Media Thread 2017/18

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You only have to read BTL in Guardian, on our 0-0 with Huddersfield Town, to drink in the vitriol, bitterness, and the natural fallout from the media agenda coming full fruition... City, cheated, are human rights abusers, oil money... etc... so much resentment! Yet City fans, pretty much to a man have come out with genuine, heart felt wishes to wish Fergie a speedy recovery.

Then there’s the David Conn hatchet job on City
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...spree-turned-manchester-city-into-aristocrats

For every article praising City, there’s a massive ”but” attached, either by the author, or the hundreds of arseholes regurgitating the same talkshite drivel we’ve heard for the past ten years... council house, lottery, human rights, oil money, cheats, buying titles, fraudiola, emptihad, blue seats, etc
 
The media will always treat us as outsiders. It has always been the case, especially when we we were shit and they mocked us. This is what will drive us on to more and more success. I think being anti-establishment is part of City fans' DNA. Pep will use it as a motivational tool. Just look at that picture of Walker, Stones and Sterling with the trophy yesterday. They have all been vilified by the press in the last 12 months, they have been relentlessly targeted, and they have had the last laugh. Long may it last.
 
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You only have to read BTL in Guardian, on our 0-0 with Huddersfield Town, to drink in the vitriol, bitterness, and the natural fallout from the media agenda coming full fruition... City, cheated, are human rights abusers, oil money... etc... so much resentment! Yet City fans, pretty much to a man have come out with genuine, heart felt wishes to wish Fergie a speedy recovery.

Then there’s the David Conn hatchet job on City
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...spree-turned-manchester-city-into-aristocrats

For every article praising City, there’s a massive ”but” attached, either by the author, or the hundreds of arseholes regurgitating the same talkshite drivel we’ve heard for the past ten years... council house, lottery, human rights, oil money, cheats, buying titles, fraudiola, emptihad, blue seats, etc
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But were there enough cliches in it to get you a full house on Citeh Bingo?
 
Bewar3them00n said:
You only have to read BTL in Guardian, on our 0-0 with Huddersfield Town, to drink in the vitriol, bitterness, and the natural fallout from the media agenda coming full fruition... City, cheated, are human rights abusers, oil money... etc... so much resentment! Yet City fans, pretty much to a man have come out with genuine, heart felt wishes to wish Fergie a speedy recovery.

Then there’s the David Conn hatchet job on City
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...spree-turned-manchester-city-into-aristocrats

For every article praising City, there’s a massive ”but” attached, either by the author, or the hundreds of arseholes regurgitating the same talkshite drivel we’ve heard for the past ten years... council house, lottery, human rights, oil money, cheats, buying titles, fraudiola, emptihad, blue seats, etc
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Good old guardian though. They’ve got a £500 billion note with a picture of Sheik Mansour on it. Except it isn’t Mansour it’s the bloke who rogered Portsmouth!
 
Good old Jamie Jackson in the Gruinad 10 things about this weekend chooses to highlight that Huddersfield had a plan for Ederson and that other teams could use it next year. I've seen this story every time that someone stops us from scoring.
 
We won it two weeks ago.

Whether the prizegiving ceremony is newsworthy is an issue but winning the league is not exactly news.
 
Just watched Granada reports and every single local teams promotion/escape from relegation was featured but not ONE whisper or shot of us lifting the country's main trophy, what the fuck??
 
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We won it two weeks ago.

Whether the prizegiving ceremony is newsworthy is an issue but winning the league is not exactly news.
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Completely agree about the winning the league no longer being news, so those complaints are a bit much.

But I share others’ bemusement with the lack of coverage of us actually lifting the trophy. That should be featured by-and-large and it is not being covered, especially in favour of other things, including coverage of United and Liverpool of varying sorts.

I posted an article a week or so ago (I believe in the Liverpool thread but I may be mistaken) from ESPN that literally came out and said that although we won the league in April, Liverpool “won the month” as they beat us in the CL and, “with shortening attention spans of supporters and viewers alike”, our early clinching of the title relegated us to relative irrelevancy in the quickfire media landscape.

While it is incredibly infuriating to read, it is very much what I have experienced when talking to younger lads that play in the Saturday morning drop-in game I put on here in Boston. I will discuss (and sometimes debate) our play and achievements with them, as most are United or Liverpool supporters. Last week one of them said “how does it feel to lose so badly”, in an apparent attempt at banter regarding the Liverpool CL result, I responded with “what are you on about, we won the league!” He responded with—and this is verbatim: “oh, that was basically done awhile ago, it doesn’t matter now.” And usually someone saying that means it in a tongue-in-cheek way or is meaning to try to wind you up. But he absolutely meant what he said—in his world it was no longer relevant. Only the here and now was worth his time and focus and he defined that as Liverpool’s progress in the CL. And, once more, I was a dinosaur for even thinking that it should be relevant. I’m only 34!

I see it all the time working with some of the interns in my office, with the kids I coach, spending time with my mate’s that have children. Facts and fairly recent events begin to lose meaning as soon as they are a few days old. And “alternative facts”, even if made up on the spots, are touted and held to be true no matter the effort you put in to reasonably discredit them (or show them to be complete hogwash). I’ve found discussing or debating almost anything with teenagers impossible now. And not in the way that older people always say talking to young people is difficult. I mean you can no longer have conversation about facts. I have gotten into heated debates over the BASIC tenets of physics as it relates to climate change. Not whether climate change is happening, or what is causing it, but about the basic laws of nature—the young woman I was speaking to would not even acknowledge that her understanding of physics was deeply flawed.

This same effect permeates the football world, as well, as young supporters increase the troll-tribalism and need for instant gratification (glory hunting without regard for facts).

Anyway, I apologise for the rant but it has been building up for quite some time and I needed to get it out.
 
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SSN keep going on about how Chelsea have only finished outside the top 4 once in the last 13 seasons.
2012 - 6th
2016 - 10th

Do your fucking research you clowns.
 
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