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Mikel Arteta: "Lionel Messi is the most influential player ever in the history of football. We have never seen someone do what Messi has been doing on the field for all these years before." (www.planetfootball.com)

submitted 11 months ago by TheBiasedSportsLover@alien.top to c/main@soccer.forum

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[–] HUGE_HOG@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I used to work for a sports media page and half of my job was just refreshing this subreddit to source quotes about Messi and Ronaldo to post on Twitter/Instagram. Was always the top-performing content by a mile.

[–] Masson011@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

100% sportsbible

They got relatively huge from reposting this subreddit

[–] Disastrous_Dot_8127@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I fucking knew it

[–] magicallydelinquent@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it's hardly a secret at this point with how many articles reference reddit and twitter comments

[–] AnnieIWillKnow@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I even got £50 for a photo of mine the Daily Mail stole off Reddit

[–] Kirsty-Blue@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Was it paid out automatically or did you have to hound them for it?

[–] AnnieIWillKnow@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The latter, they didn't ask me for permission, just stole it

[–] Zeta-Omega@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You're internet royalty mate.

[–] fosjanwt@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

used to work for a sports newspaper and same.

[–] wmj31@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Hey guys I know a lawyer let's band together to file a class action and get back our hard-earned pay!

[–] Appropriate_Elk_6113@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Lmao, idek if youre baiting or if its actually true