Media Thread 2020/21

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petrusha said:
Tom Worville is supposed to be their football analytics expert, and thus expected to bring additional expertise to an assessment of the impact of a new player such as Dias. Whether he does so effectively is another matter and, as the post immediately above makes clear, he has a track record of digs at us (there's another one out there from last year where he makes a crack about the initial behind-closed-doors Bundesliga games being played at the Etihad), but I assume that's the theory.



I subscribed to The Athletic in August 2019 under the half-price offer they had upon their launch. At the start, I was reasonably impressed, and was finding four or five decent articles to read each day, most of them not relating to City; I was quite happy to read quality stuff about, say, West Ham, Newcastle or Sheffield Wednesday. I avoided anything relating to United or Liverpool. From the little I could bear to look at, these pieces could sometimes be the same kind of embarrassing clickbait-driven guff as in the rest of the media concerning these clubs, especially the Liverpool output.

I did think at that point that I'd probably renew at the full price after a year. But as time went on, I found there were fewer of the in-depth analytical pieces I'd originally enjoyed, presumably because they didn't generate the required numbers of clicks. But the tipping point for me came in February 2020 with the coverage of City's FFP sanction. I flatter myself that I know a bit more than your average punter and your average journo about this topic, and have the professional background to back that up. The Athletic's coverage was as utterly fucking dreadful as anywhere else in the media, so I unsubscribed and wrote to tell them why. As I'd paid for a year up front, I could continue to access the site until August but I was never tempted to reconsider my decision and extend at that point.

I do think that Sam Lee is a decent City correspondent, but I note that he's on his own as far as City are concerned. United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs all have two. I assume we don't generate enough subscribers to justify a second correspondent, and I did often get the feeling with Sam that it was just a job to him, that his material didn't portray much passion for City. I don't want someone to blow smoke up our arses in the laughable way, say, James Pearce does for Liverpool, and Sam did seem quite well connected as well as capable of producing some decent analysis (FFP excepted). But I like to feel that a dedicated City correspondent writing for me has a greater affinity for the club than I perceived with him. That may be harsh, but it was how I felt.
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The biggest story about City last year was FFP, the club & everyone connected said that we were innocent. There was 2 theories, City are innocent or guilty & not one publication picked up on the former yet I read on here from forum members who were able to figure out the truth.

If they had any concerns with be truth you’d think the Athletic editor would be pissed that Sam Lee missed the scoop of the century, somehow I don’t think they are & that is why the snide fcker pisses me off.
 
Any excuse to put some good City goals up but just listen to the difference in commentary even against the rags, fair, unbiased and even sounds like joy when we score, unlike today's funeral voice.




The follow on from the 70's much the same.
 
waspish said:
Regarding the Dias ratings it’s trend by the media for over a decade downplay our players! It’s only now David Silva has gone they rave about him! Look how Sergio been treated by the media he is the best striker the premier has seen with his goal ratio to game.
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Silva and Aguero have been shockingly underrated by the media for years.

Silva is twice the player Cantona ever was, and played in a far stronger PL and did far more at international level, but the clueless media still acts like Cantona was a genius and were lukewarm on Silva for years. Even 'Bruno' has had more hype in a year than David got in 10. These people know nothing about football.

Dare I say it, if David Silva played for Utd, the media would never have had his cock out of their mouths. Only in this case, unlike plenty of their players over the years, it would have been justified.
 
Ric said:
Imagine listing a City away draw, in the season we actually won the cup, as one of the “most embarrassing FA Cup scrapes”.

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What a bizarre take on the eventual cup holders..........
 
jimharri said:
Sam Lee not a happy bunny this morning ;

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This is how the media react when being called out for spouting bullshit. Then they have the audacity to say fans are agenda nutters.

Stop writing lies about city. Keep calling them out blues. Maybe then we can have “a day off”.
 
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