The Agenda: Part Deux

[Jontyh68]

Yeeh well yoo staartd it.

:-)

 

[ROCKET80]

I suspect we'll see the press' guns being deployed on Di Matteo and Chelsea in the days ahead, especially given the match at the weekend.

There is certainly no sentiment when it comes to the Fourth Estate, and in that sense at least, no agenda.

There is no doubt, however, that united don't get the same treatment when they go through a bad patch and this is a function of three factors imo:

Firstly, that they are the best supported team in the country and money talks in terms of circulation/subscription. Secondly, the fear that Ferguson seems to strike in otherwise bullish media types. He really has cowed a lot of them into submission. But in all fairness there is a third reason: they have written Ferguson off before on numerous occasions and been proven conspicuously wrong each time. For that reason at least he has earned a degree of credit and the benefit of the doubt with the press. He truly is a remarkable manager and survivor, whatever your thoughts on him as a human being.

Make no mistake, however, once they properly smell blood with him it will be a feeding frenzy. There are a lot of grudges and resentments that have been harboured for a long time by many members of the press towards this bully of a man.

If he does stay on too long it certainly will be a beautiful sight to behold.

This.

Great post and very accurate.

Sadly though Baconface is a shrewd operator. He'll know exactly the right time to 'get out' of United and he'll play it as money ruining football with the likes of City and Chelsea to blame for him and normal 'fans' falling out of love with the game.
The media will lap it up and call for him to be a saint and that the nation have an annual feast day in his honour.

 

[mat]

I suspect we'll see the press' guns being deployed on Di Matteo and Chelsea in the days ahead, especially given the match at the weekend.

There is certainly no sentiment when it comes to the Fourth Estate, and in that sense at least, no agenda.

There is no doubt, however, that united don't get the same treatment when they go through a bad patch and this is a function of three factors imo:

Firstly, that they are the best supported team in the country and money talks in terms of circulation/subscription. Secondly, the fear that Ferguson seems to strike in otherwise bullish media types. He really has cowed a lot of them into submission. But in all fairness there is a third reason: they have written Ferguson off before on numerous occasions and been proven conspicuously wrong each time. For that reason at least he has earned a degree of credit and the benefit of the doubt with the press. He truly is a remarkable manager and survivor, whatever your thoughts on him as a human being.

Make no mistake, however, once they properly smell blood with him it will be a feeding frenzy. There are a lot of grudges and resentments that have been harboured for a long time by many members of the press towards this bully of a man.

If he does stay on too long it certainly will be a beautiful sight to behold.

This.

Great post and very accurate.

Sadly though Baconface is a shrewd operator. He'll know exactly the right time to 'get out' of United and he'll play it as money ruining football with the likes of City and Chelsea to blame for him and normal 'fans' falling out of love with the game.
The media will lap it up and call for him to be a saint and that the nation have an annual feast day in his honour.

They've just lost 2 on the bounce. Can't see it yet....

 

[Ladybarn Blue .]

Rooney missed the game yesterday because he was having Wisdom teeth put in.

Just love it !!

 

[r.soleofsalford]

I suspect we'll see the press' guns being deployed on Di Matteo and Chelsea in the days ahead, especially given the match at the weekend.

There is certainly no sentiment when it comes to the Fourth Estate, and in that sense at least, no agenda.

There is no doubt, however, that united don't get the same treatment when they go through a bad patch and this is a function of three factors imo:

Firstly, that they are the best supported team in the country and money talks in terms of circulation/subscription. Secondly, the fear that Ferguson seems to strike in otherwise bullish media types. He really has cowed a lot of them into submission. But in all fairness there is a third reason: they have written Ferguson off before on numerous occasions and been proven conspicuously wrong each time. For that reason at least he has earned a degree of credit and the benefit of the doubt with the press. He truly is a remarkable manager and survivor, whatever your thoughts on him as a human being.

Make no mistake, however, once they properly smell blood with him it will be a feeding frenzy. There are a lot of grudges and resentments that have been harboured for a long time by many members of the press towards this bully of a man.

If he does stay on too long it certainly will be a beautiful sight to behold.

This.

Great post and very accurate.

Sadly though Baconface is a shrewd operator. He'll know exactly the right time to 'get out' of United and he'll play it as money ruining football with the likes of City and Chelsea to blame for him and normal 'fans' falling out of love with the game.
The media will lap it up and call for him to be a saint and that the nation have an annual feast day in his honour.

just in case your wondering GDM, calling you "very articulate" isnt an insult.



:)

 

[Chris in London]

Nor an English teacher, I'd wager.

Tell me, what is it that possessed you to type that?

Apart from its being a grammatical disaster, there's the irony that Evans would have been guilty of slander not libel. I found it amusing.

Out of interest, Jonty, as you picked him up on it what is the difference between libel and slander, and why do you think this was the latter and not the former?

 

[Anonymous]

I suspect we'll see the press' guns being deployed on Di Matteo and Chelsea in the days ahead, especially given the match at the weekend.

There is certainly no sentiment when it comes to the Fourth Estate, and in that sense at least, no agenda.

There is no doubt, however, that united don't get the same treatment when they go through a bad patch and this is a function of three factors imo:

Firstly, that they are the best supported team in the country and money talks in terms of circulation/subscription. Secondly, the fear that Ferguson seems to strike in otherwise bullish media types. He really has cowed a lot of them into submission. But in all fairness there is a third reason: they have written Ferguson off before on numerous occasions and been proven conspicuously wrong each time. For that reason at least he has earned a degree of credit and the benefit of the doubt with the press. He truly is a remarkable manager and survivor, whatever your thoughts on him as a human being.

Make no mistake, however, once they properly smell blood with him it will be a feeding frenzy. There are a lot of grudges and resentments that have been harboured for a long time by many members of the press towards this bully of a man.

If he does stay on too long it certainly will be a beautiful sight to behold.

Super post. Particularly the bit about Ferguson. As long as he retires as opposed to just dropping dead, there will be a hell of a lot of score settling from various journalists and media agencies. Particularly if he doesn't retire at the top ...

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I suspect we'll see the press' guns being deployed on Di Matteo and Chelsea in the days ahead, especially given the match at the weekend.

There is certainly no sentiment when it comes to the Fourth Estate, and in that sense at least, no agenda.

There is no doubt, however, that united don't get the same treatment when they go through a bad patch and this is a function of three factors imo:

Firstly, that they are the best supported team in the country and money talks in terms of circulation/subscription. Secondly, the fear that Ferguson seems to strike in otherwise bullish media types. He really has cowed a lot of them into submission. But in all fairness there is a third reason: they have written Ferguson off before on numerous occasions and been proven conspicuously wrong each time. For that reason at least he has earned a degree of credit and the benefit of the doubt with the press. He truly is a remarkable manager and survivor, whatever your thoughts on him as a human being.

Make no mistake, however, once they properly smell blood with him it will be a feeding frenzy. There are a lot of grudges and resentments that have been harboured for a long time by many members of the press towards this bully of a man.

If he does stay on too long it certainly will be a beautiful sight to behold.

This.

Great post and very accurate.

Sadly though Baconface is a shrewd operator. He'll know exactly the right time to 'get out' of United and he'll play it as money ruining football with the likes of City and Chelsea to blame for him and normal 'fans' falling out of love with the game.
The media will lap it up and call for him to be a saint and that the nation have an annual feast day in his honour.

just in case your wondering GDM calling you "very articulate" isnt an insult.



:)

It is an insult in certain pubs in Salford ;-)

 

[r.soleofsalford]

This.

Great post and very accurate.

Sadly though Baconface is a shrewd operator. He'll know exactly the right time to 'get out' of United and he'll play it as money ruining football with the likes of City and Chelsea to blame for him and normal 'fans' falling out of love with the game.
The media will lap it up and call for him to be a saint and that the nation have an annual feast day in his honour.

just in case your wondering GDM calling you "very articulate" isnt an insult.



:)

It is an insult in certain pubs in Salford ;-)

fair cop mate.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Must say I'm looking forward to tomorrow's "Crisis club Chelsea" and "Cech's arrogance" stories in all the papers! Yeah, right!

And they will get it. AVB got I worse that Mancini has ever got it when he was failing at Chelsea, so did Hodgeson when at Liverpool.

of course they'll get it. But this lot won't see it. I bet chelsea forums are full right now of one eyed fans gnashing their teeth about the media's agenda against them.

I don't know where you get off on referring to those that disagree with you as "this lot", but kindly pack it in. Patronising twat.

That notwithstanding, a cursory glance through the papers this morning, sees plenty of speculation on Di Matteo's future, which is not unsurprising given Abramovitch's track record for pulling the trigger at the first sign of defeat, but crucially no stories that I can see spitefully alluding to the Chelsea manager's competence, no screaming headlines about how their elimination is an epic fail given the money spent and nothing on the embarrassment factor of crashing and burning in a group containing Shakhtar (albeit that I think they're a good side) and Nordsjaelland. I have also been unable to find any reference to Cech's "cockiness" or "arrogance", despite him having conceded 2 goals near identical to the 2 that brought Hart so much criticism for England last week. Different tones for different teams and different individuals. If you want to pretend that Di Matteo is getting the same treatment as Mancini, who was "cracking up" and so on, that's up to you