Exeter Blue I am here
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Fair enough Exeter but I cannot fully agree with you on the narrative of the Manchester Cold War documentary.
A lot of the main points in that documentary were made about both academies (if not all academies) and the chase for young players.
Jim Cassell as well as John Mcatees dad were also interviewed who narurally spoke highly of us and even the ex-utd academy manager Dave Laney admitted we have the competitive edge. James Ducker also defended the club highlighting the educational system on offer.
I agree it was not all positive but not all negative either. We did have a dad on talking about his sons experience at City which did not work out but rather highlighting it was a City failing he highlighted the pressures in young kids entering these development centres, which he never said was unique to city.
Whichever way you dress it up, they tried to pass Horrocks off as a neutral and gave him the most airtime, and he was the one coming out with the “immorality” shite, and St Bede’s was referenced constantly as though we were doing something wrong. I also enjoyed the debate 5 Live had the week before about City and allegations of media bias, when they invited along a journalist to rant about our (City fans’) collective delusional state, but neglected, without a trace of irony given that they were discussing bias, to have any input from City whatsoever!