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As with most of us, I enjoyed Sunday?s FA cup match. On top of that, I really enjoyed Benitez?s rant about everything and everyone else to blame but him.
Anyway, I?ve had Monday off work and had to go to the library. Whilst there, I thought it would be a worthwhile use of my time to trawl through all of Monday?s papers and read the match reports. I?ve never done this on quite this scale before (must have gone through five papers) but one thing of note leapt off the various pages.
All the headlines were typical of the usual RS bias. Nothing at all unusual in that; we?ve all come to expect wonderfully inspiring pictures of Steven Gerrard celebrating a goal. However, if you actually read (most of) the actual reports under the headlines, they are much less subjective. Certainly not fair and plenty of toadying to Torres and Gerrard, but it?s almost as if the written media?s love affair of the RS may be beginning to wane. The difference between the headline and article underneath was quite staggering and much magnified by having gone through some many papers.
So what lesson had I learned at the end of the day? Probably that I have too much time on my hands if I?m going to waste a good two hours in a library...
Vince Hindson, Posted 26/01/2009 at 14:45:20
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"Over-rated, over-inflated, undignified, talentless, snide, whingeing, backstabbing Benitez!" Any chance of getting all that into a chant!?
Go on... write us one. I?ll write the tune!
However, I still get the Mirror on a Saturday (almost only for Barry Mcguigan?s column) and David Maddock tends to be generous with us, Brian Reade however, is the most biased columnist in employment.
I have often noted that even Championship teams will receive more coveradge than the Blues. It really pisses me off that some hacks can?t even be arsed to include our stat?s etc.
It is really galling to open a newspaper and if Spurs are beaten by Wigan, we are treated to numerous articles on droopy and his old pals act. I was even going to count the words on our match report against Hull, but we will never change the perception that we are not a glamourous club. Even when we were successful in th eighties, I remember the comments of "a team without stars" when we won the title FFS!!
In the same paper Patrick Barclay is also very objective and fair to our club. These are feature writers and have a real depth of knowledge in my view.
However, that is not normally the case with match reports in that paper we have regularly the least column space (eg vs Hull at home) than any other Premier League side. But on recent occasions we had less column space than 4 Championship matches.
Face it we are not media darlings are we. And nor do Granada have a major stake in our club!!
Don’t be fooled into thinking the press are in any way pro-Everton, though. They are far more interested in the fact that the Fat Spanish Waiter is completely losing his bottle. Alan Green is still an utter gobshite.
Well, even if he was correct in that stupid assumption then lets just look at that for a second shall we (and this is nothing new, we?ve all covered this one way or another) so Moyes came to defend and take the game to Goodison where his team and his home support would be that much stronger, not only did he defend so well that we fucking well scored first, not only did he defend so well that with there multi-million pound expensive squad they could only score when Howard made a booboo (not criticizing him so much, the following save after the goal was simply a brilliant save from out of nowhere) but that?s how they got their one and only goal.
Just like last Monday too ? only they scored first then. We soaked up all that pressure and our defense were magnificent....as per usual (start of season not counted of course!!).
So even if Rafa was right he was outsmarted by a younger, slimmer, British manager (chuckle) and his team was basically - if not outclassed ? at the very least matched perfectly..... two 1-1 draws shows no difference (so far) between the teams.... the difference being that we were far from full-strength, especially yesterday, and cost a mere fraction of their squad.
I hope we win the replay. For many reasons..... we deserve it, Moyes deserves it, we deserve it so we can knock LUCKY Villa out too, the fans deserve it ? especially those that provide that brilliant support (most weeks!) at the games.
And we also deserve it to we can tell THAT FAT BASTARD TO SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!
COYB!!!
Get a slingbox and you can watch all the games. I live in Canada and we get most games on Setanta Canada, if not I watch them using a slingbox on my parents’ TV in Liverpool.
After being a season ticket holder for 19 years I?m off to Canada in the summer so am desperate to know how I can get to see as much of the boys as I possibly can in the future.
Simple question really - what the hell is a ?slingbox????
We’re not owned by the Moores still are we?
Off to tell her right now - wish me luck !
And I say long may it continue. I can imagine the sinking hearts at Anfield every time they see him with a microphone in front of his face, and every tantrum casts him as a large, spoiled kid with an unfeasible goatee. David Moyes must have thought Christmas had come early after the game, and I can imagine Darth Ferg settling back into his armchair with a satanic chuckle.
it make me proud to be a blue. i was in a pub with man u fans for both games, they think it great that the fat spanish waiter is gettin wound up by a so called "small club" they think ferguson gonna eat him alive whenthe real mind games start!!
sorry bout the spelling and grammer, i?m dyslexia, hope it makes some sense!!
Marco ? I don?t know how multicultural Moyes is (Scots-English is hard enough) but he used the word ?dignity? in reponse to el gordo?s blubbering. A huge insult to my Spanish mates would be to be called ?un hombre sin dignidad? ? ?no serio? is bad enough. I suspect that without any tutoring, DM went straight to the heart of the matter, in any language.
A controversial headline will sell a paper and the red tops rely on this....
As a red he says it always happens unless it’s another top 4 side players get more praise then they deserve, and the Argie was a disgrace.
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1 Posted 26/01/2009 at 17:59:05
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Today I read the Independent, Guardian, Telegraph and Times. All very fair, even generous to us. I think Henry Winter in the Telegraph (to many the best sports writer in Britain) has a particularly soft spot for us, or is at least appreciative of the full context in which games are played.
Populist shite will always pander to base instincts, or the Sky 4, doesn?t matter which paper it is. It?s not so apparent in the quality press. We have friends in the press, just need to know where to look. I always read these match reports online.