Media coverage 2018/19

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Oh it gets better.

Game, set and match to city rabin.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Delaney is now basically saying he wants to hold City to account for the human rights records of its owners but the same principles don’t apply to him or his employers - utter hypocrite.

As one who worked in media, and still works with media, let me tell you: when reporters decide they aren't reporters, but rather editors who write for the Opinion section, their careers are done.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

The timing and ferocity of his meltdown suggest he’s either:

A) a Dipper
B) had his life savings invested at Coral’s on a Dipper title win
C) both a and b.

He's been on the anfailed wrap.

 

[Henkeman]

As one who worked in media, and still works with media, let me tell you: when reporters decide they aren't reporters, but rather editors who write for the Opinion section, their careers are done.

Quoted it before, but as one political journalist here put it: "you can be a campaigner, or you can be a journalist. You can't be both".

 

[2sheikhs]

I wonder how the media will spin it once the dippers or scum get taken over by Arab money ? I guess they will be the good type of Arabic money .

Probably the same response to the dippers spending over 200m on Allison, Van Dyke and Keita. Good business. Nothing wrong in that. Not helping to inflate the market at all.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I actually haven't got a problem with journalists questioning us about FFP and Abu Dhabi sports washing etc. What I detest though it their attitude and approach to doing so and I also can't shake off the feeling that some of the journalists are only concerned with human rights because it can be used to attack City, instead of the nature of it.

Let's just imagine that Sheikh Mansour had enough and sold City tomorrow. Would these journalists then carry on with their crusades and attack clubs for taking sponsorship money of companies with links to questionable human rights?

There are Chinese, Thai, American and Russian owners in English football who all have very close links to countries with poor human rights records. But I'm yet to see any other side receive the same level of vitriol as City has. I understand that City have much stronger links to the UAE Royal Family than say Man United do to Saudi Arabia. Yet both City and United are guilty of taking what the media call 'oil money' from countries with poor human rights records. You would think mentioning how 'blood money' being rife in PL football would also hammer the message home but somehow I'm yet to see this.

Another ****ish trick was that question directed to Pep yesterday. Forget the timing of the question, the fact that he has insinuated that Pep is taking illegal/dodgy payments from elsewhere is nonsense and without foundation. All of the charges we are being investigated for are from long before Pep's arrival. That question yesterday was about as relevant as someone asking Dan Roan if he touches kids because he works for the BBC.

Finally, and the point that pisses me off the most. I've read a lot about how us City fans are somehow complicit in what goes on in the Middle-East because we support our club. I've also heard accusations that we defend the UAE's human rights records because we call out the media and attend the Etihad. However, it is the media, and those alone, who have decided to band the UAE and City as a sole entity not us fans.

I can cheer KDB without laughing as some backwards law in Abu Dhabi. I can criticise the way woman are treated in countries in the Middle East without calling Pep a bald fraud. Yet the insinuation that all City fans are in the wrong for supporting their club is something that i will call the media out for. I supported City long before Sheikh Mansour came along and will support the club long after he doesn't.

I wear Nike footwear but it doesn't mean I support child labour. I had a Huawei phone, doesn't mean I support the death penalty and censorship. I eat meat but it doesn't mean that I support animal cruelty. Yet somehow supporting City means I support human right atrocities.

Excellent piece.
Like you, I'm not against fair(ish) comment, especially if the opinion lodged is backed up with a reasoned basis. I also think that some reactions are OTT, especially when a journalist tries irony (which is an easy way to get misunderstood.

Slating City fans for supporting and contuinuing to support CIty based on some UAE political actions is the part which changes things, and is a nailed-on certainty to get angry responses (and for some, probably what they want). Ignoring the fact that the link between fans and clubs, and that it isn't a matter of switching to another club, is disingenuous.

 

[jrb]

I wonder if any of these Journalists who are constantly battering City have ever been to and stayed in Abu Dhabi?

If they are so concerned about a Human Rights there, none of them would have stepped foot into the country for any reason whatsoever.

 

[Parisian]

The biggest problem is here.
He can dislike UAE all he wants but he is saying he can be happy with the source of his wages.

So he has no ethical problem when it is about his wages. So why is he sensitive when same regimes pay other people and views it as a negative development ?
Reminds me of the Arsenal benefitting from Emirates money and even having their stadium named after the Middle East Emirate but vomitting City UAE money.

 

[bluewatch007]

I read in some rag this morning that we’ve actually ruined the romance of the FA Cup because were too good!! Couldn’t believe what I was seeing

 

[Henkeman]

The biggest problem is here.
He can dislike UAE all he wants but he is saying he can be happy with the source of his wages.

So he has no ethical problem when it is about his wages. So why is he sensitive when same regimes pay other people and views it as a negative development ?
Reminds me of the Arsenal benefitting from Emirates money and even having their stadium named after the Middle East Emirate but vomitting City UAE money.

That was the bit that got me. Saying he's comfortable with the source of his income is astonishing given his holier than thou rant. He's literally being paid by Russian and Saudi owners.

 

[Damanino]

I said earlier we have to use the full force of UAE cyber security technology to dig up dirt on some of these journos. And then whatever dirt we find just keep leaking it bit by bit.

Hope we find some racist emails in Castles, Harris etc emails and then we will out them for what they really are. Wouldnt be fun?

Even Pep can feel how much attack is coming his way hope when he visits Mansour soon they will take about this. This needs to be stopped, time to fight these ugly racist journos with their own medicine.

 

[moh]

while most of the journalists and part time bloggers/twitter warriors posted on this thread are 100% weapons, there is something to be said for a certain amount of bias in reporting or live commentating. these people are essentially in the entertainment industry and therefore the product they are supplying to their demographic needs to be interesting and entertaining.
having a realistic commentary or point of view on city recently would not make for excitement or entertainment for neutrals are the underdog fan boys. we have raised the level of play in this league and other teams are struggling to catch up. the game yesterday showed the gulf in class between 1st and 8th in the league at the moment, but the distance between 3rd and 10th is not that far apart. 1st and 2nd in the league this year have raised the bar to new heights, almost to an unrealistic level.
the commentator getting over giddy at a half chance from Watford is trying to drum up some emotion from the viewers, simple as that. i've been that viewer in the past and have cheered on the underdog, because back then that is what City were in those games, and i had genuine affinity with other teams in our situation.
certain leanings towards liverpool winning can be understood to some degree because of the human aspect of them winning it after 30 years. it is a bigger story to sell. bigger story = more clicks and therefore more cash. lets be honest here, those journalists we talk about are not in the industry for the love of the game only, they are in it for the same reason we all go to work. sometimes its a bonus to do a job you love and get paid while you're doing it.
unfortunately, some of the bottom feeding journos out there are in a frenzy to get the negative slant on City out to the general public via the entrenched whipped up jingoism from our nearest challengers in red. they see a customer base ready and waiting for their "product", and give them what they want in spades to get their attention and clicks. it is lowest common denominator journalism for a new generation of 3 second memory goldfish swimming in a sea of red.
when the red teams are performing, and even when they are not performing, they still warrant more attention because, at present, they have a larger pool of fingers clicking the stories.

tl;dr = pundits/journos are in the entertainment game and pander to their biggest cash cows. it wont change anytime soon.

This post has made me step back and think actually

Thank you

You are right. Whatever their personal leaning and opinion of City they are doing there job

To be good as a journalist means with things that get a reaction. If they were just rolling things out that nobody read they would lose that job or have to move to one that paid less money

I'm not offering this by way of explanation. Just that it occurred to me properly for once what the motivation was

 

[Machiavelli]

I thought he was saying just the opposite. That the stick City were getting wasn't fair.

He was, it was the crisp gimp who was about to bring it up. Ian jumped in and shut it down before he got going.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

This post has made me step back and think actually

Thank you

You are right. Whatever their personal leaning and opinion of City they are doing there job

To be good as a journalist means with things that get a reaction. If they were just rolling things out that nobody read they would lose that job or have to move to one that paid less money

I'm not offering this by way of explanation. Just that it occurred to me properly for once what the motivation was

In my country there is (supposed to be) a difference between a pundit and a journo.

And well there fucking should be.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Been changed back unfortunately. The change log is funny.

Another one added and removed:

“Delaney is half Irish and half Spanishsquirrel and is [[bilingualbisexual]].

 

[SebastianBlue]

Another one added and removed:

“Delaney is half Irish and half Spanishsquirrel and is [[bilingualbisexual]].

Steady on, there’s nothing wrong with being half Spanish...

 

[oakiecokie]

Eh, a bit less of the Chester if you don’t mind. It’s a mighty fine city.

Hahah.It certainly is mate.Only 14 miles from my house and frequent the place quite often.Pity he`as a shitty Chester bloke.

 

[jrb]

Hahah.It certainly is mate.Only 14 miles from my house and frequent the place quite often.Pity he`as a shitty Chester bloke.

Fair play to the MUEN, it was wall to wall online coverage after City won the FA Cup and did the quadruple.

 

[Shaggy]

I thought he was saying just the opposite. That the stick City were getting wasn't fair.

I concur Henkeman, thats exactly the impression I was getting as well.

 

[waspish]

Funny how there wasn't this amount of outrage when United paid 30m for Ferdinand in 2002 or when they won three PL titles in a row on two occasions.

Or fergie’s first big spend was one and a half times the rags turn over thats like them spending 900m this summer on players.