foxes_rule1978 Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 (edited) Talk about tinpot but that is what Leeds are overhyped rubbish. She has an opinion so what, do your talking on the pitch please Edited 30 December 2020 by foxes_rule1978 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Finnegan Posted 30 December 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 30 December 2020 (edited) 33 minutes ago, Aus Fox said: One quick look on Leeds Twitter account and you’ll see loads of digs at the pundits who keep going with the same narrative. The only difference here is they included the video where they tagged the broadcaster not the individual. It's definitely tinpot, chip on the shoulder stuff which snacks of a massive inferiority complex and some serious insecurity but that's just Leeds in a nutshell. I wouldn't say its problematic, offensive or unprofessional. They're not hurting anyone other than their own image. Edited 30 December 2020 by Finnegan 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post UpTheLeagueFox Posted 30 December 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 30 December 2020 17 minutes ago, The People's Hero said: Women want (and of course should have) the same platform for comment; but also want immunity from any critique of that commentary. Where have women pundits ever said they want immunity from their comments? The women pundits I know and have worked with have no problem with constructive criticism. Sadly, because they're female, they seem to get added scrutiny which IMHO is unfair. A lot of blokes get triggered (IMHO) because they're uncomfortable that some women actually know more about football than them. Twitter often is a toxic cesspit and Leeds could have easily avoided the horrible pile on by not tweeting what they did. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeds Fox Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 8 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said: There's plenty enough in the replies to that tweet. Some already deleted but talk of her only filling a quota and similar can still be easily found. Tbf it would be the same with any football team, I don't think Leeds are unique in having meatheads among their fans. Fair enough, I hadn’t looked into the replies enough to find any abuse. It’s a tricky one really, I think the club should have the right to call the pundit out on a comment like that, just as much as the pundit has the right to give their opinion. Do the club not call the pundit out because she’s a woman? Is that equality? Did the pundit make such a comment to provoke a reaction? Was she put up to it by Amazon to generate publicity? Was it relevant and did it need saying after they’d just spanked a team who were their closest rivals to the Championship title? All conjecture but making a comment like that was clearly going to ruffle a few feathers, that was obvious. Nobody deserves abuse mind, that doesn’t need saying. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 47 minutes ago, foxes_rule1978 said: Talk about tinpot but that is what Leeds are overhyped rubbish. She has an opinion so what, do your talking on the pitch please They did 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, StanSP said: They did Really then what was this tweet? They obviously feel the need to mention how great they are every second and how they are the greatest team to ever win the championship and the greatest promoted side ever with the best manager the world has ever seen. And no one should dare have an opinion and question those supposed facts Edited 30 December 2020 by foxes_rule1978 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 Just now, foxes_rule1978 said: Really then what was this tweet? They obviously feel the need to mention how great they are every second and how they are the greatest team to ever win the championship and the greatest promoted side ever with the best manager the world has ever seen. They didn't say that? That's your perspective of how you see them seen as a club and acting like they go about bragging like that. Now I'm not going to deny they get the attention some other media darlings get, but if they want to stick up for themselves with a little quip and defend how they thought they won the league, then so be it. The tweet was just that - they don't think they won the league 'because of COVID' which was claimed and they just factually wrote they won the league by 10 points. What you're saying isn't the same thing as what they tweet or claimed. You say 'let them do the talking on the pitch'. They did. They won the league by 10 points. They just thrashed West Brom 5-0. They're actually doing alright for a promoted club. People hate Leeds and that may be for valid reasons, but then it ends up clouding the judgement and leads to things like what you've just said there... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox_up_north Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 Just seems a bit pathetic to respond to comments that way. You don't see Man United tweeting in response to pundit's criticism. If they really, genuinely took issue with it, they should make a complaint to the broadcaster or directly to the person asking them to retract the statement officially. Or put out a press release/ statement themselves. Not a tweet. It just smacks of work experience kid being given the reigns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffield_fox Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 She's perfectly entitled to make that inflammatory comment just as the football world is entitled to criticise her for it. She wouldn't have said it if she wasn't looking for attention. Best thing to do if you don't like it is just ignore it. Troll pundits make a name for themselves on furore like this. Reacting does make Leeds football club look very petty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 Leeds are a small minded ‘big club’ ...they’ve been away from the top flight for so long ........ the chips on their shoulders are so large I’m surprised they can type any coherent tweets ......... and some of us are guilty of the same when we respond to stuff in the media aswell .... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowlattsFox Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 Worth noting that I've seen nothing to suggest Karen Carney is offended by any of this. Just people being offended on her behalf, as usual. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 10 minutes ago, StanSP said: They didn't say that? That's your perspective of how you see them seen as a club and acting like they go about bragging like that. Now I'm not going to deny they get the attention some other media darlings get, but if they want to stick up for themselves with a little quip and defend how they thought they won the league, then so be it. The tweet was just that - they don't think they won the league 'because of COVID' which was claimed and they just factually wrote they won the league by 10 points. What you're saying isn't the same thing as what they tweet or claimed. You say 'let them do the talking on the pitch'. They did. They won the league by 10 points. They just thrashed West Brom 5-0. They're actually doing alright for a promoted club. People hate Leeds and that may be for valid reasons, but then it ends up clouding the judgement and leads to things like what you've just said there... while what your saying is correct I felt what Leeds have done is totally unnecessary, why do it just reminds me of why I hate them so much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winteriscoming Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 If anything it has enhanced her punditry career. Did anyone know who she was this time yesterday? I know I didn’t. My opinion is it wasn’t a particularly clever comment she made but in the long run it will be beneficial for her. Probably wouldn’t be saying the same if it was a male pundit making this comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ealingfox Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 30 minutes ago, StanSP said: They did In this context surely the talking would be not blowing up towards the end of the season? Because now if they do they're going to look pretty stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wymsey Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 Wonder how Sean Dyche will feel about having, potentially, more money to spend in the transfer window.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55476276 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 5 minutes ago, ealingfox said: In this context surely the talking would be not blowing up towards the end of the season? Because now if they do they're going to look pretty stupid. Probably why it is best to not post such garbage, when not even half way through the season it is totally needless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 6 minutes ago, ealingfox said: In this context surely the talking would be not blowing up towards the end of the season? Because now if they do they're going to look pretty stupid. Not really because it's a totally different scenario in a totally different league with much bigger demands. Most (sane) Leeds fans I know are happy to survive, entertained with the current football and are just happy to be back in the Premier League. There's no overstating of their quality and they certainly don't fancy themselves as the biggest club in the land or best in the league/world. They know their place and just trying to enjoy the ride. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ealingfox Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 2 minutes ago, StanSP said: Not really because it's a totally different scenario in a totally different league with much bigger demands. Most (sane) Leeds fans I know are happy to survive, entertained with the current football and are just happy to be back in the Premier League. There's no overstating of their quality and they certainly don't fancy themselves as the biggest club in the land or best in the league/world. They know their place and just trying to enjoy the ride. Its Bielsa that has the rep, not Leeds as a club specifically. Sorry but if they ended up losing 10 of the last 12 games and scraping survival then they absolutely would look very stupid and you can bet people would be digging up this incident in droves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsr-burnley Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 I seem to remember a few years back there were loads of comments about a certain club in Leicester, who had made a good start to the season, being unlikely to sustain it and had no chance of winning the league. It was said they wouldn't last the course. They would burn out. Even Mr Lineker, of whom you may have heard , said it. I don't remember it being viewed as inflammatory, controversial, or worthy of defence by the club. Pundits talk all sorts of rubbish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 4 hours ago, davieG said: West Brom boss Sam Allardyce says football needs a break after the Premier League returned its highest number of positive coronavirus results in a single round of tests this season. Rather odd comments from him about being worried about catching Covid at his age. Why did he take the job? Covid's been around for nine months, hardly a ground-breaking discovery in the past ten days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsr-burnley Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 23 minutes ago, Wymsey said: Wonder how Sean Dyche will feel about having, potentially, more money to spend in the transfer window.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55476276 He'll be happy about having a chairman he can talk to. Apparently relations between him and Garlick have broken down to the extent that they aren't on speaking terms. Fortunately team spirit hasn't been affected, possibly in part because Garlick has had the sense to say absolutely nothing while Dyche snipped away in interview after interview, and by saying nothing he at least helped in keeping it from being a full-on row with people taking sides within the club. Hopefully he'll spend it wisely - his best signings, apart from Wood, have been the cheap ones. Mind you, Dyche is the best manager we've had in my lifetime. His mistakes are trivial, his achievements are huge. I'm just glad no-one else seems to want to offer him a job. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pazzerfox Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 4 hours ago, ealingfox said: The club's account haven't tweeted about Sutton or Merson and tried to instigate a pile-on against them as far as I'm aware? Correct and our club never would tweet anything like that. Leeds obviously felt the comment was disrespectful to them but i agree they went about it in an unprofessional manor, but had Robbie Savage said it, would it have gotten the same level of attention do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeds Fox Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 5 minutes ago, pazzerfox said: Correct and our club never would tweet anything like that. Leeds obviously felt the comment was disrespectful to them but i agree they went about it in an unprofessional manor, but had Robbie Savage said it, would it have gotten the same level of attention do you think? Yes but the backlash wouldn’t have been anywhere near what it has been. The offended parties (to Leeds’ tweet) have doubled the attention that this is getting. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoareyaaa Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 Just seen this on twitter thought it was funny 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuna Posted 30 December 2020 Share Posted 30 December 2020 Reading on twitter Spurs v Fulham is postponed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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