Does anyone else get tired of reading this guys article's on BBC Sport? I swear he is a United fan. Apparently all Liverpool supporters started to believe we could win the title next year, towards the end of this season. Like bloody who? Talk about conform to stereotypes. Thank god we have Mcnumpty to bring us back to reality: "Liverpool's fans started to get carried away towards the end of the season by talking up a title charge next season. But defeats against Spurs and Aston Villa meant there will be no European football at Anfield next season. Reality must rule." Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/philmcnulty/2011/06/end_of_season_review.html Anyone else tired with the media writing this crap?
Elaborate. A prediction doesn't make his articles any good, or reflect his criticism of us. Got you. Realistic prediction wasnt it!
Sorry mate I'll give you a clue. I'm spending my evenings and weekends working, and today I have just had to explain to my commercial director why we (3 surveyors) are losing 600k on a building project. Anyway....
To elaborate for Sniffydrawers: He based his prediction on our 2009 season. Step out on that ledge, Phil. He now berates Liverpool fans of living in an unreal world for thinking we have a chance next season based on having been one of the best teams in the 2nd half of the season and spending big to get even better. Didn't we get 2nd based on Kenny's results? Like in 2009?
Oh ffs. This journo is a royal bellend. He gives us Liverpool fans our "deluded" steroptype when it's people like him who predicted us to get the title the year before last and also he along with other journos started all this title hype when we beat Fulham. I never heard any LFC fan mention the title at all. Such a dick head.
Tbh I think McNulty tries to be unbiased, but invariably overdoes it from one "prediction" (read random shot in the dark) to the next. He wrote United off at the start of the season, and said we'd be lucky to get second iirc. So now we've won the title he feels the need to crawl up our arses to prove he's not biased against Utd. Likewise, after predicting Liverpool would win the league in 2009 (he predicted that in Jan IIRC, just before the fahkts rant) and 2010 he now seems to think he has to talk down Liverpool at every opportunity for the next two years just to balance it out. You do feel for the guy a bit - if he talks up Liverpool or United's chances or gives them some praise everyone accuses him of being a fan and if he talks them down everyone accuses him of being a hater. But his attempts to balance his comments out only end up making him look even worse!
The thing is swarbs, a decent journalist can write lengthy pieces without showing any bias, one way or another. You don't have to write entire paragraphs praising OR berating a team - well at least I could. Perhaps that makes McNumpty a less than decent journalist
I prefer journalists who show their bias to be honest. At least then I know what to expect and which journalists to avoid! If you really want impartial football news I'd go for the independent, it's the best on that front in my opinion.
I hear what you're saying mate, but surely part of their remit is to be as impartial as they can yes? What about referees? I'm sure they all have a club they have a soft spot for, but by and large (with 1 or 2 exceptions) these affections are put aside when they come to do their job which is to referee impartially and without bias. I don't see journalists should be any different. But then again, I believe in world peace and for all religions to be abolished, so what do I know
I know what you're saying but then ask yourself if you, as a Liverpool fan, had to become a journalist - would you be able to stay unbiased? I'd find it very hard
I've just read it and I actually agree with him. I reckon Kenny see's things the same way. The minimum next season is top four,and thats achievable.Kenny will get the signings right I'm 100% sure of that.He will sign in the areas of weakness and make the squad powerful.I can see us displace Arsenal in the top four.Wenger seems to be doing the complete opposite.He's signing more flair when it seems he needs uncompromising players.He needs brute strength,is he signing it.No. Kenny has the right approach,get the new signings in early and hit the ground running as the new signings will have had plenty of time to bed in. The rest of the top four are good,but are they as good as they once were,the answer again is no.I'm more confident than I have previously been. Its all down to signing for areas of weakness.If we do it and the others don't,then we've got a hell of a chance. Examples.Man United need at least two central midfielders. Chelsea need young wide players and a central midfielder. City need a new centre half(Lescott is crap) Arsenal need a holding midfielder,a goal-keeper,and two centre halfs. Spurs need a goal keeper,a two centre halfs a striker,and a holding midfielder. If none of the above sign where they are weak and concentrate on other areas,then we can take advantage,because we have done.
I've just read it and tbh if you edited out the paragraph about us talking up a title charge- yawn- it wouldn't be too controversial. It doesn't really say much beyond describing what happened last season ( I could have done that )and make a brief attempt at reading Kenny's mind about his ambitions for the next one, i.e. top four place ( I could've saved him the effort on that one too). Journalists spend most of their time trying to make nothing sound interesting, and apart from the odd nugget of news in there, most of it is just waffle.
The guys an idiot. BBC got rid of Quotes of the Week, Review of the week, robbo robson and 606, all the things i liked about their site, but they keep this ******** writing blogs! I could do a better job.
I used to but was part of the great migration of commenters switching to the Guardian after one too many James Lawton articles on his beloved Utd. I want to read the journo who said we'd get 2nd in 2009. Predicting we'd win the title while sitting at the top of the league at Christmas and top of the big 4 mini-league isn't a prediction, it's backing the favourite.
I wrote this in a thread a few days ago, sorry for repeating it here but it seems relevant. I still read the Independent but James Lawton makes my head spin. I'd sooner read Lee Dixon, God help me. " Lawton is one of the worst writers in a quality newspaper I have ever seen. He tries to elevate sports writing into "literature" but his overblown prose and overlong paragraphs become almost impenetrable. I often have to read things three or four times to work out what he's trying to say and when I do it's hardly worth it. A prime example of someone being more concerned with their own voice than the subject they're supposed to be interested in. This guy has won all sorts of awards for his writing but for the life of me I cannot understand why."
