Media Thread 2020/21

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The media are lazy, so they trot out the easiest angle possible every time...

If City lose and Neymar and/or Mbappe score, that story is on the back burner.

If City get a result, the Treble & Pep stories are ready on the back burner.

The media angles are basically already written, so it’s just a matter of hyperbole from this point.

What I’m always more interested in seeing and hearing is some analysis of the hows and whys of how the game played out, because the Second Half will be played in Manchester and the teams will set out their stall BASED ON the First Half.

That said, there’s not much hope of getting anything decent out of Schmeichel, Carragher or Micah, so hopefully Roberto Martinez will have something worth saying!!!
 
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just to push some people over the edge, can I mention the "Set Piece Menu" podcast with Andy Hinchcliffe, Rory Smith and to top it off, Hugh Ferris. go ahead, enjoy. you can thank me later.

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just to push some people over the edge, can I mention the "Set Piece Menu" podcast with Andy Hinchcliffe, Rory Smith and to top it off, Hugh Ferris. go ahead, enjoy. you can thank me later.

soundcloud.com

SET PIECE MENU FOOTBALL PODCAST

This is Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk about football over food. They are together a writer, a commentator, a presenter and a pundit. Rory Smith is the Chief Soccer Correspondent
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Has to be the worst podcast out there by far
 
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The Liverpool fan is obviously taking this season badly.

If there are City fans on Bluemoon contributing to their football pages, what more evidence do you need to stop commenting? Do not contribute to their site! It doesn't matter how clever you think you are, all you do is attract traffic to their website. The best thing City fans can do is steer clear of it so that other fans regard it as biased.

So what takes precedence here: the football stuff, or the other stuff? Obviously you know about the other stuff. Paris Saint-Germain v Manchester City in the Champions League semi-final has already more than its fair share of alternative monikers. El Gasico. El Cashico. The Sportswashing Derby. Gulf War Three. A proxy battle on hybrid grass; a clash of new money and even newer money; Qatar v Abu Dhabi; the diseased nadir of the modern game; a big night for Kyle Walker.

It is, of course, all of these things and less. The meeting of European football’s two great petrocarbon empires feels ostensibly like a moment for savage lament: to mourn football’s slow capitulation to capital and disdain for human rights, to curse the subversion of the game we all love to forces well beyond our control. Even so, this is a course of action that only really makes sense until about 7.59pm on Wednesday night, at which point all moral resistance feels queerly obsolescent. This fixture is an utter disgrace and I object to it in the strongest possible terms. Peep! Right: come on Neymar, get stuck in, son.

If you have an account on there, please do not comment on their match report afterwards! And keep it up until such time as they change. They probably never will but at least you wont be a MUG!
 
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It's hard to feel anything but pity for such an insecure, vacuous cretin, who has manifested such pathological insecurity in their meaningless existence that they manage to fill a national publication with such immature, irredeemable, nonsensical, morally bankrupt faux indignation.

They may as well have simply put "I have no meaning" and been done with it.
 
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I know it’s a bit of a reductive cliche to respond in this way, but the word that immediately springs to mind is ...
... yawn.
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Whipped off an email to their laughable sports section, never emailed them before and I don't expect a reply.

To: sport@theguardian.com
To whoever is reading this,

Not one mention of the way the Glazers run Manchester United by stripping profits to pay their debts or the fact that Liverpool owe all their success to a family that owned the pools and pumped fortunes into the club. Not one mention of the corrupt debt ridden farce that Madrid and Barcelona have profited from for decades or the closed shop bully tactics that Bayern employ to stay top dog in the German league.

No wonder your comic is going down the pan faster than the credibility of UEFA.

Shame on you.
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Once again we see another hate filed piece in the media during CL week when City are playing in the competition and......coincidentally the rags are not.

Coincidence?
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Pep being slated for saying we aren’t in the Elite when it comes to European competition and saying the Domestic comp is our bread and butter. seeing as only a few teams have won the Premier league in the last 30yrs there’s not much wrong with his comments .
 
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Neither of football’s great petrocarbon empires have won the Champions League and now they stand in each other’s way
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What an absolute twat, I hope this nerdy prick blindly stumbles into a group of blues and is recognised instantly if he’s ever out and about around Eastlands.how do pricks like this land a gig preaching to the masses about football? there’s more chance of finding him in some gameworkshop flicking diecast dragons around than wearing a pair of shin pads and sliding into some fuckers ankles on a Sunday morning.
 
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