Why are the Media so Anti-Villa?

[dave.woodhall]

The quality of football journalism is very very poor, they can hardly string a coherant sentance together let alone come up with relevant opinion.
I dont read much of it, once i read some idiotic comment by one of them or see thier pathetic ramblings on Sky, I avoid them. It must be one of the easiest jobs on the planet, few of them are any good at it.

Try it if you think it's easy.

[hawkeye]

The quality of football journalism is very very poor, they can hardly string a coherant sentance together let alone come up with relevant opinion.
I dont read much of it, once i read some idiotic comment by one of them or see thier pathetic ramblings on Sky, I avoid them. It must be one of the easiest jobs on the planet, few of them are any good at it.

Try it if you think it's easy.

Why would I want to?

[dave.woodhall]

The quality of football journalism is very very poor, they can hardly string a coherant sentance together let alone come up with relevant opinion.
I dont read much of it, once i read some idiotic comment by one of them or see thier pathetic ramblings on Sky, I avoid them. It must be one of the easiest jobs on the planet, few of them are any good at it.

Try it if you think it's easy.

Why would I want to?

To prove yourself right, maybe?

[The Situation]

Getting up at 10AM, then mooching off down to a Starbucks whilst typing on your Macbook Air for a few hours writing about the sport you love whilst sipping on skinny latte's looking very important. Bliss.

[dave.woodhall]

Getting up at 10AM, then mooching off down to a Starbucks whilst typing on your Macbook Air for a few hours writing about the sport you love whilst sipping on skinny latte's looking very important. Bliss.

Evening, Oliver.

[Sexual Ealing]

The quality of football journalism is very very poor, they can hardly string a coherant sentance together let alone come up with relevant opinion.
I dont read much of it, once i read some idiotic comment by one of them or see thier pathetic ramblings on Sky, I avoid them. It must be one of the easiest jobs on the planet, few of them are any good at it.

Try it if you think it's easy.

Why would I want to?

You're right not to want to. It'd be like Simon Weston auditioning for Hollyoaks.

[Holy Trinity]

i would love to be paid to write about the sport i love BUT! what i would hate is my editor breathing down my neck about what should and should not be said. making you fill page after page with soft news about the latest flavour off the month club, or media darling manage. rather than relevant storys. there are those that seem to revel in it, such as holt. there are those who seemingly dont ( different format )soccer am, who find the media frenzy around beckham to spurs as pathetic as we do.
People delude themselves into believing we have a free press and journalists write what they truly think but i think if you sit back and think about it you realise they are puppets whos masters are seldom seen
investigative journalism seems to be restricted these days to finding out what bog gorge michael like to visit.

[The Situation]

i would love to be paid to write about the sport i love BUT! what i would hate is my editor breathing down my neck about what should and should not be said. making you fill page after page with soft news about the latest flavour off the month club, or media darling manage. rather than relevant storys. there are those that seem to revel in it, such as holt. there are those who seemingly dont ( different format )soccer am, who find the media frenzy around beckham to spurs as pathetic as we do.
People delude themselves into believing we have a free press and journalists write what they truly think but i think if you sit back and think about it you realise they are puppets whos masters are seldom seen
investigative journalism seems to be restricted these days to finding out what bog gorge michael like to visit.

Pretty much this.

Man United fans want to be told Alex Ferguson is the greatest manager of all time.

Chelsea fans want to be told how they're still good enough to win the league.

Man City fans want to be told why spending £27 million on Edin Dzeko is going to win them the league.

Spurs fans want to be told they can go far in the Champions League.

Liverpool fans want to be told... ah, forget it.

That's the sort of thing which will sells the papers. Nothing too controversial most of the time, just the same repetitive droan. Just provide the biggest consumers with what they want to hear to massage their ego. So simple yet so effective.

I've got loads of time off at the moment, I'd be willing to give it a go. Hook me up with a Macbook and supply me with all the skinny latte's in the world. It'll be a blast!

[Sexual Ealing]

i would love to be paid to write about the sport i love BUT! what i would hate is my editor breathing down my neck about what should and should not be said. making you fill page after page with soft news about the latest flavour off the month club, or media darling manage. rather than relevant storys. there are those that seem to revel in it, such as holt. there are those who seemingly dont ( different format )soccer am, who find the media frenzy around beckham to spurs as pathetic as we do.
People delude themselves into believing we have a free press and journalists write what they truly think but i think if you sit back and think about it you realise they are puppets whos masters are seldom seen
investigative journalism seems to be restricted these days to finding out what bog gorge michael like to visit.

Pretty much this.

Man United fans want to be told Alex Ferguson is the greatest manager of all time.

Chelsea fans want to be told how they're still good enough to win the league.

Man City fans want to be told why spending £27 million on Edin Dzeko is going to win them the league.

Spurs fans want to be told they can go far in the Champions League.

Liverpool fans want to be told... ah, forget it.

That's the sort of thing which will sells the papers. Nothing too controversial most of the time, just the same repetitive droan. Just provide the biggest consumers with what they want to hear to massage their ego. So simple yet so effective.

I've got loads of time off at the moment, I'd be willing to give it a go. Hook me up with a Macbook and supply me with all the skinny latte's in the world. It'll be a blast!

The implication is that somehow Villa fans don't want any of the above?

Well, after reading this thread then it's clear that we do.

So, either you think that somehow Villa fans are inherently better than other fans (which would be wrong, and scary); or you've JUST GONE AND IGNORED THE VILLA, JUST LIKE ALL THE PRESS! LOOK AT US, LOOK AT US, SAY OUR NAME! VILLA! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE...VILLA!

Or you could grow up.

[The Situation]

Where's the implication?

We all say the media couldn't care less about us, it's pretty much true. Even when we make our record signing they still find a way to be negative about us!

Lets be honest, those six teams I mentioned are only in the best intrests of the papers and media in general. Those are the clubs that are going to be making the headlines. Why? Because they have the most fans hence more papers will be sold. Easy stories = easy $$$

Not quite sure where I've implied that we're better than anyone else. So by saying that those six teams are more relevant than us in the media and in general, it somehow means in some sort of strange way it means I'm being snobby and pretenious?

Pah! I'm off to grow up and become a Man United fan. Cya later Vilers!

[Dave Cooper please]

The quality of football journalism is very very poor, they can hardly string a coherant sentance together let alone come up with relevant opinion.
I dont read much of it, once i read some idiotic comment by one of them or see thier pathetic ramblings on Sky, I avoid them. It must be one of the easiest jobs on the planet, few of them are any good at it.

Try it if you think it's easy.

Why would I want to?

The £400,000 one of them is getting as mentioned earlier?

[Rip Van We Go Again]

The quality of football journalism is very very poor, they can hardly string a coherant sentance together let alone come up with relevant opinion.
I dont read much of it, once i read some idiotic comment by one of them or see thier pathetic ramblings on Sky, I avoid them. It must be one of the easiest jobs on the planet, few of them are any good at it.

Try it if you think it's easy.

Why would I want to?

The £400,000 one of them is getting as mentioned earlier?

Saying 'Try it if you think it's easy' answers nothing.
On that basis we shouldn't criticise the Goverment unless 'We can do any better.'

[Deano58]

[[/quote]
Pretty much this.

Man United fans want to be told Alex Ferguson is the greatest manager of all time.

Chelsea fans want to be told how they're still good enough to win the league.

Man City fans want to be told why spending £27 million on Edin Dzeko is going to win them the league.

Spurs fans want to be told they can go far in the Champions League.

Liverpool fans want to be told... ah, forget it.

That's the sort of thing which will sells the papers. Nothing too controversial most of the time, just the same repetitive droan. Just provide the biggest consumers with what they want to hear to massage their ego. So simple yet so effective.

I've got loads of time off at the moment, I'd be willing to give it a go. Hook me up with a Macbook and supply me with all the skinny latte's in the world. It'll be a blast!
[/quote]

As A Manchester City fan I agree with this except that there is actually another side to it. For example, fans not only like to see their own temas getting praised but fans of all  the other teams want to see their opponents getting slagged off. So if you write an article saying how great, say Edin Dzeko is, then you please the City fans. However, if you write an article saying how shit he is and what a waste of money, you please fans of United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Villa, arsenal etc etc. so there's more mileage in doing that. Hence all the shit we've endured for doing exactly what United and Chelsea have been doing for years. Anyway, beware, if you sign top players, that's what you get.

[D.boy]

I'm starting to get tired of us getting slagged off for spending a large amount on Bent. We are being portrayed as the bad guys yet did the press slate £iteh for taking Barry & Milner off us, course not. Bollocks to the lot of em.

[Deano58]

I'm starting to get tired of us getting slagged off for spending a large amount on Bent. We are being portrayed as the bad guys yet did the press slate £iteh for taking Barry & Milner off us, course not. Bollocks to the lot of em.

er..yes...with a vengeance !