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Football journalists are just that, journalists; NOT reporters.
So they have an opinion. They mould their opinions to spark interest and controversy.
I don't get the big deal, they write with all the influences and bias we have. Switch off or tune them out.
You only have to hear and see these individuals on TV to know they are ordinary fans who've lucked into getting paid for views you mostly hear in pubs or on the web. I've yet to hear any of them give an insight or make a cogent argument any better than pundits like Neville, Carragher etc
So they have an opinion. They mould their opinions to spark interest and controversy.
I don't get the big deal, they write with all the influences and bias we have. Switch off or tune them out.
You only have to hear and see these individuals on TV to know they are ordinary fans who've lucked into getting paid for views you mostly hear in pubs or on the web. I've yet to hear any of them give an insight or make a cogent argument any better than pundits like Neville, Carragher etc
I disagree, otherwise all news items in broadcast media would be opinion pieces. There is space in news media for opinion pieces, but football match reports shouldn't include it; they should be reporting what happened rather than being opinion-led articles. For instance, a chelsea-supporting journalist wouldn't be entitled to ignore their time wasting in a match report from their game against us, just because they are biased towards Chelsea.
Its not a game.
I could lay out something that everyone would agree with in theory, but because it doesn't suit the Suarez fanboys they'd have to create a ridiculous argument against it.
Just wondering Rosco, do you actually think that Suarez isn't the player of the year?
Sky just spend far too much time covering football matches. By that I mean the time they wrap around 90 minutes of action. Keys used to boast about how the BBC would usually only go to a live game about 15 minutes before it started, whereas Sky would start about two hours before - which summed up how deluded Keys and Co were. (Why the hell do you need that much time too set the scene?) And in Keys' era they used to have to resort to such absurd filler features as 'what songs were in the charts when these two teams played each other in the 1980s' and crap like that. They've gradually realised that it's more respectable - and cheaper and less time-consuming - if they just get two pundits to talk and talk and talk. But most of that isn't truly pertinent. Sometimes all they do is spend about ten minutes finding different ways to make a cliche-ridden term sound like an incredibly complicated and profound insight. It's incredibly rare that the likes of Neville and Carragher genuinely offer up a proper insight. So I'm not so sure it's the future. No doubt they want it to be but that's another matter.
It depends on how you view it.
If you want to do it solely on the numbers, he wins it hands down.
If you want to take a more nuanced view of the numbers is a lot less clear.
Ara stop.
I think we can all agree that we like Suarez a lot more than we like Rosco.
Nah, Ross is boss
Ross is incapable of sharing the joy that most LFC fans have when they watch Suarez. I can imagine him jabbing a compass into his leg every time Luis scores before hurriedly checking up some stats, with one eye twitching madly, to demonstrate to himself that the goal wasn't that significant. I'm sure he is boss in real life. He definitely is boss in Rugby threads. In the football forum he isn't boss. He's a twat.
Who are your 1,2,3 for this season so?
He is the best player in the league and for that reason should win the award. If he doesn't then it residual ill feeling due to his conduct in previous seasons and the dislike it caused among many other fans and journalists alike outside of our club.
Does it bother me?
Yes. I love him.
Does it bother me?
Yes. I love him.
Sorry Rosco, but you must be joking.
No the league.
For the reasons above I will be supporting Uruguay as well in that match.
He deserves it (Suarez), but the football writers one is usually seen as an opportunity to give it to someone other than the PFA choice, isn't it? I'm not that arsed about that, as long as the recognition is deserved. Despite his recent comments, I hope Toure gets it, because he's about the only other one who deserves it.
Toure will get it as the "thinking mans" choice unlike proving they understand the game better than those who foolishly can't see past all of Suarez's goals, man of the match performances and records.
I think Toure is a great player but after his "why don't I get more recognition" rant, I kinda begrudge him winning any kind of individual award.
I think Toure is a great player but after his "why don't I get more recognition" rant, I kinda begrudge him winning any kind of individual award.
Yeah, I do think he's the only other worthy candidate, but I'm fucked if anyone has been better than Suarez, but I'm not sure Suarez would particularly want the adoration of those who've previously hung him out to dry.
I kinda agree about Toure's comments, though.
Gosh these legal eagles Rosco is mingling with these days must be like a bunch of George Bernard Shaw's and Oscar Wildes's.
Regards
Is it possible to take a more nuanced view OF numbers? Surely numbers are what they are. I'd love for everyone to take a more nuanced view of our 80 points and conclude that we have 87 already but alas we can't.
We could take a more nuanced view THAN just looking at the numbers. Is this guy really a lawyer?
if Suarez isn't going to win it, it could be a sentimental Stevie vote although he was gash the first half of the season.
And while I'm on pedantry.....the phrase 'it would take a mathematical miracle for xxx to escape' has always struck me as absurd when pundits mean an unlikely series of results. A mathematical miracle would be god appearing and decreeing 35 is worth more than 40. Technically might help someone escape relegation I suppose but not quite in the way sky's dimwits mean.
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