How Jurgen Klopp saved us from the Super League…
Date published: Thursday 22nd April 2021 11:38 - Editor F365
Those of you thinking that a massive fan backlash brought down the Super League are mistaken; it was all Jurgen Klopp. Oh and Edward Woodward is a victim in all this too.
Omission possible
‘British Super League secretly planned with Celtic and Rangers joining Premier League giants Man Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea’ –
The Sun Online.
(and all the other Premier League teams too, not just the ones whose fans still read The Sun).
Over at the
Daily Mirror website, they know that Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp are their bread and butter, so when
At least one tired old Jose Mourinho tactic still works…
Date published: Monday 12th April 2021 12:32 - Editor F365
Jose Mourinho does not dominate in quite the same way as when he first graced the Premier League. But one tactic works better than ever.
The long con
Mediawatch is under no impression that the biggest story emerging from Sunday evening was anything other than
Jose Mourinho’s post-match comments on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. They were specifically designed to be so; ever since he started managing in the Premier League in 2004 the Portuguese has fully mastered the art of deflecting attention away from losses with headline-grabbing quotes that he knows certain influential outlets will trip over themselves trying to sensationalise further.
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The Sun as an example:
‘Liverpool are back in business and Spurs are all over the shop.’
Or Martin Samuel’s final flourish for the
Daily Mail:
‘Liverpool are back. Tottenham, we cannot know.’
Then you look at the actual Premier League table to see Liverpool four points ahead of Tottenham, having played a game more. But they are definitely, absolutely, irrefutably ‘back’. In fourth.
By the scuff of the neck
Samuel takes strange exception to Liverpool’s first goal otherwise, namely Sadio Mane’s ‘horribly scuffed cross’.
‘Just as bad balls take wickets, not every cross has to have laser accuracy. Mane’s poorly hit centre initially seemed so tame that Tottenham’s defensive pair looked reluctant to lower themselves by actually dealing with it.’
Sean Dyche called it “just two managers fighting for their teams, wanting to win a game”.
But how does Charlie Wyett of
The Sun refer to the tunnel incident between the pair at Anfield on Thursday evening, knowing full well no-one on Merseyside will actually read it?
‘Liverpool’s manager turned into a gibbering, finger-jabbing nutter’
Delightful.
Case for the defence
Wyett’s piece is otherwise largely fair enough, aside from a strange point about a backline that was only breached by an Ashley Barnes penalty.
‘It is not a surprise that they have struggled defensively due to the rotten luck they have suffered with injuries.’