Media Thread 2020/21

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I challenge anyone to find any mention in the online Daily Express sports page of City's game at Porto.
Also noted their feature on the cup draw. "FA cup draw for LPool, Spurs,Chelsea, United".
 
bonespost said:
Now this doesn’t look good about the UAE
foreignpolicy.com

Pentagon Says UAE Possibly Funding Russia’s Shadowy Mercenaries in Libya

The Defense Department’s inspector general report comes just as Trump aims to sell the UAE billions of dollars’ worth of arms.
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Headline says "possibly" – the US (along with Britain) also said that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction... when will people start to see past the headlines these days, and realise the political (or otherwise) agenda/narative that's being pushed?!
 
Burtonblue said:
Great to see Joleon and Barry on BT tonight again.
I may be wrong but just maybe after all our complaints the tide is turning and BT are finally listening....
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There were less snide jibes by the commentators as well. Though they couldn't help themselves with the ongoing bogus narrative about Phil Foden's game time. He has the third highest number of appearances in our squad this season (14) just below Rodri (16) and Sterling (15). Apparently this doesn't count because he is not getting enough starts in the PL (as if the CL is somehow not as significant)
Anyway Foden has now had 88 first team appearances and is possibly the most successful 20-year-old player in world football with the trophies he has won (don't forget his Man of the Match to win the Under 17 World Cup for England). Perhaps he would do much better with Martin Keown managing his career.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
There were less snide jibes by the commentators as well. Though they couldn't help themselves with the ongoing bogus narrative about Phil Foden's game time. He has the third highest number of appearances in our squad this season (14) just below Rodri (16) and Sterling (15). Apparently this doesn't count because he is not getting enough starts in the PL (as if the CL is somehow not as significant)
Anyway Foden has now had 88 first team appearances and is possibly the most successful 20-year-old player in world football with the trophies he has won (don't forget his Man of the Match to win the Under 17 World Cup for England). Perhaps he would do much better with Martin Keown managing his career.
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Could KEOWN improve his speed though, as he thinks he is a tad sluggish.
 
dario2739 said:
Headline says "possibly" – the US (along with Britain) also said that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction... when will people start to see past the headlines these days, and realise the political (or otherwise) agenda/narative that's being pushed?!
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That's not a credible news source. It's supported by a political think tank in Washington which has its own agenda. It's a propaganda tool. You need to be highly sceptical of these sort of organisations.
 
asahartford1 said:
Could KEOWN improve his speed though, as he thinks he is a tad sluggish.
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Foden is one of the fastest players at the club. Apparently faster than Kyle Walker. Keown makes a fool of himself everytime he opens his mouth.

www.planetfootball.com

The 10 fastest players in the Premier League in 2019-20: Traore, Greenwood... - Planet Football

Pace is becoming increasingly important in the modern game - but who were the fastest players in the Premier League in 2019-20?
www.planetfootball.com www.planetfootball.com
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
There were less snide jibes by the commentators as well. Though they couldn't help themselves with the ongoing bogus narrative about Phil Foden's game time. He has the third highest number of appearances in our squad this season (14) just below Rodri (16) and Sterling (15). Apparently this doesn't count because he is not getting enough starts in the PL (as if the CL is somehow not as significant)
Anyway Foden has now had 88 first team appearances and is possibly the most successful 20-year-old player in world football with the trophies he has won (don't forget his Man of the Match to win the Under 17 World Cup for England). Perhaps he would do much better with Martin Keown managing his career.
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I'm sure Ian Darke didn't have a clue who any of our players were
 
dario2739 said:
Headline says "possibly" – the US (along with Britain) also said that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction... when will people start to see past the headlines these days, and realise the political (or otherwise) agenda/narative that's being pushed?!
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Great example of this yesterday. Carole Cadwalladr, the Guardian journalist who rocketed to fame on the back of the Cambridge Analytica story, was publicising her podcast about online trolling.

Her guest was a man called Marc Owen Jones, who is a journalist who moved into academia. He's currently Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Hamid bin Khalifa University in Qatar, where he holds himself out as an expert in propaganda and misinformation. Naturally, he focuses on misinformation put out by the UAE (which Qatar never does of course).

Now Jones, an self-proclaimed expert on trolling, was among the worst trolls attacking @City_rabin, claiming he was a bot/shill/paid propagandist for the UAE. Rabin and I both pointed this out to Cadwalladr and I offered to talk to her about our experience of trolling. Jones then jumped in, repeating his baseless lies, like Trump about the election. He was asked for proof of this and, like Donny T, could offer none. So Cadwalladr is hosting a podcast on trolling and using someone she could patently see was a troll to talk about his work uncovering trolls. Who all, coincidentally, are either sympathetic to the UAE or he claims emanate from the UAE.

The Guardian of course first gave a platform to McGeehan, who was then an ordinary citizen, about how the UAE was hell on earth, deeply repressive, with venal rulers, yet Qatar was very much moving in the right direction when the reality was there was little to choose between the two.

The Guardian, true to its liberal credentials, supports the #MeToo movement yet employs those known sex pests Nakrani & Glendenning. The Guardian regularly criticies Putin & press freedom in Russia yet sent a load of journalists to the World Cup, one even writing a book about it, saying how great it was and what a good chap Putin was.

The Guardian where Comment is free but hypocrisy is sacred.
 
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Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
I challenge anyone to find any mention in the online Daily Express sports page of City's game at Porto.
Also noted their feature on the cup draw. "FA cup draw for LPool, Spurs,Chelsea, United".
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I had talk sport on after West Ham win over Villa. At the 10pm news it said West Ham gone above City and Everton into 5th spot. No mention of going above the rags.....
 
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