Talksport

[bluethrunthru]

How much do you think these presenters are on?

I would love a job where I get paid to make shit up.

Well in 2013 it was reported the Boiled Bollock would quit their breakfast show if they didn't "massively" increase his pay, He was getting £1500 per show then - work it out .... say 300 shows a year? Colin Murray left the BBC coz he got a better offer and could stay in London - well being a broad cockney I am sure he wanted to stay near his beloved Liverpool FC rather than move to Salford with 5Live.

They get a lot more than you or I do mate be sure of that.

 

[Newman Noggs]

Talkshite is piss poor to us because we're City fans. To the majority of their listeners, they are serving up exactly what they want. The presenters aren't hired for their erudition or insight but because they played for the teams their audience identify with and whose allegiances they share. Seems to me that, the station knows its audience and provides for it. That its audience comprises bovine imbeciles incapable of individual thought is merely symptomatic of a national malaise. Worth listening to in short doses, though, in the same way as one would visit the monkey enclosure at the zoo. But don't be surprised if the inmates throw shit through the bars.

 

[Bill]

It's actually just a rag media outlet. Nothing more nothing less. Avoid.

 

[bluesoup]

Is there a link between talk sport and united / sky sponsorship? Just wondering if there is a link.

I kinda think other clubs like arsenal have TV pundits on their books as ambassadors which can also skew the bias.

 

[andyhinch]

I don't even know what channel it's on, if you can get on free view, etc. In fact I've got no idea how to listen to it, guess I'm the lucky one :)

 

[Mickeylad]

Keep telling people to ring in with their views but hardly take any calls of the public. Instead it's full of sit on the fence ex players, frightened of upsetting other sit on the fence ex players

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Keep telling people to ring in with their views but hardly take any calls of the public. Instead it's full of sit on the fence ex players, frightened of upsetting other sit on the fence ex players

They ain't daft, let them ring a premium line and never let them near the airwaves. You'd be better ringing up babe station to have your money taken off you, full of wankers on their too.

 

[west didsblue]

Fair play to Andy Gray this morning. He gave David James's comments short shrift when the bollock asked him about them and made some positive comments about Sterling and about our chances for the title.

 

[mat]

Is there a link between talk sport and united / sky sponsorship? Just wondering if there is a link.

I kinda think other clubs like arsenal have TV pundits on their books as ambassadors which can also skew the bias.

It's owned by UTV a Northern Irish media group. So there maybe a natural rags/dippers bias.

 

[unexpected item]

Colin Murray show giving equal time to each team for a season preview.

First us, and Hamman trots out all the negatives we've already heard this summer. Old squad, not enough world class players, Pellers on death row, the 2 Ferns not being up to it. Hid did, however say Sterling would be class for us. Murray trying for balance (as he always does, tbf) praised our owner and the investment in the local area but responding to a City fan messaging about the SAS (Sterling, Aguero, Silver) said it would actually be ASS.

Then the rags. It's all coming together, everything's wonderful under the tactical turtle, and they could challenge for the league this season although the goalkeeper situation was a concern. His prediction Arsenal winners, then rags, Chelsea and (maybe) Liverpool pipping us for 4th.

Same shit, different day.