Ever Wondered Why So Many
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Consumer sovereignty?
A recent survey published in the Business
Review Weekly showed that football viewing
on the limited timeslots has increased from 33 per cent
in 1993 to 39 per cent in 1997. The main coverage of
football is on a non-commercial network with limited
access to the public due to limitations of its signals which
are often weak and shadowy. This
occurred despite saturation coverage of the other codes both of
which
decreased in viewers. In
Australia, tiddleywinks has only 5 per cent of people playing the game!
Yet it receives
this saturated coverage
in a media that is uncompetitive and has monopoly power.
In the March 99 edition
Now on the front page of the Channel
Seven Home Page.
What's your favourite football code?
AFL 30%
Rugby union 4%
Rugby league 12%
Soccer 37%
I
prefer cricket 4%
Don't like any sort
of footy 5%
Don't like sports 4%
And yet they still blackout
football coverage!
Why is that mate?
Then because soccer was the code-
zip, off the net with the poll.
Can't have those wogs having a say can
we?
In the opening to 1998 season a sell out crowd
at Northern Spirit attended with some page three coverage in the local
newspapers. Yet reports later in news bulletins left the result to last
despite the crowds out-numbering the packielackey game that was played on the
same night. Prejudice runs deep in the Australian media and consumer
sovereignty is not an issue when the media is an effective monopoly.
When the biggest match of the
Australian soccer league was to be played on Wednesday (March 31,
1999) night not a word of preview could be found in the paper or in the
electronic media.
Or as fans commented:
Dear listees,
Does anybody know who IS
screening the Sth Melb v Perth game tommorrow?
Is ANYONE showing it live?
and the reply
No, no-one is showing it, live or
otherwise.
I could comment, but I'll leave
that to all of you!
The the Murdoch Australian-
(he btw is one of the owners of packielackey) managed in reluctatnt style to
report only 20 words the following day. Now this game has South
Melbourne's largest crowd of about 11 000 and didn't get the courtesy of a
decent report. Manchester United beware the Murdoch Purse!
Now of course the tiddleywinks
want to use their ground and destroy its surface so that Spirit cannot
play.
As a fan pointed out:
"Just read on the SMH web site
that the AFL want to use North
Sydney Oval for games during their season
&train during the
summer !"(March 13, 1999)
How's that for ignorance!
Another attempt to stifle competition.
Take away the ground of Sydney's most
successful soccer club.
This is followed by tiddleywink's attempt to stop the Manchester United Tour Downunder 1999,
to Melbourne using their monopoly control over city's football
grounds.
BTW, the SMH is now effectively
controlled by the packielackey stable.
Isn't it amazing how the richest bigots in the country
are able get around media laws?
Recent government protection given to
existing owners of Australian media from competition creates
absolute
control of access to sports
information in Australia. The government has moved to stop competition in
television setting up an effective monopoly. One can hypothesize about the
motive, but with an election looming on the
horizon its move was hardly surprising in an already
concentrated market.
Now of course there is a government attempt to
limit free speech and content on the internet.
Guess who has just moved into the internet market in
1999?
The result is that the media in Australia does
not reflect the choices of consumers but merely reflects the personal
preferences and prejudices of the owners. Prejudice is alive and well in the
boardrooms of corporate Australia.
These are clearly demonstrated by the attitudes that
have already been presented here. The attitude by the owner is "Buy your
TV network!" A bit difficult when it is a protected monopoly.
Newspaper views: (often owned by the same
interests as the TV media)
Greek Goons to Attend Final- A headline by the
well-known anti-ethnic protagonist Jeff Wells in the
Australian Newspaper. This was even though there
was no hint of any trouble, merely because the team South
Melbourne has Greek-based support. He followed this
article up with attacks on the ‘ethnic’ aspects of the game.
Yet one doesn't hear him wanting to ban bagpipes at the
Australian Rules fixtures. The ignorance ran so deep
that the writer did not even realize the qualities of
Ferenc Puskas who was the coach of the team at the time. It
was also the team that had Paul Wade, the
Australian Captain - hardly 'Greek Goons'.
This is a typical ploy by the
media. Carlton Football (soccer) Club is a classic example. Carlton
made the grand final in 1998 and are completely ignored. The Melbourne
tiddleywink newsgroup call them the "Carlton Dagoes" because some of the
followers have Italian heritage. Parmalat are a major international
reputable company that sponsor the team and are treated as 'dagoes'. Then
the tiddleywinks owners hide behind the wine industry and expect people to take
their products seriously. Sean Douglas is hardly an Italian dagoe!
An article in the October Soccer Australia also sight the lack of coverage of
the game. Note that this is an empirical experience of other who also
follow the game.
Yet the packielackey team gets
saturation coverage.
Reason: the media owns
packielackie(rugby league) and tiddleywinks (Victorian rules) and do not allow
competition. The Murdoch press concentration alone is 60 per
cent.
They restrict competition by
blackouts of soccer information and their attacks on the players' and followers'
background. These attacks are totally irrational.
Ever wondered if these attacks
are due to ignorance or bigotry?
Can people coming to Australia
for the Olympics football expect this 'wogball' treatment?
Current experience of
soccer followers is abuse by the media and so the answer suggests an
affirmative.
Can you imagine the reception
that England, Brazil, South Africa, USA or Nigeria will receive by the media
given current the practice of the media?
They will pretend that they do
not exist- it will be a blackout!
Failure to report the qualifying of the Olympic
Team for Atlanta played in Sydney by the Sydney Morning Herald
the newspaper of the' Olympic 2000' typifies the
approach by the effective monopoly. Then this paper calls
itself
-the Sydney 2000 paper.
One can only wonder about the extent and nature of its football coverage in
2000. In
fairness, its recent coverage
of the game has improved but is still minimalist in its approach to the
Australian
based competition.
Although recent front page pictures of Pauline "fact free zone" Hanson in the
Olympic city of Sydney is a sad fact.
The usual blackout of reporting the National
League competition is standard practice.
Then there is usual 'naughty wogs' attack by
the packielackey (aka rugby league) commercial radio media. Is
it
any coincidence that this radio
station broadcasts packielackey where all the scratching and loss of
gonads
occurs? A quote from a
football fan.
"Here we go again. Mike Gibson is on his 2GB
radio programme at present
about the
recent findings of a study by sociologist John Hughson which
stated that the Croatians who rioted at the South
Melbourne preliminary
final were just
"youngsters living an para-military existence out to
impress their mums and dads"."
What was the methodology used? Ask the
packielackies at the government protected media?
There were no reports of the riot at Canterbury
packielakey- a strangely subdued coverage of that event.
Expect the wogball treatment when visiting the
Land of Fosters where they call footballers wogs.
A comment from a fan:
Whilst on the subject of media morons:
>Over the weekend either channel 7 or 9
reported on football crowd violence
>in Indonesia or somewhere else... They reported the
final score as 5-3 to
>someone, I
cant remember or care, but anyway I later heard on the BBC, that
>the final score was actually 1-1 and the
team won 4-2 on penalties.....
>Things'll never change....
>See you all in Melbourne
...Well whilst we're whinging..
Did anyone else notice at least 2 commercial
radio news reports saying the
Socceroos
had moved from 50th to 33rd? Actually we have been in the 30's all
year, and they should know that. One of them
has looked up the FIFA site
which shows
we were at 50 last year, next to the current result. Of course
they all just copy each other, without any checking of
sources. Bastards.
'Re SMH and reference to Sydney teams not
embracing any of the current NSL sides....
I'm not a Marconi supporter, but have been to a couple
of games recently and I would refute that they have not
been embraced by other fans. I'm a dinky di Aussie and a
couple of mates also, and they have enjoyed going to
Marconi matches.
And, judging from the reaction around us on the hill,
I'd say there are others like us.
As
well, Marconi seem to me to draw a wide range of support, not just the
Italians.
Cheers.'
Saw a Murdoch Telemoron lying on a seat
Friday before the A-League
Not a mention anywhere in its 147 pages
You can't even use it for dunny paper
No wonder they hired Wells
Wells in the Murdoch telemoron
described Olympic football as "diving on grass.." in an article about the
availability of tickets at the Olympics- well is that ignorance or
bigotry?
Why Wells do they send players off in Victorian
rules (aka tiddleywinks) for tripping?
Where is his comment about the
opening game on the Olympic Stadium by Murdoch's packielackey 'diving in human
poop'?
A rule for one and not the
other?
A view from a football fan in Melbourne
"Melbourne people will
not have a bar
with anything other than that of their hereditary AFL club. Still with Carlton
having a
large non Anglo Saxon
following ("We are the dago Blues... you know they're Carlton, caus their
banners are in Italian" etc. etc.) I'd
expected the crowds they would be getting would be well over
what they are now. Have they successfully approached
their AFL supporters, caus they've always
had a group of Pommy singers at AFL matches. And they
AREN'T there for the soccer. " Out of the Australian
newsgroup.
In the lead up to the 1998 Grand Final a Sydney
paper a football fan comments;
"For those fortunate or unfortunate enough to
read Ron Reed's article in
the
Herald-Sun today, I've got one thing to say.
Fancy placing an article on the back page of
the herald-sun and
continued inside
about how SM supporters have been racially abusing him
and his family....
Clearly Jonsey is being vindictive. That
is to be expected. But what
on
earth is Ron Reed doing printing this shit now. WHAT IS HIS
INSPERATION BEHIND IT????
Why now? Why at all? Why have a
huge article on Eddie K one day and a
slaging one on Souths the next? Yes I think it is
a conspiracy against
SM. As to
who is behind it, I don't know, but why else would somebody
do this. What Reed conveniently overlooked is that
SM has a Turk and a
Macedonian in its
team. Not to mention Croatians, Italian's (including
it's captain) and Greeks. 20% of our members are
from a non-Greek
Background (I've
seen the members list myself). "
Typical bull that footballers have to put up
with in Australia.
Now football has been played in Australia as
long as anywhere in the world, but it isn't given the 'hereditary' tag.
Perhaps this is because of the media.
The soc*ial game was played here first! Soccer was first with green and
gold and black!
Brought to you by fosters the anti-football
lager.
Fosters is conspicuous by it absence at
football matches, even those with world-wide audiences such as the Iran
v Australia World Cup Qualifier 1998 for the
final France spot. Iran win but that is another story.
In the first match of the 1999 playoffs,
the SMH didn't even report the result of the Spirit v Marconi match despite it
having more spectators than those who went to the packielackey, yet it devoted
nearly a whole page to them! It did though amazingly preview the match
between Spirit and Marconi which must be a first.
But really, is the failure to report the result
surprising given the past record of the paper?
The match which was shown live on pay TV , but
during the break they saturated the screen with tiddleywinks propaganda. The
viewers were football fans! But those who saw the match realise how
tiddleywinks is really tiddleywimps when it is compared to real football. It is
amazing that Spirit had so few bookings!
As the final draws near in Perth one fan
comments:
"Finals fever has hit Perth in a big big way.
As you heard yesterday the
game sold
out within hours of tickets going on sale to the general
public.
The Glory mailing list is now full of mail as
to which pubs we are going
to meet up
at, when we are going to get to the ground and what the
atmosphere is going to be like without a real Shed
area.
Glory's move to Leederville Oval from
Perth Oval now looks to have been dumped. Glory
are holding out on the State Government building a
purpose built stadium. With Richard Court tossing (apt word that) the coin on
Saturday the favourite song seems likely to be "Dicky, Dicky Give Us A
Stadium"
Will the murdoch media recognise it?
Amazingly there was even very short
preview! Nearly 1/6th of a page!
But how about the news headlines for the Grand
Final 1999 Preview?
All about the
hooligans at the soccer.
And they judge
the clubs on a few people only.
Why did they not do that when the
tiddleywimps TEAM attacked unprovoked the Vietnamese hotel?
Do they judge that game's
supporters on the behaviour of the PLAYERS?
What colour are swans in
Australia?
Black and
white.
So why are the Sydney Swans red
and white?
Because they
come from Melbourne.
Now haven't Sydney United proven one of the
most important tenets of football as they reached the 1999 Grand Final?
They fail at the final hurdle but prove the
point: ticker, ticker, ticker and the heart continues to throb despite the move
to stop it.
What counts is performance on the field; not
crowd support, money, artificial salary caps or bureaucratic interference.
These are the province of minor leagues.
Speaking of minor leagues;
From a tiddleywimps newsgroup:
" >In the last few years one player in the AFL really makes me
want to jump
>thru the tv or on the ground
>and punch the poncy bastards lights out for his soccer like
overacting
>falling on the ground rolling over
>like the typical overpaid, nancy boy, soccer players."
Now is this jealousy, ignorance or simply
inadequacy from the tiddleywimp?
BTW Why do they ban players in tiddleywimps for
tripping?
The predictions made a year
earlier about the 'official opening' of the Olympic Stadium on June 12, 1999
with the FIFA World Stars v Australia were proved - it was a deliberate attempt
to downgrade football, and that the Olympic movement and FIFA have been duped by
the SOCOG packielackeys in charge of the promotion. The pitch was a sandy
multilined patchwork of blacked out signs with a divoted surface that
looked more like a dairy yard than a football field. The pitch had a
game of crappy packielackey played on it three days earlier in the rain
completely destroying an already poor surface. It was only marginally
better than the one Australia played New Zealand on in New Zealand during the
World Cup Qualifier for France 98. Kewell was nearly severely injured on
its sand dune surface and the black patches and lines made one wonder if the
game was being played on the local cow paddock next door where Belmore play in
the Fifth Division All Aged 2 competition. The only difference was that they put
sand on the Olympic pitch to cover the holes.
Australia won easily 3-2 in front
of the 88 101 wind swept fans exposed to the elements.
The media was full of "It's been
opened already when they had the league (sic) 'crappy packielackey' game and
many people have been there before anyway".
Or as reported in the Leeds
newsgroup:
"The match was to officially open
the Australian Olympic
stadium which seats over 110,000,
despite the fact that it has
been in use for over three
months."
The media virtually blacked out
the previews to the game and derided the concept of the official opening.
The pre-match entertainment can
only be described as abysmally poor.
All planned by the packielackeys on SOCOG
who control the promotion of the Olympic Games?
It seems all these predictions
have come true.
The, at every opportunity attack
the Manchester United v. Socceroos Down under Series 1999 campaign
by the media in Australia was a disgrace. They clearly wanted the
series to be a failure.
All this and Manchester United
have signed a contract with the Australian Wool Board and yet Manu were treated
like sheep dung.
Every paper, television network
(with the exception of SBS) went on a football mauling exercise in an attempt to
discredit and belittle the Socceroos claiming players like Colosimo and
Lazaridis as second-rate. However, who was second-rate?
The MCG for its appalling
surface.
The ignorant
James O'Brian for his what's on in sport segment on the Manchester United
team.
The Australian
media for their undisguised attack of the players of Manchester United and the
Socceroos.
Imagine
calling Stam, Giggs, Urwin, Cole, Yorke, Bosnich, et al second
rate?
Is this another case of
Australian sports media ignorance or is it a matter of ostriches with
their heads buried in dung?
But the crowds still came and new
Socceroos stars emerged. 71 000 in Melbourne and 78 000 in Sydney.
All despite the media
derision.
BTW the coverage by Stoke's Joke
was actually creditable.
But then, how much influence did the worry
beads have on the management?
As for the friendly- well for
Colosimo it's a case of deja vu USA.
The tackle from Cole was uncalled for and
he deserved a red card.
It highlights who had the skill!
And it wasn't Cole
Voodoo!.
Then along comes John.
The howardly coward.
The Honourable PM of
Australia with his powers of premonition, bans football players from
attending a human rights convention at Bondi and kicking footballs in
Australia. Why ? Because they are black West African
footballers! He bans them just because they are footballers using
the pretext that they will overstay their visa. Where in the soothsayer's
underworld did he see this premonition.? What if they were packielackey or
tiddleywimp players? Would he have banned them? Imagine if they had
played rugby!
Will he ban all participants from
Africa during the Sydney Olympics?
Now even the UN finds this behaviour
disturbing.
But
guess who is speaking at Bondi?
Tiddleywimps.
When South Melbourne
qualified for the World Club Championships in Brazil after winning the
Oceania zone there was not even a mention in the packielackey/Stoke's joke
of a media.
As one fan commented:
"Also very absent from most
reports was South Melbourne's great result in
Nadi. Shameful really. Who do you blame?
No excuse in my opinion."
As another fan points out what
the media ignored;
The representatives, and how they
qualified are as follows:
AFC: Winner of the 1998 Asian
Super Cup: Al-Nasr, Saudi Arabia
CAF: Winner of the Champions' League 1999
- 12.12.99
CONCACAF:
Winner of the 1999 CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 03.10.99
CONMEBOL: Winner of the 1998 Copa
Libertadores: Clube Regatas Vasco da
Gama, Brazil
UEFA: Winner of the 1999 Champions'
League: Manchester United, England
OFC: Winner of the 1999 OFC Club
Championship: South Melbourne, Australia
Winner of the Toyota Cup 1998: Real
Madrid, Spain
Brazil:
Champions, Corinthians, Brazil
This of course is not to mention
the blackout of the new season. Murdoch's Australian on Saturday 9th Oct 99
didn't even mention a word of preview or report the results from the previous
night. That's murdoch's packielacky for you!
Is it any wonder that Ange
Postecoglou finds the lack of media recognition for his side an
affront?
Australia v Brazil 0-2 ,
Australia v Brazil 2-2 and Kewell fails to front.
Have things improved in the media?
As a fan points out.
"Today's SMH sports result page
only published 4 of the weekend's results and
failed to include the competition
table."
But what can one expect from the
Sydney 2000 media !
In another football first
the Matildas (Australia's women's Olympic football team) release a nude
Matildas Calendar, Sydney 2000?!
They receive world -wide coverage
but the packielackey/tiddleywimps of SOCOG attack the football team because they
dare seek publicity in the nude and attempt to stop its publication!
Haven't they ever been to a nude
beach?!
Are they never
naked?
Do they shower and
bathe in their undies?
This type of gutter journalism is
to be expected from an organisation that is intent on the blackout and abuse of
football in Australia.
The Murdoch's Australian claims
it is a backward step for feminism- or should that read feminazi intent on the
control of women!?
But then that's Murdoch's
packielackey for you!!
The facts are that there
are not enough copies of the calendar to go around
and the Matildas are a competitive
football team. They might not win gold
and might be beaten by the USA and
China but they are real footballers.
They play a real game!
In fact the calendar is very
artistic.
Here is the view from one
of the tiddleywimps posting to a real newsgroup:
"The Australian Women's team who
will be representing their country at the
Olympics next year have stooped to
an all time low.
Getting their gear off for
a nudie calendar (showing everything not some art house
type shots).
Comes with the sanction of
Soccer Australia.
And you wonder why people
don't take soccer in Australia seriously?
Not to mention the
ridiculous comment by one player on the radio this morning
stating that 50% of the team was
lesbian. Did we really need to know that?"
How rude!
They must be Continental wogs !
Imagine putting sex
first!?
It was so offensive that a quote
from the calendar is in order.
"Wauchope, family,
friends is where my
success comes from"
Tracie McGovern"
And she is a good looking
sort!
They might even go topless down
the beach!
Viva la football!
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