Let's see if Wet Spam get the same treatment we did this week about throwing matches.
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Media Media Bias
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So Media decided on final day matches. 4 Matches being shown live. Scum & MC were a given. But as relegation settled & CL places expected Europa competitors to be picked. But no Liverpool who have nothing to play for so Carragher can go on & on& on about Klopp's final match and Chelsea. Both of them Sky favourites.
It's a money game.
I thought all the matches were going to be shown live on various Sky/TNT channels and/or red button this year.
Chelsea v Bournemouth? WTF?
Premier League Memes
Jose Mourinho: "Jamie Carragher talks too much for someone who isn't even among the top 1,000 defenders in football history. How can someone who never won the Premier talk about what it takes to win...
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Wasn’t sure where to put this but well said Jose!
How about a special "Jamie Carragher is a crap player and a loser" thread?Premier League Memes
Jose Mourinho: "Jamie Carragher talks too much for someone who isn't even among the top 1,000 defenders in football history. How can someone who never won the Premier talk about what it takes to win...
Wasn’t sure where to put this but well said Jose!
Can’t agree. He scored some cracking goals for us.
You could amalgamate it with the Neville thread
Less than five words to describe the little weasel etc
Absolutely nailed on by chapman
I personally saw it all as a "barely any" to "no lose" situation.
If we'd won, we'd have still just about been in the fight for 4th, if we'd drawn, 5th would have been more or less wrapped up and City still would have had a good chance to win the league, and if lost, we'd lose little and cost our arch-rivals big.
I personally didn't see any downside, the only thing that annoyed me about the match was our own fans chanting "are you watching Woolwich" right behind Ange when City scored, that to me just shows a real small time attitude.
The pearl clutching in the first 30 seconds from those other two hacks really is shameless. It's not our job to win goons the title. They faux outrage is everything wrong with the sports media and summed up nicely in this clip.
Winter is genuinely one of the worst writers in the game, firstly his articles are just boring and poorly written. There are writers that I can read their articles and totally disagree with but still appreciate their art and quality, namely Johnathan Liew and Barney Ronay for example. But he just gets so much wrong most of the time, he simply just doesn't get fan culture, and never has. He does has a tendency to go for the odd tap-in on some topics, the ones which are so obvious like ticket prices always goes down well with fans and gets him pats on the back.
It's quite funny seeing everywhere at the moment since he's been sacked from The Times he's got to work for a change.
Amazing isn’t it? The media have shit stirred the whole week and now they’re on their high horses pontificating about what WE should do to fix the atmosphere
View: https://x.com/henrywinter/status/1790614782061502697?s=46&t=Zr__ObRcjqxF616P03tagg
View: https://x.com/henrywinter/status/1790614782061502697?s=46&t=Zr__ObRcjqxF616P03tagg
This week has been an absolute wet dream for the media. Put this scenario to any other club and it would barely get a mention, unless it was the dippers who would just be loveable scallies.
This game did not lose us CL, the regular fuck ups against average teams did that, just as the Goons fuck ups cost them the title.
The media can go fuck itself.
This game did not lose us CL, the regular fuck ups against average teams did that, just as the Goons fuck ups cost them the title.
The media can go fuck itself.
Perhaps Winter can be the bridge between Postecoglou and the fans.
He can ask for consultancy fees.
He can even ask for those fees from this guy:
I thought that too but maybe it's next season they're doing that??
The media (particularly those who own the rights go the coverage) have whipped up the self-importance of the champions League as if it is THE be all and end all of football...
But realistically, only a handful of clubs CAN and have ever won it...
You could argue the same with the PL "Best League in the World" but at least that throws up a Leicester every now and again (typical that it was US that felt like the biggest losers in that season!)
The media's problem is they can't QUITE believe that some/many/most/all (delete as applicable) Spurs fans DON'T buy into the fact that finishing 4th is preferable to watching the arse win the title (the irony is they still could... But that's not on us any more!)
We were laughed at for treating 4th Place like a 'trophy'... but when we don't, and see a bigger picture, we're also mocked and ridiculed...
I think WE'RE the common denominator for the vitriol... WHATEVER the outcome!!
But realistically, only a handful of clubs CAN and have ever won it...
You could argue the same with the PL "Best League in the World" but at least that throws up a Leicester every now and again (typical that it was US that felt like the biggest losers in that season!)
The media's problem is they can't QUITE believe that some/many/most/all (delete as applicable) Spurs fans DON'T buy into the fact that finishing 4th is preferable to watching the arse win the title (the irony is they still could... But that's not on us any more!)
We were laughed at for treating 4th Place like a 'trophy'... but when we don't, and see a bigger picture, we're also mocked and ridiculed...
I think WE'RE the common denominator for the vitriol... WHATEVER the outcome!!
Met him out in Madrid in a bar 2 nights before the CL final in 2019.
Was perfectly pleasant in fairness but seemed to be in tow with a group of Liverpool fans.
What struck me and the mate who were chatting to him, afterwards, was how he skilfully didn’t answer anything but kept asking us “Who do you think you will sign?” “Do you think Poch will go if he wins this?” As if we had some fucking clue about anything