Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja

....Larsson, Larsson, Larrson. :hyper:

Originally Posted by bhoywonder1967

What's the odds on the King of Kings for a treble??

Originally Posted by Russ D

Jesus is in the World Cup?? :eek:

Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja

MY GOD!

I go away for a few days and you lot (the Jellied eel lovers) are STILL banging on and on and on in this thread and its specifically not even about you - its about anyone BUT you for god sake.

Talk about Paranoid!

I mean this thread has about 1000 more views than the proper one.... :rofl:

I think you all know your going out soon - and i think your trying to get as much in as possible before you desert this thread in DROVES the minute you flap out the World Cup.

To all the people on here not from that Paranoid land - get behind your team, if Sweden fail, you just get somebody else to support! Enjoy the World Cup for what it is - a laugh at Englands expense!

BRING ON THE ENGLAND!

Larsson, Larsson, Larrson. :hyper:

Originally Posted by Russ D

Seeing as so many of you are completely failing to grasp my very simple point, I'll go over it again.

One last time.

When it is only England playing, it makes sense for them to be given media coverage. No problems there. What I object to is when England have a game (in any competition or even a friendly) the amount of coverage they're given vastly outweights that given to the other home countries when they play.

When all the home nations (or one of them as well as England) are playing, England are given priority in the Uk media. This, as I'm sure you will all agree, is completely unfair.

I pay for my licence like you guys pressumably do, so why should I feel like my national team is being treated like an afterthought on the national news?

There are very few (in fact I can only think of one) Welsh newspapers which report on the whole of the UK and of course we are given much more fair coverage there, but they are not my style of newspaper.

So all in all, The media, as Nugget can see and agree with, is biased towards England. Completely unfair and it's for this reason that threads like this will pop up and also the reason why the rest of us aren't as enthusiastic about England. Nothing to do with jealousy, just the way we are treated.

Originally Posted by bhoywonder1967

:shocked: Not quite what I would expect from a Bairn!! :p:

What's the odds on the King of Kings for a treble??

Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja

Hey, i may not have liked him sticking goals past us, but i sure as hell will do when he bags a few at the expense of the English.

Lets just call it Ying/Yang... :D

Originally Posted by bhoywonder1967

Fair enough my friend, welcome to the Henrik Larsson Appreciation Society :)

Originally Posted by SlackDad

Isn't it a bit like complaining that man Utd get more coverage than any team in the lower leagues.

Originally Posted by Russ D

No because to use your analogy, the sports reports would need to feature all 92 clubs which is completely unworkable.

Originally Posted by SlackDad

So rightly or wrongly the media focus on the more successful, more widely supported clubs. After all, they want higher circulation figures or larger audience share. Personally I can't stand Man Utd, but realise they are going to get alot of coverage in most media.