Anti Spurs bias on BBC

[riggi]

Spurs will always let you down. The media are savvy to this now. when we start winning stuff then we will be talked about as one of the big boys.

 

[dynamoSpurs]

Tbh let them be against us!!

 

[KingKay]

 

[guiltyparty]

While I don't think there's a campaign against us, we're certainly woefully under represented.

So many "Spurs" pundits actually have their first love elsewhere. Jamie Redknapp & Souness are Liverpool, Lineker is Leicester (even Mullery is Fulham and Allen is QPR, so are very even handed)

Will people also stop listing Murphy as pro Spurs. He's just a very fair to everyone pundit. His allegiance overwhelmingly lies with Liverpool, as he makes clear time and again.

The fact that it seems so heavily Liverpool in the media is because most of them are one-club players, or their "real" club, and Liverpool were big at a time that is the right age for pundits. It's an old boy's club: Lawrenson, Hansen, Thompson, Carragher, Souness, Redknapp, Murphy, Owen, McManaman, Barnes, Hamann. You can pretty much pick a starting 11.

Littered with people who have a chip on their shoulder against us: Cundy, Le Tissier, Nicholas, Merson, etc. Bizarrely, the more sensible ex-Arsenal players are often the fairest: id rather listen to Dixon or Smith than fucking Jamie Redknapp, so affiliation with a club doesn't necessarily mean anything. It's just that all Ex Liverpool and Man U are absolutely besotted and one-eyed about their club.

Jenas and Pleat would be my duo of choice, of course, but even they are super balanced. Harry has actually become our chief cheerleader, usually as comic relief to the Liverpool pundits. Hoddle and Crooks are increasingly morphing into that weird guy in the corner of the pub who can't be trusted for money or sense

 

[Col_M]

Take a chill pill, who cares?

 

[Topeka]

The BBC are rank anti-Spurs: McNultty and co just love to stick it into us.
Them and the Daily Mirror/Sun love to let everyone know that we are transferring most of our team and the manager is going to Madrid. What a pack of hyenas!

 

[Buggsy61]

Can't get wound up about it to be honest, and lets face it Spurs do have a history of crashing in a heap at crunch times, so we should just get on with it and deliver, although I am sure Poch uses negative stuff from the so called "experts" to get the boys motivated - its classic psychology and it does work.
Savage is a clown and always has a dig. He always got a bad reception from us after his antics in the League Cup final in 99 and you can see he is a childish prick who bears grudges.
One thing is for sure there is a sickening pro Liverpool bias. They can seemingly get away with failure without the knocks that we get, Heysel has been airbrushed from their history and the merest suggestion that their fans might have had anything whatsoever to do with Hillsborough has that person cast down to hell for all eternity. They are all cheeky hearts of gold scousers, greatest fans in the world holding scarves aloft with you'll never work again bringing tears to our eyes and the hairs up on the back of our necks!

 

[Mullers]

If you want anti spurs bias and incompetence of the highest level you should have seen BT talking about us.

Scholes, Savage and Hargreaves, the latter thinks we need another Bale to win the league as we apparently don't have any world class players.

Scholes thinks we lack the bottle to win it and him and Savage think it will be us and Arsenal that finish outside of the top four because apparently the other teams are better than us both LOL.

Essentially they are going for Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City and Man United haha.

Even if they did say that I don't have a problem with it. Definitely if we had a special player like Bale it would improve us immensely.

We had a great chance to win the league last year and we couldn't get the job done, we haven't won anything at all in 9 years. We have a reputation for being legends. The other 5 clubs are bigger and richer than us, I'd expect people to bet against us.

It's upto the players to prove people wrong on the pitch and put the legends reputation in the past

 

[Mr Pink]

This sort of thing is silly imo, makes us sound small time.

However anyone who thinks we get the recognition we deserve in the media for our impressive progression, without an open cheque book I might add, is off their rocker.

The majority of the media/pundits have a hard time admitting that we're the real deal.

Bottom line is we're competing, and doing better, than Clubs who throw a lot more money at it than we do.

Not likely to be acknowledged though.

 

[neogenisis]

I noticed on last nights MOTD they were all spunking about Chelsea scoring goals without Costa, when it got to us Wrighty was the most positive, Chelsea scored 3 goals and are world beaters, Spurs stuff Brom 4-0 and we get a *playing* well.

 

[DIEHARD]

I don't know why people get so wound up by what they read and hear. I watch and read and I don't get anywhere near being wound up, maybe and perhaps it just doesn't register with me.

I read the same thing about referees and moans regarding decisions even in a 4 0 win.

We are starting to sound like the Scousers haha...

I've got news, the media, pundits, officials, teams, goalkeepers are not against us... They may not be for us but they're not against us.

 

[DIEHARD]

I noticed on last nights MOTD they were all spunking about Chelsea scoring goals without Costa, when it got to us Wrighty was the most positive, Chelsea scored 3 goals and are world beaters, Spurs stuff Brom 4-0 and we get a *playing* well.

With all due respect, do you want Ian Wright and Danny Murphy sucking our dicks? Why does it bother anyone how much praise we get. Maybe it's just me and that it doesn't resonate with me but I read the papers and go 'ok'

I'll take gabby logan definitely though,

 

[absolute bobbins]

Unfair to single out the BBC, Sky are for worse - for the second time in recent games they're blatantly trying to get one our players banned:

http://www.skysports.com/watch/vide...er-league/10729523/walker-lucky-to-escape-red

Where's the' Should Olsen have received four yellows?' post?

 

[philip]

While I don't think there's a campaign against us, we're certainly woefully under represented.

So many "Spurs" pundits actually have their first love elsewhere. Jamie Redknapp & Souness are Liverpool, Lineker is Leicester (even Mullery is Fulham and Allen is QPR, so are very even handed)

Will people also stop listing Murphy as pro Spurs. He's just a very fair to everyone pundit. His allegiance overwhelmingly lies with Liverpool, as he makes clear time and again.

The fact that it seems so heavily Liverpool in the media is because most of them are one-club players, or their "real" club. It's an old boy's club: Lawrenson, Hansen, Thompson, Carragher, Souness, Redknapp, Murphy, Owen, McManaman, Barnes.

Littered with people who have a chip on their shoulder against us: Cundy, Le Tissier, Nicholas etc. Bizarrely, ex-Arsenal players are often the fairest: id rather listen to Dixon or Smith than fucking Jamie Redknapp

Jenas and Pleat would be my duo of choice, of course. Hoddle and Crooks are increasingly morphing into that weird guy in the corner of the pub who can't be trusted for money or sense

Couldn't have said it better myself.

J Redknapp is the worst. Clearly has a massive issue with the club, probably over us firing his dad.

 

[CornerPinDreamer]

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We are starting to sound like the Scousers haha...

takes some doing but thats the worst thing you have ever posted

 

[For the love of Spurs]

Look until recently we where mid to upper mid table team, most of the pundits on Sky and BBC are ex Arsenal, United and Liverpool due to their clubs successes and those former players individual successes and inevitabley they will have some underlying bias, that's only natural. I rather we not get overhyped and go under the radar. Doesnt bother me.

The only thing that annoys me is the papers and their outdated perspective of us as a selling club, if you believe the tabloids half the team would have been sold by now. Our growth as a club and the massive TV deal has put paid to that old chestnut.

Let just do or thing and not get worried as to whether Carragher thinks this or Shearer thinks that.

 

[worcestersauce]

I don't think there is an intentional bias I just think things just don't occur to them, on Friday they said we were playing West Brom early game but no mention we could go second and I think they would have done with one of the others.
I don't lose any sleep over it though.

 

[guiltyparty]

Look until recently we where mid to upper mid table team, most of the pundits on Sky and BBC are ex Arsenal, United and Liverpool due to their clubs successes and those former players individual successes and inevitabley they will have some underlying bias, that's only natural. I rather we not get overhyped and go under the radar. Doesnt bother me.

The only thing that annoys me is the papers and their outdated perspective of us as a selling club, if you believe the tabloids half the team would have been sold by now. Our growth as a club and the massive TV deal has put paid to that old chestnut.

Let just do or thing and not get worried as to whether Carragher thinks this or Shearer thinks that.

It's the age of the people concerned. We've been changing from Liverpool-led pundits to Arse and now Man U/Chelsea becoming more prominent with Neville, Scholes etc as players have aged from their respective successful teams. Lawrenson/Thompson surely not got much longer in them, Hansen's already done the decent thing

Most of these pundits are British so over a long enough time line, if Spurs have continued success and keep the most British of teams, this will inevitably shift. But we need to dominate or at least be title challengers for a decade, not have a couple of good seasons. That's what these clubs did

 

[nailsy]

Really?

BBC report on arsenal on the same day writes that they returned to the top four but fails to mention that they would drop out of the top four if Liverpool and Man City win (by any score, not 11 goals) on Sunday.

But the reports were written by different people, one of whom was probably trying to fill up his word count. There's also a good chance that the Man City preview was written before we'd played this weekend.

 

[Jody]

Both Henry and Redknapp were blown away by us yesterday and couldn't praise us highly enough. 2 more anti spurs pundits you couldn't find. Paranoid androids.