Media Thread 2020/21

[bobbyowenquiff]

With the regularity our players fees are mentioned by commentators they are clearly instructed to do so. Sets a depressingly false narrative City have to pay millions for players, other teams don't have to.

Just the usual relentless false BT narrative last night which ignores the devastating injuries our squad has suffered in recent years and the fact that senior players need replacing. To be fair Jenas defended us saying what we have spent has been fair value because of the volume of trophies we have won.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I turned the commentary off again, as it sounded like two boring idiots who ramble away with inane comments when youu're watching a game in a pub

They provided absolutely no analysis or commentary of the match itself. Presumably because like most of the idiots on BT Ian Dark doesn't actually understand football. He kept going on about Cancelo saying he could also play right back when that is actually his first position.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

The fact we get hardly any credit for our achievements only confirms how much we are hurting the media and opposition fans , every time we win a game its like a knife through the heart of the 'istree club pundits , and perversely i get a lot of enjoyment from their pain. If we were mid-table "Citeh" we would be their lovable second club , rand emember success will always breed contempt and we get plenty of both.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

The fact we get hardly any credit for our achievements only confirms how much we are hurting the media and opposition fans , every time we win a game its like a knife through the heart of the 'istree club pundits , and perversely i get a lot of enjoyment from their pain. If we were mid-table "Citeh" we would be their lovable second club , rand emember success will always breed contempt and we get plenty of both.

Dead right, I mean poor injury stricken Liverpool didn't get the slightest bit of sympathy for Alisson, VVD and Fabinho.

To be honest I'm sick to death that two weeks later the msm are still raging that no one's been executed for Virgils heart breaking assassination.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

Ha ha, I thought I wasn't very tech savvy. You don't need an aerial for a firestick, it runs off your wifi.

If I've been watching anything on my old sky box I sometimes have to change input settings back to aerial, although that's on a fire tv rather than a stick.

 

[mike1923]

Did anyone notice Linekers snide comment about moody Pep at post match and pre match press conferences tonight. Never heard him say that about Klipperty and hes been known to be right sore loser in his post match interviews. More often than Pep I'd say.

In fairness I said ‘fucking hell Peps in a better mood than usual’ as he is usually a gloomy fucker in front of the camera

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

When Pep said "Well done" to Matt Smith (BT) for pointing out his tactics to him.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Sometimes the bias is so insidious you hardly notice it.

This is from the Daily Mail....

'Absolutely disgraceful': Marseille players are blasted by fans for not taking the knee while Man City's stars showed their support for anti-racism fight on the other side of the pitch before Champions League clash​

• Marseille stars did not take a knee before Champions League clash with Man City
• French team instead stood round the centre circle and watched while City did
• Players, coaches and other staff in England have taken the knee since June
• The gesture came as a way to support the global Black Lives Matter movement

Marseille players did not take the knee before their Champions League encounter with Manchester City on Tuesday – but instead stood around the centre circle and watched while Raheem Sterling and his team-mates did.

Players, coaches and other staff have been taking the knee in England before games since June as a show of support for the Black Lives Matter movement, and it now symbolises the global fight against racism.

However, the gesture has not been adopted in France, which led to the jarring scenes at the Stade Velodrome seconds before kick-off.

PSG and Manchester United avoided such scenes last week because both sets of players decided against the pre-match ritual at the Parc des Princes by instead getting the game underway as normal....

PSG players had no decision to make. French Teams haven't taken the knee.

But in England we have.

In plain speak, Manchester United decided not to take the knee.

 

[citymad]

In fairness I said ‘fucking hell Peps in a better mood than usual’ as he is usually a gloomy fucker in front of the camera

Do you blame him ? He must be so frustrated with his players failing to put the ball in the net with all the possession and then having to face the imbeciles throwing antagonizing questions.

 

[asahartford1]

When Pep said "Well done" to Matt Smith (BT) for pointing out his tactics to him.

Just watched the interview.

I think pep is ready to talk football and engage the interviewer, but he is adept at smelling the wind up merchant, or trap setter, and then treats them with contempt.

Would love to have a football conversation with Pep.

 

[mike1923]

Do you blame him ? He must be so frustrated with his players failing to put the ball in the net with all the possession and then having to face the imbeciles throwing antagonizing questions.

Not at all

 

[eyalluvitt]

A pro French or British TV channel ?

“This is much much better , Marseille are now starting to take the game to City” “City are fragile and you need to get in amongst them”

Answers on a postcard to Anderooooux Townsendreu

 

[bluetonium]

Ian Darke constantly droned on about money, he's a complete twat.

He did, it was just so boring and he needs to have a think about whether he wants to engage fans or spout off about facts and figures. At least the co commentator tried to put that in to some perspective by saying we'd actually won things and were good to watch.

I think he referred to Cancelo as £60m, second most expensive full back and part of a £400m defence within minutes if him coming on. Standard rhetoric and one many city fans have no respect for.

No mention of Danilo the other way so the true outlay always much smaller, no mention of the fact that the back 4 he came into last night cost half the figure he quoted, no mention of the fact that zinchenko, the player he replaced, cosring relative peanuts.

Blah blah blah Man City. Blah blah blah oil money. Blah blah blah Arabs.

I invite any of these so called commentators to do a cost vs value exercise on the so called top 6 in the premier league and challenge them to find anyone who has had better return for their money, in terms of silverware and success, than us in the last decade.

 

[goatboy]

They say it so often I'm starting to think our players surnames include a £ sign.

Has anyone watched the tifo video on YouTube about the potential for the premier league providing an ott subscription service? (sorry don't know how to post videos)

I'd love it if ADUG proposed a partnership with the premier league/eufa to provide the infrastructure to offer that service for them and put the likes of sky and bt out of business. The governing bodies get the money for a direct subscription to the football rather than sky and co bloating the fee by making you pay for all the other channels on top. You'd no doubt get many of the same talking heads presenting and commentating. But if we had a hand in its operating at least we could curtail the anti City narrative

With the possibility of these subscription services, the TV money bubble has room to grow far more.

 

[Blue_eyes]

These media know nowts have insisted that our defence is rubbish and we "leak goals "and are "fragile" etc, even when we broke defensive records they used to say it and I think I know why..... Its because all the many goals we score are received with disdain and a sense of meh by these twats, but when we concede they jump for fckin joy and celebrate like theres no tommorow. This means that our goals conceded stick in their tiny minds and our goals scored are quickly erased from memory, thus tricking themselves over it.

Either that or they are all biased fckwits trying to find any stick to beat us with!!!

 

[91:23]

FFS. 8 trophies in 4 years and he would be in line for the sack had the club not had a Barca connection in senior management. Seriously do these dicks even consider what they are about to say before spewing it out

Man City boss Pep Guardiola sent sack message because of Barcelona

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is lucky to still have a job, claims Dietmar Hamann.

www.express.co.uk

 

[Gazza]

FFS. 8 trophies in 4 years and he would be in line for the sack had the club not had a Barca connection in senior management. Seriously do these dicks even consider what they are about to say before spewing it out

Man City boss Pep Guardiola sent sack message because of Barcelona

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is lucky to still have a job, claims Dietmar Hamann.

www.express.co.uk

....and if he was to leave City I suppose these wankers think he would be on the dole with no chance of another job unless Droylsden resurrected their team.

 

[john blue]

Just sent this to BT, for what good it will do

I am getting pretty fed up with BT coverage of Manchester City on CL games, in fact all games but my example relates to this evenings game v Marseille. Please explain why your commentators and pundits have to add a price tag to every City player they talk about? This evening was Cancello at £60m, followed up with. That's a lot for a substitute. Why do they have to make comment about how much we have spent on defenders without doing some research first. However when United or Liverpool play there is an absence of the financial details paid for players in their match commentaries. Will you be pointing out tomorrow that Pogba cost 90m? Do they think that's a lot for a substitute? Will they be saying that's a great tackle by 80m Maguire, the former being unlikely. Did they mention the cost of 75m Alison missing for Liverpool tonight? I know they mentioned the recently departed Virgil VD tonight but they didnt mention his transfer fee? There is a bias with both BT and Sky to ensure that City are the biggest spenders ever in world football, that they break transfer records everytime they spend and it's a myth not helped by your biased commentary. Chelsea dont get our treatment yet they spent fortunes this summer and in previous years. Your darlings in red at both ends of the East Lancs dont get this treatment despite being the ones who regularly break transfer records. These myths are perpetuated by BT and they are inaccurate and misleading and whilst being probably unconscious they perpetuate the myth which is wholly inaccurate and you need to balance out your reporting by either naming all players, from all clubs along with their fees and especially if it's a world record fee, or just use their name and concentrate on commentating on the game.

well done sir, let us know if you get any response.

 

[mat]

“Klopp and Arteta are miles ahead tactically of Pep” is one of the new attack lines.

Sounds like a line from a joint redshirts PR plan. I still don’t understand why we just let them do it. We’ve tried the give them enough rope with the CAS case. Despite it showing the cunts up in a legal court document their PR teams with their army of social media ‘sports journalists’ have buried the truth.

Rags in debt - send St Marcus out to work at a food bank.

Dippers asthma problem - Bury the fucker.

Serge put arm on Lino - Fucking sex pest lock him up!

City PR team - “Meh”

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

In the D.Mirror online today -"Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp blasts Premier League over Man City fixture schedule".
While acknowledging "We are not friends" Klopp does attack the PL bosses for making City play WHU at 12:30 on a Saturday morning after Wednesday's Porto's match.