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Funny that, I thought the narrative on here was that Neil Custis hates us?
Did you expect anything different from Custis? He's no better than Balague talking about Guardiola.
I thought so too, and tbh in the past he’s not been that great, guess he doesn’t want his press privileges removed..Funny that, I thought the narrative on here was that Neil Custis hates us?
That Oliver brown just comes across as a bit of a twit really
Nah, Custis is Mourinho's biggest fan, and unashamed of it. His sycophancy predates any recent presser.
I hope United banned him from Old Trafford for life.
Oliver Holt has plenty of form where we are concerned. Wrote a splenetic little piece about how UTD were no longer a top club because they couldn't pay the money in the transfer-market that was being sp*nked around, at that time, by the likes of City, Real, PSG, Barca, etc. Only a year or so later, Oliver undertook a complete volte-face when UTD entered the market, with an open cheque book, and now insisted that they were a pathetic sham of a club because they had betrayed their principles and were trying to buy success. Someone pulled him on it, and sent him a tweet with both contradictory stories along side each other, but he just swerved them and carried on his merry way, leaving copious amounts of biased sh*t in his wake.this twat is so anti united its unbeliveable i wish paddy creand would stitch the headband wearing wanker a good one next time
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Pretty much. It's really crazy the mental gymnastics fans go through to cling to this absurd notion (and yes it is absurd and not based on any sort of facts) that the media are "anti-United".Man United are abysmal atm. Your strikers are missing sitters, your defenders can't defend and your midfielders constantly give the ball away. Your manager is in one of his sullen moods.
Why should the media not report this?
This. It really is quite simple.Pretty much. It's really crazy the mental gymnastics fans go through to cling to this absurd notion (and yes it is absurd and not based on any sort of facts) that the media are "anti-United".
Does controversy/negativity sell papers and generate clicks? Yes.
Does the press tend to focus on the bigger clubs? Yes.
Is United a club in turmoil? Yes.
Is United a big club? Yes.
It's extremely simple logic. Anyone believing this "anti-United" nonsense should be embarrassed. It's really small time and RAWKish.
Klopp takes them out for a cup of tea?Here we see where the agenda comes from. Mourinho doesn't take the press out to tea like Klopp does so they're on him. If he was wining and dining them their lips would be perpetually stuck to his rear end.
It was spoken about on Sunday Supplement one week that Klopp had gone out to dinner with some of the press in preseason. They love that kinda thing.Klopp takes them out for a cup of tea?
He likes to gegenpress the tea leaves first I heardKlopp takes them out for a cup of tea?
This explains his yellow teeth!He likes to gegenpress the tea leaves first I heard
Because agenda!Man United are abysmal atm. Your strikers are missing sitters, your defenders can't defend and your midfielders constantly give the ball away. Your manager is in one of his sullen moods.
Why should the media not report this?
Moyes made a regular practice out of it. Took a lot of heat away from him.It was spoken about on Sunday Supplement one week that Klopp had gone out to dinner with some of the press in preseason. They love that kinda thing.
They will also turn on Klopp the second they sniff that things start to go wrong for him. Just as they do with every other manager.Moyes made a regular practice out of it. Took a lot of heat away from him.
It's a smart play from Klopp but I rather wish he didn't do it. The press is, a priori, contemptible, and should accordingly be kept at arms length.
BingoPretty much. It's really crazy the mental gymnastics fans go through to cling to this absurd notion (and yes it is absurd and not based on any sort of facts) that the media are "anti-United".
Does controversy/negativity sell papers and generate clicks? Yes.
Does the press tend to focus on the bigger clubs? Yes.
Is United a club in turmoil? Yes.
Is United a big club? Yes.
It's extremely simple logic. Anyone believing this "anti-United" nonsense should be embarrassed. It's really small time and RAWKish.
Indeedy.Pretty much. It's really crazy the mental gymnastics fans go through to cling to this absurd notion (and yes it is absurd and not based on any sort of facts) that the media are "anti-United".
Does controversy/negativity sell papers and generate clicks? Yes.
Does the press tend to focus on the bigger clubs? Yes.
Is United a club in turmoil? Yes.
Is United a big club? Yes.
It's extremely simple logic. Anyone believing this "anti-United" nonsense should be embarrassed. It's really small time and RAWKish.
They will turn on anyone who is not successful eventually. When and how is a different matter though. Mourinho has sown the seeds for his accelerated demise in the press over many years in comparison to someone like wenger.They will also turn on Klopp the second they sniff that things start to go wrong for him. Just as they do with every other manager.
For now Klopp is the shiny new toy, just like Jose was a dozen years ago. However, the time will come, like it has for Mourinho, like it did for Wenger, where they turn on him.
I mentioned this in another thread. He was so affronted and indignant I switched off. Jim White thinks he is far more important and knowledgeable than he actually is. He is a prize sh*t stirrer.Tweet
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Here we see where the agenda comes from. Mourinho doesn't take the press out to tea like Klopp does so they're on him. If he was wining and dining them their lips would be perpetually stuck to his rear end.
This is the agenda people. Their sense of self importance has been brusied by Mou's treatment and now they're using every chance they get to take jabs at him.
I don't think the journalists should be more in touch with how others feel, I just think they should be less influenced by their personal feelings.Do these journalists give other managers the same tricky questions? ...
Journalists are paid to ask questions but the british media in general should have more EMPATHY for managers and players in general. These people have given their 'normal' life up to pursuit their career in this sport and sacrificed a lot in the proces (granted they chose to do it and are being paid for it royally). However the higher you get in the sport the more pressure you will be served with and you can only imagine what managers and players go through. They are human beings like us but the difference is that they are being scrutinized on global scale which can take away the 'pleasure' of the actual game. These journalists, just laughed when Mourinho gave his brutally honest admission that he should get more respect. That is the difference right there. How would these journalist fare with the same scrutiny players and managers get? I bet a lot of them wont like it. They have a safe barriere where results dont impact them, they just have to write and 'critique'.
Long story short, i am not claiming that journalists should change their approach- its what the players and managers signed up for, but is a bit more emphaty to much to asked for in this day and age?
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Here we see where the agenda comes from. Mourinho doesn't take the press out to tea like Klopp does so they're on him. If he was wining and dining them their lips would be perpetually stuck to his rear end.
This is the agenda people. Their sense of self importance has been brusied by Mou's treatment and now they're using every chance they get to take jabs at him.
Look at the replies to Jim White's tweet.Tweet
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Here we see where the agenda comes from. Mourinho doesn't take the press out to tea like Klopp does so they're on him. If he was wining and dining them their lips would be perpetually stuck to his rear end.
This is the agenda people. Their sense of self importance has been brusied by Mou's treatment and now they're using every chance they get to take jabs at him.
I see the value in your response but dont you think there is a pattern with journalists and the manner they behave in front of any United manager? (Not a conspiracy but i am just exploring all opinions on this subject).I don't think the journalists should be more in touch with how others feel, I just think they should be less influenced by their personal feelings.
Its clear from what Jim White said, as well as how other sports media people act, that their reporting of Mourinho reflects the fact they dislike how he dismisses them. They feel he doesn't treat them as well as they think he should. However, rather than being professional and putting their feelings aside when they report on him, they allow their emotions to influence the way they write about him and United.
Most reporters do their jobs impartially. They do not let their personal feelings affect what they say about the subject of their reporting. Even when what they are writing about is awful, like crime, they play it totally straight.
With Mourinho even handedness seems to fly out the window. They don't like the guy and they can't wait to dance on his grave. Anything that might put another nail in his coffin is leapt upon. Anything he says is intepreted, reinterpreted and spun again just to get more negative stories out of it.
Its true that Manchester United gets more scrutiny than any other club. It is beneficial for reporters to write about Manchester United because people love to read about United and, of course, scandal brings more attention.I see the value in your response but dont you think there is a pattern with journalists and the manner they behave in front of any United manager? (Not a conspiracy but i am just exploring all opinions on this subject).
Those replies are brilliant and even fans of other clubs see the media for what they are.Look at the replies to Jim White's tweet.
I don’t know if it’s short or selective memories, but Mourinho was the man who LITERALLY said there was a campaign against Chelsea, being led by the FA and referees. The guy is a proper cult leader, and so many of his followers are sipping from the Kool aid and believe that the media has some agenda against us.Pretty much. It's really crazy the mental gymnastics fans go through to cling to this absurd notion (and yes it is absurd and not based on any sort of facts) that the media are "anti-United".
Does controversy/negativity sell papers and generate clicks? Yes.
Does the press tend to focus on the bigger clubs? Yes.
Is United a club in turmoil? Yes.
Is United a big club? Yes.
It's extremely simple logic. Anyone believing this "anti-United" nonsense should be embarrassed. It's really small time and RAWKish.
Yup. I have never encountered fans of any top club who weren’t convinced that the media was biased against them.The media aren't anti-United.
Fans of every single top club think that the media is biased against them. Why?
As soon as things are going wrong or start to go wrong, the media twist the knife in and act like the world is ending. Specifically to wind up the club's supporters and excite rival fans. A headline of "Klopp Kracking up?" is bound to draw in gleeful United and Everton fans while annoying Liverpool fans.
Does anyone really think Mourinho would be at "war" with journalists if United won the league last year and had won their first three games this season 5-0? They would all be lining up to kiss his boots.
One week Wenger was the respected elder statesmen of the league and the next he was a doddering, old, past it, shell of a manager.