Surprised? I’m Not…..

Same Old Sundays, Always Bleating

The two topics are, of course, sections of our beloved Cardiff based media. Soccer Sunday produced by HTV Cardiff and Wales on Sunday and their quality team of reporters who also adjourn the pages of the biggest Sunday rag, the News of the World.

Why do people keep moaning about Soccer Sunday. It hasn’t changed in the last ten years, why is it going to change now. Every Swans fan should know that they will show, in general, less than three minutes cumulatively between us and Wrexham and devote the rest of the show to the circus that is Cardiff City. I accepted it long ago and long since gave up watching the programme. What is the point. And certainly there is no point in keeping on pointing it out to them. Try and remember it that they need to show Cardiff on the TV as most of their 100,000 fans that live in Wales don’t watch them – or so they would lead us to believe anyway. This, of course isn’t their fault, but it’s the way that the capital’s media works. Watch Sky instead, at least you see our goals at some stage and you do it without the benefit of some of the worst commentators you will ever hear on a football match.

The Wales on Sunday is no different. They have again always been the same. They cannot report on Swansea without having some form of mini dig at us somewhere. This is of course the paper that believed we were wrong to sack their mate after a dreadful run of form, but it is okay to be £20 million plus in debt providing the man that formed that debt doesn’t run out on them. Today’s paper actually warns Cardiff fans that they cannot afford to upset Mr Sam in anyway shape or form in case he leaves which tells it’s own story in that the money is not his as some Cardiff fans would like you to believe.

The rag also claims that sections of the Swansea support have also called for the removal of Kenny Jackett. Well if a section is a handful of people then I guess that they already have but the very large majority appreciate that there is nothing that could have been done to salvage this season.

Of course no Swans fan should be surprised to learn that the person writing these pieces of journalistic brilliance is David Wolfe. Or as he is known to his friends, who included both Mike Lewis and Tony Petty, Tony Rees. The same Tony Rees that pedals his trade in the quality Sunday that is News of the World. The man who wouldn’t know an accuracy if it jumped up and hit him in the face. The same man that made a pledge to Roger’s testimonial in return for an interview and then paid up less than two thirds of that amount but believed he should get another interview. Nice bloke. Not.

The same man that alienated one of our players from the rest of the squad during the relegation season from division two by simply mis quoting the words used left right and centre turning the statement into a different meaning. This is the kind of people that we deal with in the capitals media.

Sorry folks but if you don’t know it now then you never will. The Wales on Sunday and Soccer Sunday are not worth the space that they take up. There is nothing that would give either outlet greater pleasure than seeing the Swans suffer all next season. Indeed then you could see us getting top billing in their publications just so they could wallow in the misery we would suffer.

It’s pathetic but you grow used to it and immune to it. I find it laughable and, as I have said many times, it is one of the reasons why I long since gave up worrying on what either section believe. There are those that want the Swans to succeed and then there are the others. These fall, undoubtedly, into the latter category. They’re welcome to each other – we have better things to do than worry about it.

Why not check out the latest Vetch Verdict on the BBC site?