Media Thread 2020/21

[andyhinch]

You wont get an argument with me about that.

I was hoping not, I’m just enjoying us winning, the rest is just background noise tbh.

 

[franksinatra]

I was hoping not, I’m just enjoying us winning, the rest is just background noise tbh.

Exactly. In these tough times, just focus on the football and enjoy that.

 

[laserblue]

Silly Sally will be sweeping aside the tennis, horse racing, taekwondo and inter counties basket weaving on BBC Breakfast tomorrow to lead with telling the world that City have broken the record for the most consecutive wins in all competitions and have reached yet another quarter final. (Not to mention reaching 10 Wembley finals in the last 11 seasons).

Maybe.

 

[andyhinch]

Exactly. In these tough times, just focus on the football and enjoy that.

As I say I don’t look for it, but impressive run of form when you’ve just been beaten by the league’s bottom club was pushing it.

 

[chesterbells]

SSN yellow ticker tonight about our record breaking run after the match.

 

[PrestwichBlue2]

Silly Sally will be sweeping aside the tennis, horse racing, taekwondo and inter counties basket weaving on BBC Breakfast tomorrow to lead with telling the world that City have broken the record for the most consecutive wins in all competitions and have reached yet another quarter final. (Not to mention reaching 10 Wembley finals in the last 11 seasons).

Maybe.

Unfortunately bud you'll have more chance of seeing Moses paddling in the Mersey than that happening.

 

[Paladin]

Is it his job to be a 'pro-City' reporter? I thought he was supposed to write the truth about City. Whether or not this particular snippet is true or not I don't know, but the fact it (arguably) makes City look bad doesn't bother me - if it's true.

So we've reached the point where we don't know if what journalists are saying is true or false? What a sad state of affairs, when even the more professional, up market news outlets like The Athletic are indistinguishable from publications like The Sun, The Star and The Beano.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Was Glenn twaddle really a football manager? Talking of Calvert Lewin he just said “they’ve just taken him straight off so it can’t be that serious”, surely that would only be the case if they had kept him on?

 

[JASR]

Silly Sally will be sweeping aside the tennis, horse racing, taekwondo and inter counties basket weaving on BBC Breakfast tomorrow to lead with telling the world that City have broken the record for the most consecutive wins in all competitions and have reached yet another quarter final. (Not to mention reaching 10 Wembley finals in the last 11 seasons).

Maybe.

There’s a squadron of pork just gone flying past and done a loop-de-loop

 

[asahartford1]

Not sure it displays bias but I suppose it could be considered irritating, based on your observations, that we have not received a mention.

As for fair and equitable, fair and equitable in comparison to who?

Do you think other sides, lets say Newcastle, Villa, Everton get as much coverage as us or other sides further down the pyramid? Is that fair or does that display a bias for us against those other clubs?

There is plenty of coverage about us, including after the Liverpool match, we might not get as much as some sides but we get a lot more than others. If memory served me correct we had the Foden goal on video, article from Shearer on us being favourites, article about Peps comments on Foden being a special talent, plus the match report on the BBC website the next day.

I suppose its a personal thing but at the moment just enjoying everything about the club currently, and yes a lot of the coverage also. Just a great time to be a blue so Im just focusing on all the positives and probably less sensitised to do these perceived slights.

It is the media thread after all.

City v Liverpool the top matches of any premier league season, and it was reported after ireland v wales rugby, some tennis game and a sport from the USA , a type of rugby I believe.
If you believe a 4 _1 Liverpool victory would have been fifth up I am a dutchman.
Keep enjoying, even if we are not as successful, and enjoy our wonderful free press and fair media.

 

[asahartford1]

Was Glenn twaddle really a football manager? Talking of Calvert Lewin he just said “they’ve just taken him straight off so it can’t be that serious”, surely that would only be the case if they had kept him on?

Shoulder to shoulder , well knee to hip anyway Glenn.

 

[colinthewindowcleaner]

Can you catch a Catfish in a lake ?

 

[Woody135]

Yesterday morning silly Sally came out with, Can Manchester United continue their impressive league form in the cup, I was wondering if I’d missed something. It’s the blowing smoke up their arse that pisses me off as much as anything.

Id happily allow everyone to think theyre doing well. Meanwhile reality is very different

 

[jrb]

we had a good run in Foden. Now that's over, and everything is back to normal.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Don’t see it as biting mate. I got tagged by someone to answer a question on the BBC coverage and politely responded. Its only a discussion after all.

I was not aware of any revelation, with regards behind paywalls, and I take your point about the click bait stuff, its undoubtedly out there and some of the fawning over United/Liverpool players is nauseating.

No one is less a fan of the press than me, I have little time for a lot of them, and as I have said before there are a lot of valid points made about the type of coverage.

In relation to my response with regards the BBC, we did have some decent coverage after the match on the website, maybe not as much as Liverpool would have had if they beat us, but still a few decent pieces.

;-)

 

[asahartford1]

Was Glenn twaddle really a football manager? Talking of Calvert Lewin he just said “they’ve just taken him straight off so it can’t be that serious”, surely that would only be the case if they had kept him on?

Huddle didn't use physios, faith dealers were "in" during his time.

 

[PaleBlue]

BBC open up a HYS on the Leicester game, opened for as soon as the rags squeaked through yesterday and featured highlights - not a peep for us or a chance to comment on yet another record. Hope we draw them next, only way to guarantee getting a match shown on the BBC. They're happy to put license payers money in the rag coffers to televise their matches at the expense of others.

 

[Mike Cledford]

Such as an article titled ‘Man City’s ‘special’ record Citybreakers beat Swansea to reach quarter finals of FA Cup’. Might be worth checking before posting.

No doubt some will find a missing comma or something not mentioned to complain about.

I assume you are referring to the BBC website. I don't have the time to search websites which might or might inform the public as they should especially as they have a reputation on here of omitting City altogether.
I shall see what the news and Breakfast have to say as they are the ones that reach the general public as a whole. At the end of the 10 o'clock news they have not mentioned football results at all. The local news has merely given the score after some nonsense about a golf ball on the moon.

 

[Kazzydeyna]

Like clockwork

We don’t know of course the details of any offer made to KDB, but if we have offered him a deal which is anything less than a big improvement on his current deal at the same time as quite obviously putting several hundred thousand per week to one side on the Off chance that the little poisonous 5-years-past-his-best dwarf decides to lower himself and play for us (if we offer him an obscene amount of money, natch) then Kev has every right to feel seriously pissed off. I wouldn’t blame him. I’d go so far as to say he would have every right to demand a transfer in that scenario.
If I was Raheem too, approaching my prime years, I would demand contract parity with any future newcomers. Ditto Bernardo. Ditto Aguero. Ditto Dias. Ditto LaPorte.
These are players that have turned up and done it already for City. Week in week out, season in season out.

Signing Messi would be a huge mistake. Let the twat go to PSG if he ever leaves BArca. They need a superstar to elevate their club and their league. We don’t.

Sign Haaland for a fraction of the total cost, plus one more striker.

If we feel the need to sign a mega star, lets go for Ronaldo at least. He’s proven in every league he has played in. A legend of the game. THE legend of the modern game.

 

[hcblue95]

We don’t know of course the details of any offer made to KDB, but if we have offered him a deal which is anything less than a big improvement on his current deal at the same time as quite obviously putting several hundred thousand per week to one side on the Off chance that the little poisonous 5-years-past-his-best dwarf decides to lower himself and play for us (if we offer him an obscene amount of money, natch) then Kev has every right to feel seriously pissed off. I wouldn’t blame him. I’d go so far as to say he would have every right to demand a transfer in that scenario.
If I was Raheem too, approaching my prime years, I would demand contract parity with any future newcomers. Ditto Bernardo. Ditto Aguero. Ditto Dias. Ditto LaPorte.
These are players that have turned up and done it already for City. Week in week out, season in season out.

Signing Messi would be a huge mistake. Let the twat go to PSG if he ever leaves BArca. They need a superstar to elevate their club and their league. We don’t.

Sign Haaland for a fraction of the total cost, plus one more striker.

If we feel the need to sign a mega star, lets go for Ronaldo at least. He’s proven in every league he has played in. A legend of the game. THE legend of the modern game.

Cristiano Ronaldo is shit, wouldn't want him anywhere near city.