retired_g_stull

English press ftl. Shameful, the way they build up everyone, then just as quickly knock them down.

retired_arifmaredia

waas gonna say, i listen to 3 podcasts, and they were all saying how much trouble sam was in, i found this a little strange as well, they seem to be saying the pressure is coming from mike ashley, ah well, don't really care either way when it comes to newcastle. isn't the guardia one with guillem balague? pretty sure he's not english

retired_steevo93

Guillem Balague and Gabriele Marcotti are on the Times podcast, which is the one I tend to listen to. It's fairly insightful but prone to the same thing.

I do a spot of football reporting (less this season as I gig all the time) and I've been amazed at the fecklessness you get in the average press box. They're all hopelessly insecure and do a lot of talking over points in the matches, to make sure they all weakly agree on the same line. The press box and, afterwards, the interview room are all abuzz with pub-level speculation and banter, the difference being this stuff actually makes it into the papers.

I covered Blackburn 4 - 3 (or was it 2?) Man Utd and had the guy from the Times asking me whether I thought Rio had had a terrible game. I said no and made excuses for him, purely to be contrary really, and voila, the eventual report wasn't too hard on Rio. God forbid they actually form their own opinions by watching the match, rather than latch onto the first appealing line someone comes up with, and whip each other up into a frenzy over it.

I always thought that football reporters might be somehow qualified to write about the game, and might've studied it. I promised myself that, if I ended up making it my profession, I'd do my coaching badges (kind of want to do them anyway) so I could speculate more authoritatively.

Guillem Balague is a bit of an exception, as is Marcotti. Seems genuinely knowledgeable and extremely well-connected, so he's generally got something worthwhile to say.

retired_sisa___

Is it still just the media getting on Sams case?

were booed at the weekend iirc

retired_laticia3

Deservedly, we were gash.
Tbh his subs are a bit baffling too. Taking off our two best players and all

retired_tammysteward

the toon were fcukin dire on sat. really poor. most championship sides would have given us a far better match.

retired_denise.lovegrove

yeah seems it took all of 2 weeks for the pressure on him to be entirely media-led to also booing fans-led

retired_christy23

so booing fans = manager under pressure?

retired_dawn12302

or booing fans = fans content with their lot ?

Wtf was "You don't know what you're doing" about then ?

retired_sisa___

Well obviously sky dug up a few muppetts who were saying "if this carries on etc" but thought I'd see what the OTF mob thought.

That Alan Oliver who BG has referred to a few times came out and said it was the worst performance he's ever seen apparently.