Dirty pig rag at it again

[Bedrock Blade]

This thread is lovely stuff.

 

[nicksufc]

Of course The Star are biased against us, just like the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, ITV, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Mail, The Sun, The Daily Express, Al-Jazeera, Russia Today, El País, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, La Gazzetta dello Sport, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, Marca, AS, Mundo Deportivo, USA Today and China Daily all are.

No, of course I'm not paranoid.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Of course The Star are biased against us, just like the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, ITV, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Mail, The Sun, The Daily Express, Al-Jazeera, Russia Today, El País, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, La Gazzetta dello Sport, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, Marca, AS, Mundo Deportivo, USA Today and China Daily all are.

And is it just me, or did United Airways deliberately haul that guy off the plane during the week of our promotion just so that United got bad press all week? Are we absolutely sure that The Failing Sheffield Star, aided by The Disgraceful Radio Sheffield, didn't stage the whole thing just to give half of Sheffield a laugh at our expense? I haven't seen any evidence to suggest otherwise.

 

[zablade]

The thing that always sticks in my throat every time The Star covers that 1993 Semi...

..a United was killed in cold blood in an unprovoked attack by a Wednesday fan in the Wembley car park after the game, the perpetrator was found guilty and sent to prison for it...

.....it is never ever mentioned in any local press coverage of that day, completely air brushed from history.

.........if It had been the other way would this have been so?

.................. Is it worse than the Ched saga or the battle of Bramall Lane? Of course it is, but both of those incidents are rehashed and poured over again and again.

It's disgraceful.

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

Of course The Star are biased against us, just like the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, ITV, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Mail, The Sun, The Daily Express, Al-Jazeera, Russia Today, El País, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, La Gazzetta dello Sport, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, Marca, AS, Mundo Deportivo, USA Today and China Daily all are.

No, of course I'm not paranoid.

You clearly are.

 

[Trigger Blade]

I started at the Lane in Sept 1953, but the 7-3 win is ancient history to me - I don't connect with it directly. Boxing Day and 1993 can still be repeatedly recycled.

You sound like a contestant on The Chase..... "it was before my time"

Perhaps if it ever got a mention in The Star, you'd be more aware of it and it would have some resonance. It's just as legitimate as the more recent games which didn't go our way.....

 

[Sothall_Blade]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2011/oct/14/joy-of-six-sheffield-derbies

Interesting article from the ostensibly neutral Guardian.
Some signs of bias towards Wednesday in there too but then I'm biased towards United, so it possibly just seems that way. That's the problem with bias.

Are certain people at The Star biased against United? Probably
Are all people at The Star biased against United? No
Does everybody at The Star deserve to lose their job? No
Would the city of Sheffield be better off without a local paper? No
Could Sheffield's local paper be better than it is? Yes
Do fans of both clubs "cry wolf" when there is no genuine bias being shown? Yes
Does this mean genuine reasons for protest are taken less seriously (e.g. Coventry letter) Yes

 

[super_pig]

..and if people think that the Star is that crappy, there's nowt to stop them setting up their own local news outlet.

As has been mentioned, no one is forced to purchase the Star, it's there if you want it - and if you don't want to read it, just don't buy it, no worries. Try the Yorkshire Post instead, or just rely on Twitter, FB and forums like this.

Cheers Danny04 for the inside info. We don't all think you're "pig rag scum"

just most of us

 

[TBW57]

You mean other than the clearly visible two articles they've written? http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/chesterfield-fc

I stand corrected.

 

[TBW57]

Non-Pig News previews today's match: http://nonpignews.blogspot.co.uk/

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

You sound like a contestant on The Chase..... "it was before my time"

Perhaps if it ever got a mention in The Star, you'd be more aware of it and it would have some resonance. It's just as legitimate as the more recent games which didn't go our way.....

Fair cop. I didn't explain that very well. I think that if they are going to get people looking at the Sport Retro, it is mainly on the 'I was there' hook - bringing back memories. Sport is about emotion. I feel pain seeing anything to do with the Boxing Day Derby, and just watching Brown's goal in the 3-1 win makes my brain produce the substances that make you feel good all over. I am interested in and glad about the 7-3 win, but it doesn't move me in the same way. I first understood the generation gap when talking football with youngsters who didn't experience the 1966 World Cup (or Wednesday throwing away the Cup Final that year). Reading about history and reading about the history you lived through are very different. I envy those of you who went to Northampton last week.

 

[Bladesman]

The thing that always sticks in my throat every time The Star covers that 1993 Semi...

..a United was killed in cold blood in an unprovoked attack by a Wednesday fan in the Wembley car park after the game, the perpetrator was found guilty and sent to prison for it...

.....it is never ever mentioned in any local press coverage of that day, completely air brushed from history.

.........if It had been the other way would this have been so?

.................. Is it worse than the Ched saga or the battle of Bramall Lane? Of course it is, but both of those incidents are rehashed and poured over again and again.

It's disgraceful.

Barely any mention of that online although it would appear some results have been removed from Google.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/soccer-death-probe-1454690.html

Unless the family had asked for the articles to be removed?