If anybody needs any evidence of the way the football media work against us, look no further than the BBC, the bastion of objective reporting. Remember, the BBC is a national institution, paid for by the tax payer, for the tax payer. Looking over their pages you will see
more talk of
another bid for Bale, a full on advertisement for their new Adidas Kit and an apologist article on Di Maria's move to PSG; no mention of how a top player, the biggest buy in the PL, couldn't make it in such an average team or the thought that he went AWOL.
Compare and contrast to today's piece on our game yesterday. The
'Blue Moon Falling' article, listed on their front page goes some way to give an insight into how they work. A very single minded article written by a one of the BBCs Blog writers, with only one affiliation - to be a Rag. In his time, Shamoon Hafez has written about Taggart's 25 years in charge as well as other greats where he is asked to comment on all things Rag with
this exclusive interview on Offside Liam.
So what, you ask? We played shit and deserved to get such an headline on the BBC. But did we?
I thought I'd do a comparison with what had been reported about the PSG v Rag game, one that I only knew had been played because Sky Sports News managed to mention it in passing before showing endless trails of Louis Van Butthead talking about De Gea and Di Maria, 2 of their very best players who actually want to leave the club. But could I find it, to see what they had to say about the World's Bestest club, losing to the French upstarts? Could I hell! It was only when I accidentally clicked on an article with the headline
De Gea: Louis Van Gaal says keeper saga 'not favourable' that I found the full extent of how the 650,000,000 fans around the world are informed of what's going on at the Rags. That's right, nothing made of it and buried within the so called 'Bigger' story.
This is just one example of how a supposedly impartial media outlet has took the line that it's important to keep the biggest audiences happy while using negative articles against the not so big to placate the same fans.
If this is how the BBC operate, is it any wonder why we see what we do from the commercial enterprises?