VanGaalEra
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From their BBC bias against City thread, same guy:
They have gone a step further today - the BBC Gossip page is now split into 4 sections
Man United gossip (6 stories)
More gossip (18 stories - 2 mentions of United, despite them having their own section above)
Best of social media (3 stories - 2 mention United)
And Finally
In Total United are mentioned 12 times and Mourinho 10 times.
I have raised an official complaint to BBC as follows
Recieved a reply from the Beeb - as exactly as suggested it was a complete and utter fob off.
It basically stated that they felt the coverage of 17 our of 35 stories on one topic was justified. In fact, they didn't even acknowledge the idividual aspects of my complaint on page 83
Thanks for getting in touch with us about the reports we feature on the BBC Sport website.
Our front page reflects the major headlines in what is going on in the world of sport and sometimes, this means that a particular team or athlete is featured more than once.
As you may have seen, Manchester United have dominated the headlines across the media over the last few months with the speculation relating to Louis Van Gaal’s future at the club and José Mourinho’s appointment just days after their FA Cup win. We’re sorry if you were unhappy about this but we felt that these stories were of interest to our website users.
Thanks again for contacting us.
Kind Regards
BBC Complaints Team
Glory glory Mannn.....
Whilst I realise it is a fruitless task to continue complaining to them...
Dear BBC,
Many thanks for your prompt reply, however I fear you haven't understood the specifics of my complaint.
My overall complaint is this - the BBC sport website is biased towards stories featuring Manchester United, not just in the last week or month but overall.
The examples I gave were simply recent examples of your biased over-exposure of United and under-exposure of other clubs in the Premier League.
Perhaps you could explain why there was a "Mourinho Man United squad selection" tool, when he hadn't even been appointed as United manager, but there was no Conte, Wenger, Guardiola, Klopp, Hughes, Ranieri, Pardew, or Allardyce squad selectors?
I would also be interested to hear why you focus on the amount of money that some clubs have spent (Chelsea/City) but rarely quote the cost of the United squad as compared to Leicester. As I said, towards the end of the season you compared the cost of Leicesters squad to that of Manchester City, on the day that Leicester were actually playing Manchester United to possibly win the league title at Old Trafford - Man United having a similar squad cost to Manchester City, yet you did not make onee comment about the United squad cost.
You also have a tendancy to quote the transfer cost of players for other clubs whilst not doing so for United. Examples of this are "£44 million signing Raheem Sterling" but when you comment on United player it will be "21 year old Martial" with no mention of the transfer fee. It's as if you have a point to make about some clubs spending money whilst perpetuating the myth that Manchester United don't buy players for huge fees.
I felt your initial reply was a generic fob off and did not actually answer the queries I raised, so sadly I feel the need to reraise these points and look forward to your direct comments regarding the differences in reporting standards for United and the other clubs in the EPL
Many thanks and kind regards
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