kjgood
Well-known member
They didnt show our brilliant play in the second half or discuss how they were panicing like mad near the end. So biased it was unbelievable. Watching the penalty decision it was so soft in my humble view.
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[Albion] Match of the Day
- Thread starter Wozza
- Start date
I thought they showed those on Saturday night?
*Gullsworth*
My Hair is like his hair
Did they interview CH after the game or just United bods? Was so uninterested after not mentioning our gallant effort I switched off and went to bed.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
They did but it was un-broadcastable - given the foul language he used.
Stato
Well-known member
- Dec 21, 2011
- 7,366
Their view of Salah's dive made me laugh too. They said 'he feels contact and takes a moment to realise it, then throws himself on the ground.' So there was contact. Less contact than their was from Gross last week, but Gross's challenge was still not enough to make him fall over. He threw himself to the ground in the same way, but without the second's delay. MotD view: One stonewall penalty, one absolutely disgraceful behaviour.
A nuanced discussion of diving would go into the intent of players when feeling contact in the box and discuss the grey areas between diving and looking to tempt a defender into contact, It would talk about the fine line between gamesmanship and cheating and the darkish arts that all teams to some degree practice and employ, but hardly ever speak of, but that would need honesty.
Shearer, Lineker and Murphy must have all been in training sessions where these things were shared or demonstrated. A few years back the BBC's Southern Football League Show even had a couple of items with (I think) Graham Murty and Steve Fletcher demonstrating them. A little more mea culpa would be welcome, but there generally seems to be a conspiracy of silence amongst ex-pro pundits at the top level who fake outrage at any player who gets caught crossing the fine line between falling to the ground whenever they feel contact and throwing themselves over an outstretched leg.
A nuanced discussion of diving would go into the intent of players when feeling contact in the box and discuss the grey areas between diving and looking to tempt a defender into contact, It would talk about the fine line between gamesmanship and cheating and the darkish arts that all teams to some degree practice and employ, but hardly ever speak of, but that would need honesty.
Shearer, Lineker and Murphy must have all been in training sessions where these things were shared or demonstrated. A few years back the BBC's Southern Football League Show even had a couple of items with (I think) Graham Murty and Steve Fletcher demonstrating them. A little more mea culpa would be welcome, but there generally seems to be a conspiracy of silence amongst ex-pro pundits at the top level who fake outrage at any player who gets caught crossing the fine line between falling to the ground whenever they feel contact and throwing themselves over an outstretched leg.
Guy Fawkes
The voice of treason
- Sep 29, 2007
- 8,295
Sadly they are only interested in providing a programme for what they see as their main audience, and United have a far bigger audience interested in what they do in a game then we will have, so they concentrate on them (same for any big 6 team) and the narrative would be aimed for that audience too (as seen here) and wont change until they think we have a big enough audience to merit the same sort of coverage as a lot of the other Premier League teams
I haven't heard the pundits comments but i guess it would be along the lines of Pogba had every right to go down there and it was a definite penalty but you could be certain that if it was the same incident but Brighton winning the penalty, they would be calling it soft, no penalty, a dive and a conning of the officials, etc...
Pogba cheated, he should never have gone down there, he successfully conned the officials into awarding a penalty (ref had a bad view looking at the highlights i have seen) and i can't wait for VAR to cut out a lot of that (if only it is used properly and this falling over like that is deemed to be what it is, cheating and the players booked as they should be but fear they wont, especially when it is a top 6 team's player falling over)
attila
1997 Club
It should be called Top 6 Match of the Day. The absolute essence of everything that is wrong with modern football. Stooges reporting on a money - led procession.
portslade seagull
Well-known member
Just watched it. Did M Utd actually play against anybody. No mention of us at all
HAILSHAM SEAGULL
Well-known member
- Nov 9, 2009
- 10,359
I'm not disputing the penalty,yes he went down easily, but VAR would have given the pen, no doubt Bong gave him a little shove.
We had 42% possession according to the stats, both tv shows gave the impression it was more like 12%, Gave no mention to Propper sublime pass for the goal or the assualt on Muzza, if Dale had done that to a Manc, it would have been straight red and he would have been lambasted on both tv shows.
worthingseagull123
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- May 5, 2012
- 2,687
oldboyroy
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If they said Brighton played well and gave man u a tough game despite looking out of it at 2 nil down that would of been nice but not a word just how good man u are under ole and wonderful pogba who is back to his world class best now
Nixonator
Well-known member
Yea it's a completely unique condition.
doogie004
Well-known member
Probably right but reruns through week miles better
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BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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There's a difference between being precious and being miffed that there wasn't a single mention of us in the analysis of a match involving us in which we gave the opposition a decent game
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Nothing new though is it...it’s the norm and tbh i don’t really value the options of most of their pundits
Weststander
Well-known member
The Saturday MOTD is never up to much. Cramming in too many games, with hindsight merchants/hypocrites focusing on sundry incidents, whilst barely mentioning identical incidents by other teams.
Once you have Sky Sports with their unlimited time for analysis, MOTD seems Vauxhall Conference.
Once you have Sky Sports with their unlimited time for analysis, MOTD seems Vauxhall Conference.
Stato
Well-known member
- Dec 21, 2011
- 7,366
Sky's Soccer Saturday pre-kick-off discussions also dedicated about seven minutes to talking about Man Utd and then dismissed our involvement in a sentence or two. It's the nature of the beast when we play the top six, particularly United. The media are all obsessed with them.
Weststander
Well-known member
Agree to an extent, but Sky have so much time in a season, that the Albion are analysed and praised a lot.
There’s no way that Shearer and Murphy have watched all Saturday’s matches in full in a couple of hours. They are fed highlights, subjectively chosen by amateurs compared to Sky.
swindonseagull
Well-known member
Only watch if we win just record it and fast foward all the crap
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
I don’t even bother to watch anymore. I either see the games live or on a stream so don’t feel the need to hear what the pundits have to say, they seldom give us anything than a making up the numbers review. Basically they don’t care about us and I don’t care about them.