Guardian comments on last night ...
-
- Posts: 4948
- Joined: Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:31 pm
- Been Liked: 2307 times
- Has Liked: 1033 times
- Location: Ightenhill,Burnley
Guardian comments on last night ...
Well over 1,100 comments on last night's match report, of which only about 35 even mention Burnley .... I wonder why it has a reputation for being the paper of the trendy, London, metropolitan liberal elite
-
- Posts: 25445
- Joined: Sat Mar 26, 2016 12:46 am
- Been Liked: 6930 times
- Has Liked: 11660 times
- Location: Leeds
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
To be fair, 95% of people who comment know Jack all about football.
This user liked this post: LeadBelly
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
Arsenal are a big club with a huge fanbase. Law of averages would say they'd have a lot more fans commenting.
These 2 users liked this post: evensteadiereddie Bainsyclaret
-
- Posts: 3274
- Joined: Thu Jan 21, 2016 9:07 am
- Been Liked: 838 times
- Has Liked: 1044 times
- Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
It’s in our/your hands to remedy this, we get outnumbered by opposition supporters in all media comments.
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
No-one likes us, we don't care! UTC
This user liked this post: Woodleyclaret
-
- Posts: 1452
- Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2016 11:41 pm
- Been Liked: 469 times
- Has Liked: 434 times
- Location: Sector 7G
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
Not sure it's anything to do with the Guardian, it's exactly the same on the comments of the Sky Sports Youtube highlights.
-
- Posts: 5582
- Joined: Thu Jan 21, 2016 4:25 pm
- Been Liked: 1208 times
- Has Liked: 7099 times
- Location: Chiang Rai, Thailand.
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
I would hope that our fans have sufficient good taste not to read the Guardian.
These 9 users liked this post: FactualFrank Bosscat RingoMcCartney NewClaret bobinho MT03ALG tim_noone KateR Clarets4me
-
- Posts: 595
- Joined: Thu Feb 16, 2017 9:24 am
- Been Liked: 139 times
- Has Liked: 183 times
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
Ah the Guardian 'Soft, strong and very long'
-
- Posts: 13225
- Joined: Tue Dec 31, 2019 9:51 am
- Been Liked: 3037 times
- Has Liked: 3759 times
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
To be fair, I was surprised to get some nice comments from Evra/Souness.
Switched on Radio 5Live and someone commenting said they thought Sheffield United had to catch Brighton because they thought “Burnley had enough”. Not sure who it was but nice to hear some positivity from outside our ranks.
Switched on Radio 5Live and someone commenting said they thought Sheffield United had to catch Brighton because they thought “Burnley had enough”. Not sure who it was but nice to hear some positivity from outside our ranks.
-
- Posts: 2043
- Joined: Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:49 pm
- Been Liked: 801 times
- Has Liked: 26 times
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
The Guardian sometimes uses big words so I understand why some of our fans are put off by it.
These 4 users liked this post: evensteadiereddie keith1879 tim_noone dougcollins
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
Nothing to do with being London or liberal. If we'd beaten Man United the posts would all be about Man United. People are interested in the "big six", especially when they don't win; they have little interest in Burnley.Clarets4me wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 11:23 amWell over 1,100 comments on last night's match report, of which only about 35 even mention Burnley .... I wonder why it has a reputation for being the paper of the trendy, London, metropolitan liberal elite
Anyway, Arsenal had a man sent off and Arsenal scored the goal. What did we do?
These 2 users liked this post: Bosscat MT03ALG
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
The Grauniad readers would get on OK on here with all the typos etcclaret2018 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 12:28 pmThe Guardian sometimes uses big words so I understand why some of our fans are put off by it.
-
- Posts: 4077
- Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2016 1:32 pm
- Been Liked: 1104 times
- Has Liked: 709 times
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
The Guardian has nothing to do with metropolitan elite - it has no shareholders or billionaire owner, meaning their journalism is mainly free from bias and vested interests.
It’s free online too - don’t knock it
It’s free online too - don’t knock it
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
It's not a competition, we already won the ony one that matters.
This user liked this post: MT03ALG
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
Always the same. How can they possibly lose to that lot? Never much credit from these entitled Metropolitan types. Souness put them right.
No doubt they have forgotten we outplayed them at the Turf last season
No doubt they have forgotten we outplayed them at the Turf last season
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
Hmm. Its certainly isnt free from bias BUT its football coverage is among the best.SalisburyClaret wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 1:49 pmThe Guardian has nothing to do with metropolitan elite - it has no shareholders or billionaire owner, meaning their journalism is mainly free from bias and vested interests.
It’s free online too - don’t knock it
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
Unless its tongue in cheek I would say that comment reeks of arrogance.claret2018 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 12:28 pmThe Guardian sometimes uses big words so I understand why some of our fans are put off by it.
-
- Posts: 4178
- Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2016 11:07 am
- Been Liked: 1002 times
- Has Liked: 2044 times
- Location: North Hampshire
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
I started reading the Graun circa 1965 - it was the go-to paper for northern reasonably educated left-leaning folk.SalisburyClaret wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 1:49 pmThe Guardian has nothing to do with metropolitan elite - it has no shareholders or billionaire owner, meaning their journalism is mainly free from bias and vested interests.
It’s free online too - don’t knock it
Read the hard ciopy for decades but, like the Labour Party, in the last 5+ years became hugely the paper for the "Metropolitan Elite" woke left. I continued buying Fri and Saturday editions - for the sports and crosswords- until this summer when its bias became too much for me.
If you read the Below The Line comments online it's apparent that the people there are not a cross section of British folk but a very one-sided bunch- just as much as Mail readers are in their way.
The recent resignation of Suzanne Moore (for, in her opinion, being censored/bullied because she wouldnt exactly toe-the-party-line, tells the story).
This user liked this post: Stayingup
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
For balance, I thought I would look at the comments at the end of the match report in the voice of the northern working class, the Mail. 1200 or so comments, Out of the hundred or so I scanned I noticed only a couple about Burnley. Most were from upset Gooners or Spurs etc. fans taking the Michael. My analysis is that this is not just a Guardian thing.
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
Also quite small type and relatively few pictures.claret2018 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 12:28 pmThe Guardian sometimes uses big words so I understand why some of our fans are put off by it.
This user liked this post: KateR
-
- Posts: 16689
- Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2016 4:37 pm
- Been Liked: 6903 times
- Has Liked: 1471 times
- Location: Leeds
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
It's almost as if there are significantly more Arsenal fans than Burnley fans. Weird.
-
- Posts: 25697
- Joined: Sat Jun 24, 2017 9:43 pm
- Been Liked: 4644 times
- Has Liked: 9849 times
- Location: Glasgow
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
Went home with all 3 pointsdsr wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 12:48 pmNothing to do with being London or liberal. If we'd beaten Man United the posts would all be about Man United. People are interested in the "big six", especially when they don't win; they have little interest in Burnley.
Anyway, Arsenal had a man sent off and Arsenal scored the goal. What did we do?
-
- Posts: 9845
- Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2016 2:28 pm
- Been Liked: 2344 times
- Has Liked: 3164 times
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
I'll not put a "political" stamp on it: Times on Line has 218 comments at 3:30 pm today. Most are Arsenal fans, some "neutrals" - but not sure whether they just mean neither Arsenal of Burnley fans.RMutt wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 3:18 pmFor balance, I thought I would look at the comments at the end of the match report in the voice of the northern working class, the Mail. 1200 or so comments, Out of the hundred or so I scanned I noticed only a couple about Burnley. Most were from upset Gooners or Spurs etc. fans taking the Michael. My analysis is that this is not just a Guardian thing.
"Kubic rube" has posted: "Arsenal epitomize what happens when a football club becomes a toy in the business portfolio at the hand of an absentee landlord. You see something similar in Manchester United."
Several bemoan the absence of investment in the team. (Why does that sound familiar)?
I've asked what the Arsenal fans think of the fans that were among the 2,000 last night and left early. "Not be sold another ticket, ever." is the response from one.
UTC
-
- Posts: 13163
- Joined: Wed Jan 20, 2016 11:00 pm
- Been Liked: 5065 times
- Has Liked: 5124 times
- Location: Montpellier, France
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
Yes. The big words is tricky.claret2018 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 12:28 pmThe Guardian sometimes uses big words so I understand why some of our fans are put off by it.
-
- Posts: 8929
- Joined: Thu Jan 21, 2016 9:57 am
- Been Liked: 1986 times
- Has Liked: 2876 times
-
- Posts: 12345
- Joined: Sun Oct 30, 2016 2:43 pm
- Been Liked: 5202 times
- Has Liked: 920 times
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
When the usual suspects see the Gaurdian mentioned on UTC's
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
The woman who commented on the Burnley game on Sky Sports News last night is a former Arsenal player - she mentioned this a number of times - and had to be continually prompted by the show presenter that there was another team playing.
I understand how for the average football fan this result is mostly about the continuation of Arsenal's poor form but a reporter of the game should do just that - report.
Sky seem to have a policy of using people who tick certain boxes but in many cases are unable to perform the basics of describing what they are watching. Surely there are people that can do this?
I understand how for the average football fan this result is mostly about the continuation of Arsenal's poor form but a reporter of the game should do just that - report.
Sky seem to have a policy of using people who tick certain boxes but in many cases are unable to perform the basics of describing what they are watching. Surely there are people that can do this?
-
- Posts: 1452
- Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2016 11:41 pm
- Been Liked: 469 times
- Has Liked: 434 times
- Location: Sector 7G
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
The narrative regardless of platform is very rarely ever going to be about a team like Burnley. The Football Weekly podcast once managed to cover Burnley's 1-0 win over Everton (Hendrick scored) without mentioning us once, it was all about the trials and tribulations of Marco Silva.
Re: Guardian comments on last night ...
I get the Times every day and the sports journalists are second to none, but to echo one of the above posts, the reports when we play one of the big six quite frequently manage a full report without mentioning any players or the word Burnley.
Also, I love the Times on Saturday but week after week they preview the weekend matches and manage to avoid mentioning us at all!
Also, I love the Times on Saturday but week after week they preview the weekend matches and manage to avoid mentioning us at all!