Newman Noggs
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The story is there to distract from the real story next to it.
It goes to a wider point of ‘mind games’ and ‘click bait’
No reasonable person would buy a copy of the Mirror on the strength of that headline, surely? But would they buy it if it was and intelligent debate/analysis of a certain game, team or season as a whole?
I don’t know the answer. But they all seem to put a lot of effort in to writing rubbish (about City and others) so why not spend time writing pieces that people buy?
What they might spend in cash and man hours, they would surely make back in credibility and longevity?
Just noticed this ...interestingThe story is there to distract from the real story next to it.
we must have a game tomorrow and are doing well
It goes to a wider point of ‘mind games’ and ‘click bait’
No reasonable person would buy a copy of the Mirror on the strength of that headline, surely? But would they buy it if it was and intelligent debate/analysis of a certain game, team or season as a whole?
I don’t know the answer. But they all seem to put a lot of effort in to writing rubbish (about City and others) so why not spend time writing pieces that people buy?
What they might spend in cash and man hours, they would surely make back in credibility and longevity?
I seem to remember, only 2 months ago, the same papers were full of Maureen going to PSG. He was ‘openly courting them’ and ‘would be gone by the end of the season, if not before’ according to some.Exactly. Can you imagine, say, Sterling and Aguero huddled in the dressing room saying “Shit, David McDonnell in The Mirror thinks the gaffer is off to PSG. We’re fucked.”?
If they even noticed the story, which they probably wouldn’t, they’d presumably laugh about when the same paper reported that either of them were going to Arsenal as part of a Sanchez swap.
Hah, good luck to them.we must have a game tomorrow and are doing well
You clearly need to do a better job of picking your family.Pep took over a b team heading nowhere and transformed them into winning games before getting the Barcelona job and kept them up through determination, guile, wisdom and grit. Some City fans (my family) still didn't grasp how wondrous he was after I told them and said we should get fat sam or pulis..
It certainly has their target audience in the group marked 'die hard, argue but make no sense, never go but buy the wallpaper and duvet cover , part of the 697 million' frothing in the comments, especially with the oil comments...how they're still hurting at not getting PepI agree wholeheartedly, but that’s probably a wider point about the tabloid media in general. It’s not a new development, or specific to City, but yes football journalism in particular in this country is generally pretty poor.