Our Club and the media

[KingsX]

A lot of recent posts have been about getting things off our chests regarding the media.  We decry the huge skewing of coverage toward the “big six”.  Yet we also resent uninformed stories and rumors about our own Club.

 

Is it all bad that the media still have a use for Leicester City?  The fairy-tale and fallen-Icarus narratives are history.  But we remain on the map.  With inscrutable Asian owners who say nothing, but move the dial.  Sappers trying to undermine the sacred apple cart.  Assassins of the great and charming godfather.  Jailers of great footballers both chicken-legged and slab-headed.

 

Neil Ashton used his Saturday minute on NBC Sports to talk about Maguire, and Sunday's about Puel.  Given the actual, London-based soap opera of West Ham, it’s flattering that a Leicester soap opera needs manufactured.

 

Burnley are the ones in Europe.  Watford do chop managerial heads like celery.  But the world knows who we are and who our best players are.  We create stars and even mean to hang onto them.  We deal (or don’t) with the Manchester clubs and Chelsea.  Producing coverage, clicks -- and crap.

 

I do not mean to overstate this.  Even had we upset Man U, the pundits would have mono-blabbed about the Special One and Pogba.  But if we want to fix ourselves to the “best of the rest” tier, there is no room for tiny grey mice.  Higher profile equals more coverage, which equals more nosy, unflattering, even scurrilous coverage. 

 

We can’t change the media.  So why not try to see both sides of the coin, if only to make it less frustrating.

 

Keep it up Neil.    You smarmy $#!t.

[stripeyfox]

Who the fcuk is Neil Ashton? 

[Max Wall]

3 minutes ago, stripeyfox said:

Who the fcuk is Neil Ashton? 

Neil Ashton

Footballer

Neil John Ashton is an English semi-professional footballer who plays for Cefn Druids. He typically plays as left-back, but occasionally acts as a midfielder. Wikipedia

Born: 15 January 1985 (age 33 years), Liverpool

Height: 1.73 m

Weight: 78 kg

Spouse: Granny Martha

 

 

His spouse is his granny which is a little worrying. Is that specific to being born in Liverpool?

He possibly means Neil Ashton the sun journalist though.

[st albans fox]

If you go through our strongest starting eleven, how many wouldn’t be of interest to a club inside the top six. Not many PL clubs have this first eleven strength - we should be making noise amongst  the journos .......

 

 

[Heathrow fox]

It will only be the big 5 soon the way Arsenal are going

[stripeyfox]

45 minutes ago, Max Wall said:

Neil Ashton

Footballer

Neil John Ashton is an English semi-professional footballer who plays for Cefn Druids. He typically plays as left-back, but occasionally acts as a midfielder. Wikipedia

Born: 15 January 1985 (age 33 years), Liverpool

Height: 1.73 m

Weight: 78 kg

Spouse: Granny Martha

 

 

His spouse is his granny which is a little worrying. Is that specific to being born in Liverpool?

He possibly means Neil Ashton the sun journalist though.

Ah i see. Why would anyone give a shit what some journalist in the Sun thinks.... 

[SheppyFox]

I’m so lost

[Max Wall]

44 minutes ago, stripeyfox said:

Ah i see. Why would anyone give a shit what some journalist in the Sun thinks.... 

Totally agree

[mod hero]

5 hours ago, KingsX said:

A lot of recent posts have been about getting things off our chests regarding the media.  We decry the huge skewing of coverage toward the “big six”.  Yet we also resent uninformed stories and rumors about our own Club.

 

Is it all bad that the media still have a use for Leicester City?  The fairy-tale and fallen-Icarus narratives are history.  But we remain on the map.  With inscrutable Asian owners who say nothing, but move the dial.  Sappers trying to undermine the sacred apple cart.  Assassins of the great and charming godfather.  Jailers of great footballers both chicken-legged and slab-headed.

 

Neil Ashton used his Saturday minute on NBC Sports to talk about Maguire, and Sunday's about Puel.  Given the actual, London-based soap opera of West Ham, it’s flattering that a Leicester soap opera needs manufactured.

 

Burnley are the ones in Europe.  Watford do chop managerial heads like celery.  But the world knows who we are and who our best players are.  We create stars and even mean to hang onto them.  We deal (or don’t) with the Manchester clubs and Chelsea.  Producing coverage, clicks -- and crap.

 

I do not mean to overstate this.  Even had we upset Man U, the pundits would have mono-blabbed about the Special One and Pogba.  But if we want to fix ourselves to the “best of the rest” tier, there is no room for tiny grey mice.  Higher profile equals more coverage, which equals more nosy, unflattering, even scurrilous coverage. 

 

We can’t change the media.  So why not try to see both sides of the coin, if only to make it less frustrating.

 

Keep it up Neil.    You smarmy $#!t.

Cracking Vocabulary.

 

Hit me up on words with friends

 

Edited 13 August 2018 by mod hero

[murphy]

5 hours ago, KingsX said:

A lot of recent posts have been about getting things off our chests regarding the media.  We decry the huge skewing of coverage toward the “big six”.  Yet we also resent uninformed stories and rumors about our own Club.

 

Is it all bad that the media still have a use for Leicester City?  The fairy-tale and fallen-Icarus narratives are history.  But we remain on the map.  With inscrutable Asian owners who say nothing, but move the dial.  Sappers trying to undermine the sacred apple cart.  Assassins of the great and charming godfather.  Jailers of great footballers both chicken-legged and slab-headed.

 

Neil Ashton used his Saturday minute on NBC Sports to talk about Maguire, and Sunday's about Puel.  Given the actual, London-based soap opera of West Ham, it’s flattering that a Leicester soap opera needs manufactured.

 

Burnley are the ones in Europe.  Watford do chop managerial heads like celery.  But the world knows who we are and who our best players are.  We create stars and even mean to hang onto them.  We deal (or don’t) with the Manchester clubs and Chelsea.  Producing coverage, clicks -- and crap.

 

I do not mean to overstate this.  Even had we upset Man U, the pundits would have mono-blabbed about the Special One and Pogba.  But if we want to fix ourselves to the “best of the rest” tier, there is no room for tiny grey mice.  Higher profile equals more coverage, which equals more nosy, unflattering, even scurrilous coverage. 

 

We can’t change the media.  So why not try to see both sides of the coin, if only to make it less frustrating.

 

Keep it up Neil.    You smarmy $#!t.

You've either had a few or you're @fuchsntf in disguise.

Edited 13 August 2018 by murphy

[Stadt]

1 hour ago, murphy said:

You've either had a few or you're @fuchsntf in disguise.

 

I understood that, cant have been fuchsntf. Fair enough the old bastard has been abroad for years but how does your native language's word order becomes so messed up? I've been learning German for a while now but I still can't comprehend how it affects a language you've known for your whole life

[KingsX]

3 hours ago, SheppyFox said:

I’m so lost

 

2 hours ago, mod hero said:

Cracking Vocabulary.

Hit me up on words with friends

 

 

1 hour ago, murphy said:

You've either had a few or you're @fuchsntf in disguise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I must admit, the feedback was much more clear and direct than the OP ...
 

Edited 13 August 2018 by KingsX

[weller54]

7 hours ago, KingsX said:

A lot of recent posts have been about getting things off our chests regarding the media.  We decry the huge skewing of coverage toward the “big six”.  Yet we also resent uninformed stories and rumors about our own Club.

 

Is it all bad that the media still have a use for Leicester City?  The fairy-tale and fallen-Icarus narratives are history.  But we remain on the map.  With inscrutable Asian owners who say nothing, but move the dial.  Sappers trying to undermine the sacred apple cart.  Assassins of the great and charming godfather.  Jailers of great footballers both chicken-legged and slab-headed.

 

Neil Ashton used his Saturday minute on NBC Sports to talk about Maguire, and Sunday's about Puel.  Given the actual, London-based soap opera of West Ham, it’s flattering that a Leicester soap opera needs manufactured.

 

Burnley are the ones in Europe.  Watford do chop managerial heads like celery.  But the world knows who we are and who our best players are.  We create stars and even mean to hang onto them.  We deal (or don’t) with the Manchester clubs and Chelsea.  Producing coverage, clicks -- and crap.

 

I do not mean to overstate this.  Even had we upset Man U, the pundits would have mono-blabbed about the Special One and Pogba.  But if we want to fix ourselves to the “best of the rest” tier, there is no room for tiny grey mice.  Higher profile equals more coverage, which equals more nosy, unflattering, even scurrilous coverage. 

 

We can’t change the media.  So why not try to see both sides of the coin, if only to make it less frustrating.

 

Keep it up Neil.    You smarmy $#!t.

Que? 

[fuchsntf]

13 hours ago, Stadt said:

I understood that, cant have been fuchsntf. Fair enough the old bastard has been abroad for years but how does your native language's word order becomes so messed up? I've been learning German for a while now but I still can't comprehend how it affects a language you've known for your whole life

My word order is excellent...I have just learnt how you can play around with English....

 

though you may be right...I get all the right words, but not necessary in the right order.....for those who find it difficult,to ride the wings of imagination.

 

I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse

 

I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.

 

sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written).

 

Made has not the sound of bade,
Say said, pay-paid, laid, but plaid.

 

Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as vague and ague,

 

But be careful how you speak,
Say break, steak, but bleak and streak.

 

Hiccough has the sound of “cup.”
My advice is–give it up!*

 

words are fragile individuals,

who's soul purpose is to create a sentence

 

Word order is a soulless attempt ,to deny

precious sentences, the right to anarchy

 

*****************          ********************

Anastrophe...is my excuse  to open wide the doors,

to be that single rebel without a cause..........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[norwichfox]

wtf am I reading in this thread....I'm greatly confused, is there a help desk?

[Stan]

2 hours ago, norwichfox said:

wtf am I reading in this thread....I'm greatly confused, is there a help desk?

Glad it’s not just me ?

[MC Prussian]

18 hours ago, Stadt said:

I understood that, cant have been fuchsntf. Fair enough the old bastard has been abroad for years but how does your native language's word order becomes so messed up? I've been learning German for a while now but I still can't comprehend how it affects a language you've known for your whole life

Always start off with swear words, always. I can teach you some.

[FoyleFox]

Whenever I think this forum can't get any stranger, someone proves me wrong... absolutely no idea what this thread is about but full marks for comedy value. 

[Bunyip]

8 hours ago, FoyleFox said:

Whenever I think this forum can't get any stranger, someone proves me wrong... absolutely no idea what this thread is about but full marks for comedy value. 

Christ, now I'm confused. Is it meant to be funny ?

[FoyleFox]

33 minutes ago, Bunyip said:

Christ, now I'm confused. Is it meant to be funny ?

Probably not.....however....