Is football now treated as Opium for the masses?

[bobby1]

Another reason for the decline is the constant bias towards the big clubs but it isn't just the media that are guilty of this. On Saturday a Liverpool player clipped a Boro player in the face, the Boro player clipped him back and got sent off, the Liverpool player got nothing.

The media barely mentioned this, if it had been Stevie G that had been sent off in those circumstance the ref would now be reffing the Scunthorpe game this weekend instead.

So Boro have today appealed against the sending off and rightly pointed to the fact that the same incident 1 second earlier had gone unpunished, what did they get?? The player had his ban extended by another game as the appeal board called the appeal frivolous.

The media and it seems football officials are scared stiff of upsetting the big teams, they need their co operation. Look how bare the BBC coverage is because managers Like Fergie refuse to give interviews after previous skirmishes.

[Geo the Sarge]

I listen to 5 live a lot, and find you get far better coverage and some interesting pundit debates (not 6-0-6 which drives me bonkers). There was a very good one last friday night with Claridge and Collymore, both of whom have had serious addiction problems in the past, debunking a lot of the Gazza stuff.

Claridge and Collymore are both very good actually. Claridge always does the Championship and lower league stuff and this is the true heart of football. The Premier League is away on a different planet, full of foreign mercenaries who is it difficult for fans to connect with.

606 was bad enough when arseholes like Alan Green did it, but Tim Lovejoy has managed to plumb new depths of banality.

Actually, Tim Lovejoy is representative of the decline of football. Soccer AM was a golden jewel of sports broadcasting - born of a love for the game, yet treating it with the irreverence which something that is, at heart, only a game, should deserve. But then Lovejoy, like football, lost his way. Got too big for his boots and forgot where he came from. Now he's a idiot's sounding board, taking calls from retards.

Sorry to keep quoting you Andrew however..................

[bobby1]

Just in case anyone missed it when Tighty put it up, this is a great parody of Sky sports football reporting style.



http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM