Media Thread 2020/21

[give it to gordon]

So I filled in a bbc survey and bbc sent this back lol.... I guess the they wont use it ! So the bbc are going to use the survey results they like.

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

Carragher is an absolute lowlife scumbag. He shafted my brother’s mate who did a paved driveway at his house, only for his wife to turn round and say she had changed her mind about the colour they had both chosen and had signed off. Carragher threatened to tie him up in court for years and bankrupt him rather than pay the pre-agreed price “cos Im a millionaire who can afford it and you're not”

...and they say that you can't judge a book by its cover!

It would appear that as well as looking like a bit (a lot) of a cvnt, he acts like a bit (a lot) of a cvnt as well.
As you say, absolute lowlife scumbag!

 

[dickie davies]

Remember a good few years back now, there was an article about City fans burning an effigy of Tevez on the canal near the stadium... anyone who knows the area knew it wasn't anywhere near... turns out the photo was taken near Mossley and was set-up by a photo agency that sells images to newspapers.
I complained to IPSO at the time as it really wound me up at the time, but it came to nothing.

The same agency staged a supporter sitting in the Etihad wearing a replica shirt with "Ronaldo"" and the number "7" on the back

 

[Blue Mist]

Is this a guess or do you actually know something about the vacancy?

I don't think he said anything unreasonable there, in fact it makes perfect sense and he's given actual examples and insight. The Negredo example was news to me. I would have thought we already have someone like that at the club though.

Also, I get the impression that some player agents are relied upon for some of this stuff and that is something I would like to see addressed. The modern day player's reliance on greedy agents in the game.

No, my apologies, I was thinking we could still bring youngsters over from Spain etc for the academy but hasn't that been stopped? If we were they would be desperate for help if they couldn't speak the language etc. Samuel is correct though, why spend multi millions and then ignore them.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

The comments section of the mail? What were you expecting to find?
I sometimes scour a bbc comments page and that's bad enough..

It's not something I do very often, it's depressing and hard to believe that such a large section of the population can actually be that certifiably insane.

 

[mayo31]

Carragher is an absolute lowlife scumbag. He shafted my brother’s mate who did a paved driveway at his house, only for his wife to turn round and say she had changed her mind about the colour they had both chosen and had signed off. Carragher threatened to tie him up in court for years and bankrupt him rather than pay the pre-agreed price “cos Im a millionaire who can afford it and you're not”

I hope he dug the drive up

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Manchester City are damaging football with 'state sponsored' cash, says La Liga president

Manchester City are damaging European football by driving up player prices with their "state-sponsored" cash reserves, according to the head of Spain's top tier.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Manchester City sponsorship 'covered' by Abu Dhabi government, not Etihad

A consultants’ report written for the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi stated that the Abu Dhabi government, not Etihad itself, was ‘covering’ the airline’s sponsorship of Manchester City in 2010

www.theguardian.com

Man City have cheated the system, now Prem must have balls to relegate them

MANCHESTER CITY are in the dock. Finally, a football club being brought to book. This may yet just be the saving grace of football. Uefa have found the courage to sanction one of the so-called &lsq…

www.thesun.co.uk

Man City fans can hide shame no longer, and other mails... - Football365

The Mailbox reacts to Man City’s European ban and raises the prospect of Premier League titles being rescinded…

www.football365.com

Revealed: the scale of Manchester City’s FFP breaches before 2014 Uefa deal

Manchester City were found to have made inadmissible submissions to Uefa over financial fair play in 2014 and were reported for not making bank statements available, the Guardian can reveal

www.theguardian.com

You don't have too look to hard to see our bad press, the Guardian seem to have a hard on for us big time.

And virtually all those stories were proven to be totally false. They were based on malicious leaks and the Guardian presented the false allegations as facts with no defence from City. The Sun interview with Simon Jordan is totally libellous. It's still a mystery to me why we didn't take action. It's incredible that someone from within UEFA (a proven corrupt organisation) briefs a reporter and they just accept the claims as true even though the other party (City) totally denies what has been said.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Fuck me is that Ian Datke who has just said West Ham have spent a few bob in centre forwards,next thing he’ll be mentioning what Maguire, martial, pigbad and tgat dutch bench warmer cost. Actually no he won’t

He did it the other day too. And BT showed the cost of the Utd team v the Burnley team the other night!

I guess they're trying to rewrite history and show City fans they treat all the same.

 

[birch villa]

Carragher is an absolute lowlife scumbag. He shafted my brother’s mate who did a paved driveway at his house, only for his wife to turn round and say she had changed her mind about the colour they had both chosen and had signed off. Carragher threatened to tie him up in court for years and bankrupt him rather than pay the pre-agreed price “cos Im a millionaire who can afford it and you're not”

Wot a wanker

 

[Blueknows]

Carragher is an absolute lowlife scumbag. He shafted my brother’s mate who did a paved driveway at his house, only for his wife to turn round and say she had changed her mind about the colour they had both chosen and had signed off. Carragher threatened to tie him up in court for years and bankrupt him rather than pay the pre-agreed price “cos Im a millionaire who can afford it and you're not”

Hope he dug the fecker up and left a mess

 

[Bill]

Been watching a load of 70’s City games on YouTube since Bell passed away, the level of professionalism, unbiased and positive commentary, about both sides, compared to now, is astonishing.

This is basically fanzone TV and it’s a joke.

no clicks back then.

 

[Bill]

Carragher is an absolute lowlife scumbag. He shafted my brother’s mate who did a paved driveway at his house, only for his wife to turn round and say she had changed her mind about the colour they had both chosen and had signed off. Carragher threatened to tie him up in court for years and bankrupt him rather than pay the pre-agreed price “cos Im a millionaire who can afford it and you're not”

he would have paid me.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Has he mentioned if they lost money on Haller yet.

I think he or the summariser didn’t actually

 

[Kazzydeyna]

And virtually all those stories were proven to be totally false. They were based on malicious leaks and the Guardian presented the false allegations as facts with no defence from City. The Sun interview with Simon Jordan is totally libellous. It's still a mystery to me why we didn't take action. It's incredible that someone from within UEFA (a proven corrupt organisation) briefs a reporter and they just accept the claims as true even though the other party (City) totally denies what has been said.

Exactly.

I remember well all the furore once the ban had been announced but before the CAS verdict came through.

I said at the time that the club were in a true, existential, fight for its very survival. Read the Simon Jordan piece in particular. This was only an amuse-bouche for what would have followed if the ban had been upheld. Titles,cups,records WOULD have been stripped from us. The media and their acolytes in the game would have ensured the pressure was applied to such an extent it would have become impossible to hold back the tide.
Next would have come the briefing in the media about how ‘club X’ wants to ‘rescue’ KDB/Raheem/AGuero/name any of our players you want to from the ‘nightmare’ they found themselves in at City ‘the proven cheats’.
Then would have come the claims for financial compensation from ‘rivals’ who had been ‘cheated’ out of prize money/tv revenue (CL) etc. Even if they hadn’t won the clamour and endless negative publicity around these claims would have served to constantly continue dragging the clubs name through the mud for years afterwards. And by extension the good name of our owner. The pressure on him to abandon us would have risen day by day, and there may well have come a point where in order to protect the good name of his nation he may have felt it sensible to give in.
All of the above accompanied in the media by the sobriquet “Proven cheats”, which the club would have been powerless to combat if CAS had been as bent as uefa and upheld the farcical ban.

It is why I will never, under any circumstances, ever, turn against Pep. At the beginning of all this when the times were as dark for City as at any time In our long and illustrious history, He responded loudly and very publicly to stories in the media that he was going to leave if the ban was upheld with a resounding “I believe in this club, I believe in our owners and my bosses, I am staying at City and seeing out my contract come what may”. THAT is leadership.

I also remember well a thread around the time of the CAS verdict where I actually had to argue with City fans (only two to be fair to every other sensible and normal poster on here) that the above scenarios weren’t excessively pessimistic, but were in fact very real.

Thank God I didn’t have to be proven correct as CAS did the correct thing.

I will never forgive the media Though. Never. They danced on our grave before we were dead and fed their fetid, rancid readership a daily diet of racism, lies, xenophobia and outright glee at the prospect that “the Arabs” were going to get it.

How wrong they were.

CTID.

 

[wolviedinho]

Exactly.

I remember well all the furore once the ban had been announced but before the CAS verdict came through.

I said at the time that the club were in a true, existential, fight for its very survival. Read the Simon Jordan piece in particular. This was only an amuse-bouche for what would have followed if the ban had been upheld. Titles,cups,records WOULD have been stripped from us. The media and their acolytes in the game would have ensured the pressure was applied to such an extent it would have become impossible to hold back the tide.
Next would have come the briefing in the media about how ‘club X’ wants to ‘rescue’ KDB/Raheem/AGuero/name any of our players you want to from the ‘nightmare’ they found themselves in at City ‘the proven cheats’.
Then would have come the claims for financial compensation from ‘rivals’ who had been ‘cheated’ out of prize money/tv revenue (CL) etc. Even if they hadn’t won the clamour and endless negative publicity around these claims would have served to constantly continue dragging the clubs name through the mud for years afterwards. And by extension the good name of our owner. The pressure on him to abandon us would have risen day by day, and there may well have come a point where in order to protect the good name of his nation he may have felt it sensible to give in.
All of the above accompanied in the media by the sobriquet “Proven cheats”, which the club would have been powerless to combat if CAS had been as bent as uefa and upheld the farcical ban.

It is why I will never, under any circumstances, ever, turn against Pep. At the beginning of all this when the times were as dark for City as at any time In our long and illustrious history, He responded loudly and very publicly to stories in the media that he was going to leave if the ban was upheld with a resounding “I believe in this club, I believe in our owners and my bosses, I am staying at City and seeing out my contract come what may”. THAT is leadership.

I also remember well a thread around the time of the CAS verdict where I actually had to argue with City fans (only two to be fair to every other sensible and normal poster on here) that the above scenarios weren’t excessively pessimistic, but were in fact very real.

Thank God I didn’t have to be proven correct as CAS did the correct thing.

I will never forgive the media Though. Never. They danced on our grave before we were dead and fed their fetid, rancid readership a daily diet of racism, lies, xenophobia and outright glee at the prospect that “the Arabs” were going to get it.

How wrong they were.

CTID.

Fantastic post.

Cunts had us hanged, drawn and quartered.

The media was/is a willing executioner on behalf of the G14.

 

[Aba452]

Exactly.

I remember well all the furore once the ban had been announced but before the CAS verdict came through.

I said at the time that the club were in a true, existential, fight for its very survival. Read the Simon Jordan piece in particular. This was only an amuse-bouche for what would have followed if the ban had been upheld. Titles,cups,records WOULD have been stripped from us. The media and their acolytes in the game would have ensured the pressure was applied to such an extent it would have become impossible to hold back the tide.
Next would have come the briefing in the media about how ‘club X’ wants to ‘rescue’ KDB/Raheem/AGuero/name any of our players you want to from the ‘nightmare’ they found themselves in at City ‘the proven cheats’.
Then would have come the claims for financial compensation from ‘rivals’ who had been ‘cheated’ out of prize money/tv revenue (CL) etc. Even if they hadn’t won the clamour and endless negative publicity around these claims would have served to constantly continue dragging the clubs name through the mud for years afterwards. And by extension the good name of our owner. The pressure on him to abandon us would have risen day by day, and there may well have come a point where in order to protect the good name of his nation he may have felt it sensible to give in.
All of the above accompanied in the media by the sobriquet “Proven cheats”, which the club would have been powerless to combat if CAS had been as bent as uefa and upheld the farcical ban.

It is why I will never, under any circumstances, ever, turn against Pep. At the beginning of all this when the times were as dark for City as at any time In our long and illustrious history, He responded loudly and very publicly to stories in the media that he was going to leave if the ban was upheld with a resounding “I believe in this club, I believe in our owners and my bosses, I am staying at City and seeing out my contract come what may”. THAT is leadership.

I also remember well a thread around the time of the CAS verdict where I actually had to argue with City fans (only two to be fair to every other sensible and normal poster on here) that the above scenarios weren’t excessively pessimistic, but were in fact very real.

Thank God I didn’t have to be proven correct as CAS did the correct thing.

I will never forgive the media Though. Never. They danced on our grave before we were dead and fed their fetid, rancid readership a daily diet of racism, lies, xenophobia and outright glee at the prospect that “the Arabs” were going to get it.

How wrong they were.

CTID.

The worst thing is Kezia that this WOULD have been the exact line taken by the press. It would have been a pile on to permanently put out our lights.

You only have to see how badly the media are smarting from their twin darlings ' shortcomings which have been magnified by our rather gloriously finding our belief - and mojo! The classic diversionary tactics of plastering St Marcus and today Sir Jorache all over the bulletins shows they won't forget how they were shown up to be a load of clueless tossers over CAS.

I feel gutted that our players have not been given the recognition they deserve like Merlin or Don Sergio. But really its every single one of them since 2011.

Mancini and Pellegrini had us playing some brilliant football equal I think to Pep's most brilliant. Were they recognised? Silly question when Alan Pardew gets LMA award for not getting relegated!!!!

As the more enlightened BMers on here say #buyacoffee.

 

[Blue Budgie]

Exactly.

I remember well all the furore once the ban had been announced but before the CAS verdict came through.

I said at the time that the club were in a true, existential, fight for its very survival. Read the Simon Jordan piece in particular. This was only an amuse-bouche for what would have followed if the ban had been upheld. Titles,cups,records WOULD have been stripped from us. The media and their acolytes in the game would have ensured the pressure was applied to such an extent it would have become impossible to hold back the tide.
Next would have come the briefing in the media about how ‘club X’ wants to ‘rescue’ KDB/Raheem/AGuero/name any of our players you want to from the ‘nightmare’ they found themselves in at City ‘the proven cheats’.
Then would have come the claims for financial compensation from ‘rivals’ who had been ‘cheated’ out of prize money/tv revenue (CL) etc. Even if they hadn’t won the clamour and endless negative publicity around these claims would have served to constantly continue dragging the clubs name through the mud for years afterwards. And by extension the good name of our owner. The pressure on him to abandon us would have risen day by day, and there may well have come a point where in order to protect the good name of his nation he may have felt it sensible to give in.
All of the above accompanied in the media by the sobriquet “Proven cheats”, which the club would have been powerless to combat if CAS had been as bent as uefa and upheld the farcical ban.

It is why I will never, under any circumstances, ever, turn against Pep. At the beginning of all this when the times were as dark for City as at any time In our long and illustrious history, He responded loudly and very publicly to stories in the media that he was going to leave if the ban was upheld with a resounding “I believe in this club, I believe in our owners and my bosses, I am staying at City and seeing out my contract come what may”. THAT is leadership.

I also remember well a thread around the time of the CAS verdict where I actually had to argue with City fans (only two to be fair to every other sensible and normal poster on here) that the above scenarios weren’t excessively pessimistic, but were in fact very real.

Thank God I didn’t have to be proven correct as CAS did the correct thing.

I will never forgive the media Though. Never. They danced on our grave before we were dead and fed their fetid, rancid readership a daily diet of racism, lies, xenophobia and outright glee at the prospect that “the Arabs” were going to get it.

How wrong they were.

CTID.

Post of the year so far. Just wish the club would make a stand against some of the shit that's thrown at us.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Exactly.

I remember well all the furore once the ban had been announced but before the CAS verdict came through.

I said at the time that the club were in a true, existential, fight for its very survival. Read the Simon Jordan piece in particular. This was only an amuse-bouche for what would have followed if the ban had been upheld. Titles,cups,records WOULD have been stripped from us. The media and their acolytes in the game would have ensured the pressure was applied to such an extent it would have become impossible to hold back the tide.
Next would have come the briefing in the media about how ‘club X’ wants to ‘rescue’ KDB/Raheem/AGuero/name any of our players you want to from the ‘nightmare’ they found themselves in at City ‘the proven cheats’.
Then would have come the claims for financial compensation from ‘rivals’ who had been ‘cheated’ out of prize money/tv revenue (CL) etc. Even if they hadn’t won the clamour and endless negative publicity around these claims would have served to constantly continue dragging the clubs name through the mud for years afterwards. And by extension the good name of our owner. The pressure on him to abandon us would have risen day by day, and there may well have come a point where in order to protect the good name of his nation he may have felt it sensible to give in.
All of the above accompanied in the media by the sobriquet “Proven cheats”, which the club would have been powerless to combat if CAS had been as bent as uefa and upheld the farcical ban.

It is why I will never, under any circumstances, ever, turn against Pep. At the beginning of all this when the times were as dark for City as at any time In our long and illustrious history, He responded loudly and very publicly to stories in the media that he was going to leave if the ban was upheld with a resounding “I believe in this club, I believe in our owners and my bosses, I am staying at City and seeing out my contract come what may”. THAT is leadership.

I also remember well a thread around the time of the CAS verdict where I actually had to argue with City fans (only two to be fair to every other sensible and normal poster on here) that the above scenarios weren’t excessively pessimistic, but were in fact very real.

Thank God I didn’t have to be proven correct as CAS did the correct thing.

I will never forgive the media Though. Never. They danced on our grave before we were dead and fed their fetid, rancid readership a daily diet of racism, lies, xenophobia and outright glee at the prospect that “the Arabs” were going to get it.

How wrong they were.

CTID.

Great post that, mate.

 

[gocity]

I will tell you how big this United and Liverpool rivalry is (At risk of people being appalled by what I say). I asked a girl out in 1991. She was pretty fit (different league to me). I thought she would say no but she was a United fan so I told her I had 2 tickets for Utd v Liverpool that weekend (then I thought she would say yes). It worked and she said yes. I then went to Old Trafford on the Thursday to buy tickets for the match THAT WEEKEND. And got 2, easily.
That year United capacity was c47500. Two weeks earlier they had played Sunderland at home in front of 45,394 and then for the huge clash versus Liverpool they attracted 43,690. Not even a sellout, hence I could wander up and get tickets with 3 days notice. Biggest rivalry my arse

Never mind that, did it work for you?

 

[Tommy_Catons_Perm]

Fantastic post.

Cunts had us hanged, drawn and quartered.

The media was/is a willing executioner on behalf of the G14.

And barely any part of the media gave any details on what City were actually guilty of. I remember Alan Shearer being asked about it on match of the day and nodding sagely saying that City were guilty and they would be punished. But he didn't have a clue about FFP and City's "crimes".

I only understood anything about FFP and City's innocence by reading details on here through such esteemed contributors as Prestwich blue et al.

There is a bigger story here. How and why did a sports governing body attempt to destroy one of its members? I don't expect any answers from the media.