Apart from a minority of militant leftist,who gives a fxxk about the opinions of the Guardian.
I'd never seen this before. Good watch on the greatest sporting moment.
Never seen this great episodethey did a whole series on them, media,fans,player ,and maybe another one but i cant think what, they are all brilliant, unless your a united fan :)
In the first half of C20 Moss Side was home to a large Jewish community and they naturally supported City. A break came with the signing of Bert and many Jews went over to the dark side. Many, however, stayed to be prominently associated with City: the Bernstein family, the Bookbinders and many others. Remember that 102 year old mascot? Vera Cohen, season ticket holder since 1930. Amazing lady.There are plenty of Jews who support Manchester City. I seriously doubt that any criticism of Manchester City is motivated by Arab / Israeli rivalry as the UAE are partners with Israel and have signed commercial and political agreements with them.
It is true that the media is completely ignorant. They would like the region to be run as a parliamentary democracy but this is a cockpit of war whose enmities are fed by history. In the Middle-east they will burn British and American flags because of this history and our journalists talk about individuals who are fit and proper to own English football clubs. The injustice in the Middle-east is very upsetting but the causes are artificial states and foreign interference and we're still interfering. "You can own a football club because your company is registered in the United States of America but if your company is registered in some tin-pot state in which there are no elections so no you are not welcome." No recognition at all of history and why the world is divided in the first place.
It is the mouthpiece of the liberal establishment used to cohere and express political thought. I say liberal but it is getting harder to define what is left and what is right nowadays.Apart from a minority of militant leftist,who gives a fxxk about the opinions of the Guardian.
James Lawton was not averse to a few digs at City. At the time of the Tevez Welcome To Manchester poster, Lawton was on 'The Monday Club' and said:Just came across an article by James Lawton (who?) from 2015, where he claims that Utd had just signed "three players of fine skill but also proven commitment. United have surely raised a flag for the value of strong discipline and the most serious commitment".
In contrast, "it is a claim that City can hardly register with the 'desperate' signing of the anarchy-inclined Sterling".
Fast forward nearly 6 years and we can see that those wonderful signings, Schweinsteiger, Schneiderlin and Darmian, played a total of 110 games for the scum and scored an incredible 3 goals between them. The total cost was about £35 million.
Meanwhile, Raheem, who cost us about £45 million, has played 190 odd games and scored 78 goals, while winning 3 PL titles, an FA Cup and 4 FL cups!
It puts a lot of things into perspective!
James Lawton was not averse to a few digs at City. At the time of the Tevez Welcome To Manchester poster, Lawton was on 'The Monday Club' and said:
"City have no class, United would not do anything like that".
I assume he had not cast eyes in the direction of the Stretford End for a decade. He was also seemingly unaware of the TWO large posters on the OT westbound motorway exit after Cantona moved from Leeds. By amazing coincidence, over a picture of Cantona, they said ......er....."Welcome to Manchester".
And their owner is very close to the regime in Thailand which has a shocking human rights record...or at least it did have when our club was owned by a Thai businessman and we never stopped hearing about it. And of course not forgetting that Leicester were fined for breaching FFP just three years ago.Listening to talkshite on the way back last night and I am not taking anything away from Leicester here, but they were banging on how wonderful their owners were. Ploughing huge amounts of money into Leicesters setup etc . Another couple of top 4 and trophies will see them vilified, keeping out the other wankers from the crappy named top6
I didn't know that. I don't think there is an Arab v Jew aspect to this but there is a racist element in which an Arab Sheikh is targeted as a unfit person football owner in contrast to many others. What is the difference between Alisher Usmanov, Roman Abramovic and Sheikh Mansour? All are oligarchs with billions are with their hands on levers of power. One is targeted, the others are not.In the first half of C20 Moss Side was home to a large Jewish community and they naturally supported City. A break came with the signing of Bert and many Jews went over to the dark side. Many, however, stayed to be prominently associated with City: the Bernstein family, the Bookbinders and many others
Remember that 102 year old mascot? Vera Cohen, a remarkable lady who has been a season ticket holder since 1930.
I had the same thought.And their owner is very close to the regime in Thailand which has a shocking human rights record...or at least it did have when our club was owned by a Thai businessman and never stopped hearing about it. And of course not forgetting that Leicester were fined for breaching FFP just three years ago.
I am not having a pop at Leicester and am delighted about their success. It is just the media double standards that make me sick.
I think the majority of the hostility to City is commercial but it doesn't explain it all otherwise Chelsea would have also been vilified when they were Man Utd's main opponent.
The one your are missing is The Staff.they did a whole series on them, media,fans,player ,and maybe another one but i cant think what, they are all brilliant, unless your a united fan :)
Alright Nick you've said it so many times before.
So give us some answers and solutions please and not just problems.
Also please explain how any proposals would apply to the wider society and not just football.
The biggest dishonesty about the way City are covered is the way some elements in the media try to link Sheikh Mansour to human rights abuses. Abu Dhabi has a better record on human rights than most other Gulf states but justifiable criticism is often made about the conditions that some foreign workers endure, especially at construction firms.It's political and for some in a minority racial/xenephobia. Also for many rag journos it's bitterness and an inferiority complex
The glazers are major donors to trump and also have small links to companies involved in ilegal Israeli settlements, as is Abramovich who is coming under a lot of criticism outside the UK.
This is not of interest to our journos as the Rags are the establishment in football and chelsea seem to get an easier ride probably because London is a massive centre for russian money laundering
And their owner is very close to the regime in Thailand which has a shocking human rights record...or at least it did have when our club was owned by a Thai businessman and we never stopped hearing about it. And of course not forgetting that Leicester were fined for breaching FFP just three years ago.
I am not having a pop at Leicester and am delighted about their success. It is just the media double standards that make me sick.
There appears to be an unwritten rule amongst Irish sports journalists that all football be presented through the prism of Manchester United or Liverpool.Irish’fan’ obsesses about the dippers or the rags, Perth is full of them and I always wonder why they never chose Brighton or Leyton Orient, Cardiff or Wrexham?