Perceptions thread

PHB

There are a lot of perceptions that go around, and I was just wondering if people really believe them.

Three different questions:

Decisions even themselves out
The FA is biased against people
The Press are biased

Personally,
I think the decisions don't even themselves out, and they are biased against big clubs, because in a fair system, they'd be more likely to win.
I do think the FA really dislike United, and use them to set examples.
I think the press are in love with Arsenal, and in general, use any chance they can to paint bad light on United. That's why its acceptable for everyone to claim that United get unfair treatment, but if United claim they are being unfairly treated, everybody goes nuts. MOTD is especially anti-United.

kaimera

examples perhaps?

dobsdave

The Press are biased towards my club (either good or bad)

PHB, you think refs are against big teams? you voted the opposite way?
Did I miss something and United have set an an example of recently?.

My whole perspective on this is people always remember major decisions against them, but rarely the ones that go for them.
The press are there to sell papers, and will print whatever story does it for them, be it good or bad.

Pepe LeFrits

It's not paranoia when everyone is out to get you

Make a quick visit to Redcafe, RAWK, Arsenal-Mania etc and you'll find threads on each with posters convinced that the FA, the press and the rest of the league are against them.

That you get so many otherwise intelligent people sharing the same collective delusions of persecution is quite sad really.

PHB

The Press are neutral

Yeh I just voted wrongly

Sizzler

The Press are neutral

Whats a preception

What sort of poll is it that you can vote for all the options and it doesn't stop you

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

The Press are neutral

Press against United? Are you insane? They're against Liverpool ffs, the Sun started it and the other have kind of hopped on the bandwagon (although from a slightly safer distance)

United tend to shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to press realtions. Fergie won't talk to the beeb (be it right or wrong) Queroz goes after Taylor and moans about the potential of Ronaldo getting seriously injured (yes, I agree he was fouled, but.... a broken leg from a shoulder charge?) because of lax referring while Rooney scthyes the worst tackle of the match!

_blank_

This thread is going to be a trainwreck tbh :rolleyes:

My team is so, like, hated by the refs. Here's examples. Blah Blah Blah.

No wai dude, refs youze it's, like, so obvious. Blah Blah Blah.

Simple fact is this.

Boards.ie is biased against the Eircom League :pac:

kaimera

Boards.ie is biased against the Eircom League

Just cos of you Des :pac:

Neil3030

The press are biased towards selling papers. If that means coming down heavy on a person, team or organisation they feel will give them an edge and boost sales, they'll do it.

ShoulderChip

The Press are neutral

kaimera wrote: »

examples perhaps?

if he gives an example then we will just quibble over details of the particular example, its better to keep this general.

SectionF

The Press are neutral

No club is more biased against than Bohemians.

I challenge anyone to come up with a greater refereeing atrocity than that committed by A. Kelly in Bray season before last.

All press are biased towards big EPL clubs. It is an article of faith among Bohs fans that there is a ground-in bias in Irish media, and in particular in RTE, towards Shams (except, of course, GAA media).

ntlbell

SectionF wrote: »

No club is more biased against than Bohemians.

I challenge anyone to come up with a greater refereeing atrocity than that committed by A. Kelly in Bray season before last.

I think in general we're ok but Mr.Kelly has serious problems with us.

PHB

The Press are neutral

Shoot, I also wanted to add the question,
Do you think draws are rigged?

~Rebel~

The Press are neutral

On the Press one, I think they're both neutral And Bias, in that they go with the trend, if there's a dead horse to kick, they'll go for it and come across very bias in it, but they dont particularly care which horse it is. Liverpool went for a good while being slated for everything, before that it was Chelsea, next it'll be someone else.