Sorry Fiberglass but I don't see "if Arsenal sell Fabregas, Nasri will demand a transfer" stories anywhere, do you?? No, so why publish this bollocks about our players, then?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jun/24/cesc-fabregas-arsenal-samir-nasri Not exactly the same but still..
The reason the media write more of this **** about you than they do about us is because we are in a better position than you. I was never arguing that you are not being singled out by the media, just that they weren't doing it because of 'anti-spurs' bias. How can you get so annoyed over that?
The media hate Spurs because a lot of journalists support Arsenal/Chelsea/West Ham while others want the status quo to continue and see Spurs as the biggest threat When Bale scored his hat trick against Inter someone wrote in the Evening Standard the next day he couldn't see Bale staying in the summer when he had nothing to back that up
Robin - The difference with Torres is that it was true - that wasn't media speculation. And Fabregas wearing a Barca shirt means he was asking for it.
Modric saying that he wants to go to Chelsea is definitely as provocative as Fabregas having a barcelona shirt forced on him.
Someone with Paranoia would believe that they knew what they were talking about. It's part of the affliction.
The simple fact is that we aren't one of the established status quo, but rather than encourage a team to break the Sky 4 monotony, the attitude of the football press and media is that we should sod off back to making them look good, rather than taking them on. The only team allowed to dine with the usual suspects in Man City, based on the absurd notion that they've spent enough money to justify inclusion in that exclusive club - even though it means they'll be ousting one of them, i.e. Liverpool. The same happened to Everton when they finished fourth, as well as being amply demonstrated by the systematic strip-mining of Aston Villa, who lose one of their key players every summer - first Barry, then Milner, now Ashley Young - to one of the Sky 4.
Next to come - Stewart Downing. Following Summer - Mark Albrighton. Wishing someone would buy him - Darren Bent.
I have heard man utd fans say the whole media is made up of liverpool fans, liverpool fans say the same back, chelsea fans saying the media is made of west ham and arsenal fans and you saying that the majority of the media is made up of fans that typically do not like tottenham. Instead of all that being true (which is impossible if you hadn't noticed) maybe you should consider that you are being oversensitive and not everyone who writes about football finds it as hard to be impartial as you do.
It's probably going to be something like... Downing Agbonlahor Albrighton ...and presumably Steven Ireland will change clubs again at some point in the upcoming season. This. Also, why was it the papers were lining up to say that if we didn't qualify for the CL, we'd lose Modric/Bale/Van Der Vaart in short order, yet the season before they never ran articles saying Liverpool would lose Torres/Gerrard/Reina/Maxi over the summer because they failed to qualify, did they?
The fact is that most of the national papers are based in London and so people working for them are more likely to support London clubs (and Man Utd)
There was a lot of talk about Torres leaving, Gerrard and Reina were seen as being too loyal and no one wanted Maxi
Not with you there, Colonel. A lot of journalists will be attracted to London purely because of the location of those papers.
