Media Thread 2020/21

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mat said:


Pep has no time for some of these cunts. You can see it in the eye rolls.
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I like the way the reporters' names are mentioned first so we know exactly who is who, or which prick is which.
Were some of the bigger guns there just because it's Liverpool?
The way nearly every one of them said 'Hi Pep' and waited for him to reply before another short pause before putting the question is irritating. Pep's face showed he didn't want to say an individual 'his to all these people either.
He also looked as if he thought all the questions were stupid but he did play the gentleman to the lady reporter's question.
 
I don't believe there is a bias in the media as a whole. Just like there isn't a bias in the FA and the referees.
I don't remember there being the type of reporting we get now when we won the FA Cup in 2011 or the league in 2012. I seem to remember a lot of positivity around the cup win towards the club and especially the "long suffering" supporters.
This negativity seems to have started with failing to comply with ffp in 2014. Suddenly we were cheats in the eyes of media and other clubs and their supporters. Now they have a stick to beat us with.
The narrative has been set and most of the media seem unwilling to change their stance. Even after CAS and the City Football Group ownership has been diversified they still want to bang on about sovereign wealth and unlimited funds.
Personally I want the adulation that comes with success. I want to read articles reflecting on the glory the club has achieved.
Read a good article the other day about how good a footballer Phil Foden is and how well he has been developed at City. Really enjoyed reading a positive piece about a City player with no snidey angle to it.
I'm a bit glass half full in my attitude and I do believe it will change overtime but I still enjoy reading all the conspiracy theories on this thread. And on the threads about the ref appointment for the next match.
I mean come on does anyone really believe that Michael Oliver has been appointed for Sundays game because they don’t want City to win the Premier league?
 
Gingers Dad said:
I don't believe there is a bias in the media as a whole. Just like there isn't a bias in the FA and the referees.
I don't remember there being the type of reporting we get now when we won the FA Cup in 2011 or the league in 2012. I seem to remember a lot of positivity around the cup win towards the club and especially the "long suffering" supporters.
This negativity seems to have started with failing to comply with ffp in 2014. Suddenly we were cheats in the eyes of media and other clubs and their supporters. Now they have a stick to beat us with.
The narrative has been set and most of the media seem unwilling to change their stance. Even after CAS and the City Football Group ownership has been diversified they still want to bang on about sovereign wealth and unlimited funds.
Personally I want the adulation that comes with success. I want to read articles reflecting on the glory the club has achieved.
Read a good article the other day about how good a footballer Phil Foden is and how well he has been developed at City. Really enjoyed reading a positive piece about a City player with no snidey angle to it.
I'm a bit glass half full in my attitude and I do believe it will change overtime but I still enjoy reading all the conspiracy theories on this thread. And on the threads about the ref appointment for the next match.
I mean come on does anyone really believe that Michael Oliver has been appointed for Sundays game because they don’t want City to win the Premier league?
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You don’t remember the noisy neighbours & the outrage when Mancini was taking over, the mercenary tag, the changing of the rules with Adebayor, the introduction of ffp & treatment of Raheem.

I think things ramped up another level after we won every domestic trophy which coincided with trumped up media stories which then forced uefa to ban us despite us being innocent.
 
M12Blue said:
I think the difference is the yanks are in it to make money, nothing more or less. They hate football. The more they have to spend to keep up with us the more they come up with ways to stop us.
They want a NFL type football league, there is no doubt about it, a draft day on sky sports Jesus what could be worse
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The whole of professional team sport appears to be like that. As long as everybody is making money through the franchise model they are all happy. Which is weird in a Nation that is purported to reward success
 
cheekybids said:
You don’t remember the noisy neighbours & the outrage when Mancini was taking over, the mercenary tag, the changing of the rules with Adebayor, the introduction of ffp & treatment of Raheem.

I think things ramped up another level after we won every domestic trophy which coincided with trumped up media stories which then forced uefa to ban us despite us being innocent.
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I do but that was certain sections of the media driven by Ferguson and the Rags?
 
It’s no wonder Pep is irritated. The media purport to be knowledgable about football but the level of the questioning is so poor and repetitive. How many times does he have to say one game at a ime before it sinks in that Liverpool is just another game to a professional like Pep, and as he says the same number of points are at stake. On a side note the sly sports prediction (can’t remember wich journalist) predicred that both the Blades and Burnley would restrict us to a draw,
Rather than genuinely try to predict, they are like schoolchildren who hope for a certain result without any credible reasoning.
Yes it’s nice to have positive articles written about City but who actually cares really? What matters is what happens on the pitch and I’ve said before I would rather they dislike City and betray their obvious ignorance and bias rather than fawn over everything we do (as per Utd. And L’pool) which not only. alienates the rest of football fans but even Utd fans, if my experience of them is a anything to go by are embarrassed at some of the shite written about them
Lets keep showing them how it’s done on the pitch, not the back pages of increasingly irrelevant “newspapers”
 
Gingers Dad said:
I don't believe there is a bias in the media as a whole. Just like there isn't a bias in the FA and the referees.
I don't remember there being the type of reporting we get now when we won the FA Cup in 2011 or the league in 2012. I seem to remember a lot of positivity around the cup win towards the club and especially the "long suffering" supporters.
This negativity seems to have started with failing to comply with ffp in 2014. Suddenly we were cheats in the eyes of media and other clubs and their supporters. Now they have a stick to beat us with.
The narrative has been set and most of the media seem unwilling to change their stance. Even after CAS and the City Football Group ownership has been diversified they still want to bang on about sovereign wealth and unlimited funds.
Personally I want the adulation that comes with success. I want to read articles reflecting on the glory the club has achieved.
Read a good article the other day about how good a footballer Phil Foden is and how well he has been developed at City. Really enjoyed reading a positive piece about a City player with no snidey angle to it.
I'm a bit glass half full in my attitude and I do believe it will change overtime but I still enjoy reading all the conspiracy theories on this thread. And on the threads about the ref appointment for the next match.
I mean come on does anyone really believe that Michael Oliver has been appointed for Sundays game because they don’t want City to win the Premier league?
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Fucking hell, you really don’t think the media bigs up utd and liverpool? You really think utd wouldn’t have got the pen that we didn’t get at burnley? You really think we get a good press? Fucking hell
 
We must be 100% destined to lose to everton, when we get mentioned in terms of points ahead there is rarely a mention of the game in hand. Especially when united went “joint top” even when we had a better goal difference and TWO games in hand. Just heard Dan Wotsit advertising football focus saying if we win we go 10 points clear, when it should have been 10 points clear WITH A GAME IN HAND
 
Gingers Dad said:
I don't believe there is a bias in the media as a whole. I don't remember there being the type of reporting we get now when we won the FA Cup in 2011 or the league in 2012. I seem to remember a lot of positivity around the cup win towards the club and especially the "long suffering" supporters.
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That's either a very good fishing expedition or you need to go to your GP for a dementia check. The media had us failing FFP in 2010, before it had even started. Then there was the fuss over Mancini's appointment and even outright lies.
 
Gingers Dad said:
I don't believe there is a bias in the media as a whole. Just like there isn't a bias in the FA and the referees.
I don't remember there being the type of reporting we get now when we won the FA Cup in 2011 or the league in 2012. I seem to remember a lot of positivity around the cup win towards the club and especially the "long suffering" supporters.
This negativity seems to have started with failing to comply with ffp in 2014. Suddenly we were cheats in the eyes of media and other clubs and their supporters. Now they have a stick to beat us with.
The narrative has been set and most of the media seem unwilling to change their stance. Even after CAS and the City Football Group ownership has been diversified they still want to bang on about sovereign wealth and unlimited funds.
Personally I want the adulation that comes with success. I want to read articles reflecting on the glory the club has achieved.
Read a good article the other day about how good a footballer Phil Foden is and how well he has been developed at City. Really enjoyed reading a positive piece about a City player with no snidey angle to it.
I'm a bit glass half full in my attitude and I do believe it will change overtime but I still enjoy reading all the conspiracy theories on this thread. And on the threads about the ref appointment for the next match.
I mean come on does anyone really believe that Michael Oliver has been appointed for Sundays game because they don’t want City to win the Premier league?
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I remember it first starting when pep came. They're was the initial shock of him joining city (and not utd /lfc) but then the shit really started flying when it was clear pep was taking us to new levels with the centurions season. FFP, bung allegations against pep, human rights etc all became a thing to attack City for.
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
I remember it first starting when pep came. They're was the initial shock of him joining city (and not utd /lfc) but then the shit really started flying when it was clear pep was taking us to new levels with the centurions season. FFP, bung allegations against pep, human rights etc all became a thing to attack City for.
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It’s been going on long before Pep.

I can’t remember too much media bias vitriol back in 2010 days, but clearly PB has a better memory than me.

2013-14 season was the big turning point in my mind:
Pelligrini coming in and smashing it - showing that the City revolution wasn’t just a one manager wonder.
The moyesiah failing - years of sycophants with the ‘United way’ having to find any scapegoating they could latch onto.
Liverpool failing - the replacement Red media darling, self destructing.
FFP becoming the acronym on everyone’s lips.
A ramping up of the hitherto unknown phrase ‘sports washing’.

prior to that, I do remember the ‘dirty Arab oil’ and ‘no history’ , but, for me, the 13/14 season and summer and then the following seasons ramped up continuation, was when I realised it had gone far beyond the realms of factual (albeit sports!) reporting and into bias, vitriol and slandering... and led me to Bluemoon - to see whether I was being media & fan brainwashed or blue tinted specs blinded.

I was, and am still glad to know it was the former, now immeasurably reinforced with financial posters like PB et al, and hypocrisy calling out people like Rabin.
 
Airbags Optional said:
Don’t think there is one intelligent question in all of that. Nothing about the way we have set up this season, nothing about the way teams have defended and how we are approaching things differently and nothing about how we will cope with the pace against Liverpool etc.. I could be a sports journalist as you definitely don’t need a sharp brain
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I thought the female reporter saying good luck tomorrow was a nice touch
 
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