Bleacher Report hilarious cock up – or is it pure anti-Arsenal bias? « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News. Supporting the Lord Wenger; coach of the decade
The Bleacher Report is a regular email which has a wide reach across the world, from its USA offices.
I have long seen it as an AAA product, and must admit I gave up looking at it on a regular basis long ago.
But today a headline in the report forced me in. It reads
Chelsea’s Triumph Costs Arsenal Millions
Click on the story and it takes you to a report in the Guardian which reads…
Chelsea’s triumph costs Manchester City £3m in lost Uefa TV money
Something of a mismatch there, then. A story headline “costs Arsenal millions” leading to a story headline that “costs Man City £3m”.
So what’s the story – apart from the fact that Bleacher is run by a bunch of AAAs.
Money from the Champs League is divided up each year according to a number of factors – such as where you ended up in the league last year, where you ended up in the Champs League and so on.
- The Guardian says that Man City would normally get £12m, but now will get£9m
- Man U would normally expect £9 but get£7.5m
- Arsenal would normally expect £6m but get£4.5m
- Tottenham in fourth would have got £3m but gets nowt.
- Chelsea, according to the Guardian will get £9m.
The figures are however themselves estimates – the actual money is not declared until July.
So Arsenal to get a drop of £1.5m or Chelsea’s triumph costs Arsenal millions?
Man City lose £3m or “Chelsea’s triumph costs Arsenal millions”.
Ah well. Pesky things these numbers. Wasn’t it Arry who said that he couldn’t count above three, in his trial. That presumably means he won’t notice.
Tony