Stuart Brennan. MEN.

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Oakie must be floundering. He's had to drag Pige out of retirement just to shore up his position.

 

[EricBrooksGhost]

Has Oakie sobered up yet

Sound as a pound mate even though we got beat at dominoes.
Any good/positive stories from my paper this morning as I`ve not been to collect my copy yet,so wouldn`t like to start a debate on how good it is without reading it.I assume the "mass " have already read their copies via the internet.When I say mass I acually mean"hypocrites" as they apparently would not be seen dead "paying" cash at a news vendor but would sooner "pay" via other means.
As my late Dad used to say "there`s nowt as queer as folk". ;)

Good to hear; I was worried as you were talking about yourself in the third person.

 

[oakiecokie]

Oakie must be floundering. He's had to drag Pige out of retirement just to shore up his position.

Nice to see him back mate.These shoulders are still broad enough though to fight me own battles.Is it a fish pun by the way ? ;)<br /><br />-- Tue Nov 19, 2013 9:39 am --<br /><br />

Has Oakie sobered up yet

Sound as a pound mate even though we got beat at dominoes.
Any good/positive stories from my paper this morning as I`ve not been to collect my copy yet,so wouldn`t like to start a debate on how good it is without reading it.I assume the "mass " have already read their copies via the internet.When I say mass I acually mean"hypocrites" as they apparently would not be seen dead "paying" cash at a news vendor but would sooner "pay" via other means.
As my late Dad used to say "there`s nowt as queer as folk". ;)

Good to hear; I was worried as you were talking about yourself in the third person.

No mate I was only talking to me,myself and I.

 

[Blue Punter]

Not posted in a long while, but this is a funny thread.
The article itself hails Trautmann as the 'most famous' German to play for either club, so they have that right. The picture describes that moment as what Boateng will be most remembered for, which based on his non-performances in his short time is probably correct. It also implies that Boateng could be considered to be a bit of a ****, and with the article being made in reference to our national team playing Boateng's, maybe that was their goal? Too make current Germans look like *****?

So the article points out the bleeding obvious and tries to make Germans look like *****?

What an incisive piece of quality journalism.

Outside of GB & Ire and Shaun Goater, our only two other hall of famers are German.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Oakie's one of the big characters on the board, especially after he's had a few.

He's the sole reason I look at these threads.
Rumour has it the Rupert Murdoch refers to Oakie as 'the one that got away'

 

[stuart brennan]

Perhaps Stuart Brennan could post the thought process behind using the Boateng photo as opposed to Uwe or Bert?

I have no idea why that picture was chosen - and this is the first I have seen of it. I am not trying to defend it, but I do refute the suggestion that it is evidence of some kind of anti-City agenda.
I haven't got time to do it, but I suspect if you trawl through the Utd section, you could find "evidence" of an anti-United agenda, if you were so minded

 

[jrb]

Apparently I'm a fantasist, amongst other things.(cough!) ;-)

If the truth be told my only fantasy ATM is seeing a picture of Oakie with his Ken Barlow haircut. :-)

I've got a feeling this thread will end up in the Classic Threads.

PS. I did the MEN a favour this morning. Let's see if they take it any further. I'll know by tomorrow or Thursday.

 

[hgblue]

Perhaps Stuart Brennan could post the thought process behind using the Boateng photo as opposed to Uwe or Bert?

I have no idea why that picture was chosen - and this is the first I have seen of it. I am not trying to defend it, but I do refute the suggestion that it is evidence of some kind of anti-City agenda.
I haven't got time to do it, but I suspect if you trawl through the Utd section, you could find "evidence" of an anti-United agenda, if you were so minded

I'm curious, are there threads on United Forums alledging a pro-City bias in the MEN? I'd be interested to read them if you know of any.

 

[Matty]

Football fans want to feel superior about their football club, especially when compared to their neighbours and rivals. The media are aware of this very natural trait, as they are also acutely aware of their need to maintain a great degree of interest in their "product" in order to keep advertising revenues high and, ultimately, themselves in employment. It's only natural therefore that the MEN will pander to football fans interests, writing articles that play to the sensibilities of fans in order to attract them into reading the paper and, as a biproduct, getting "hits" on the various advertisments.

On the face of it this seems perfectly fine, however, in order to make one set of football fans feel superios there is a knock on effect of making the other set of fans, the rival set, feel inferior, and put upon. Now, in a one horse town, like Newcastle, or Leeds, that's fine. So, you alienate Sunderland fans. Big deal. How many of them will read the Newcastle Barechested Reporter anyway? However, in a town with 2 sizeable clubs such as Manchester, you're going to be alienatig certain sections of your readership by writing articles that make their rivals lok good, and them look bad. So, how do you deal with this? It's a simple solution really, find the course of least resistance, and go with that. Which group is it better to alienate? In Manchester's case it's clear, alienating the City fans is a far better idea than alientating the United fans, it's a simple matter of the maths involved. There are a decent amount more people who would claim to be United fans than City fans, so by alientating the United fans you'd have a greater impact on your readership than by alienating City fans. It really is that simple.

Given all of that, it's hardly susprising that, as City fans, we feel we are being given the rough end of the wedge here. Yes, in order to redress some sort of balance, I'm sure, on occasion, there are articles that United fans wouldn't be too happy with, however I'd strongly suspect, in a reversal of the fans situation, there are far fewer United stories like this than there are City ones. It's not just a MEN phenomenon, it's in the national press too, and also it happens within the TV media. If anything the MEN is less guilty of this kind of behaviour than most, probably due to the greater proportion of it's readership that would be classed as City fans than a national paper such as the Sun, or Mirror, or indeed SKY Sports News. So, yes, we do feel a touch hard done by, and I believe with legitimate reason, to suggest otherwise is a little insulting to our intelligence, whilst I accept we view things with a certain bias towards City it's not so much as to cloud our judgement in it's entirety.

 

[Georgian Maestro]

Perhaps Stuart Brennan could post the thought process behind using the Boateng photo as opposed to Uwe or Bert?

I have no idea why that picture was chosen - and this is the first I have seen of it. I am not trying to defend it, but I do refute the suggestion that it is evidence of some kind of anti-City agenda.
I haven't got time to do it, but I suspect if you trawl through the Utd section, you could find "evidence" of an anti-United agenda, if you were so minded

I'm curious, are there threads on United Forums alledging a pro-City bias in the MEN? I'd be interested to read them if you know of any.

Looking forward to reading Stuart's excuse when he can't produce any examples.