There's a pattern there UIR. The media are fickle whores and seem to be up the arse of whoever is the flavour of the month - as DL said earlier. They'll big up every success and stir up any **** that's around. Dramatization is everything, for them. Truth? That's somebody else's problem. At the end of the day they have to sell papers and they therefore pander to the lowest common denominator. They'll laud the hoi polloi's heroes and all but slander the the masses' villain of the month. Don't you just love the british media?
We must live on different planets. When Mourinho first came to us he was described as smug and arrogant after his first few press conferences. I even recall us playing WBA away and the media describing him as the enemy of football because the team turned up for the 2nd half late, Robbens red card and the fact we dared to celebrate a goal on the touch line. Mourinho was also accused by the press of having no class when he stated Riijkard had spoken to the ref at HT in a game v Barca despite being true. It was only once Mourinho left the press changed their tune and Roman was "wrong" to sack him and it was the biggest mistake in the history of Chelsea FC. And as for the bias it was not long ago the media ran headlines of Chelsea "Ruining Football" and even going back to Bates the media quick to blame football violence and hooliganism at matches solely on Chelsea FC
Got some comments to make in this thread but will wait till the morning so can the mods please allow the thread to remain open for the time being as these kind of threads do get heated.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ter-United-Leeds-yobs-branded-disgusting.html http://www.tribalfootball.com/artic...ake-gloss-youth-cup-victory-liverpool-1505741 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-urged-shop-thugs-vile-songs-shamed-club.html Couple of recent ones including one from a youth game. I know it says tribal football but its a DM link. So like every club at times it does get reported.
The media wanted us kicked out of Europe just because Drogba swore on TV after the biggest injustice in the history of European Football. They also ran false headlines after FIFA gave us a transfer embargo with the Kakuta affair
Exactly why people saying they favour one or the other is nonsense. Like you say they just **** stir and look to spice things up for their own gain. They have no interest in the clubs or fans but rather what makes the best headlines to get the best ratings. Take SkySportsNews for example. At one time it was a decent way of keeping up to date with stuff but now its found its way up its own arse and become some horrible self love in for sky. Its something I expect happens in america.
I personally love all the attention Man City are getting in the media. Their glory hunting neighbours hate it which is all fine by me lol Serisously though, surely City deserve the limelight now??
In fairness there was one year where he had Liverpool to lose 1 game and draw about 7 and win the rest in a season you finished 7th
Yep.... They have also praised chelsea as many times as they have strung you up. Thats what they do. Take it with a pinch of salt, let idiots believe every word
No he wasn't, Mourinho was loved by the media. It was Ferguson attracting all of the negative attention when Mourinho started out as he'd been wasting a lot of money on flops (Forlan, Veron, Kleberson etc) and Man Utd had lost a lot of players from the treble winning season and didn't win a league title between 2003 and 2007. When he went out in the group stage (2005?) in the CL there was a load of questions hanging over him. The media rarely criticise Man Utd and Ferguson because it'll inevitably come back to bite them on their arses, like it did before around that time when he went on to win 3 consecutive titles and a champions league so they play it safe with regards to Man U.
Welcome to the world of the Media matey, without sensational headlines or juicy gossip they have nothing to sell us.
Utter, utter shight. I don't know anyone who's got anything against the Geordies because you're usually pretty irrelevant. In fact, most fans I know wanted you to do Utd in '96, even the Bluenoses i know. Tbf, everyone laughed when you got relegated, but so did everyone when we nearly went into admin. Hansen predictd Liverpool for the league in 2010 - the first time he'd done so for well over a decade. Lawrensen has NEVER predicted liverpool to win the league, and perhaps some of you who see his scoreline predictions have never read his Mirror column: he rips Liverpool to shreds. hansen> he worshipped Utd for a decade predicting they'd win everything every year until Abramovich's Chelsea came on the scene, the last few years it has been City, but I see he's back on the UTd bandwagon now. His weakness, along with Shearer, is he's big mates with Dalglish, Phil Thompson wears his heart on his sleeve and dsn't hide his bias. Nicholas, Merson and that pr!ck alan smith do (Smith is an astonishingly biased anti-Liverpool commentator - even when replays show how wrong he usually is about penalty decisions, fouls, offsides, he still doesn't back down and makes a snide comment the Kop. And btw, Thompson said we'd be lucky to get sixth this season, and practically every 'Pool fan i know (including those in the media) agree. I certainly haven't heard lawrenson or Hansen say anything different. Now, when we're talking bias and match of the day commentators, what's your views on Shearer then?
Not at the beginning. Once they understood Mourinho they warmed to him but I can assure you he was hated initially. Non-football fans I know will back me up on this. Ranieri was the same. The media hated him at first but warmed to him eventually
