Chronic Henry Winter is not a JT fan
Henry Winter is a well known Liverpool lover and wrote Gerrards autobiography
Have we come to the conclusion that the BBC's Phil McNulty defintely supports Man Utd ?
All we've concluded is that everyone likes Mark Chapman
Neil Ashton - Crystal Palace
But you'd never think that. He's always writing articles about Chelsea
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Neil Ashton reminds me of that guy who was obsessed with Chelsea on the old 606, Corzillian I think his name was.
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Typical of Palace fans that live in Croydon, Sutton, Wallington etc surrounded by Chelsea fans
The print media has always been London-centric.
Back in the day, ITV's 'The Big Match' was laughable in it's approach to any football north of Watford gap.
Since before I care to remember, most media scribes or voices have spouted errant, hyperbolic, nonsense about Arsenal. They are only just starting to wake up.
dont know about writers the only one i know for sure is Clive Tyldesley is a United Fan
Me
Bullsheit
Media in this country has always favoured the Northern clubs. Football was first and foremost a sport watched and played by the working man.
Players like Rooney, Gerrard, Allardyce and Co are revered as Working Class heroes whilst the likes of Lampard, Cole and Redknapp are castigated for the same things.
It comes down to the fundamental belief that all Northerners are hard working folk who endure struggle and hardship whilst all Southerners are silver spoon and non hard working.
Northerners always have been jealous of the South that's why Man U and Liverpool are media darlings and Chelsea/Arsenal and even QPR get such bad press.
If Pardew and O'Neill worked for Southern clubs the media would be calling for their heads given their atrocious starts
"Northerners always have been jealous of the South that's why Man U and Liverpool are media darlings and Chelsea/Arsenal and even QPR get such bad press."
Could it not just be that the northern clubs have actually been more successful (as in, Liverpool and United) and so have merited the good things written about them? Arsenal got nothing but good press when they won with the invincibles team.
The reason that the media weren't calling for their heads were because they weren't actually in the relegation zone and hadn't had the worst start in the PL for god knows how many years, like Hughes did at QPR. Particularly after they spent so much money.
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Mike Ingham= Derby County
Adrian Durham - Posh
Martin Tyler - Woking.
Barry Glendenning (Guardian) - Arsenal
http://www.wearetottenham.net/blogs/mike-hunt/138-barry-glendenning-spurs-fans-are-humourless-no-marks-with-a-small-club-mentality
Alyson Rudd - The Times - Liverpool.
Must confess, I had the feeling Henry Winter had a Liverpool bias.
Players like Rooney, Gerrard, Allardyce and Co are revered as Working Class heroes whilst the likes of Lampard, Cole and Redknapp are castigated for the same things.
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Ashley Cole, the working class hero
It's funny just how many Southerners are convinced that there's some giant conspiracy theory in the media to pamper to the North when a load of Northerners think the exact opposite.
To be fair both group are extremely childish, and clearly have a chip on their shoulder. You may well be their king though
Didi
It is though.
It's hilarious seeing Liverpool and United fans claim conspiracies AGAINST them and claim Chelsea AND Arsenal are on the receiving end of good press
I even read an LFC blog on an external site that claimed JT was a media darling and a United fan that claimed Giggs got far more stick over his affair than JT did with his
Northerners are friendly folk but have a huge chip on their shoulder
Southerners are just arrogant tosspots that think they are above all and sundry.
Midlanders are both combined
Up to a point your right Didi but at what stage was lauding Chelsea the first CL team in london to win it. So what? London was in England last I heard. The first British team to win it wern't lauded as the first Glasweigan team to win it. FFS Villa, Nots Forrest have both won it and we didnt hear about first West Midland or east midland club to win it.
I quite like the fella in the Standard - Dan Something? I think he's a Chelsea fan but a decent read.
Martin Samuel is shocking. A proper toad
Every club's fans think they get a rough deal or are hated by the press - it's a victim mentality.
The truth is papers are there to make money, not push Sport agendas. There may be individual bias by reporters but no club is systematically hounded by the whole press
comment by HRH Ledley, King of the Lane (U15236)
posted 11 minutes ago
I quite like the fella in the Standard - Dan Something? I think he's a Chelsea fan but a decent read.
Martin Samuel is shocking. A proper toad
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Dan jones? He is a plank too IMO. He's ok about other things but when he writes about spurs I fun it abundantly clear that he doesn't know what he is talking about.
Tom collomossee is the spurs correpsondent and he only writes about spurs, and quite well. Jones and olley write about spurs too, despite knowing nothing
I liked his CL write-ups when we were in it - he seemed genuinely enthralled
The one I always remembr is a few years ago when Gary Lineker said on MOTD that the head of sport at the BBC is a Middlesbrough fan but he hates Arsenal and the former one was a Totteringham fan so hated Arsenal as well. He admitted it influenced the BBC coverage and they had a laugh about Arsenal bashing.
Isn't Darren Lewis a Spurs supporter?
Back in the day when the printed media (generally, and laughably, referred to as 'newspapers' ...) was the major cultural influence, most of the reporters, and those that were, equally laughably, referred to as journalists/writers were London-centric.
It's partially a hangover effect from that era, but it is still an issue. The amount of positive press the cheats and thugs of AFC received during Wenger's time had nothing to do with proper reasoned and unbiased football analysis.
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posted on 4/12/12
Chronic Henry Winter is not a JT fan
Henry Winter is a well known Liverpool lover and wrote Gerrards autobiography
posted on 4/12/12
Have we come to the conclusion that the BBC's Phil McNulty defintely supports Man Utd ?
posted on 4/12/12
All we've concluded is that everyone likes Mark Chapman
posted on 4/12/12
Neil Ashton - Crystal Palace
But you'd never think that. He's always writing articles about Chelsea
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Neil Ashton reminds me of that guy who was obsessed with Chelsea on the old 606, Corzillian I think his name was.
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Typical of Palace fans that live in Croydon, Sutton, Wallington etc surrounded by Chelsea fans
posted on 4/12/12
John Cross
posted on 4/12/12
The print media has always been London-centric.
Back in the day, ITV's 'The Big Match' was laughable in it's approach to any football north of Watford gap.
Since before I care to remember, most media scribes or voices have spouted errant, hyperbolic, nonsense about Arsenal. They are only just starting to wake up.
posted on 4/12/12
dont know about writers the only one i know for sure is Clive Tyldesley is a United Fan
posted on 4/12/12
Me
Bullsheit
Media in this country has always favoured the Northern clubs. Football was first and foremost a sport watched and played by the working man.
Players like Rooney, Gerrard, Allardyce and Co are revered as Working Class heroes whilst the likes of Lampard, Cole and Redknapp are castigated for the same things.
It comes down to the fundamental belief that all Northerners are hard working folk who endure struggle and hardship whilst all Southerners are silver spoon and non hard working.
Northerners always have been jealous of the South that's why Man U and Liverpool are media darlings and Chelsea/Arsenal and even QPR get such bad press.
If Pardew and O'Neill worked for Southern clubs the media would be calling for their heads given their atrocious starts
posted on 4/12/12
"Northerners always have been jealous of the South that's why Man U and Liverpool are media darlings and Chelsea/Arsenal and even QPR get such bad press."
Could it not just be that the northern clubs have actually been more successful (as in, Liverpool and United) and so have merited the good things written about them? Arsenal got nothing but good press when they won with the invincibles team.
The reason that the media weren't calling for their heads were because they weren't actually in the relegation zone and hadn't had the worst start in the PL for god knows how many years, like Hughes did at QPR. Particularly after they spent so much money.
posted on 4/12/12
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posted on 4/12/12
Mike Ingham= Derby County
posted on 4/12/12
Adrian Durham - Posh
Martin Tyler - Woking.
Barry Glendenning (Guardian) - Arsenal
http://www.wearetottenham.net/blogs/mike-hunt/138-barry-glendenning-spurs-fans-are-humourless-no-marks-with-a-small-club-mentality
posted on 4/12/12
Alyson Rudd - The Times - Liverpool.
Must confess, I had the feeling Henry Winter had a Liverpool bias.
posted on 4/12/12
Players like Rooney, Gerrard, Allardyce and Co are revered as Working Class heroes whilst the likes of Lampard, Cole and Redknapp are castigated for the same things.
===============================
Ashley Cole, the working class hero
It's funny just how many Southerners are convinced that there's some giant conspiracy theory in the media to pamper to the North when a load of Northerners think the exact opposite.
To be fair both group are extremely childish, and clearly have a chip on their shoulder. You may well be their king though
posted on 4/12/12
Didi
It is though.
It's hilarious seeing Liverpool and United fans claim conspiracies AGAINST them and claim Chelsea AND Arsenal are on the receiving end of good press
I even read an LFC blog on an external site that claimed JT was a media darling and a United fan that claimed Giggs got far more stick over his affair than JT did with his
Northerners are friendly folk but have a huge chip on their shoulder
Southerners are just arrogant tosspots that think they are above all and sundry.
Midlanders are both combined
posted on 4/12/12
Up to a point your right Didi but at what stage was lauding Chelsea the first CL team in london to win it. So what? London was in England last I heard. The first British team to win it wern't lauded as the first Glasweigan team to win it. FFS Villa, Nots Forrest have both won it and we didnt hear about first West Midland or east midland club to win it.
posted on 5/12/12
I quite like the fella in the Standard - Dan Something? I think he's a Chelsea fan but a decent read.
Martin Samuel is shocking. A proper toad
posted on 5/12/12
Every club's fans think they get a rough deal or are hated by the press - it's a victim mentality.
The truth is papers are there to make money, not push Sport agendas. There may be individual bias by reporters but no club is systematically hounded by the whole press
posted on 5/12/12
comment by HRH Ledley, King of the Lane (U15236)
posted 11 minutes ago
I quite like the fella in the Standard - Dan Something? I think he's a Chelsea fan but a decent read.
Martin Samuel is shocking. A proper toad
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Dan jones? He is a plank too IMO. He's ok about other things but when he writes about spurs I fun it abundantly clear that he doesn't know what he is talking about.
Tom collomossee is the spurs correpsondent and he only writes about spurs, and quite well. Jones and olley write about spurs too, despite knowing nothing
posted on 5/12/12
I liked his CL write-ups when we were in it - he seemed genuinely enthralled
posted on 11/4/17
wallace... chelsea?
posted on 3/6/17
The one I always remembr is a few years ago when Gary Lineker said on MOTD that the head of sport at the BBC is a Middlesbrough fan but he hates Arsenal and the former one was a Totteringham fan so hated Arsenal as well. He admitted it influenced the BBC coverage and they had a laugh about Arsenal bashing.
posted on 3/6/17
Isn't Darren Lewis a Spurs supporter?
posted on 7/10/23
Back in the day when the printed media (generally, and laughably, referred to as 'newspapers' ...) was the major cultural influence, most of the reporters, and those that were, equally laughably, referred to as journalists/writers were London-centric.
It's partially a hangover effect from that era, but it is still an issue. The amount of positive press the cheats and thugs of AFC received during Wenger's time had nothing to do with proper reasoned and unbiased football analysis.
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