Football The 2010/2011 Season Thread

[tierk]

Great analytical piece on Torres...

Miguel Delaney: the trouble with Torres | News | eircom SportsHub

Worth the read.

 

[Embattle]

but but but........ remember the media reported you got a secret weapon surprise planned... how can you have so little faith. lol

Would it be some sort of granny weapon.

 

[Calaen]

Great analytical piece on Torres...

Miguel Delaney: the trouble with Torres | News | eircom SportsHub

Worth the read.

Sums it up nicely.

It's pointless being able to time your run to perfection if the player with the ball does not have the ability, nor inclanation to release it at the correct time.

 

[DaGaffer]

Great analytical piece on Torres...

Miguel Delaney: the trouble with Torres | News | eircom SportsHub

Worth the read.

SportsHub is one of mine btw. Miguel has actually written some really good articles for us.

 

[tierk]

SportsHub is one of mine btw. Miguel has actually written some really good articles for us.

Certainly knows what he is talking about.

When you say it is one of yours, what do you mean?

 

[Cerb]

SportsHub is one of mine btw. Miguel has actually written some really good articles for us.

Your not looking for freelancers by any chance are you? I can give references and writing samples......

And you're now allowed to hold my bad grammar on FH against me it doesn't count!

 

[tierk]

Excuse the apparent slowness of the brain on my part today it has been an extremely long and trying day

Your not looking for freelancers by any chance are you? I can give references and writing samples......

OoOops now i understand what this...

SportsHub is one of mine btw. Miguel has actually written some really good articles for us.

meant

 

[Cerb]

Well actually I was making that assumption that he works/manages/edits there, but I may be off base...

 

[DaGaffer]

Certainly knows what he is talking about.

When you say it is one of yours, what do you mean?

I currently run all of eircom's content development.

Your not looking for freelancers by any chance are you? I can give references and writing samples......

And you're now allowed to hold my bad grammar on FH against me it doesn't count!

Well, I'm actually working my notice at the moment; heading off back into e-commerce next month. Send your stuff over though because its always useful. Any experience writing about the GAA? eircom have just announced sponsorship of the Championship Football for the next 3 seasons so we'll be upweighting coverage on the site from now on. We've also got the onlinerights for the rugby world cup broadcasts so there may be something there. (I was actually going to look at general news content this year because its pretty lightweight currently, but I don't know if that will get followed up or not).

 

[Cerb]

My experience is mostly in regular news but cheers I'll give it a look and send some stuff over to them! (I do know some GAA, but since moving to the U.S. I've slipped a bit on it.)

 

[DaGaffer]

My experience is mostly in regular news but cheers I'll give it a look and send some stuff over to them! (I do know some GAA, but since moving to the U.S. I've slipped a bit on it.)

As a journo, what do you think of this? storyful

Its set up by Mark Little (ex-RTE). I'm quite intrigued by it but I'm not sure how a real journo would feel about it.

 

[Cerb]

As a journo, what do you think of this? storyful

Its set up by Mark Little (ex-RTE). I'm quite intrigued by it but I'm not sure how a real journo would feel about it.

Haha hard to be unbiased on it, when in a way it sort of threatens my job. Every now and again we will do surveys to see how people rate our broadcast/online content. A look through these always brings up numerous comments of "I want to see more citizen journalism".

Good points of this: In the recent revolutions in Egypt and Yemen, social media had a pretty big part to play. A lot of the people "on the ground" that we got information and guests from, came from literally trawling through the twitter feeds coming out of the region and seeing if we could find the real story in there. This has the potential to be a place where that kind of thing is made easier.

Bad points: And I'm going to struggle to not sound like and arsehole here but on first glance it seems like anyone can tell the story there and that leas to two problems. 1. Biased reporting of stories. 2. people are idiots. To me the website seems set up around what is 'trending" most right now. If you look at the top 10 most popular stories on The NYT most days, they are by no means the most IMPORTANT stories of the day. Now this doesn't mean the big ones won't get told. But it does make it more likely that they could get missed.

I'm not sure if I've been coherent here sorry. It's a very interesting concept and it has potential but it can also be dangerous. At what point to we stop wanting everything but on information we ingest to be as small as possible?

 

[JingleBells]

United: Van der Sar, O'Shea, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Nani, Park, Carrick, Giggs, Valencia, Rooney

Interesting choice of 4-5-1 at home, although with Valencia and Nani they may look for quick goals on the break

No full team for Chelsea, but Drogba is on the bench supposedly, so Anelka, Torres, Malouda in a 4-3-3 for Chelsea

 

[gohan]

go start a bum boy journo thread, your agronyms are confuzzleing me

 

[Cerb]

go start a bum boy journo thread, your agronyms are confuzzleing me

Is this you?
YouTube - Muslamic Ray Guns - The EDL Anthem

 

[gohan]

Is this you?
YouTube - Muslamic Ray Guns - The EDL Anthem

yes



yes it is



AND WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!

 

[Cerb]

myp2p isn't working...whyyyyyyyyyy?

 

[Cerb]

Nvm. I can see Josh getting himself sent off here the spanner

 

[Corran]

bit scrappy at the moment, need to improve greatly as chelsea got a great chance with the current level of performance.

edit:
fuck yeah. Chicarito!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doesnt change a thing. Chelsea need 2 goals as was. But what lovely play. Rooney Pass, Gigg cushioned pass, o'shea weighted it pretty well and Giggs puts it in the perfect area! And what a time

 

[Cerb]

 

[Cerb]

He's like the real life version of that shite movie GOAL!

 

[Ch3tan]

All quiet on the Chelsea front in here ain't it? Stay on your feet boys.

 

[Ch3tan]

Er.. Winning

 

[Scouse]

Typical manc performance tbfh. Shite all half but come out ahead

 

[Raven]

That Park is a bit super isn't he?

 

[cHodAX]

Muhahahaa!

Rooney was rotten!!

Now who was it that said Rooney will start to shine again when Valencia returns?

OH WAIT THAT WAS ME! TIGERBLOOD! WARLOCK! WINNER!

 

[cHodAX]

Typical manc performance tbfh. Shite all half but come out ahead

lol, oh dear, oh deary deary dear.

More shots, more possession, more goals. WINNER!

 

[Deebs]

Chelsea fan here, quiet as I was fixing stuff FFS Chet!

Anyway, back to the game, Man U deserved to win. I cannot put my finger on it but it seems that Chelsea lack the killer instinct at the moment, you know why? Well, regardless they will get paid shit loads of money. If I had my way I would cut their wage to a basic and then for every game they win increase it to a nice value, that way the lazy fuckers would learn to run more.

Having said that in typical Man U fashion they seem to have gotten all the luck as per usual. Unfortunately for them they will not be able to bring on their trump card for the Barca v Man U final which is Howard Webb

Barca to win!!!

 

[Corran]

Aww poor bitter Deebs

Didnt really have luck in that game. Terry could of been sent off after Ramires remember! (admittingly booking he got was weak).
Sending of was always gonna happen, you dont go into the back of someone if you on a yellow. Never ever ever, you make sure you got no chance of doing it. No luck involved there.

Man Utd 1st goal, no luck. Good play. 2nd goal? no luck. Chelsea simply forgot to defend after they scored (well taken by Drogba, mistake benching him).

Only luck involved was that Chelsea did not get a penalty at end of the first game, and Chelsea cant talk about luck against Utd. Referee's been giving you a hand at the Bridge for years!

 

[Billargh]

I would have loved to see Vlad's face when Chelsea pulled one back only for Man U to get another one 2 minutes later