I very rarely listen to Football Heaven (or whatever it's called these days). I usually walk to the match but this Friday I drove and had the unfortunate experience of listening to those two childishly berating Blades fans. I can confirm that Staton is a prick.
I won't be listening again.
Wow….talk about being over sensitive.
It’s been happening for years……a Barnsley fan rings up and complains they never talk about Barnsley and it’s all Sheffield bias (to a degree it is).
They explain they can only talk about what callers want to talk about and then give the Barnsley fan the opportunity to talk about Barnsley.
He says he has nothing to say apart from it’s not fair that they rarely have callers talking about Barnsley.
I’ve heard Rotherham fans also say the same complaining that no one is ringing up talking about their team.
It must become so tiresome when Wednesday fans call their show “Radio Sheffield United” and accuse Staton of being a Blades and anti Wednesday
Then at the same time Unitedites will accuse their show of being Radio `Sheffield `Wednesday etc.
I’d say they can show some slight bias, but it’s mainly towards the most successful team. For the past few years the show has been slightly bias in favour of Sheff Utd. Giddings especially slightly belittle Sheff Wed saying how they have average players, who are well organised and should finish mid table.
When as on Fridays show he started the programme saying a team is Hamer, Cannon, Bereton-Diaz, Campbell, Rak Sakyi, Moore, O’Hare is incredlby strong and exciting at this level. No wonder Wednesday that rang up were generally depressed.
Staton regularly compares SW with SU and says they are miles behind us both on and off the pitch.
He always slags off Chansiri but was always quite complementary towards the Prince.
Staton also always bigs up our players, a neutral would guess he’s more likely to be a Blade.
I know quite a few Wednesday fans that don’t enjoy listening to Radio Sheffield because they say it’s always SU bias.
The other day they started the show talking about United but all the early callers were Wednesdayites complaining about their club and the disgraceful performance in midweek against Bristol City. Incredibly the Blade caller rings up to complain about it being Wednesday bias, so they explain that anyone can call the show, so tell him he now has the chance to speak about United and he childishly puts the phone down saying he’s made his point and that all he wanted to say.
At the time I thought “what an idiot”,
I suppose what didn’t help is that, after that call they then read out emails/ texts from Wednesdays fans mocking the Unitedite with Staton and Giddings joining in.
Staton kept being sarcastic every time he later mentioned Sheff United, saying he’d made a mistake because he tries to never talk about us.
Giddings later made a good point, that in his experience, they always receive more callers when it’s something negative.
He said they tend not to have so many Wednesday callers but after the antics with the chairman and their club put in turmoil there’s suddenly a lot of people who want to talk about SWFC. If United starting dropping down the league and Wilder was close to being sacked, all of the sudden the show would be inundated with Blades.
