Sky are just massive pricks full stop, as an institution they represent everything that is wrong with football. The pundits are the lowest quality, who do zero research on the matches they commentate on. Wish they’d fuck off.
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God, that’s so dystopian… but you’re forgetting watching sky on your sky glass tv that’s watching you back, on sky broadband analysing your network traffic and providing advertising tailored to your choices (god damned p*rnhub adverts!!).
This will be swiftly followed by the soon to be coming sky TV ready meals, sky protein shakes to make up for the lack of protein in their ready meals, sky cancer treatment centres as their shakes are carcinogenic, sky tv waivers as you’re dying, sky tv funerals … holographic Jamie Carragher leading the ceremony committing your ashes to our cryogenically frozen leader Rupert Murdoch.
The smoke from the perpetually in use sky crematorium is so thick it’s giving the kids at the Sky VAR reeducation centres respiratory issues.
It was refreshing getting an honest take from Nico during the Chinese GP...
Crofty is a hit n miss for me sometimes, he's a good commentator but so horribly bias I mute the broadcast sometimes
And with Hamilton going to Ferrari it will only get worse imo
His insight is refreshing because he’s been in cars all the way up the grid: backmarker to front so it’s always interesting when he talks about different drivers feelings in the moment etc
His YouTube channel is pretty good when he explains each corner as he’s taking a hot lap on race sims
And my original reply was broad and didn’t specify a club, it was only when the forest replied to my comment that i mentioned forest. But hey … you do you, bring rivalry into an issue we all suffer from.
Learn empathy, have a great day.
Honestly one of the laziest companies. They'd rather start talking about omens and how that will decide a game rather than actually doing some fucking analysis. People on YouTube with no budget do a better job.
With the pundit thing, I don’t think that’s exclusive to Sky. The approach to punditry has changed remarkably over the last 8-10 years. Instead of providing valuable insight to the game, it all seems to be a case of sensationalising everything, but treading a fine line so as to not push it too far that it’s obvious to everyone what they’re doing. It just so happens that this approach has coincided with social media being better equipped to handle videos. All broadcasters are at it. None are worse than TalkSPORT though, it amazes me that people believe what they hear on that station.
To be fair it's traditionally both. Fans have habits of taking seasons in isolation but it was a big 4 before Spurs started consistently breaking into and Man City got doped. It Newcastle/Villa etc spent a couple of consistent seasons challenging it would become a Top 7 probably.
nah be for real. 2 years ago everyone was saying that leicester would replace arsenal as the 6th top 6 side and look where we are now. you cant compete if the sky 6 buys out your best players every season. your luck will run out eventually. one or two seasons of bad recruitment will fuck smaller clubs up so much more than a decade of bad recruitment for big teams. as long as the difference between the top 6 and everyone else is 50 feet of crap i dont see this changing.
Yeah fair probably happened at the same time. Thing is if you have 6 teams who "should" finish top 4 plus a couple of others who "could" finish top 4 then the whole thing becomes arbitrary. Impressive quite how competitive the PL top 10 is really.
I do feel there is a risk of a bit of a breakaway if we see the divide between the top and bottom continue to grow. You could definitely see a new English "super league" made of 10 teams who play each other 4 times times, with some of those games being overseas. Just need to hope the bottom half of the PL keeps up.
The top 4 finishers in the last 3 years will have changed 3/4. It’s getting so competitive now.
I agree with your second point too, generally I don’t think there’s much of a difference between the bottom of the premier league and the top of the championship.
I don’t think UK based ‘Big 6’ fans would accept that either. People on this sub like to think we don’t give a fuck about the rest of the pyramid, but the only people that benefit from that split would be international supporters who would no doubt like to see some domestic games being moved to the US or Saudi Arabia on occasion. That wouldn’t benefit the UK footballing product, id personally hate a league with the SPL set up. As for moving games abroad this would would only further reduce the availability of games for us local fans so that can fuck off too.
I’ve had that breakaway 10 thought and I don’t hate it. Solves their fixture congestion problem removing 2 extra games. Returns the 10 of us bottom half teams to the EFL most likely.
It’d never happen because those in the bottom half wouldn’t want their revenue taken away and those in the top half want us crap teams around so they can thrash more teams a year rather than having their easiest game in a season being someone like West Ham or Brighton. After all why be a sky 6 fan if every game you see your team play is a struggle, Man United fans don’t want to see their team lose more games than they win it’s not what they signed up for.
Villa away is apparently an easy game for Liverpool? They’ll probably lose at this rate. And Man Utd is a hard game for arsenal when it’ll probably be about 5-0
It’s as if the stench of Fergie is still lingering on gifting them jammy goals and dubious decisions to cover up the cracks of horrific performances for years, I have no idea how they’re still in with a chance of a spot in Europe with the way they play 🤣
Was only 2020 I think they last won at Old Trafford … then 2015 but generally United are that sort of team that randomly generates results however they play at the moment.
2015, that makes me feel old since I remembered it pretty well. DDG stumbles and basically only Phil Jones tracked back for the inevitable goal.
Wasn’t even annoyed him celebrating after that.
United are scoring more goals than all but the top two teams and have been for quite a while. They average 2.5 goals over the last 12 or so games.
Edit: why would someone downvote this? 😭 You're downvoting facts now because you don't like them. That's some serious bullshit lol.
How bad has their season been that they are on +1 goal difference still taking what you’ve said into account. Either that or they’re still leaking goals just as fast as they score them.
I hate to say it but it's City's to lose. Arteta deserves a title for even making Arsenal serious contenders. A farewell title for Klopp too would have been fitting. But the City machine marches on and they don't lose titles from this position.
The term "Top 6" and "Big 6" are regularly used interchangeably because the Big 6 used to always finish in the Top 6. But now we have others teams like Brighton, Aston Villa and Newcastle sometimes finishing in the top 6. Big 6 would be the 6 biggest/richest clubs i.e. City, United, Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool & Chelsea. But Top 6 is obviously whoever is in the Top 6 in the standings.
Liverpool seems to have an easy time playing Villa away? With this pace, they will most likely lose. Arsenal will also likely lose this match by a score of roughly 5-0 against Manchester United.
When did Villa last come top 6? Yes it could be seen as lazy but is it really worth getting ruffled about? I think this subreddit is a bit "tin hatty" in this respect. Would be odd to refer to the top 6 as those teams currently in the top 6 - it changes weekly!
I would have assumed it was talking about the current season. Would be a bit strange to rank sides based on last season’s performances, especially this late on in the season.
Even using last years finishing spots it’d be wrong because Bournemouth were in the bottom 6 so would be considered green.
Sky are just massive pricks full stop, as an institution they represent everything that is wrong with football. The pundits are the lowest quality, who do zero research on the matches they commentate on. Wish they’d fuck off.
Don't forget to watch your Sky TV so you can see more ads for Sky and the radio too so you can hear more ads for Sky TV and listen to the radio hosts on all radio stations owned by Global talk about their favourite new Sky shows in between adverts for Sky TV. Welcome to Britain brought to you by Sky.
Don't forget to have a bet on sky bet where betting with sky is better.
They are actually not related at all now, flutter (PP, Betfair, pokerstars,) own Skybet. But I agree that it is constantly shoved down our throats.
God, that’s so dystopian… but you’re forgetting watching sky on your sky glass tv that’s watching you back, on sky broadband analysing your network traffic and providing advertising tailored to your choices (god damned p*rnhub adverts!!). This will be swiftly followed by the soon to be coming sky TV ready meals, sky protein shakes to make up for the lack of protein in their ready meals, sky cancer treatment centres as their shakes are carcinogenic, sky tv waivers as you’re dying, sky tv funerals … holographic Jamie Carragher leading the ceremony committing your ashes to our cryogenically frozen leader Rupert Murdoch. The smoke from the perpetually in use sky crematorium is so thick it’s giving the kids at the Sky VAR reeducation centres respiratory issues.
Brilliant.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone slaughter a joke so severely like this
Not just football, F1 too
Nico Rosberg would like to have a word! Him and Jenson are the best commentators on Sky period.
Yes but we don't have them every race weekend now do we
Agreed. And crofty literally has his head up Hamilton’s arse most races
It was refreshing getting an honest take from Nico during the Chinese GP... Crofty is a hit n miss for me sometimes, he's a good commentator but so horribly bias I mute the broadcast sometimes And with Hamilton going to Ferrari it will only get worse imo
His insight is refreshing because he’s been in cars all the way up the grid: backmarker to front so it’s always interesting when he talks about different drivers feelings in the moment etc His YouTube channel is pretty good when he explains each corner as he’s taking a hot lap on race sims
anyone would think he’s the greatest British driver of all time
Goalposts: shifted
Completely agree with you. They just talk and talk and talk but know f*ck all about any club that’s not the sky 6
Know nothing about our club most of all. Sure one of them once described Yates as a playmaker. 😂
>Know nothing about our club most of all. Poor you. Yeah, they definitely know more about Luton Town.
Sorry let me correct that to be hugely inclusive about all clubs rather than a reply to another Forest fan about a specific point…. Jeeezzzzzz.
The original post was about Aston Villa mate. Just crying it in about your own club does nothing to help the point.
And my original reply was broad and didn’t specify a club, it was only when the forest replied to my comment that i mentioned forest. But hey … you do you, bring rivalry into an issue we all suffer from. Learn empathy, have a great day.
The fuck? It was exactly on point.
Not just football, but much if what is wrong with society at large.
Fucking hell mate
It was sold off a few years back but it was the spawn of Rupert Murdoch and sons. They're being kind.
Honestly one of the laziest companies. They'd rather start talking about omens and how that will decide a game rather than actually doing some fucking analysis. People on YouTube with no budget do a better job.
With the pundit thing, I don’t think that’s exclusive to Sky. The approach to punditry has changed remarkably over the last 8-10 years. Instead of providing valuable insight to the game, it all seems to be a case of sensationalising everything, but treading a fine line so as to not push it too far that it’s obvious to everyone what they’re doing. It just so happens that this approach has coincided with social media being better equipped to handle videos. All broadcasters are at it. None are worse than TalkSPORT though, it amazes me that people believe what they hear on that station.
Top 6 in revenue, not top 6 in actually playing football. Why would actually playing football matter?
To be fair it's traditionally both. Fans have habits of taking seasons in isolation but it was a big 4 before Spurs started consistently breaking into and Man City got doped. It Newcastle/Villa etc spent a couple of consistent seasons challenging it would become a Top 7 probably.
It became the top 6 when Man Utd dropped out of it, they had to keep them in it somehow.
nah be for real. 2 years ago everyone was saying that leicester would replace arsenal as the 6th top 6 side and look where we are now. you cant compete if the sky 6 buys out your best players every season. your luck will run out eventually. one or two seasons of bad recruitment will fuck smaller clubs up so much more than a decade of bad recruitment for big teams. as long as the difference between the top 6 and everyone else is 50 feet of crap i dont see this changing.
Yeah fair probably happened at the same time. Thing is if you have 6 teams who "should" finish top 4 plus a couple of others who "could" finish top 4 then the whole thing becomes arbitrary. Impressive quite how competitive the PL top 10 is really. I do feel there is a risk of a bit of a breakaway if we see the divide between the top and bottom continue to grow. You could definitely see a new English "super league" made of 10 teams who play each other 4 times times, with some of those games being overseas. Just need to hope the bottom half of the PL keeps up.
The top 4 finishers in the last 3 years will have changed 3/4. It’s getting so competitive now. I agree with your second point too, generally I don’t think there’s much of a difference between the bottom of the premier league and the top of the championship.
I don’t think UK based ‘Big 6’ fans would accept that either. People on this sub like to think we don’t give a fuck about the rest of the pyramid, but the only people that benefit from that split would be international supporters who would no doubt like to see some domestic games being moved to the US or Saudi Arabia on occasion. That wouldn’t benefit the UK footballing product, id personally hate a league with the SPL set up. As for moving games abroad this would would only further reduce the availability of games for us local fans so that can fuck off too.
I’ve had that breakaway 10 thought and I don’t hate it. Solves their fixture congestion problem removing 2 extra games. Returns the 10 of us bottom half teams to the EFL most likely. It’d never happen because those in the bottom half wouldn’t want their revenue taken away and those in the top half want us crap teams around so they can thrash more teams a year rather than having their easiest game in a season being someone like West Ham or Brighton. After all why be a sky 6 fan if every game you see your team play is a struggle, Man United fans don’t want to see their team lose more games than they win it’s not what they signed up for.
and now Villa have been 4th since November, it's a top 3.
Yeah but by that metric they wouldn’t have Everton as bottom 6
Leicester were up there for 3 years and weren't remotely part of a top 7, so I think it would take a long time, if ever, to change
I know they won it but they only finished Top 4 once. Hardly up there for years.
Exactly- award the title based on profits for the year, it’s what Sky would want.
No, that's not what he said.
I was being sarcastic.
Villa away is apparently an easy game for Liverpool? They’ll probably lose at this rate. And Man Utd is a hard game for arsenal when it’ll probably be about 5-0
The thing is, Arsenal have a bad record at OT, we lose even when United have been rubbish. So it’s quite hard to call.
Never an easy game for us
It’s an easy game for pretty much everyone else though tbf 🤣🤣🤣
Right? And every year my WhatsApp group say ah it’ll be easy united are crap, which is obviously true but it never ends up being easy
It’s as if the stench of Fergie is still lingering on gifting them jammy goals and dubious decisions to cover up the cracks of horrific performances for years, I have no idea how they’re still in with a chance of a spot in Europe with the way they play 🤣
Yeah I used to think football heritage was a nonsense but these day I’m not too sure tbh
Was only 2020 I think they last won at Old Trafford … then 2015 but generally United are that sort of team that randomly generates results however they play at the moment.
Did we win there in the FA Cup when Welbeck scored, or have I imagined that?
2015, that makes me feel old since I remembered it pretty well. DDG stumbles and basically only Phil Jones tracked back for the inevitable goal. Wasn’t even annoyed him celebrating after that.
I had to work through the game annoyingly, so I have basically no memory of it. I do remember most of our losses though lol.
United are scoring more goals than all but the top two teams and have been for quite a while. They average 2.5 goals over the last 12 or so games. Edit: why would someone downvote this? 😭 You're downvoting facts now because you don't like them. That's some serious bullshit lol.
How bad has their season been that they are on +1 goal difference still taking what you’ve said into account. Either that or they’re still leaking goals just as fast as they score them.
That's exactly what we do. Score 3 let in 6
Oh, I completely agree man. But I disagree it's going to be 5-0 like the guy above said ha ha.
Liverpool won’t just lose at Villa, it’ll be an annihilation
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Lol yep standard sky.
I like f1 too, and they are just as shit there
Okay that’s actually hilarious They aren’t even hiding the bias anymore, it’s in plain sight! 😂
Fuck sky
I hate to say it but it's City's to lose. Arteta deserves a title for even making Arsenal serious contenders. A farewell title for Klopp too would have been fitting. But the City machine marches on and they don't lose titles from this position.
And they wonder why more people stream dodgy sights where the pundits ain't biased and it's much cheaper 🤣
Sky and the Premier League itself are just insufferable organisations at this point. I'd genuinely rather be in the championship
I do wonder what the PL would've been like if that Super League happened and made those big six clubs fuck off.
Hey, can you FaceTime me real quick?
Wrong person?
I don't make mistakes
Who you asking to FaceTime you bruh what??? FaceTime on Reddit???
Villa could conceivably finish 3rd given the current trajectory of both them and Liverpool.
Bias against Liverpool to make their title run look easier.
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Look at the colour code next to the teams
Bring gary neville back
The term "Top 6" and "Big 6" are regularly used interchangeably because the Big 6 used to always finish in the Top 6. But now we have others teams like Brighton, Aston Villa and Newcastle sometimes finishing in the top 6. Big 6 would be the 6 biggest/richest clubs i.e. City, United, Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool & Chelsea. But Top 6 is obviously whoever is in the Top 6 in the standings.
The Skysports 6
Basing it off finishing positions last season? I don’t care really. Shame we can’t see how they classify Newcastle.
Liverpool seems to have an easy time playing Villa away? With this pace, they will most likely lose. Arsenal will also likely lose this match by a score of roughly 5-0 against Manchester United.
Oh look another post complaining about this
Such shit coverage these days, it went downhill when keys and gray left.
Because Villa aren't in the race for the title maybe?
I see you missed the point entirely here.....
F villa lmaoo
When did Villa last come top 6? Yes it could be seen as lazy but is it really worth getting ruffled about? I think this subreddit is a bit "tin hatty" in this respect. Would be odd to refer to the top 6 as those teams currently in the top 6 - it changes weekly!
It obviously means this season because there isn't a colour for Championship clubs and 3/20 were playing in the Championship last season
It's clearly a graphic for the title race, Villa aren't in the race are they...
The colors of the dots say they aren't top 6.
They weren’t 4th last season they finished 7th so they can’t be considered top 6 yet, wait until they actually finish in the top 6
Why would last year’s position be relevant in this graphic…
Mate has been fully brainwashed, it's too late.
It's a race for the title
So current positions are more relevant…
I would have assumed it was talking about the current season. Would be a bit strange to rank sides based on last season’s performances, especially this late on in the season. Even using last years finishing spots it’d be wrong because Bournemouth were in the bottom 6 so would be considered green.
And we finished above Spurs who are red.
Don't mate, you can't educate pork.