well twitter actually ( I know! ) is that Suarez won't be the Football Writers footballer of the year. Is anyone arsed?
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who actually makes up the "football writers " ? just people at the well knows tabloids and broadsheets ?
from the outside most seem arrogant , a little bitter and with a chip on their shoulder .
from the outside most seem arrogant , a little bitter and with a chip on their shoulder .
If city win it they'll give if to Yaya
If city win it they'll give if to Yaya
I thought Suarez would get this and not the players one
I thought Suarez would get this and not the players one
If city win it they'll give if to Yaya
I thought Suarez would get this and not the players one
I thought Suarez would get this and not the players one
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Sometimes you have to hammer home the point!
It's typically announced before the end of the season.
It's typically announced before the end of the season.
It's typically announced before the end of the season.
The Sunday Supplement has been doing that for years. Pretty much everyone on it is a cliché spouting useless sack of shit who constantly toes the line & condemns foreign players for diving which ruins the game, whilst British players 'anticipate contact', bemoans the lack of British managers, claims 442 is the answer to any tactical problem, zonal marking doesn't work etc etc...
Cunts, the lot of them.
This wouldn't surprise me. You know what? Players always say it is the players' award that means the most- getting the vote from your peers. I think Suarez won't have a huge problem with not having to appear grateful and gracious to the cunts who have crucified him since he arrived in England (albeit that he provided them with some of the nails).
I wonder what Patrick Barclay think. The utter tucking cunt sore.
Patrick Barclay has really changed his tune about us in the last few months. I've heard him waxing lyrical about us a few times.
It gives me some satisfaction to look back to 2005, when a bunch of those arseholes were discussing the prospects for Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea in the last 16 of the Champions League.
"What about Liverpool?" asked the compere towards the end of the discussion.
"Oh, they are only in the last 16 to make up the numbers," said one of the experts. 😀
"What about Liverpool?" asked the compere towards the end of the discussion.
"Oh, they are only in the last 16 to make up the numbers," said one of the experts. 😀
I stopped watching it when Rob Beasley (possibly got his name wrong) was on calling Rafa 'a nasty, snide little man' when he was Liverpool manager. I'm aware we're all human and have a natural tendency to like and dislike people by instinct, but here was a so-called journalist happy to admit substantial bias on a national platform and went completely unchallenged by everyone else.
I have occasionally followed a few journalists on twitter and they do get a phenomenal amount of abuse as soon as they offer an opinion that they are biased towards whichever club; I think this is often unfair, but there are clearly journalists who spend most of their time fawning over managers they believe wield influence and shower them with favours, allowing them to feel important. For the most part it's not about the quality of writing anymore - witness people who are given columns in online and print media just because their blog is popular (an example of this is Jim Boardman's recent piece on the stadium in the Mirror, which was appallingly written), irrespective of whether they can write or not.
Social media and television appearances just add to this; I'm not surprised people like Barclay start thinking they're wonderful and become more and more about opinion rather than reporting given the platform they're afforded. The way people consume football these days, in such a sensational sort of way, allows not just footballers to become celebrities, but people on the periphery as well. Some journalists - Tony Barrett is a good example here - will just keep their head down, do their job and go home, but others buy into the whole fame thing and want some of football's glitzy shite to rub off on them.
Sunday Supplement should have been a platform for intelligent discussion, but look at the punditry (Neville and Carragher aside) that is generally employed by the televisual media - people like Robbie Savage get to explain their vast tactical insight, where actual decent discussion conducted by insightful, erudite people is limited to podcasts such as the Football Ramble and Football Weekly.
Sadly, I think the average fan just goes with what they're told by Jamie Redknapp or Robbie Savage.
I once worked with a bloke who told me that Jamie Redknapp had said on Sky that the only way Wenger would leave Arsenal is if he quits or is sacked. I've no idea if he really said that but I can well believe it to be true. Under Keys and Gray there was a deliberate strategy to dumb down football which the BBC then started to ape; I think the employment of Neville and Carragher has switched people on to the benefits of intelligent discourse but the continued employment of people like Savage, Michael Owen et al means we're still a reasonable distance away from that being widespread.
EDIT: I listened to the Atletico/Chelsea game on 5 Live the other night and they had Robbie Savage and Michael Cox on. It was embarassing; Cox (of Zonal Marking.net) would give a brief, effective insight into tactics, whereas all Robbie Savage could do was talk in the broadest, generic cliche-ridden terms imaginable and tell people to get involved in 606. He couldn't even answer questions properly.
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