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Gorn Myson posted:The most surprising thing about City's treble is how little people care about it. I always saw them winning the Champions League as a nightmare scenario but in reality you just roll with it. Mourinho's 'historical treble' with United upset me more than this. Losing 2-1 at Old Trafford upset me more than this. I think part of it is just that they don’t have that many fans/supporters really. They are an insanely good team with a shitload of money, and a willingness to cheat their way around FFP, but I don’t think they have the global following that the other big EPL clubs enjoy.
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gently caress sake. Stake are tied to that lovely new streaming platform "Kick" as well.
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 10:47 |
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threeagainstfour posted:I don’t think they have the global following that the other big EPL clubs enjoy.
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 15:13 |
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Dudley posted:gently caress sake. It’s awful as gently caress but it’s also because the league won’t let them have Paramount + as a sponsor.
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# ? Jun 18, 2023 22:54 |
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hadji murad posted:It’s awful as gently caress but it’s also because the league won’t let them have Paramount + as a sponsor. Just looked this up and it's ludicrous that they've been blocked from having Paramount+. Has this happened before?
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 10:20 |
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I can think of multiple competitors to broadcast partners that have been on shirts if you even consider Paramount + one.
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 10:32 |
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I'm sure there are loads, but NTL is the only one I can think of off the top of my head.
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 10:36 |
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https://twitter.com/sistoney67/status/1670758009125863426 What the gently caress?
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 12:41 |
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Must have been offered another job behind the scenes surely
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 12:47 |
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If that's the case they've done a really bad job with their statement. The results he got kept them in the prem.
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 12:49 |
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Thanks Ants posted:If that's the case they've done a really bad job with their statement. The results he got kept them in the prem. I had him as my manager of the season tbh
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 12:49 |
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Since the new sack race isn't up yet obviously and Newcastle have statistically the hardest start of the season I'm going in on Howe getting sacked after 0 points in 5 matches
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 12:51 |
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They did sack parker about a week into last season after he got them promoted so maybe they just like wheeling and dealing with the managers
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 13:00 |
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It doesn't make any sense. Maybe they appointed him as a cheap option assuming relegation was already guaranteed, and now that they're in the PL for another season they want somebody else? I feel like interim managers who get the job full time never stick around too long because the club didn't actually want them in the first place, no matter what they might have achieved. Like Di Matteo at Chelsea.
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 13:04 |
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This is the express admittedly but a manger has been accused of raping a teenage girl https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1782115/Premier-League-news-manager-police-rape-teenage-girl
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 13:16 |
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i think it makes sense to sack O'Neil if they don't believe he can keep them up again or won't be a help in them progressing the owners ambitions. looking at the underlying stats, Bournemouth were a bit fortuitous last season, maybe they believe another manager will make them better. Or be a better name for when they want to sign players, someone foreign players want to play for.
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 13:56 |
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Jose posted:This is the express admittedly but a manger has been accused of raping a teenage girl Do they mean English top-flight as in working in England, or that the manager is English?
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 14:01 |
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Reads to me like they mean "a manger in the English top flight"
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 14:59 |
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Brendan Rodgers, Tottenham Hotspur Manager 2024/25 https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1670750987844304896
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 15:17 |
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seems like Bournemouth saw a shiny new manager they liked better https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65954183
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 18:13 |
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the sex ghost posted:They did sack parker about a week into last season after he got them promoted so maybe they just like wheeling and dealing with the managers Parker was openly begging to be sacked though. There has to be more to this move FullLeatherJacket posted:seems like Bournemouth saw a shiny new manager they liked better Checks out
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# ? Jun 19, 2023 18:43 |
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the sex ghost posted:The season is over. Congrats to man city on finally killing football forever after only a couple of attempts. Commiserations to relegated sides. Luton are in the prem next season which is still crazy. Don't be so hard on yourself, Leeds haven't burned to the ground yet!
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# ? Jun 20, 2023 06:54 |
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Moktaro posted:Don't be so hard on yourself, Leeds haven't burned to the ground yet! Have you been to Leeds? That'd be a bloody improvement. It's the Leeds of England.
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# ? Jun 20, 2023 06:59 |
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Have you? Leeds is a top tier UK city
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# ? Jun 20, 2023 09:04 |
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Butterfly Valley posted:Have you? Leeds is a top tier UK city https://youtu.be/20XLWEjN9eI
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# ? Jun 20, 2023 10:29 |
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Butterfly Valley posted:Have you? Leeds is a top tier UK city it's certainly in the top 76
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# ? Jun 20, 2023 20:02 |
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This sums up my feelings on this topic pretty well. https://theathletic.com/4600507/2023/06/22/pundits-are-not-there-to-act-as-fans/ quote:No more pundits acting like fans, please
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# ? Jun 22, 2023 10:40 |
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Yes Jake Humphrey and BT Sport in general is bad
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# ? Jun 22, 2023 12:19 |
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It’s not like the pundits were ever good at the analysis. We’ve gone from bad analysis to reality TV, which is at least entertaining.
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# ? Jun 22, 2023 17:24 |
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I’d wanna say with BT losing the Champions League rights they’ll be gone, but they’re all contractors and will just pop up on Eurosport or w/e next season’s games are.
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# ? Jun 22, 2023 19:23 |
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emjayo posted:I’d wanna say with BT losing the Champions League rights they’ll be gone, but they’re all contractors and will just pop up on Eurosport or w/e next season’s games are. BT isn't losing Champions League rights. They just retained most of it until 2027. https://www.bt.com/sport/football/champions-league/bt-sport-champions-league-rights-deal-tv-announcement BT is rebranding as TNT Sports this summer since Discovery got like 50% stake in BT Sport now.
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# ? Jun 22, 2023 20:04 |
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it seems like an incredibly bad decision to replace a ubiquitous brand that was once the monopoly for all british telecommunications with a brand with zero UK history and that no-one (outside of people who read The Death Of WCW) knows anything about, but maybe it will make Micah Richards less bad
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# ? Jun 22, 2023 20:23 |
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psyer posted:BT isn't losing Champions League rights. They just retained most of it until 2027. this sounds like some fail op
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# ? Jun 22, 2023 21:47 |
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FullLeatherJacket posted:it seems like an incredibly bad decision to replace a ubiquitous brand that was once the monopoly for all british telecommunications with a brand with zero UK history and that no-one (outside of people who read The Death Of WCW) knows anything about, but maybe it will make Micah Richards less bad my mam who doesn't watch or follow football at all loves micah richards and thinks he's extremely funny in case you're curious as to his specific audience
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# ? Jun 23, 2023 10:32 |
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My unscientific theory is that the more "shorts" videos that can be generated for YouTube and Instagram of pundits doing forced cracking up laughing, the worse their punditry is. None of these rules apply to Ian Wright who is cool and good.
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# ? Jun 23, 2023 10:52 |
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Jose posted:my mam who doesn't watch or follow football at all loves micah richards and thinks he's extremely funny in case you're curious as to his specific audience I confess to quite liking Richards, particularly his dynamic with Shearer/Lineker in some of the longer-form videos they put out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtjL6H-BjY4 It's me, I'm Jose's mam
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# ? Jun 23, 2023 11:17 |
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I liked Richards before he became ubiquitous, and before he started appearing on that skybet ad squealing 'ello, Roy!' Also the fact that on the ad for the motd podcast, Lineker says 'and more laughs from this man' and then a clip of Richards squawking. Home of this is really his fault per se, just over saturated.
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# ? Jun 23, 2023 11:42 |
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It increasingly seems to be more heading towards the vibe of the TNT NBA panel with Shaq, Barkley, Kenny smith etc. Incredibly successful, but for a casual viewer feels like most half time shows are like the opening 20 mins of a podcast you don’t regularly listen to where they’re just warming up before the topic at hand, except they never get to it.
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# ? Jun 23, 2023 12:55 |
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Cart posted:It increasingly seems to be more heading towards the vibe of the TNT NBA panel with Shaq, Barkley, Kenny smith etc. They also have the same issue that UK comedy panel shows have too: a given set of ex footballer pundits are on everything all the time regardless of talent or likeability, 100% based on being signed up to a specific talent agency, very often one where the spouse of the show producer works. At least they don’t end up doing arena tours with barely 20 minutes of material.
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wooger posted:They also have the same issue that UK comedy panel shows have too: a given set of ex footballer pundits are on everything all the time regardless of talent or likeability, 100% based on being signed up to a specific talent agency, very often one where the spouse of the show producer works. On the plus side that means you get Bob Mortimer all the time.
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