Media coverage 2018/19

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Bert Trautmanns Helemet said:
How about this gem slap bang in the middle of Ian Herbert's match report in the Mail this morning:

''The challenge to City and what they represent comes from beyond the field of play. For ten years, the Abu Dhabis ownership of this club has burnished the Gulf state's image.
But the shocking life imprisonment of British PhD candidate Matthew Hedges last week has brought Abu Dhabi's dubious human rights record into sharp focus. While its football team was going about its business, two more British universities cut ties with the UAE. The timing is unfortunate, after revelations that City perpetrated a complex deceit in their attempt to pass UEFA's Financial Fair Play.'

He then continues his match report to describe the fourth goal scored by Leroy.

Just WTF? Why on earth should that be placed prominently in the middle of a match report of West Ham v City?
Well... we all know why don't we? The inherent anti City stance and bias is just so obvious.
Until the club starts to do something about it, it will never stop.
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Where's our no agenda brigade? I could swear they would come here and defend this shower of shit.
 
donkinho said:
Stanley said this :-

“At the very least the Premier League should be making clear statements along the lines of - the Premier League looks to embrace countries and cultures from around the world as we are a truly global League.
But with that comes responsibility and we are concerned that one of our constituent clubs, which is owned by a sovereign wealth which is basically the government, has been questioned about it’s human rights practices. Ordinarily we wouldn’t involve politics in football, but this is a country that owns the club not a business, and this needs to be looked at”
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I might have known Collymoron would use “its” incorrectly.....
 
What price football and books when an innocent man is jailed in the UAE?

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...d-books-when-an-innocent-man-is-jailed-in-uae

But it’s not just the rulers of the UAE and its allies that have been grappling with moral questions. The first were the fans of Manchester City – and Hedges’s life-sentence came just a week after Amnesty International had argued that the UAE’s investment in City and its success is an attempt to “sports-wash” – to use football and the loyalty of supporters to whitewash the UAE’s “deeply tarnished image”.
The emotional compact between football clubs and their supporters is visceral and usually lifelong. The abandoning of a football club, an institution at the centre of supporters’ lives, self-image and sense of community, is not like switching toothpaste. It is more akin to a self-inflicted amputation.
It is perhaps not surprising – though nonetheless depressing – that City fans have taken to social media to defend the UAE and its legal system. Others constructed convoluted, moral-relativist hypotheses designed to at least get them through the week. Followers of the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the late inventor of the five-stage model of grieving, might recognise this as indicative of the bargaining stage of grief, the one that comes right after denial and anger and just before depression and finally acceptance.....

Has anyone in here constructed convoluted, moral-relativist hypotheses designed to get them through the week? Anybody been grappling with moral questions. or in the early stages of grief?

He must be talking about the rags.

PS: I love his call to arms....

If so, the season ticket holders of Premier League teams with links to the Middle East could become players rather than pawns in the game of global influence. Can they, from the terraces and through social media, pioneer a new form of inverted sports-washing?

What a patronising piece of shit journalism.


 
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Marvin said:
The annoying thing about that Barney Ronay article is that he says
Naturally you’d assume that these voices of authority were professors of Middle Eastern jurisprudence, or at worst a set of official Emirati propaganda bots. But no. They were Manchester City supporters.

Who does this guy think he is, and we are. Does it matter whether we are bricklayers, nurses, Doctors, professors, accountants, idiots or mastermind, we are football supporters and most of us have a lot more integrity than he clearly does.

That's it enough time spent thinking about this. Annoyed, but hoping even more for a City win at West Ham and then on to the home game, and woe betide any opposition fan who raises this with me. Strange thing they never do. It's always football, although they do talk about money a lot.
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Barney Ronay is just another smarmy poshboy who earns a living in the media because he has a nice turn of phrase. The media is full of people like him these days. He writes opinion pieces but is not strong on checking facts. He is not a proper journalist. If he was he would know the diference between Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
 
donkinho said:
Stanley said this :-

“At the very least the Premier League should be making clear statements along the lines of - the Premier League looks to embrace countries and cultures from around the world as we are a truly global League.
But with that comes responsibility and we are concerned that one of our constituent clubs, which is owned by a sovereign wealth which is basically the government, has been questioned about it’s human rights practices. Ordinarily we wouldn’t involve politics in football, but this is a country that owns the club not a business, and this needs to be looked at”
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Does Stanley and other esteemed journo’s ever do basic research because they constantly claim Abu Dhabi is a country
 
donkinho said:
Stanley said this :-

“At the very least the Premier League should be making clear statements along the lines of - the Premier League looks to embrace countries and cultures from around the world as we are a truly global League.
But with that comes responsibility and we are concerned that one of our constituent clubs, which is owned by a sovereign wealth which is basically the government, has been questioned about it’s human rights practices. Ordinarily we wouldn’t involve politics in football, but this is a country that owns the club not a business, and this needs to be looked at”
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Tell the daft twat to Google ADUG and then make a public apology for a) lying and b) being a daft twat.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Barney Ronay is just another smarmy poshboy who earns a living in the media because he has a nice turn of phrase. The media is full of people like him these days. He writes opinion pieces but is not strong on checking facts. He is not a proper journalist. If he was he would know the diference between Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
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Hedges was jailed in AD to be fair.
 
Postman Pep said:
Abu Dhabi grand prix has just started strange that I missed all the moral outrage during the build up
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Oddly so did I.

But it's ok there's no money sloshing around in F1, and it's a completely open playing field where the amount of money invested has no relevance. After all any team can win a GP right

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"If so, the season ticket holders of Premier League teams with links to the Middle East could become players rather than pawns in the game of global influence. Can they, from the terraces and through social media, pioneer a new form of inverted sports-washing?"

Oh yes because supporters are the people the clubs really care about these days, and they monitor every word we say.
I appreciate the club has meetings with supporters, but the money we contribute with ticket sales compared to other income streams is pretty miniscule.

Let's try starting with the arms deals the Country sign with the Middle East shall we, together with other trade deals etc.

It's odd this Sports Washing thing has come up so long after the various Emirates sponsorships
 
WesthoughtonJohn said:
Oddly so did I.

But it's ok there's no money sloshing around in F1, and it's a completely open playing field where the amount of money invested has no relevance. After all any team can win a GP right

Oh wait..........
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There's a big golf tournament there in January how they line up their puts whilst simultaneously 'grappling with moral questions' I'll never know
 
bluelol said:
This country is not exactly squeaky clean when it come to human rights, history tells us that.
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Very recent history as I keep banging on about. The government of this country were complict in the rendition (a polite word for kidnapping) of someone, Abdul Hakim Belhaj, we assisted in his forced removal from Bangkok to Libya. The Libyan secret service then imprisioned him and tortured him. We have since been forced, note forced to apologise and ay compensation as he was completly innocent.

And yet the media of this country say the UAE break the Human Rights Act.

Oh and just to make sure every part of the Human Rights Act was broken we also assisted in the forcible kidnapping of his preganant wife.
 
I dont remember the outrage with Chelsea being owned by a Russian oligarch, or Scum/Scousers with ownership from a country that has propped up numerous dictators over multiple decades.
 
I think, reading most of the comments on here, is most people’s points - every right minded person is in favour of human rights for all, but why is it suddenly at the absolute forefront of so called journalistic reporting now ? As stated by many, there are decades of interaction between UK and UAE organisations, across business, sports and government, yet it is only now that people seem to have discovered their morals and principles ? With regard to the student Matt Hedges, I hope vehemently that :-
1. He is completely innocent
2. If point 1 is true then he is released as soon as possible.
At the same time, let’s not be all colonialist and superior when it comes to judicial matters - there have been innumerable miscarriages of justice in UK courts, plus, he MAY have actually been spying. MI6 don’t give you a uniform and company tie. The author and columnist Frederick Forsyth, not long ago, admitted to once working for the intelligence services, and the directors of Matrix Churchill all fed back defence intelligence too. It’s a murky world. As stated - let’s hope the lad’s innocent
 
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