Rant about the press

[york stokie]

Rant coming up!
I sat in the car on the way back from the game on saturday and had to listen to us get slated all the way home.
There was the idiot from some local radio station who kept going on about how he had seen us at Norwich, and he felt sorry for us all having to watch Stoke every week. Well im sorry, but is there not two teams in every game? Is it not Norwichs 'duty' to come out and take the game to us at their home ground? And no i dont get bored watching the second highest scorers in the league. He then went on to talk about how Stoke werent well equipped enough to get promoted. Well he should know about that as his so called 'true footballing Norwich' of the 2003/2004 season, then went on to get relegated straight back down from the Premiership.
Luckily we then started to lose the radio signal and ended up on another local radio station. The new presenters opening comment as we tuned in was relating to his 'misfortune' of watching the Stoke game, and how we would never win a game next year if we got promoted. This was view was again made on the basis of watching one game.
This programme then finished and we ended up on Talksport i think, who were also holding a phone in. A stoke fan from Torquay called in, and when saying how pleased he was that we were top of the league, he was greeted with a laugh and the response of 'On goal difference though'. As though this meant that we were not really top of the league, and both us and Bristol were joint 2nd with no one being top! HOWEVER, there was no mention of Man Utd being top on goal difference later that night. It was just a simple, 'Man Utd return to top of the league after a hard fought win against Derby'.
Then we wake up this morning to the newspapers also slating us
I'm the first to admit that we were poor on Saturday, but i'm sick and tired of press constantly putting us down. As we get closer to the end of the season they seem to be putting us down more and more, even though, as yet we are keeping up and maybe even setting the pace should it not be the other way around? should they not respect our achievement as we reach the business end of the season?
An annoyed fan!

[potter84]

Fuck em' mate - let them slate us, we are doin great. Good rant - Karma for u sir!!!

[winger]

Those Pulis-hating Wankstains are breeding, aren't they?

If we go up we'll be the most reviled team in Premiership History. Why is this?

[Deleted]

Because the media like to rely on lazy, black/white stereotypes and we're an unfashionable club, not monied media darlings? Why should we be any more reviled than Watford? Bristol City are susceptible to the odd hoof as well.

Let's not pretend the bulk of Uncle Rupert's Premier league deities play total football, because, while not quite so brazenly one-dimensional as we are, there are plenty who play a direct, physical style.

[sheikhmomo]

Because journalists and broadcasters are as thick and lazy as Pulis Hating Wankstains?

[york stokie]

And just remembered another thing that the first presenter kept asking all of the Stoke fans who phoned in. He asked each one 'Do you not think that it is sad how everyones main objective now is to get promoted?'
What a stupid question. That has been the ambition of every club since the leagues started surely?
thing that finally is the rant over!

[potter84]

What station was that on?

[Stick It On Cort's Head]

sheikhmomo said:

Because journalists and broadcasters are as thick and lazy as Pulis Hating Wankstains?

Oi, i'm studying to be one ;D

EDIT- Not the latter ;D

[winger]

I could find you six like this from today's papers.

get used to it.


www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/football_league/article3563955.ece



That phone in host was a Norwich fan, once you've accounted for the inbred-factor, that's what you're left with. How he's got a job on LBC is anyone's guess.

[sheikhmomo]

You know it’s funny, on the same page I found this

CHAMPIONSHIP
Teams P GD Pts
1 Stoke 39 12 67
2 Bristol City 39 2 67
3 Watford 38 14 64
4 West Brom 37 26 62
5 Hull City 38 11 59
6 Plymouth 39 11 58
7 Crystal Palace 39 7 57
8 Ipswich 38 8 56
9 Charlton 39 6 56
10 Burnley 39 0 55
11 Wolverhampton 37 0 54
12 QPR 39 -2 51
13 Sheff Utd 38 0 50
14 Cardiff 37 1 49
15 Blackpool 39 1 48
16 Preston 39 -5 47
17 Barnsley 38 -12 46
18 Norwich 39 -13 46
19 Southampton 39 -17 45
20 Leicester 39 2 44
21 Coventry 38 -13 44
22 Sheff Wed 37 -5 43
23 Scunthorpe 38 -20 38
24 Colchester 38 -14 33


Even the retards in the press and the Pulis Hating fuckpigs must concede a table after 39 games has some merit to it. We may be wank but as of today there are 23 more wank sides than us. To conclude anything else is to conclude we don't need tables and that's very close to becoming as deluded as the Smethwick Brazillians.

By the way SIOCH you cant train to become a PHW, it's a genteic defect.

[coll45]

I agree with you 100% I am season ticket holder and onley go home games these days [id love to go away but family reasons] i think nobody in this league play great football every week including west brazil , i have loved some of the football weve played and i think weve battle when we have had to weve got some good talented players who deserve our support . cant understand some things reporters say about us dont think they watch sometimes just jump in and follow what others say .Iv watched some premier matches this season and thought the football in some of them has been verry poor liverpool at home to man u i thought was a terrible game .
BUT I WONT LET THE PRESS GET ME DOWN I LOVE MY CLUB AND ENJOY WATCHING EVERY GAME IF WE PLAY BAD LIKE SATURDAY I FOR ONE SOON FORGET IT AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT ONE I CANT UNDERSTAND WHY OTHER STOKE SUPPORTERS GO ON AND ON ABOUT IT.

ILL BE THERE SATURDAY LETS GET BEHIND THE LADS ALL THE WAY TO THE PREMIERSHP
WERE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.

[ted1965]

The media will write what they please, though if you looked at the report after the Blackpool game then they had a totally different view of how we play. It’s all subjective, as most of these people see us once or twice a season they make their judgements based on that.

If you had been a journalist watching the Blackpool game we were one of the better footballing sides they had seen this season, if you have been on Saturday then neither us or Watford would come out of the game with any real credit.

The point really being, if we are as bad as many pundits make us out to be then we will indeed struggle should we go up, well big deal if we don’t spend money we didn’t need Mystic Meg to tell us that so it’s hardly breath taking insight on anyone’s part.

The real issue here is the manager, he is labelled a long ball defensive manager and it matters not how we play, that is what the media will write. They see what they wish to see, we’re a defensively tight side who don’t score many goals is how we are portrayed irrespective of having one of the poorest defensive records in the top half of the table, we don’t create chances yet we’re the second leading scorers. If this is pointed out, the response will be, yes but all those goals come from corners and long throw ins.

The same people claim we have no players with skill, again ignoring the likes of Lawrence, Fuller or Whelan.

It’s called being unfashionable, with a manager who is considered behind the times as far as football goes. We have also never graced the top flight because anything before the Premiership has been conveniently forgotten.

In short we are not from London, one of those nice big sides from the North West or we don’t have a Messiah named Kevin. It’s a tough world really isn’t it, makes you want to throw your hands in the air and say, shove your opinions where central television put their tongues when talking to Tony Moanberry.

We have reached the top because over all we have gotten enough points to do so, you can be lucky for 10 games at the start of the season but you can’t keep it going for 39. The biggest problem the pet sides like Brazil and Charltontina have not performed as the media believe they should. I say at this point of the season the league doesn’t lie you’ew where you should be on merit, so who cares enjoy the next 7 games whether we’ll be in heaven or the hell of the play offs at the end of them wont be influenced by one written word or spoken barb by people who see us once in a blue moon.

[RAF]

By the way SIOCH you cant train to become a PHW, it's a genteic defect

So is being an illiterate fuckwank!

H

[WATN]

The main thing that irks me about the media is that, all season we've been told how we are not good enough to go up. But now that we're within touching distance the focus has changed to how we are not good enough for next season.

Correct me if im wrong but there may still be the prospect of £30m odd between May and the start of the new season. Where has this been factored into the journo's arguement?

[Bonkolina]

By the way SIOCH you cant train to become a PHW, it's a genteic defect

RAF,

I wonder what excuse Momo comes up with when he removes his tongue from Super Tones arse and goes back to licking windows ?

GD

[sheikhmomo]

Fucking hell the sofa is stirring is it, we must have had a cunting bad result.

Isn't being an illiterate fuckwank the fast track to success in the RAF?

[Bonkolina]

Funnily enough Momo I thought a point was an excellent result away to Watford. I'm just glad I didn't shell out over £200 to watch it !

GD

[sheikhmomo]

Good on you David.

[albion]

robvandeurzen83 said:

Because the media like to rely on lazy, black/white stereotypes and we're an unfashionable club, not monied media darlings? Why should we be any more reviled than Watford? Bristol City are susceptible to the odd hoof as well.

Let's not pretend the bulk of Uncle Rupert's Premier league deities play total football, because, while not quite so brazenly one-dimensional as we are, there are plenty who play a direct, physical style.

Good post.

1. If you go up, prepare to be virtually ignored by the press as they focus on the big 4.

2. You'll be last every week on Match Of The Day (i know, it was Albion at one point).

3. Should you get a good result against one of the bigger teams, it won't be down to you playing well, it will be down to the opposition playing badly.

4. Prepare for the some disgraceful refereeing performances. I can guarantee you now that you will get fuck all from the refs next season if your up there. In our 1st season, Megson sent a video off detailing the huge catalogue of injustices done against us by the refs to Keith Hackett - and he came out and said he agreed that we had been treated poorly - but fuck all changed.


Everybody says the Premiership is the place to be and i suppose unfortunately it is but i tell you this, it is a cesspit of corruption and greed. The place stinks - we used to sing:

''The Premier League is fucking bent, it's full of cheats, cheats and more cheats, the Premier League is fuckin bent'' etc etc.

So if you go up i wish you the best of luck and you manage to stick it up the bigger clubs - if you were a success you'd be their biggest nightmare. Just be prepared to be shit on from a massive height.

[sheikhmomo]

Fuckin hell that's cheered me up Albion!

[trebor63]

:)Albion I loved reading your post and agree 100% with it.

When Stoke get a Prem ref at this level I cringe cos the big headed useless cretins (not just Styles) invariabley think THEY are the star and the two teams are incidental to the magnifeicense of themselves. They strut around as if they were the latest bloody catwalk model rather than a fat little prik that is taking revenge on the world after being bullied at school!

I often say that to see Stoke get promoted would be one of the greatest feelings I can ever imagine having but when I analyse the prize I'm not sure I want it!

Screwed by corrupt lobsided uncompetitive football where the rich get EVERY advantage going and the rest (the other 15-16) have all got one major priority, don't get relegated!

For the privelidge of watching uncompetitive predictable matches I'll be charged twice as much as I was this year and will have to get used to bloody daft kick off times so people in Asia can watch Stoke v Soddin Wigan! The fat cats will get richer (lets face they don't give a flying feck about football ONLY about ££££) and us poor sods will be giving up our annual leave entitlement and ALL our spare cash to pay for these football hating parasires!

If we don't go up I'm going to re-read this to cheer myself up!!!!!!!!!!!

[RAF]

Isn't being an illiterate fuckwank the fast track to success in the RAF?

Maybe, but even the thickest of cunts I know in the RAF can spell genetic.

GD fuck knows what he will do next, the man is quite mental.


H

[sheikhmomo]

Fucking hell the wrath of RAmumF and Sofa Dave.

It's like being attacked by Bert and Ernie

[RAF]

I admit it must be nearly as bad as coming up against Sheikmomolester and Mumbles the Stoke Hater.



Note the T-Shirt on the left second line down referring to the Momolester and Mumbles menage et trois with Plymouth.

H

[sheikhmomo]

I really don't think we need to be going in to the Bert and Bossie felch fest next month again do we?

[Bonkolina]

felch fest

You could give them some Tips Momo. After all you ARE top of the league

GD

[stokelad]

the media have never liked us and evan if we go up they will try to give us the least coverage possible.

[10 Pint Potter]

slagged off in the daily express yesterday as well in teh watford matches report, w****rs!

[robin1302]

let them slate us!

It was the week they started to praise us where we lost to Preston and QPR, with all that coverage at the Brit a couple of times that week.

Whereas before when we were slated we won 5 games in a row!

Lets let the slating continue.. and we'll be the ones having the last laugh on May 4th

[10 Pint Potter]

Anyone seen that facebook group - Physical long ball championship teams won't survive in the prem! was started by a guy at staffs uni, so pretty sure he's jsut tryin to wind up us stokies!