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Setanta Bias
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Right first thing first, i thought that was a great performance by a severely under-strength Blues and a draw is a great result all things taken into account. However, my rant is nothing to do with our performance BUT by the most biased commentating I think I have ever heard.
For example.... when Gerrard missed a header..."EVEN SUPERMAN could not reach that one"
Next, when Torres played the ball through to Gerrard for the goal "El NINO... with some great skill" might not be word for word perfect but you get the idea...
Then finally when LIverpool were attacking after their goal: "Gerrard THE LEADER OF MAN" !!!!!!!
Fuck me, I have heard some one-sided commentating but by golly this was something else. Nothing mentioned about Lescott and Jagielka having apparently the best striker in the world in their pocket for pretty much the whole game, or Cahill once again leading a depleted blues to a great result. Forgive my ignorance for not knowing the name of the commentator by I for one will never have any respect for such a biased channel/commentator.
COME ON EVERTON ? LET'S STUFF THEM IN THE REPLAY
Chris Webb, Posted 25/01/2009 at 17:53:39
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About as accurate as keane on his way with the shite paying his wages!!!!
Did anyone else hear the comment after Gerrard’s goal and Tosser’s assist? I think that Jon Champion or what’s his name came. Didn’t hear from him for a while after that as I think he had to change his undies.
Now let’s finish them off at Goodison.
Oh, yeah, compliments to the team. Great result. Without Mikel, Fellaini and Yakubu/Saha. Joleon MoM. Yobo won’t come into the side if they continue like this (Jags/Joleon/Baines).
Apparently they were waiting for the Blues to crumble under the intense pressure and it was only a matter of time before the shite ran away with it. Near the end they praised Jags reluctantly. He should be the first name on the next England teamsheet. What can you say about Jags, Pienaar, Ossie and our Timmy? Roll on the replay.
Does that mean the Setanta technical guys are all blues or what? If I wasn't getting it for a fiver I would be even more pissed ? ring them up and threaten to cancel and you get it half-price; I haven't paid full price for 18 months since I first took it.
To be fair to Burley, everytime I have watched us on Sentanta, including Monday, he does give us a lot of credit.
I'm Irish but Capello would want sacking if he picks Upson in his squad ahead off Jags or Lescott, what a great partnership developing. Man City will probably bid £110 million tomorrow for both off them. Squad will only get stronger from now on Yobo, Fellaini, Arteta and Saha will hopefully be back for replay.
IT'S A GRAND OLD TEAM TO PLAY FOR...
All in all was a resolute performance from an incredibly under-strength team again one who had all of their top players on show and in their most effective formation.
With a bit of luck we’ll have a few more options for the replay and will have enough left in us to give Arsenal a going over in midweek. Is the United game now this Saturday...??? If so, i can only see it being a lunchtime kickoff and not on tv any more.
......and following the after-match phone-ins and comments by the FSW, I’m reassured that kopites continue to prove time and time again what they really are......and it rhymes with kopites and begins with g.
Jon Champion has always been know to come out with some wierd things in the commentary box, so he didn?t suprise me with some of the things he said.
The most bias of all though has to be the reds manager himself... Rafa Benitez. In all my time watching Premier League football, I?ve never known another manager to be so bitter and disrespectful to his opponents. I'm seriously beginning to believe that the man actually DOES think it's his teams God-given right to win every match ? unbelievable!!
It?s unbelievable that Gerrard on more than one occasion jumps up in the air with no one near him and falls down and gets a free kick. Did anyone see when Torres dived and Neville told him what he thought of him? Absolute class!
Brian Waring - I am amused by your cool, dispassionate, logical and even-handed reasoning. Is this really what being a football fan is all about ?!!!
1. The commentary was so appalling that you start to think that the commentators are directed by Liverpool staff who are holding guns to there heads!! Only way to explain it!
2. I thought the mandate for referees was to book players who tried to induce the referee into booking players.
3. The referee... where do I start? well he was even more biased than the kopites, would not give anything to us, and would not book Liverpool players for blatant diving. It got to a point that I thought I was watching Swan Lake.
Well let's expand a little, he?s a fucking twat who I?d love to give a fucking (ooops let's not get carried away) too. As for that macharacka cunt, but I suppose if you had just found out you were Esther Rantzen son and Ken Dodd was your Uncle, you?d be a bit pissed off.
Every time Gerrard gets it... even if its by the corner flag or whatever "Steven Gerrrrrrrrrrrard".
Numerous other examples, but it was pathetically biased commentary, even my non-Evertonian family agreed with me.
Let?s whip them in Goodison.
WE DON?T CARE WHAT THE REDSHITE SAY.
1 = 20
Fat cat Macca was seething so much at half time I thought the biased cunt was going to explode. Can you believe that he ever wore an Everton shirt? He was a crap coach and is now a crap commentator on a crap cable station. His whole half-time round up was only about one team with barely a mention of the other side.
Wake up, Stevie boy and give some credit where it is due. Look back over the half time analysis and watch yourself. You looked well pissed off. Ha Ha here?s to giving you another hard time in the replay.
COYB
Where do I start??? Ahh yes, the Pienaar stonewalled penalty which they said was not... then everytime SG got it... STEEEEEEVIEEEE GERAAAAAAAAARD... then there was the ignoring of the quality of our goal with only man-marking zone-marking rants.
At half time, Mcwomanawoman and Robber Sniffer were so upset that they were down. When SG scored... they went on for ages about El Nino with his amazing pass (agreed it was... but I didn't drool about it!). Mascherano asking for Cahill off was covered up... this drivel isn't even fit for broadcasting... bloody Setanta.
The Ref... could that bald-eagle have been more biased? Time and time again we were being fouled, especially Pienaar, and he waves play on... SG falls over coz of his over-sized head unbalancing him and that's a foul!
The fat spanish waiter was expectedly pissed after the match ? imagine playing your full strength team (yes Mr Keane, thats what i said!), he manages only a draw, again.... only they were looking to win??? Only they were looking to ruin football with diving, asking for bookings, etc. Stupid waste of space idiot!
The replay will be tough ? don't get me wrong ? but I think that if we play like this... hopefully with Mikey, Fella and Saha, we can beat 'em and shut 'em up for good... COYB
ps: I salute the Blues who were singing "WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED"... you did us proud, lads and ladies
A point on Mascherano and that incident... that pretty much sums up Liverpool (diving, trying to get other players booked, NO CLASS). Everton I believe are summed up by the team spirit and togetherness of the likes of Cahill and Arteta and the resilience and never-say-die attitude of Jags, Hibbo etc.
Proud to be a blue. Ashamed to be associated with ?Liverpool? FC through name.
He did give Everton credit for their display and also made a point of saying that the the local Liverpool lads should be telling Mascherano to cut out that shit as there’s no place for it in the game.
It was also nice to see Gary Speed fighting in the Everton corner again. Now there’s a guy who get gets some undeserved shit when he returns to Goodison.
And talking of first-class pricks, what can we say about Rafa, when asked about the RS not learning from Monday's game regarding Cahill, what was his answer? "Well they never learned because Gerrard scored again", Now the interviewer should have said, "Sorry, fat arse, but I never mentioned Everton", but did he, no, he just moved on. His next question should have been, "What time do you stop serving, Senor?"
I agree though, the level of RS loving was ridiculous but not entirely shocking as it is what I have come to expect.
Bennett was always going to be more liable to being drawn in by the RS than Webb who I thought had an excellent game on Monday.
But can I just say that although we may have had a case with the Pienaar penalty claim, it was too dissimilar to the Ladyboy going down in the box on Monday.
If you’d have given me two 1-1 draws before Monday I’d have snapped your arm off for it, no matter how they came - but the level of performance last night was a concern.
Yes, we had a number of players out, but at least 2 of them won’t be back for some time yet and we can’t expect those lads to keep up that level of work for the rest of the season and not pick up a knock or two...
Time for Gosling, Rodwell and maybe even VDM to step up!
Six days ago, Everton had more possession and more shots at goal, today we didn?t. Feel free to swap budgets with Moyes any time, then you can moan, like you also did at Valencia, about not having enough money to spend. (Thick end of £200m he?s had now isn?t it?)
When Benitez sends a team out for a draw and gets it, it?s ?tactical genius?, apparently. Top teams find teams defend against them. The best ones deal with it. He should just be grateful he?s got Gerrard to get him out of jail, rather than himself into it.
Perhaps the FSW needs to ask himself why he played his defensive midfielder till the end instead of replacing him with another forward player.
He hasn?t won a game since he cracked up. Take a day off Rafa, you can?t be a twat every day surely.
Driving down Scottie Road this morning, it was obvious they?d found a body. I prayed it was this repulsive bastard, though the tent they had erected was clearly too small.
"Liverpool are being frustrated by their pesky rivals"
Unbelieveable!! Pesky? Fucking pesky?!! We have more history than any other team in the Premier League, we are the longest member of top-flight English football, we?ve won major trophies throughout our time and we are the sole beacon of light in a dark era of footballing greed, reminding people that this game is still about 11 guys putting on a jersey with pride and honour and running their socks off for their dedicated fans.
Setanta just wanted to portray us as Scooby Doo and his clan........ Bunch of dickheads.
With Arteta, Fellaini, hopefully Saha back and no doubt Riquelme on the books by then as well, we?re going to batter them back at Goodison! ;-)
On entering the main room, we where confronted with a sight to behold: rows and rows of pinkies with their shirts on and some in full kit... for fuck's sake, people, get a life ? or better still a ticket for Anfield!!
Worse was to come on entering the Bar. My mate gestured to me ,"Look over there, they have brought flags and banners to the pub!!!" I had to go over and apologise to the pinkies that I did not realise it was a Flag night, as I would have peeled off my Everton sticker from the back of my car and waved it back at them!!!! So glad to be Blue after seeing the gobshites in all their glory.
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1 Posted 25/01/2009 at 21:19:00
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