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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2014 6:29:31 GMT
I don't usually listen to the Guardian's Football Weekly hosted by James Richardson, primarily because they usually smirk at anything Stoke City and only eulogise about the top six. However, I thought it would be interesting to see what they thought about Man City losing at home and how their "intelligent" middle class analysis would handle Stoke's victory. This is the headline on the podcast page: "Deadline-day news. Plus Liverpool return to top form, Swansea stay strong, and a shock defeat for Real Madrid" So last years champions get beat at home by Stoke City and it's not even mentioned in the web page summary. Then, listening to the podcast, their is no mention of Man City's defeat in the opening introduction and summary of things coming up. Eventually, about 2 thirds into the broadcast,after in depth analysis of Manure and Spuds, they manage to subtly bring in the subject of Man City's defeat by discussing Diouf's goal (with no mention that Man City actually lost). One of the pundit's exclaims, "Man City should have just fouled him" and the other reels off a cliched statistic (which I don't know how true it is) that 8 players on the Man City team cost more (individually) than Stokes starting 11...and that was it! I swear, just as the podcast credits and music are dying away you can just make out Mr Richardson say..."Right lads, I don't think anyone noticed, anyone for a glass of wine?"  www.theguardian.com/football/series/footballweekly |
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Post by partickpotter on Sept 2, 2014 7:42:33 GMT
I was surprised they didn't spend more time on the Citeh - Stoke game. As you say no mention in the opening sequence and just a brief discussion about the goal and a couple of interesting stat references; but no analysis of the game. Strange - as the result was without doubt the result of the weekend, even if the score wasn't (that went to Chel$ki and the blue bin dippers - which they spent a load of time on).
Pretty poor really - mind you they had to leave time to drone on about Richardson's favourite topic Italian football!
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Post by Mr Jon on Sept 2, 2014 7:44:34 GMT
Obviously graduated from the same academy of sports journalism as that biased clown from The Daily Mail  |
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Post by wembley4372 on Sept 2, 2014 8:04:46 GMT
I'm not sure what's sadder, you listening to the report or me reading your comments about it!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2014 9:04:17 GMT
And what would they have said if a City player had been going through like Diouf. Would they have then said, Stoke should have fouled him. I don't think so! There is a big club bias in the main, no doubt at all! Sickens me personally. Until this bias is broken, I won't rest. I would like to get on T.V. and air my views about this, but a mere mortal like myself has got no chance!
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Sept 2, 2014 9:10:03 GMT
None of them, all the journos except Dunn, went to the game and had already written up their 3 - 0 Citeh victory piece on Friday night.
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Post by Pugsley on Sept 2, 2014 9:26:46 GMT
This is one of the best podcasts around and Richardson is by far the best frontman on TV.
Paranoia is setting in on this board.
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Post by stokeramblers on Sept 2, 2014 10:40:20 GMT
Kill them, Kill them all
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Post by RWChris on Sept 2, 2014 10:49:16 GMT
Get over it.
As much as I love my club, I realise that we aren't at the centre of the footballing world. I don't understand all these people that end up in tears if we're on towards the end of MOTD. In this day and age and with the focus the Premier League gets, we have far more coverage than we could've ever dreamt of in the past.
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Post by wembley4372 on Sept 2, 2014 15:21:10 GMT
Everybody knows the star of the show is always on last.
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Post by partickpotter on Sept 2, 2014 17:46:12 GMT
This is one of the best podcasts around and Richardson is by far the best frontman on TV. Paranoia is setting in on this board. It's a great podcast - listen every week (actually twice of course!). But it was strange they didn't spend more time on our game. Maybe they thought Stoke beating Man City wasn't such a big deal! It's just us that are getting over excited. Maybe... |
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Post by boskampsflaps on Sept 2, 2014 18:05:03 GMT
"Man City should have just fouled him"
Tbf who ever said that is right.
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Post by meirman61 on Sept 2, 2014 19:16:52 GMT
"Man City should have just fouled him" Tbf who ever said that is right. you have got to get near him to foul him  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 10:42:43 GMT
This is one of the best podcasts around and Richardson is by far the best frontman on TV. Paranoia is setting in on this board. Well as a Stoke City fan I was left scratching my head as to how they could gloss over (to the point of omitting the actual result) our famous victory. Especially as this was a key result in terms of assessing how the top teams are shaping up. I don't think it's paranoia, it's just a very amusing (and bemusing) observation and I think it does highlight the absolute bias of certain punditry (which I find interesting rather than hurtful). |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 10:45:37 GMT
"Man City should have just fouled him" Tbf who ever said that is right. Wonder what they would have said if it was the other way round and someone like say...Shawcross....did foul 'him'? "Fed up of the old english mentality of bone crunching tackles winning out over flair. No wonder we never win anything at International level" or words to that effect... |
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Post by boskampsflaps on Sept 3, 2014 11:04:15 GMT
"Man City should have just fouled him" Tbf who ever said that is right. Wonder what they would have said if it was the other way round and someone like say...Shawcross....did foul 'him'? "Fed up of the old english mentality of bone crunching tackles winning out over flair. No wonder we never win anything at International level" or words to that effect... Haha no doubt, its allowed if you're top 4 though  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 11:36:50 GMT
In any event, it seems something of a turnaround that pundits are now suggesting teams foul us in order to stop us winning.  |
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Post by pyrus on Sept 3, 2014 12:29:20 GMT
Generally the Goonerdian takes a dim view of Stoke, we offend their Arsenal tinted view of the world. Stoke match reports never get a headline of their own, just a hyperlink beneath another article, any opinion of us inside an article is sneering. They follow the line of their readers' profiles which is pseudo intellectual and M25 centric.
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