If it was up to you would you ban the Sun newspaper from the Etihad?

I'd be banning more than just The Sun. If i were City it would be invitation only to our press boxes. Invites go off number of fair stories written about us or anyone connected to us.

Anyone else is banned, and The Sun's journos are just a few of many that would not be on any invite lists.
 
TheThirdDeano said:
If I was the Shiek not only would I ban any of the ****s who worked there in the past or indeed in the future; I’d buy Murdock out and shut all of the Publications down.
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He'd just use the purchase price to set them all up again while pocketing a healthy profit.
 
I'd imagine City have a decent relationship with the Sun group football journalists for the north west - Martin Blackburn seems to get inside news from City.
It's the showbiz clickbait articles that are a problem.
I don't think banning Sun north west football reporters helps us, nor solves anything.
 
fallowfield said:
I'd imagine City have a decent relationship with the Sun group football journalists for the north west - Martin Blackburn seems to get inside news from City.
It's the showbiz clickbait articles that are a problem.
I don't think banning Sun north west football reporters helps us, nor solves anything.
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What about people like Custis who has stolen a living making snide comments about City. I wonder how he feels about working for a racist newspaper like the Sun? The Sun has lost money for the last two years. It is a strugging dinosaur in the digital age. City have nothing to lose by cutting them loose. A boycott by their fans has had a positive impact on Liverpool's overall media coverage.
 
fallowfield said:
I'd imagine City have a decent relationship with the Sun group football journalists for the north west - Martin Blackburn seems to get inside news from City.
It's the showbiz clickbait articles that are a problem.
I don't think banning Sun north west football reporters helps us, nor solves anything.
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I actually agreed with you yesterday but the continuation of the attack has changed my mind.

I'd feel sorry for Martin Blackburn, even a little for Custis, but now it's gone beyond the point of no return IMO. Would it solve anything? Maybe not, but it sends a message that we as a club, as an organisation want absolutely nothing to do with the newspaper who persecutes one of our players daily.
 
fallowfield said:
I'd imagine City have a decent relationship with the Sun group football journalists for the north west - Martin Blackburn seems to get inside news from City.
It's the showbiz clickbait articles that are a problem.
I don't think banning Sun north west football reporters helps us, nor solves anything.
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Bollocks, it would get the message over loud and clear.
 
fallowfield said:
I'd imagine City have a decent relationship with the Sun group football journalists for the north west - Martin Blackburn seems to get inside news from City.
It's the showbiz clickbait articles that are a problem.
I don't think banning Sun north west football reporters helps us, nor solves anything.
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1 or 2 journalists being in a decent relationship should not stop us fucking off this vile shit stain rag of a paper.

Honestly what do we owe their football writers? that because one has been alright we tollerate the rest of them? Not for me this Blackburn fella might ok, but the paper on the whole is not, so fuck em
 
My gripe in this lot is where is Taylor PFA and the premier league, sat on their fat arses, this all started with Rogers then the Scouse tv pundits off Bt sky and bbc followed by the media which culminated in death and racist threats to Raheem and his family from the social media with this ending up with an assault outside the training ground, Utd need to up their game, ban this shithouse paper and all who work there
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
How come No? Just out of interest
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Simply dislike the idea of banning any media outlet, no matter what grounds a club or representative of a club might have for doing so. Similarly, I wouldn't advocate following the NFL approach in the US, where I believe clubs are prohibited from banning media outlets and personnel.

The drive to the bottom in the British (World) media stems from declining revenues and increased competition, so our players, staff, and club simply need to brace themselves for the inevitable negativity that will accompany our upward trajectory; it is unfortunately these such stories that generate the hype and clicks that advertisers crave.
 
domalino said:
I actually agreed with you yesterday but the continuation of the attack has changed my mind.

I'd feel sorry for Martin Blackburn, even a little for Custis, but now it's gone beyond the point of no return IMO. Would it solve anything? Maybe not, but it sends a message that we as a club, as an organisation want absolutely nothing to do with the newspaper who persecutes one of our players daily.
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That's how my view has changed too. Shame for Blackburn, cos he is indeed a good un, but. so be it.

This wholeissue might be about Sterling's 'background' as it has euphemistically been referred to in the media over the last 24 hours, but in terms of the Sun in particular isnt this also about cosying up to the Liverpool readership to try and somehow curry favour with them??
Did the vilification of Sterling only begin once it became known he was leaving them to join us? I may have my timelines wrong, and hopefully someone will correct me if so, but to my mind, this all started after that point didnt it (??)
 
chesterbells said:
That's how my view has changed too. Shame for Blackburn, cos he is indeed a good un, but. so be it.

This wholeissue might be about Sterling's 'background' as it has euphemistically been referred to in the media over the last 24 hours, but in terms of the Sun in particular isnt this also about cosying up to the Liverpool readership to try and somehow curry favour with them??
Did the vilification of Sterling only begin once it became known he was leaving them to join us? I may have my timelines wrong, and hopefully someone will correct me if so, but to my mind, this all started after that point didnt it (??)
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The vilification did start when he was still at Liverpool. The "hippy crack" fiasco when he inhaled a baloon of NO2, they made a massive deal of the assault charge he got (charges dropped), lied about the number of children he had etc.
 
No i wouldn't ban the sun, the tabloids and other broadsheets are all as bad/good as each other, don't forget the mirror is so pro manure and liverpool, not only that they were the worst culprits in the mobile phone hacking scandal.
the article in yesterdays paper to my mind was fair journalism, simply because raheem posted the pictures of his tattoo on instagram, so he leaves himself wide open for critisism.
On a personal point i don't care much for tattoo's, others do, so its up to them what they do with their bodies, as for a deeper meaning ? only raheem can answer that question
 
Rather than ban them, I think the Sheik should buy them out.
Take over The Sun paper group.
Make the idiot editors issue a full apology and admission of their guilt and then fire them and employ actual journalists, sports and otherwise.
 
Yes I agree with buying them out as well. I’d then get all the editors together and publicly fucking hang the snivelling bastards in front of the cheering crowds that had assembled to enjoy the spectacle.
 
domalino said:
The vilification did start when he was still at Liverpool. The "hippy crack" fiasco when he inhaled a baloon of NO2, they made a massive deal of the assault charge he got (charges dropped), lied about the number of children he had etc.
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ok, cheers for clarifying that pal
 
Absolutely not.

People need to appreciate even the desks within the same newspaper are rivals to a great extent, certainly in terms of not even knowing sometimes what they are working on, the impact it will have on their own patch journos.

I have dealings with them, there are so many decent journos amongst them, but news editors are a different breed altogether, they don't give a shit if it sours any relationship for the patch journo.

Same goes for every paper out there.

For the record, Raheem having a tattoo of a gun on his leg doesn't look good, he should know that, regardless of whether he has plans for it to ultimately represent his wider and personal viewpoint.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Absolutely not.

People need to appreciate even the desks within the same newspaper are rivals to a great extent, certainly in terms of not even knowing sometimes what they are working on, the impact it will have on their own patch journos.

I have dealings with them, there are so many decent journos amongst them, but news editors are a different breed altogether, they don't give a shit if it sours any relationship for the patch journo.

Same goes for every paper out there.

For the record, Raheem having a tattoo of a gun on his leg doesn't look good, he should know that, regardless of whether he has plans for it to ultimately represent his wider and personal viewpoint.
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Whilst I understand your loyalty to colleagues on a personal level, it's a vile publication that thrives upon peddling misery, bigotry and class division. So, frankly, I find it hard to have pity upon anybody who makes a living by serving such an institution.
 
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