SKY SPORTS BIAS

[R.Reddington]

Making a comparison between this week and last...
You have Man United vs Liverpool and Swansea vs Spurs. From 12.30 to 1.30 (KO) the 'pundits' were having an orgy about the 'biggest game in world [Poor language removed] football' and there was ZERO mention of the later game Swansea vs Spurs.
Today we have Newcastle vs Sunderland and Liverpool vs Arsenal. What a [Poor language removed] surprise the knobs talk about Liverpool vs Arsenal first instead of the BIGGER game which is a huge derby in England. Get a [Poor language removed] grip Sky you're slowly making BT Sports coverage look half good.
Instead of being [Poor language removed] bias towards 'the bigger clubs' make your coverage an hour longer and give the fans of the other clubs who pay good money for your [Poor language removed] coverage a little back.

 

[Lee Smith]

I try not to let it bother me, but even I was a bit narked off during last week's Monday Night Football, when instead of talk about our upcoming game with QPR, the Sky studio spent 95% of the build up jizzing over David DeGea and the 'big' matches from the previous 2 days

 

[Boss_Blue]

YAWN

 

[toffee matt]

Who's actually arsed?

Liverpool v Arsenal is a bigger game to most people outside the north east and around the world

 

[sageyefc]

I Dont watch any of the shows or panels, pay no attention, all of them are biased kopites

 

[ijjysmith]

Who's actually arsed?

Liverpool v Arsenal is a bigger game to most people outside the north east and around the world

Spot on Matthew.

Makes me laugh people fuming about this sort of thing.

Say Everton were mentioned more, the same people would be moaning that the wrong things were being said.

As you say, who's arsed?!

 

[Jim Lahey]

To be fair, Man Utd v Liverpool is historically a huge match - just like Juventus v Inter and Real Madrid v Barcelona is.

But the OP makes a good point, don't know why he's getting stick? It's right, they will always talk about the 'big' teams far, far more than the 'smaller' clubs even though both sets of fixtures are being played back-to-back. It IS annoying and I support Man Utd. I am very interested in how the smaller clubs are doing, especially the likes of Swansea who continue to surprise me year after year.

But as someone else correctly stated above, clubs like Man Utd and Liverpool are going to have hundreds of thousands more supporters worldwide tuning in for the game than, let's say, Swansea or Sunderland.

Footy has always been like this - when I was a kid and Man Utd were rubbish it would be Arsenal and Liverpool dominating the channels. It will always be this way too.

 

[Brennan]

Couldn't care less about the derby really. Will be watching the Arsenal game though.

 

[The Cowboy]

A little something that annoyed me last week, we were the first tie to be drawn in the EL, yet a photo that sky put on Twitter had us bottom of the list of 4 British ties. Why? I know it doesn't matter, but someone went out of their way to rejig the order to stick the others before us.

 

[Dithering Dougie]

I try not to let it bother me, but even I was a bit narked off during last week's Monday Night Football, when instead of talk about our upcoming game with QPR, the Sky studio spent 95% of the build up jizzing over David DeGea and the 'big' matches from the previous 2 days

That's how they do MNF every week, talk about the big or controversial topics from the weekend and then a little bit about the game before it starts.

No bias there.

 

[Milk]

Try reading the Telegraph Sports section if you really want to see EFC shafted and LFC bummed (with City, Utd & Chelski rogered)

 

[rascal]

Try reading the Telegraph Sports section if you really want to see EFC shafted and LFC bummed (with City, Utd & Chelski rogered)

Henry 'kin Winter couldn't have his tongue more firmly up the RS arse

 

[Jim Lahey]

Football supporters are so paranoid. They're all the same over at RAWK and they're the same at RedCafe too. "Everyone is against us" sort of thing.

It's not actually true though. Certain pundits have their favourite teams but I don't think there's "bias" - that's too strong a word. (Unless your name is Phil Thompson of course!)

 

[ScouseBlueBoy]

Football supporters are so paranoid. They're all the same over at RAWK and they're the same at RedCafe too. "Everyone is against us" sort of thing.

It's not actually true though. Certain pundits have their favourite teams but I don't think there's "bias" - that's too strong a word. (Unless your name is Phil Thompson of course!)

So you don't agree that there is an unhealthy preponderance of ex LFC players and fans in the media then?

 

[EverBlue86]

It's always Utd and Kopite fans who come out with the "no bias here" stuff also.

Agree completely with the OP I pay good money for sky I want some coverage of MY club not seeing the usual suspects on every second of every day to appease the Asian contingent watching across the seas