Premier League Thread

Just looked on BBC sport website and there is yet another article about manchester united, this time on their kit release. It's getting a bit silly now, no other teams kit release gets an article, united get a whole article picking apart their pre season tour. I wasn't too bothered about it when I saw this talked about a couple of days agao but with the premier and football league starting a week today can't they find something else to talk about?

 

And when reading match reports after the Europa matches, we took second place to West Ham!!! No problem with some papers making that their priority, but we didn't get good coverage at all. Still you couldn't expect a Europa Cup match to take priority over a friendly involving one of the big clubs. #notbitteratall

 

I think it's because 5 live had commentary of the match and then it turned out to be a pretty dramatic match. Remember getting back to the car Thursday and hearing a two minute match report on West Ham and then Oh, Southampton & Aberdeen both won.
With the BBC they do tend to self promote. So if they're covering a particular game or event then they'll plug that in their various shows. It was noticeable how little coverage they gave to the boat race in relation to previous years as it was being shown on ITV. If it's not live on the BBC in one format or other they're not interested.

 

Indeed. Although BT Sport did a live feed, I took a look at Footballorgin the next day to see if there was a full match to download. Loads of friendlies with ManU, Chelsea, etc... Europa.? Not a chance. Not even WHU, for that matter.

 

It's not really surprising is it? United/Liverpool/Arsenal will get the most coverage on sites that are for general football news as they have the biggest following so the most people want to read about them. Same reason why they are on TV the most. I am still actually surprised when a Saints article even makes it onto one of those 2 big story things under the main story on the BBC.

 

We had this discussion the other day. The point being that the BBC doesn't have to behave like every other fawning commercial website because they are funded by licence, not advertising. So they don't need the footfall [old retail term there - sorry] even though they are the most popular sports website. They normally achieve that by their quality. So they could have less of the Man Utd, and more of the Swansea City [to name another team and not us because we're too glamorous an example].

 

Suspect the BBC sports website still needs to pull in volume of visitors or it'd be trimmed back to save costs? The existence of this very forum is possibly connected to that. Anyway with regards to the articles. Man U shirt sponsor was a new record and West Ham fecked up in Europe after a good start. Both possibly make better reads than Saints get new shirt or Saints comfortably win match they were expected to comfortably win

 

The existence of this forum IS connected to that; the demise of BBC606 forums.

 

OMG, a rabid Petr Cech fan.

 

He does need a C on his armband!

 

1-0 Arsenal.

 

Great goal as well.

 

Good strike into top corner.

 

Don't know if reported elsewhere, but the offside rule has changed this season (always good for a laugh ). A player is in an offside position if he attempts to play a ball whilst in an offside position (eg jump in front of keeper without making contact with the ball, therefore confusing the keeper and interfering with his ability to prevent a goal) and if he interferes with a player's ability to play the ball when he is in an offside position (example given was challenge a defender trying to clear a ball when starting from an offside position).

 

They ****ing change the offside rule every year. Doesn't make my job any easier.

 

It's lucky that refs are so wonderful then, Tom.

I think it is a good change....how can a goalie not be interfered with if an offside player is in his eyeline and reacting to the ball. If the player doesn't move, he won't be classed as offside should a goal go in. I think this may explain why we had so many offside decisions on Sunday.

 

That didn't surprise me. Thats a fairly big story, to surrender a two goal lead, and get a man sent off. Better than Saints strolling to a comfortable victory.
I'd be complaining if we had surrendered a two goal lead and had it as the lead story. But would hope the BBC get behind us once we get into the tournament proper - we're flying a pretty big flag for stylish English football. I personally like it under the radar - as long as the amount of actual reading material is decent (and in this case it was), I don't mind having to go to the Southampton pages on the BBC to find it. What I hate is when we get a paragraph and that's it.

 

I'm sure you always deal with it in a relaxed and calm way... just like you do on here.

 

I just want Kevin Keegan to be given that fantastic goal back.