Jump to content
talkfootball365
  • Welcome to talkfootball365!

    The better place to talk football.

Matchday Chat - Aug to Dec 2017/18 season archive


Recommended Posts

  • Subscriber

As you've said previously, it's all symptomatic of this obsession the media have (and that the fans have completely swallowed) of trying to turn the whole thing into some big soap opera.

Another example of it today was Crouch getting man of the match for our game. He's come on and scored a header, unmarked, and spent the rest of the 20 minutes he was on doing absolutely nothing other than heading the ball aimlessly. Man of the match? Hyperbole.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Sign up to remove this ad.
  • Replies 3.9k
  • Created
  • Last Reply
22 minutes ago, Dan said:

As you've said previously, it's all symptomatic of this obsession the media have (and that the fans have completely swallowed) of trying to turn the whole thing into some big soap opera.

Another example of it today was Crouch getting man of the match for our game. He's come on and scored a header, unmarked, and spent the rest of the 20 minutes he was on doing absolutely nothing other than heading the ball aimlessly. Man of the match? Hyperbole.

Exactly it has gotten to a point where football itself is only a minor part of the way football is delivered to the public. 

If you tallied up the ratio of talk about how teams press, what combinations they tried to create, how they did their build-up, what kind of movements they made (basically, the actual football) and compared it to talk about transfers, mentality, attitude, managers, foreigners, knowing the league, sackings and mind-games (aka vacuous shite) it would probably be very depressing reading. 

And as you said, the fans swallow it up so we get the media we deserve. The vicious cycle continues of Sky et al responding to the increasingly idiotic tastes of the fans who are themselves being increasingly dumbed-down. 

Edit: even when Sky try and whip out the stats it's inevitably some insanely basic figure taken wildly out of context meant to either paint a player in a vastly unrealistic light, or to prove what can be easily seen. 

Or they're comparing players "Aggressivness" stats out of 20 from FM. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Administrator

Spurs struggling to make any clear cut chances here. lots of crosses in to the box but Palace defending strongly.

Palace should have had a penalty when Gazzaniga nearly took Sakho's head off. Dann had a good header saved by him though just now.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

Nice to see Wenger actually mix it up, but at the expense of Lacazette and to play Coquelin? I think he has gone far to defensive with the midfield here.

Although he has been brilliant in a back 3 this season I do worry about Monreal in a two. I think we are going to struggle...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

Sign up or subscribe to remove this ad.


×
×
  • Create New...