Who Will it be?

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

So are you suggesting the media is reporting the truth?

It's all relative, I take anything reported by the media with a pinch of salt

I take anything spoken by Trump to be either a conscious lie, simple misinformation because he doesn't know what the truth is or just another exercise in grandiosity.

[Niall_Quinn]

The establishment that's so establishment it's not actually in power

What Australians have to say is seldom of any interest to me but Bill Turnbull hit the nail on the head when he says a politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

Which is only relevant if the goal is to complain. So therefore, irrelevant.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Which is only relevant if the goal is to complain. So therefore, irrelevant.

The goal is to try and create a media that is pliant and only reports on him favourably, and it's unlikely to succeed

[Niall_Quinn]

The goal is to try and create a media that is pliant and only reports on him favourably, and it's unlikely to succeed

Styxenhammer666 (IIRC) is a decent enough place to start on US politics. Just ignore the satanic stuff, each to his own.

But Wenger was the main point anyway, he's delusional as far as I can see.

[Niall_Quinn]

His main reaction is disappointment?

What happened to anger?

That's the problem.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I thought all of them did pretty well really, although with Moh it was more of a performance as usual. DT was on his best manners but made a coherent case. Claude got the question in about Rooney's dive which was the best moment of the interview and Troopz reminded the media that fans wot aren't posh are still entitled to follow the game. Neville's fake offence to the idea he manufactured himself that he wasn't a fan was far more hammed up than Troopz down to earth effort. Moh was Moh. Robbie could easily do a job on Sky too. People have to admit, he's brought his channel a long way in a relatively short time.

I think Robbie has done an exceptional job, he is very good at playing devils advocate to get the kind of responses from his regulars (the old hold up, hold up). Arsenal fan TV is probably the most widely known Fan channel in the country. He was even invited onto BBC to do the FA cup predictions.

I don't know what his full time job is, but he is certainly very media savvy.

[Ernesto]

The media hounding of AW is unjustified. He treats them with dignity, turns up to difficult press conferences and answers frankly unlike some others who walk out, go monosyllabic

The beeb is as bad as the rest of them - always looking for the downside in AW, Ranieri, Trump etc and the upside in Blair and Obama

I want objective news not social media gossip


From the BBC have your say article on Wenger

[Niall_Quinn]

The media hounding of AW is unjustified. He treats them with dignity, turns up to difficult press conferences and answers frankly unlike some others who walk out, go monosyllabic

The beeb is as bad as the rest of them - always looking for the downside in AW, Ranieri, Trump etc and the upside in Blair and Obama

I want objective news not social media gossip


From the BBC have your say article on Wenger

Wenger has had an incredibly easy ride from the media for 20 years, maybe 19 because he had to undergo the "Wenger who" phase when he arrived. Even now most of them are queuing up to say he should stay because of all the things he did the in past. I'd call that the easiest and most comfortable of rides given the circumstances. But now, the end is near and Wenger is facing his final curtain. He did it his way and now he's facing the music. Of course they have to report on it and ask him tough questions. It's about bloody time really. We've had 13 years of softballs (I mean the questions not Wenger's players) in response to repeated failure to deliver. Any other manager would have been ripped to shreds by now. That doesn't make it right but the idea Wenger should continue to get an easy ride on the back of a repeat of last year's calamity at this stage of the season is similar to people saying he can't be criticised because he's done so much for the club. Pretty much what Neville was saying in the interview with Arsenal Fan TV. Surely a manager at a football club is judged by his ongoing performances? And with Wenger it has been a decade. When would be the right time to say hold on matey, what's going on here?

[Niall_Quinn]

Robbie and the lads top story on the Mail sports page. The article just goes to prove everything they were saying, it is a 100% one-sided piece in support of Neville and Wenger. There is a full transcript at the end but the headline and the copy in its entirety argues Neville's position and doesn't mention a word from any of the other 5 involved. Must be more of that media respect.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...al-Fan-TV.html

[Niall_Quinn]

February 20 Sutton United (A)
March 4 Liverpool (A)
March 7 Bayern Munich (H)
March 11 Leicester City (H)
March 18 West Brom (A)


Those 3 in bold could easily be loss, humiliation, loss and might be the final, final, final, final, final nail in his coffin. I bet we do Leicester a massive favour.