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[Football] Sky commentators bias towards top clubs



flint

Active member
Jul 9, 2003
152
eastbourne
Just watched Leicester v Man City and commentators whinging about penalty awarded to Leicester.
Don’t care who wins but Walker as we know capable of hiding his fouls
What can be done to stop Sky thinking the make the rules
 




Mackenzie

Old Brightonian
Nov 7, 2003
34,009
East Wales
Money.

Support the big team, keep a higher percentage of their worldwide audience happy.
 


Me and my Monkey

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Nov 3, 2015
3,460
Well, I’m effing FURIOUS. Seconds away from winning £2.77 on my accumulator, now nothing thanks to that cheating, diving *******. I’m totally with the Sky pundits.
 




Durlston

"You plonker, Rodney!"
Jul 15, 2009
10,017
Haywards Heath
Vardy misses his penalty so Manchester City win. Very lucky.

If it had happened an hour ago fans might have made the last train. Oops!
 






hans kraay fan club

The voice of reason.
Helpful Moderator
Mar 16, 2005
62,759
Chandlers Ford
Never a pen. No bias at all in the commentary of that match. Pro-Leicester if anything.

odd thread
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
56,119
Faversham
I am a bleeding heart socialist (allegedly) but this anti top six whinginginging is a bit unnecessessessary in my view, A bit excessessessive, under the circumstances.
 




The Upper Library

New member
May 23, 2013
675
I would love to see the stats on how many of the top 6 teams players get match bans for too many bookings. Not many is my guess?
Thinking of an incident in the Liverpool game - Bruno booked for professional foul (correct decision) - 5 minutes later very similar incident happens up there end - we get the free kick but no booking . Then there is the obvious Lukaku Bong fiasco.
It is all about protecting the product for Sky and BT.




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Normski1989

Well-known member
Apr 15, 2015
751
Hove
I do think that there is a general bias towards bigger teams, but on this occasion... it wasn't a penalty. Awful decision from the referee.
 






GJN1

Well-known member
Nov 4, 2014
1,545
Brighton
Largely agree but when Iheanacho went through Claudio Bravo the pundit (Not sure who it was) said it was never a booking when it was a yellow card at the very least. You do wonder what game they're watching sometimes.
 








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