Question still stands I'm thinking of starting a thread about the possibilities of the semi final draw and see how long it takes before some fcukwit starts on about Man Utd, Liverpool or anything else irrelevant to the thread.
True, I created it about the Swans - Boro game but although I know I didn't make it clear, it is something that had bugged me for several years about how all but five clubs get preferential treatment as far as media coverage is concerned. That is why I mentioned Villa and Bradford who have been shocking overlooked for getting to the last four by our media... even football centric media outlets for that matter. I remember as far back at 2001 where other teams got much more limelight and were praised for their accomplishments, but these days there appears to be a high level of football snobbery amongst journalists and editors. I would read a paper on the bus going to work and I would know all the transfer rumours for teams even in the Championship, let alone the Premier League but now we are lucky to see a rumour for most teams in the Prem as the sports pages are filled by what Ashley Cole's mother did on Facebook, or which team mates wife John Terry's dick got stuck inside the week before. If Derby had played Swindon in the League Cup with no other game that night then BBC's 606 would have had people phoning in and ranting about how bad one side was, while others called to say how proud they were of the team making it to the fourth round. Today, Swansea (or any non tradition Top 6) team gets into the Semi-Finals for the first time in decades and Arsenal is the main talking point even though on that day nothing of note had occured at all involving the team, it's players or backroom staff on or off the pitch. I am a Swans fan, but also a football fan... I lived the game every moment I could get. Now I am forced to know and discuss on radio how long Rooney's hair transplant may last. Poorly set in the my original post, this is what I really getting at. I want to laud in a struggling League Two team beating the table topper when people predicted they were destined to come up and go back down to non-League, I am a football romanticist I suppose... I don't want to be another one of those sheep tabloid readers who soak up the soap opera I call "Traditional Big Four".
There was nothing unclear in your article mate, it was just hijacked that's all. Good thread it is too
Apologies for the diversion Dilli, just thinking out loud too much. The important thing for me is what you say and think, you meaning Jacks in general. Press coverage is a bonus and too much a curse and I personally prefer us flying low and under the radar. Apologies again Dilli
I think they will be above us by this evening. I hope we can end the season above them, but they're a pretty good side, so I wouldn't bet against them finishing above us. I know it's fashionable to knock Liverpool, and it is amusing that they are below us, but they are a decent side. They could easily finish top 4. Not what many on here want to hear, but that's how it is.
