29th January, 2014 (in Greenwich Mean Time)
A glorious evening at Anfield, routing Everton 4-0 was the response a spirited Liverpool gave after the frustration of losing out on another player, Salah, to Chelsea. Sigdurssons, Dempseys, Mkhitaryans, Eriksens, Willians, Salahs and now the latest "breaking" news on Konoplyanka. Much hurt and distraught about such hijackings, one cannot resist the curiousity of knowing how these news actually sprang up. Call me jobless or a crazy Liverpool Fan, I monitored how the stories regarding a Spurs hijack of the Konoplyanka deal sprang up in the web.
Praisley Gates came up with the first article headlining "Rogers Remains Hopeful of Making a Major Signing" @01:51.
(A host of rumours aroused with Arda Turan, Hernanes, Mitroglu, Fernanado, Andre Gomes, Daniel Agger for Gokhan Inler etc names wildly thrown by websites all over the world)
Sky Sports came up with the same report @06:00. They were followed by Belfast Telegraph, IB Times, Sports Mole, SoccerSouls, Express & Star, Football 365,Daily Star, RTE, Daily and Sunday Express, ITV, talkSPORT, Liverpool Echo, Bleacher Report, Here is the City, The Independent and Tamworth Herald. (Whoah, thats a lot of articles which say the same thing, speculating)
Here comes Konoplyanka
Daily and Sunday Express took the lead of announcing Liverpool's interest in Yevhen Konoplyanka(had never heard much of him before this except scoring against England in WC qualifiers) @08:00.
Telegraph, Sports Mole, Off the Post, Daily Star, Daily Mail, 101 Great Goals, The Irish Times, Liverpool Echo, Mirror, The Guardian, Metro, ESPN, Give Me Sport, The Sport Review, Soccerlens and Sport.co.uk followed it up. All of them reading, publishing and manipulating others' article.
Here comes Konoplyanka's Dad
The Independent came up with a story @10:53 where the "Dad" says this: "I cannot tell you much but the rumours of an English club are true. He can change clubs later this week". Now here is the list of websites who claimed Konoplyanka's dad whispering the same; Inside Futbol, Bleacher report and Click Liverpool.
Clubcall went a step further with this article @ 11:03 "Konoplyanka's agent arrives for 16 million pounds move talks (My laptop keyboard doesn't have a Sterling symbol hence "pounds"). CaughtOffside, This is Anfield, Footy Matters, Goal.com, fanatix, Gulf News, Metro, Sports Mole, Here is The City, Sky Sports, Daily Star and London Evening Standard as usual.
"Hijack threats"
Sabotage Times thought it was funny to publish an article "Konoplyanka to Liverpool: Should Chelsea Hijack Move Just For A Laugh?" @12:47.
Daily Star reported "Liverpool jet out to seal 15 mil pound deal" (I wonder who jetted out and when but if it was Ian Ayre in there, i wouldn't mind an actual flight hijack).
"Gazumped again? Spurs aim to beat Liverpool to Dnipro's Yevhen Konoplyanka" @18:29 published by Off the Post was "the first artice" (concentrate here) in the web speculating a move by Spurs is awaited. Is it the scouts of Spurs, or the fans of Spurs, or Daniel Levy himself might have brought that story out through Off the Post. Or was it another media hype by the websites to increase the no. of hits? Or was it the agent of Konoplyanka who started throwing in some names to encourage a bidding war and cash in some extra? The truth is yet to be known.
Hijack or not, it certainly brought similar stories by Cartilage Free Captain, 101 Great Goals, Metro, The Hard Tackle, Here is The City, The Independent, The Telegraph and Click Liverpool.
"Transfer Clock: United in for Konoplyanka? Liverpool MD jets out" @00:01 30th January, is another twist in the tale by Here is the City leaving no stones unturned to blow stories out of proportion.
5 more "special reports" of an imminent Spurs hijack have come since "YOU" started reading this blog post.
What we learned:
1) The truth about Spurs hijack is only known to the editors of Off the Post (being the first article).
2) Every article by every website is a permutation/combination or active/passive translation of the other.
3) Fans (esp Keyboard Warriors) have been engaged in another "WAR of WORDS".
4) The New Indian Express caught up with the news exactly 16 hours later from the first report... shows the plight of Liverpool Fans in India.
5) I can spell and pronounce Yevhen Konoplyanka in 5 different languages thanks to this herculean blog (kidding). A special message to Ian Ayre "better get him to anfield and save us the embarassment".
YNWA
Wandered-Lost-Crazy
A glorious evening at Anfield, routing Everton 4-0 was the response a spirited Liverpool gave after the frustration of losing out on another player, Salah, to Chelsea. Sigdurssons, Dempseys, Mkhitaryans, Eriksens, Willians, Salahs and now the latest "breaking" news on Konoplyanka. Much hurt and distraught about such hijackings, one cannot resist the curiousity of knowing how these news actually sprang up. Call me jobless or a crazy Liverpool Fan, I monitored how the stories regarding a Spurs hijack of the Konoplyanka deal sprang up in the web.
Praisley Gates came up with the first article headlining "Rogers Remains Hopeful of Making a Major Signing" @01:51.
(A host of rumours aroused with Arda Turan, Hernanes, Mitroglu, Fernanado, Andre Gomes, Daniel Agger for Gokhan Inler etc names wildly thrown by websites all over the world)
Sky Sports came up with the same report @06:00. They were followed by Belfast Telegraph, IB Times, Sports Mole, SoccerSouls, Express & Star, Football 365,Daily Star, RTE, Daily and Sunday Express, ITV, talkSPORT, Liverpool Echo, Bleacher Report, Here is the City, The Independent and Tamworth Herald. (Whoah, thats a lot of articles which say the same thing, speculating)
Here comes Konoplyanka
Daily and Sunday Express took the lead of announcing Liverpool's interest in Yevhen Konoplyanka(had never heard much of him before this except scoring against England in WC qualifiers) @08:00.
Telegraph, Sports Mole, Off the Post, Daily Star, Daily Mail, 101 Great Goals, The Irish Times, Liverpool Echo, Mirror, The Guardian, Metro, ESPN, Give Me Sport, The Sport Review, Soccerlens and Sport.co.uk followed it up. All of them reading, publishing and manipulating others' article.
Here comes Konoplyanka's Dad
The Independent came up with a story @10:53 where the "Dad" says this: "I cannot tell you much but the rumours of an English club are true. He can change clubs later this week". Now here is the list of websites who claimed Konoplyanka's dad whispering the same; Inside Futbol, Bleacher report and Click Liverpool.
Clubcall went a step further with this article @ 11:03 "Konoplyanka's agent arrives for 16 million pounds move talks (My laptop keyboard doesn't have a Sterling symbol hence "pounds"). CaughtOffside, This is Anfield, Footy Matters, Goal.com, fanatix, Gulf News, Metro, Sports Mole, Here is The City, Sky Sports, Daily Star and London Evening Standard as usual.
"Hijack threats"
Sabotage Times thought it was funny to publish an article "Konoplyanka to Liverpool: Should Chelsea Hijack Move Just For A Laugh?" @12:47.
Daily Star reported "Liverpool jet out to seal 15 mil pound deal" (I wonder who jetted out and when but if it was Ian Ayre in there, i wouldn't mind an actual flight hijack).
"Gazumped again? Spurs aim to beat Liverpool to Dnipro's Yevhen Konoplyanka" @18:29 published by Off the Post was "the first artice" (concentrate here) in the web speculating a move by Spurs is awaited. Is it the scouts of Spurs, or the fans of Spurs, or Daniel Levy himself might have brought that story out through Off the Post. Or was it another media hype by the websites to increase the no. of hits? Or was it the agent of Konoplyanka who started throwing in some names to encourage a bidding war and cash in some extra? The truth is yet to be known.
Hijack or not, it certainly brought similar stories by Cartilage Free Captain, 101 Great Goals, Metro, The Hard Tackle, Here is The City, The Independent, The Telegraph and Click Liverpool.
"Transfer Clock: United in for Konoplyanka? Liverpool MD jets out" @00:01 30th January, is another twist in the tale by Here is the City leaving no stones unturned to blow stories out of proportion.
5 more "special reports" of an imminent Spurs hijack have come since "YOU" started reading this blog post.
What we learned:
1) The truth about Spurs hijack is only known to the editors of Off the Post (being the first article).
2) Every article by every website is a permutation/combination or active/passive translation of the other.
3) Fans (esp Keyboard Warriors) have been engaged in another "WAR of WORDS".
4) The New Indian Express caught up with the news exactly 16 hours later from the first report... shows the plight of Liverpool Fans in India.
5) I can spell and pronounce Yevhen Konoplyanka in 5 different languages thanks to this herculean blog (kidding). A special message to Ian Ayre "better get him to anfield and save us the embarassment".
YNWA
Wandered-Lost-Crazy
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