Media coverage 2018/19

[Andy Conway]

Two sides of the same shit sandwich.

Don't do them the courtesy of watering down their mediocrity and hypocrisy by now pooling them together.

The press entrance, just for those who might be inclined to ask, is the door directly to the left of City's Garden of Remembrance.

How fitting!

They may well be, but blues on twitter asking one to explain his links to Qatar when it's the other one, are doing nothing for us. He's quite rightly saying he has no idea what they're talking about.

 

[Fame Monster]

What's Ewan Mckenna's twitter name? I've just signed up so I can give that biased **** some abuse.

EDit: found him now, it's Mackenna with an A.

 

[SebastianBlue]

What's Ewan Mckenna's twitter name? I've just signed up so I can give that biased **** some abuse.

EDit: found him now, it's Mackenna with an A.

Just be respectful, FM — don’t throw any digital beer on him. ;-)

 

[Fame Monster]

Just be respectful, FM — don’t throw any digital beer on him. ;-)

The last thing I want to do is go down for assault.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

They don't like it up 'em.

Not sure calling someone a patsy bullshitter is the best way to ask if you want to meet up with them and have a debate

 

[SebastianBlue]

Not sure calling someone a patsy bullshitter is the best way to ask if you want to meet up with them and have a debate

Yes, it’s similar to my clever strategy of chatting up the girls I liked when I was 7...

“So, you smell like arse, and you look like one, too. Want to come play with me and my mates?”

 

[tornandfrayed]

Tweedle dee and Tweedle Dumb.

Two cheeks of the same arse.

 

[Bozzie]

Not sure calling someone a patsy bullshitter is the best way to ask if you want to meet up with them and have a debate

It's desperation times when you need the career boost enough to call out someone who's shat all over you on twitter for a 'public debate' that you can then presumably video, report on, and use to increase your online clicks.

 

[laserblue]

I could be mistaken but wasn't Nick Harris a member of this forum several years ago for a while but got seen off by more knowledgeable people than him for spouting bollocks about FFP?

Anyway, if anyone wants a laugh he's currently getting destroyed by blues on that thread of Rabin's!

The self appointed FFP expert who arrogantly spouted shit on here was Ed Thompson who holds a minor admin position at some hick branch of HSBC. Prestwich Blue and another poster (I'm ashamed to admit I can't remember his name) tore Thompson a new one. He tried to deflect the argument for a bit but eventually fucked off without a by your leave. (Cue Life of Brian references). Unfortunately he still has some credence and writes occasional articles on FFP for publications such as WSC.

 

[Ubiquitous]

In your dreams.

What were you insinuating with this please?

Because Pep being hounded out of the club would be a disaster.

 

[Ubiquitous]

Not a blue i presume?

Check my posting history thank you before the knee jerk.

Just because I didn’t think Pep handled the question well (and I stand by this. Never show your frustration with your enemies as it will only spur them on to spew more bullshit) doesn’t make me any less of a blue.

 

[cleavers]

What were you insinuating with this please?

I'm sure you can work out what I was insinuating.

Pep won't be hounded out, if anything it'll strengthen his resolve to stay, just like the bullshit coming from italy.

 

[Ubiquitous]

I'm sure you can work out what I was insinuating.

Pep won't be hounded out, if anything it'll strengthen his resolve to stay, just like the bullshit coming from italy.

I hope Pep won’t be hounded out as he is a true genius and as long as he stays we will continue to dominate.

I also hope fellow fans will not question other fans’ loyalty when they disagree about something!

 

[BusterPhillips]

Rob Harris blocked me a long time ago, but did he ever reply to that Rabin guy?

 

[bluealf]

Rob Harris blocked me a long time ago, but did he ever reply to that Rabin guy?

No

 

[Marvin]

Another attack on Manchester City fans from Barney Ronay. He's the one who accused City fans of supporting the arrest of the Durham student.

This is the 2nd time in days that journalists have suggested that online Manchester City supporters are actually part of the UAE regime.

City are right to resist Uefa’s investigation into financial fair play if they feel it is in error. They may well be exonerated at the end. But the tone of this resistance, the aggressive statements, the idea put out there that this is all some ill visited on the disempowered, is at best cloth-eared and at worst a glimpse of the hard edges, the regime behind this extraordinary project club.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/may/24/welcome-to-elite-football-great-summer-of-hate

Have I misinterpreteed what he's saying? They are really starting to irritate me. There's one thing just straightforward prejudice against a football club because you support the the other side. That's maybe Jamie Jackson. I can handle that. What I find unacceptable is the kind of moralising that the media has taken on where City have become a front for what they see as a despicable nation-state. This in a country whose militarism has changed the face of the world, particularly the middle-east.

What are we going to do as supporters about this?

I think when our supporters express themselves online and are then publically called out by two journalists within a couple of days as being members of the UAE regime something needs to be done.

Have I misread this, or misunderstood? What do you guys think? Does it bother you?

If I interpret this allegation correctly, that's libel. Agreed?

 

[bluealf]

They don't like it up 'em.

Can't remember what I have said to this bloke Nick Harris but he has blocked me, my first blocker lol

 

[The perfect fumble]

Even by the Guardian's standards this is low....

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/may/24/welcome-to-elite-football-great-summer-of-hate

Football plays with fire as it merrily fans the flames of hate and division

....Football rage is there most obviously in the self-contained shout-box inanities of the internet. At last weekend’s FA Cup final there was a minor media furore as a lone, well-refreshed Manchester City supporter stormed the press box and began to offer up rambling brain-thoughts about anti-City bias, conspiracies against the little man and the inexplicable trend for publishing newspaper articles about Premier League golden boot winner Mohamed Salah.

It became a kind of confirmation event, proof that the angry social media presence among City’s fanbase is indeed present in the flesh; a support that appears to have never been so upset even while watching their team win a sublime domestic treble....

This tribalism has been weaponised, expertly. Firstly by broadcasters and newspapers, who have become practised in fanning the idiot wind. Red against blue, super Sunday showdowns, overheated clickbait feuds. All of this has been good for business. And secondly by something more sinister and managed. Like Orwell’s two minutes in 1984, rage can be a useful thing too.

City are right to resist Uefa’s investigation into financial fair play if they feel it is in error. They may well be exonerated at the end. But the tone of this resistance, the aggressive statements, the idea put out there that this is all some ill visited on the disempowered, is at best cloth-eared and at worst a glimpse of the hard edges, the regime behind this extraordinary project club.

 

[bobmcfc]

Not sure calling someone a patsy bullshitter is the best way to ask if you want to meet up with them and have a debate

Harris lives in Brazil anyway, he knows full well there will be no meet up

 

[The perfect fumble]

Another attack on Manchester City fans from Barney Ronay. He's the one who accused City fans of supporting the arrest of the Durham student.

This is the 2nd time in days that journalists have suggested that online Manchester City supporters are actually part of the UAE regime.

City are right to resist Uefa’s investigation into financial fair play if they feel it is in error. They may well be exonerated at the end. But the tone of this resistance, the aggressive statements, the idea put out there that this is all some ill visited on the disempowered, is at best cloth-eared and at worst a glimpse of the hard edges, the regime behind this extraordinary project club.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/may/24/welcome-to-elite-football-great-summer-of-hate

Have I misinterpreteed what he's saying? They are really starting to irritate me. There's one thing just straightforward prejudice against a football club because you support the the other side. That's maybe Jamie Jackson. I can handle that. What I find unacceptable is the kind of moralising that the media has taken on where City have become a front for what they see as a despicable nation-state. This in a country whose militarism has changed the face of the world, particularly the middle-east.

What are we going to do as supporters about this?

I think when our supporters express themselves online and are then publically called out by two journalists within a couple of days as being members of the UAE regime something needs to be done.

Have I misread this, or misunderstood? What do you guys think? Does it bother you?

If I interpret this allegation correctly, that's libel. Agreed?

No.

He is accusing our owners of using the fan base as a promotional mouthpiece for Abu Dhabi and weaponising our supporters in a campaign against those in the media who "justifiably" criticise our "sports washing" club.