Author Topic: Sky Sports (Read 315807 times)

sinnermichael · « **Reply #80 on:** July 7, 2011, 11:14:08 am »

Quote from: ghost1359 on July 6, 2011, 02:13:05 pm

I value charlie nicholas opinion. Although he's an Arsenal fan he's usually pretty fair & will call it how he sees it

oh dear

ghost1359 · « **Reply #81 on:** July 7, 2011, 11:17:50 am »

Thank you for your well thought out & reasoned response. Your contribution to this conversation has been extremely valuable.

.adam · « **Reply #82 on:** July 7, 2011, 11:34:36 am »

I can't bring myself to watch it. When I visit my mate down south he has it on all the time in the background and I make him switch it off.

I don't see as much of a sinister undertone as others on here. In my mind, it's just full of sensationalist bollocks designed to glue idiots to their screens as they think an 'exclusive' is set to break. More viewers means more advertising revenue. Ultimately, this leads to more profit for Murdoch and co.

They say sex sells, so too does football transfer gossip.

Bud P Austin · « **Reply #83 on:** July 7, 2011, 11:48:39 am »

SSN only covered Keys' & Gray's humiliation after the sacking. Not a whiff of it before hand, even though every other media outlet was bingeing with it. That was utterly shameful for any news channel, let alone one ostensibly dedicated to sport. Reminded me of Pravda. Even the BBC report on their public slappings (e.g the Greg Dyke business).

Just imagine, for once, they could have had a genuine "Sky source" "understand(ing)" the facts...

Mark Walters · « **Reply #84 on:** July 7, 2011, 11:57:01 am »

You hate everything about it EXCEPT for Natalie Sawyer? She's a reason to hate it, the fuckin moose!

But of course there are other reasons all of which have probably been mentioned already and are in all likelihood entirely justified!

AlphaDelta · « **Reply #85 on:** July 7, 2011, 12:06:59 pm »

It gets turned on of a morning before work, but if that annoying fooking whooper Jim White is on, it gets turned off. Is there really any need for him to bellow instead of talking normally, "SKY SPORTS UNDERSTANDS, YES UNDERSTANDS, THAT NANI, YES THATS NANI, WAS SEEN GOING INTO GREGGS THE BAKERS IN PICCADILLY STATION, POSSIBLY FOR A PASTY AND CAN OF TANGO.....WELL WHAT ABOUT THAT THEN EH?"

Another thing that riles me is that load of shite on a Sunday morning, 'Sunday Supplement', a table full of journo's eating toast and drinking tea whilst wanking over Chelsea!

ghost1359 · « **Reply #86 on:** July 7, 2011, 12:09:55 pm »

Some of the conversation that comes up during sunday supplement is quite interesting to be fair. It's the same as any show though isn't it? Sometimes you'll get people with an opinion worth listening to & other times you'll get a table full of wankers. Take it as it comes.

INABITSKI · « **Reply #87 on:** July 7, 2011, 01:19:49 pm »

Quote from: BMW on July 7, 2011, 09:57:30 am

It's just basically a ride around the French countryside, tuff my asre.

Paul JH · « **Reply #88 on:** July 7, 2011, 01:28:45 pm »

Quote from: Mark Walters on July 7, 2011, 11:57:01 am

You hate everything about it EXCEPT for Natalie Sawyer? She's a reason to hate it, the fuckin moose!

Yeah, she's clearly been beaten with the ugly stick ... er? You have to understand, I'm unbleivably shallow and a tight top and cleavage is all it takes.

They cut to White Hart Lane yesterday, about Modric, and prefaced it with 'HUGE developments in the Modric saga ... lets get the latest news' and all it was was that he was at White Hart Lane talking to Levy. THEN, this morning, they had a report with a 'Modric Timeline!' about the 'events' of yesterday. The fucking plebs.

Mark Walters · « **Reply #89 on:** July 7, 2011, 02:00:39 pm »

Each to his own Paul, but I don't find her even slightly attractive, cleavage or not!

Now Millie on the other hand...!

doc_antonio · « **Reply #90 on:** July 7, 2011, 02:03:54 pm »

Can i ask for the people who dont watch skysports where do you get your football information from? websites etc.

i actually dont mind it but i wouldnt mind a few more websites were i dont have to hear the same thing over and over again just worded differently

INABITSKI · « **Reply #91 on:** July 7, 2011, 02:05:23 pm »

Quote from: doc_antonio on July 7, 2011, 02:03:54 pm

Can i ask for the people who dont watch skysports where do you get your football information from? websites etc.

i actually dont mind it but i wouldnt mind a few more websites were i dont have to hear the same thing over and over again just worded differently

RAWK! With the amount of people who use this place there is always someone who has the latest news and confirmations to be able to log on here and keep up with the latest stuff.

doc_antonio · « **Reply #92 on:** July 7, 2011, 02:09:24 pm »

Quote from: INABITSKI on July 7, 2011, 02:05:23 pm

RAWK! With the amount of people who use this place there is always someone who has the latest news and confirmations to be able to log on here and keep up with the latest stuff.

yes well apart from the obvious, im on everyday checking the latest stuff but im jus wondering where the people who post here get their news..

INABITSKI · « **Reply #93 on:** July 7, 2011, 02:11:50 pm »

Quote from: doc_antonio on July 7, 2011, 02:09:24 pm

yes well apart from the obvious, im on everyday checking the latest stuff but im jus wondering where the people who post here get their news..

BBC sports page on their website, other than that nothing else for me really.

Cruiser · « **Reply #94 on:** July 7, 2011, 02:21:43 pm »

Quote from: Mark Walters on July 7, 2011, 11:57:01 am

You hate everything about it EXCEPT for Natalie Sawyer? She's a reason to hate it, the fuckin moose!

Did she slap you on the face or something Mark?

Your ongoing hatred for her is disturbing. You're probably the sort of guy who jacks off to Paris Hilton.

Have a word with yourself.

R.A.La · « **Reply #95 on:** July 7, 2011, 02:50:10 pm »

Quote from: ghost1359 on July 7, 2011, 12:09:55 pm

Some of the conversation that comes up during sunday supplement is quite interesting to be fair. It's the same as any show though isn't it? Sometimes you'll get people with an opinion worth listening to & other times you'll get a table full of wankers. Take it as it comes.

It's bad enough seeing the shite they write, without seeing the wankers that wrote it.

ghost1359 · « **Reply #96 on:** July 7, 2011, 02:55:34 pm »

Quote from: R.A.La on July 7, 2011, 02:50:10 pm

It's bad enough seeing the shite they write, without seeing the wankers that wrote it.

Brace yourself because I get the feeling I'm about to rock your world.

Not every journalist is a wanker, some of them are worth listening to.

doc_antonio · « **Reply #97 on:** July 7, 2011, 02:59:23 pm »

Quote from: ghost1359 on July 7, 2011, 02:55:34 pm

Brace yourself because I get the feeling I'm about to rock your world.

Not every journalist is a wanker, some of them are worth listening to.

what is this blasphemy you speak of? they're all out to get us! the world is against us u must be a spy!

Mark Walters · « **Reply #98 on:** July 7, 2011, 04:22:31 pm »

Quote from: Cruiser on July 7, 2011, 02:21:43 pm

Did she slap you on the face or something Mark?

Your ongoing hatred for her is disturbing. You're probably the sort of guy who jacks off to Paris Hilton.

Have a word with yourself.

No hatred there, I just think the ongoing love for her is equally disturbing when she really is not very attractive at all. What sort of guy jacks off to Paris Hilton? Does anyone even find her attractive apart from her own reflection?

doc_antonio · « **Reply #99 on:** July 7, 2011, 04:23:31 pm »

Quote from: Mark Walters on July 7, 2011, 04:22:31 pm

No hatred there, I just think the ongoing love for her is equally disturbing when she really is not very attractive at all. What sort of guy jacks off to Paris Hilton? Does anyone even find her attractive apart from her own reflection?

her sex video isn't half bad... ill give her that..

RuncornRed25 · « **Reply #100 on:** July 7, 2011, 04:34:56 pm »

It was handy to have on freeview, ok theres a few tits on their (take that how you want

) but I bet you still watched it regularly all the same but you wouldnt look cool on here then would you?

Aido LFC · « **Reply #101 on:** July 7, 2011, 06:22:37 pm »

Soccer Saturday is the only good thing the rest of it is a sack of shite.

StevenLFC · « **Reply #102 on:** July 7, 2011, 09:05:50 pm »

They've bastardised the word 'news'. It should be called "Sky Sports Speculation With a Few Sports Results, Some Recycled Stories & the Odd Exclusive that Isn't Really Exclusive because the Press Association Released Aforementioned Exclusive First."

Billy The Kid · « **Reply #103 on:** July 7, 2011, 09:13:04 pm »

Quote from: Aido LFC on July 7, 2011, 06:22:37 pm

Soccer Saturday is the only good thing the rest of it is a sack of shite.

I like Jeff Stelling, I think he's a bit of a funny fucker. And I like Kris Camara. He's daft as a brush but funny as fuck as well

Thommo is ace, but Le Tissier, Merson, and Nicolas are fucking c*nts. If they fucked those 3 off and brought in some more funny characters it would be the best show on telly at the weekends.

Hij · « **Reply #104 on:** July 7, 2011, 09:24:37 pm »

Any channel that has the following swing of information is retarded.

AM: "SKY SOURCES SAY: Manchester United lodged a £20m bid for Samir Nasri last night so this transfer embargo is heating up! Manchester United aren't messing about with this one and have made a concrete offer to test the waters. Will Arsenal be inclined to accept it? Keep your eyes peeled to this channel, because you'll find out here first"

PM "SKY SOURCES TELL US: Arsenal are yet to receive a formal offer from Manchester United for Samir Nasri, so it looks like Manchester United and Alex Ferguson are playing a blinder and currently waiting it out so that the player can have crunch talks with Wenger first, which could reduce any price they have to pay if he submits a transfer request. Any result of that meeting will be made known to you here, FIRST, FAST, NOW"

And the bullshit "Transfer HD TV" changes from "Bid Made" to "Enquiry" for United, it's all rather pathetic. As a channel, the premise is right, and when I chat with my Evertonian mate we agree it must be rather hard to keep it interesting throughout a day, but it's just the willingness to run with info without verification to give the impression transfers deals are ebbing and flowing without bothering to check if there is an element of truth in it. Admittedly it's just as bad as all the newspapers going to print saying something is about to happen and it doesn't, I guess it's just you usually expect of a news channel, to provide, well, news.

Both of these stories, while not presented as fact, because it was only "Sky Sources" telling them, are both contradictory but put out there as "BREAKING NEWS" - when one of them had to be totally incorrect.

Edit: Infact when I think about it, the info is probably fed to them by people who are close to the deal and want to leverage popular opinion within the country one way or the other, or alert the player via the channel. And Sky Sports News is the bitch that just keeps bending over and taking it.

Anywhichwayicant · « **Reply #105 on:** July 7, 2011, 09:25:00 pm »

Quote from: Billy The Kid. on July 7, 2011, 09:13:04 pm

I like Jeff Stelling, I think he's a bit of a funny fucker. And I like Kris Camara. He's daft as a brush but funny as fuck as well

Thommo is ace, but Le Tissier, Merson, and Nicolas are fucking c*nts. If they fucked those 3 off and brought in some more funny characters it would be the best show on telly at the weekends.

Robbie Savage, Craig Bellamy and Roy Keane to replace them?

Dubit10 · « **Reply #106 on:** July 7, 2011, 09:28:55 pm »

As a rule i don't watch or read anything produced by news corp so i have no idea. Just a personal preference.

Solomon Grundy · « **Reply #107 on:** July 7, 2011, 09:33:53 pm »

Paul Walsh and Scott Minto on Soccer Saturday are sound. And what the hell happened to old Frank McLintock? He was good aswell.

Anywhichwayicant · « **Reply #108 on:** July 7, 2011, 10:13:23 pm »

Quote from: Mr Rossi on July 7, 2011, 09:33:53 pm

Paul Walsh and Scott Minto on Soccer Saturday are sound. And what the hell happened to old Frank McLintock? He was good aswell.

I detest this ballbag. The ultimate generic, rent a quote pundit.

Frank however was a top fella. Think he got the chop chop for some racist quote or something along the lines.

Torpedo Tommy · « **Reply #109 on:** July 7, 2011, 10:17:28 pm »

Quote from: Andy@Allerton on July 6, 2011, 02:10:03 pm

I think anything that publicises anything 'helps' mate.

If a referee sees a penalty that should have gone to Bolton Wanderers at the Reebok and they don't give it then no one cares. It is barely mentioned and it is soon forgotten.

If a referee sees a penalty for one of the Sky favoured clubs denied then they bang on about it. It becomes public domain. It is moved into the collective conciousness. Other media publications looking around for news mention it. Football fans see it and mention it. Football forums mention it. The official gets slandered and slagged off and hassled. This leads to future decisions being altered.

Influence is influence. Ferguson doesn't have to do anything because he has Sky doing it for him.

Same with the coverage of Carra's tackle on Nani. It was covered by Sky to the point of hysteria. This prompted fans to react. Websites to go into meltdown and other media sources to get on their soapboxes. This then led to the belief in the public domain that 'Manchester United are hard done to' and 'Liverpool get all the decisions'.

The latest shite from the Manchester United chairman (Or whatever he is) is just another way of getting this put into the public domain and collective conciousness. Decisions which are high profile are enacted differently from decisions which are low profile. Some referees seem to want a quiet life. Some want to avoid the limelight. Some make a point of being right up there and bloody minded.

But Influence is influence. Anything that makes any official at any point think about any decision differently than any other decision is wrong.

This is close to the truth in my opinion.

It's so much in tune with the shite the NoTW spit out it's untrue. Murdoch has made billions on giving the public what they want. Graphic, dramatised, immoral and personal info on people. The general public (as a whole - certainly not me) wish to read this dross. They want to hear this. That's why it sells.

SLYSports is no different. The majority of people, 20 years ago, wanted Liverpool dethroned and bad mouthed purely because of their success. They looked at United as the media's darling and a potential cash cow through the air Disaster and the catchment area.

That is why United are talked up to the hilt. Their fans are more plentiful and, through numbers, will buy more squarials.

Why the good looking lasses on SSN? Because no one wants to watch a Vanessa Phelps double spouting out news on transfers when Charlotte Jackson can? I know which I'd prefer! But seriously, I know Charlotte is a red and all that but is she that clued up on sport or is she just a good looking lass who reads a script to attract viewers?

It's all about what the majority want to see. I'm not sexist in the slightest. Just been mildly dubious for the last two decades.

Cruiser · « **Reply #110 on:** July 9, 2011, 06:04:44 pm »

If its ever worth watching, its now....Charlotte Jackson is on and looking fuckin wow

Solomon Grundy · « **Reply #111 on:** July 9, 2011, 06:10:06 pm »

Quote from: Anywhichwayucan on July 7, 2011, 10:13:23 pm

I detest this ballbag. The ultimate generic, rent a quote pundit.

Frank however was a top fella. Think he got the chop chop for some racist quote or something along the lines.

Each to their own I suppose, but I dont think he is half as bad some of the others. Shame about Frank though. He talked a lot of sense.

Fanxxxxtastic · « **Reply #112 on:** July 9, 2011, 06:24:11 pm »

SSN has always fucking annoyed me. Presenters, style of presentation you name it. Even Soccer Saturday has become a fucking 5 hour screamathon, so can't be arsed with that.

What has seriously got right up my ring piece over the past few weeks, has been their special reporting from Wimbledon, but most of all, it's been Sky's coverage leading up to the British GP this week. I don't know, but I get the feeling they're trying to seriously tap into that market with their quite OTT coverage of events they haven't got. At one time, if Sky weren't covering it, they'd practically ignore it news wise, as if it wasn't even going on.

It wouldn't surprise me if they managed to get total control of BSkyB, that they would try and get all the major sporting events. I know some events are protected, but it wouldn't surprise me if they tried to find a way around it. Of course, that may be more difficult under the current atmosphere.

Of course, a lot of the premier sporting are shown on the BBC at present, and with Sky's hatred of it, and everything it stands for, they'd love to get them.

DanJay87 · « **Reply #113 on:** July 9, 2011, 06:49:53 pm »

Anyone remember this god awful promo?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/YSc10RVyYKw?version=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/YSc10RVyYKw?version=3</a>

Jim White you tit