham, as though they wanted to hide it away. Very odd.

I think games that kick off at 8 are at the end if the lists on the BBC. So all the other games will have been 19:45 and the MK Dons and West Brom games last in the list because they kicked off at 20:00.

 

[BlueHalli]

Does make me laugh. All the hype they were gettin preseason. Now they're doin so shit, its a case of 'we cant find anything good to say, so we best say nothing at all'.

One convincing win and theyll be all over our screens etc, yet again.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

If the anti-City illuminati have been trying to ignore Man United's latest embarrasment, then they've done a pretty poor job, seeing as the entire media has been wall to wall with it, with many commentators drawing parallels with City.

It's been great for City to go "under the radar" this summer because of the world cup and United's new manager. Perfect for Abu Dhabi, the players and Pellegrini, and oerfect to ramp up the pressure on our rivals as they fail to deliver. It won't last, as we are starting to see this week, as the world wakes up to how formidable a unit we are. This will be the season that we become the country's beacons for modern football.

 

[Claytop]

Article in the Telegraph last week: their nine football journalists gave their tips for who will win (a) the Premier League and (b) the FA Cup this season.

0/9 predicted City to win the Premier
1/9 predicted City to win the FA Cup

Man United got 6 nominations.

It does seem a bit odd / hard to explain.

Anyone who predicted united to win the league knows the princely sum of fuck-all about football.

It was Jason Burt. Which proves your point.

He wrote an article at the start of August about the rivalry between Mourinho and Van Gaal, this last paragraph made me smile.

'But, for now, England can wait. The Premier League beckons. At the top it will be Chilean against a Northern Irishman; it will be Frenchman against Argentine and Spaniard but, above all, the suspicion persists that it could be a monumental clash between a Portuguese and a Dutchman'

 

[Mr HJ]

Diana Beard left all the balti pies out of the freezer so there will be none on Saturday as some guy with a beard just threw them in the bin.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

If the anti-City illuminati have been trying to ignore Man United's latest embarrasment, then they've done a pretty poor job, seeing as the entire media has been wall to wall with it, with many commentators drawing parallels with City.

It's been great for City to go "under the radar" this summer because of the world cup and United's new manager. Perfect for Abu Dhabi, the players and Pellegrini, and oerfect to ramp up the pressure on our rivals as they fail to deliver. It won't last, as we are starting to see this week, as the world wakes up to how formidable a unit we are. This will be the season that we become the country's beacons for modern football.

I'm with you DD. Keep ourselves injury free and I think we will take things to a level this season, not seen even in our 2 most recent title wins. The only discernible weakness (and you can't even really call it that) I saw against Liverpool on Monday, was a lack of real pace on the counter attack, and the possibility that a top team with a greater cutting edge than the dippers might be able to exploit the gap between our midfield and back 4 that Fernando currently has to try and cover by himself. Other than that we were power personified

 

[Didsbury Dave]

If the anti-City illuminati have been trying to ignore Man United's latest embarrasment, then they've done a pretty poor job, seeing as the entire media has been wall to wall with it, with many commentators drawing parallels with City.

It's been great for City to go "under the radar" this summer because of the world cup and United's new manager. Perfect for Abu Dhabi, the players and Pellegrini, and oerfect to ramp up the pressure on our rivals as they fail to deliver. It won't last, as we are starting to see this week, as the world wakes up to how formidable a unit we are. This will be the season that we become the country's beacons for modern football.

I'm with you DD. Keep ourselves injury free and I think we will take things to a level this season, not seen even in our 2 most recent title wins. The only discernible weakness (and you can't even really call it that) I saw against Liverpool on Monday, was a lack of real pace on the counter attack, and the possibility that a top team with a greater cutting edge than the dippers might be able to exploit the gap between our midfield and back 4 that Fernando currently has to try and cover by himself. Other than that we were power personified

It's not the right thread for it, EB, but what we are seeing is the emergence of a truly great team, true champions League contenders. I think this team, with this spine, will win it in the next few years in fact. WE have got everything. Power, guile, solidity, motivation, goals, skill. This is the best team England has produced in the last ten years. I know what you mean, but I don't see either of those weaknesses any more with the squad and options we have. I think we drew Liverpool on and punished them when they started to flag, and we introduced the pace later on with Navas and Aguero, who did punish them on the break. And whilst I agree it is there sometimes, I think the games where the space at the back of the midfield could be punished (top European opponents etc), we will change things and put two deep players there.

I don't think it's beyond this team and this manager to eclipse Bayern, Barca and Real. And soon.