Boycotting the meeja

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The match report of last night's Leeds versus Arsenal FA Cup tie which appears above is written by the Guardian's football correspondent, Kevin McCarra. It's accurate, balanced and elegantly done – in the usual tradition of our football reporting. Except in one respect: McCarra wasn't at the match. We are banned from Elland Road.

According to a club spokesman: "The chairman will not accredit you. He won't let you in. You are banned. Indefinitely." These are the words of Ken Bates and inside Leeds United his word is law. (The Grauniad)

Meanwhile Alex Ferguson continues to refuse to give post-match interviews to the BBC because they had the temerity to suggest that his son might be less than totally scrupulous despite outraged tut-tutting from the Premier League and the League Managers Association.

What a pair of mammary glands

 

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... If Fergie was blanking out all media then that is an issue since he's a public figure. He's just blanking out one organisation, and for ffs, we're in the information age and more than one channel covers the football. ...

Remind me which "other" TV channel covers football and doesn't carry endless adverts for on-line gambling, or Ford, or McDonalds or inflatable friends for the socially inadequate

All Managers complain that referees are incompetent and biased; Ferguson just happens to be one of the most vocal and personally, I would like to hear his actual words and watch his apoplectic fit on MOTD rather than read all about it in next day's paper

No, it's not. The league sells media rights and shares the money between the clubs. In return, the clubs have to deal with the press accordingly. ...

Yes, that's what I thought

 

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... So the BBC did a documentary about something that was unproven. ...

I am amazed that Ferguson (or Ferguson Jr. with Daddy's dough) didn't sue the BBC for libel . . . perhaps they didn't want the case to go to court for some obscure reason, I wonder what that might be

Incidentally, I believe that Man. Utd. ended all contacts with Jason Ferguson's "Elite" management company round about the same time as the BBC programme . . . I wonder if there migfht be any connection

With the publication of Manchester United's internal review of recent transfer deals imminent, a BBC THREE investigation raises serious new questions about the business relationship between the club and Sir Alex Ferguson's football agent son, Jason.

Focusing on two of the transfer deals highlighted by the much documented '99 questions' produced by United's largest shareholders earlier this year, the programme, Fergie And Son reveals a series of key findings. (BBC Press Office LINK)

I still maintain that Ken Bates and Alex Ferguson are a right pair of mammary glands

 

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Because that's the media for you - the damage is done when the story is printed/shown. It's not like "innocent until proven guilty" is ever adhered to in this country, whether it's the populace or certain parts of the law. ...

I guess that a fairly effective way to disprove false allegations is to contest them. Ferguson didn't actually do this did he? However, he has certainly done a cracking job of moving on and burying the BBC's story hasn't he?

... The BBC ... got burned for [running an unproven story]. ...

You mean they "got burned" by Ferguson throwing a six year long sulk


As with you, Bates and the Guardian, I entirely applaud the boycott by Liverpool FC fans of Murdoch's God-awful rag The Sun following Kelvin Mackenzie's slander of them over Hillsborough

 

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... If there was enough evidence shown in the programme, the FA would have pursued it ...

Yeah, right, of course they would

... clearly SAF isn't [happy with a programme based on "what ifs" and "maybes"], and he's perfectly entitled to be. ...

Alex Ferguson is certainly perfectly entitled to be unhappy about the allegations made about his son.

As I understand it, even the toothless FA don't agree that he is perfectly entitled to boycott the BBC, as a result of which they periodically impose nominal fines on him and tell him that he is being very naughty and silly. That is about all they are prepared to say or do about the Saintly (but wildly temperamental) Alex Ferguson

 

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it does have some uses (sorry if a repost)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...le-linesman-Apprentice-star-Karren-Brady.html

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01_04/sky.mp3

hopefully bye bye to both of them

Sky Sports presenters Andy Gray and Richard Keys were at the centre of a sexism row last night after they questioned whether a female linesman knew the offside rule during a Premier League football match.
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Mr Gray, a former Scottish international footballer, replied: ‘Can you believe that? A female linesman. Women don’t know the offside rule.’ Mr Keys replied: ‘Course they don’t. (The Daily Wail)

It's good to see the barmy Daily Wail take a stand on sexism

As to the ageing Sky Sports dinosaurs Gray & Keys - they don't think it's all over - it will be soon