Media Thread 2020/21

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Aba452 said:
Had a family do last night and inspite of my good sense usually, I was drawn into a debate with som of my brother in laws on football.

Now I'd spoken to my dipper in law earlier and we had a decent discussion on the relative seasons City and Liverpool had. All enjoyed the FA Cup final.

Then as I say this ambush. One of the gooners started off its disgusting how Citeh can spend so much on a defender, Guardiola such a 'decent ' coach but I could win the league with his resources!!!!

Then he started bleating on about about sportswashing. Sigh.

The other one who's not a football fan but his son supports the dippers (from Brum!) pipes up. Spent a billion in 10years, that's obscene! The mineral wealth of the state should belong to the people not the despots who own that state.

I plunged in pointing out that Sheikh Mansour is not a state but bought City through his private investment company had invested in the city as well as the team.

In the end I just said we'll agree to differ as I think I would have sparked them out. What's doubly disappointing is that they like me are of Pakistani origin but are happy to glibly repeat the standard racist troupes.

As fans we're now accountable for how or owner made his money????

Wish I'd pointed out about the later success of the arsehole's was built on conflict diamonds, vulture capitalism fuelling the red cheeks etc.

The point is does negativity work? Suppose geological ages of the Earth could pass before these idiots stop releasing hot stale air! Fuck em if they want to judge me. My parting shot last night was green isn't a good look for you.
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Next time just sit down by yourself with a bottle of Springbank 12 yr malt cask strengh, that will sort you out no extended family required ;-)
 
Mike Cledford said:
I've just seen a programme with Amir Khan. He has built houses and a village community centre in the Gambia. He talked quite movingly about helping people who had nothing. I did not know that he did so much for charity.
Then the BBC news told me that St Marcus was involved in a new scheme with WH Smith and other book related Companies to supply books to kids.
All well and good but he said that he had never read a book until.he was 17 because his family couldn't afford them. So he wasn't able to read books in primary school, not allowed to use the large free library in Withington and that he was not encouraged to use the.library at the very good school in Ashton on Mersey or that his English curriculum there didn't cover the standard set books all kids have. There are plenty of charity shops where you can get kids books for 10p.
I am quite sure that the other apprentices in his United Academy digs had books which they shared. Perhaps not - he doesn't seem to have been fed in his digs or school either if you believe him.
Why does he come out with such whoppers? I suspect he thought books were not cool but obviously cannot say that in his latest scheme.
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I briefly heard about the Marcus Rashford book scheme on BBC radio this morning whilst half asleep. I immediately wondered why Marcus did not visit the nearest public library to read books if he could not afford them?

Together with the other salient points you make about free access to reading books at school, (I remember the school library, Janet and John and Through the Rainbow books at school), and cheap second hand books I then wondered what the point of the Marcus Rashford book scheme actually was?

Then I remembered it was mentioned by the BBC that all kids joining the scheme get a free copy of Marcus Rashfords autobiography "You are a Champion" and it all became clear.
 
Tommy_Catons_Perm said:
I briefly heard about the Marcus Rashford book scheme on BBC radio this morning whilst half asleep. I immediately wondered why Marcus did not visit the nearest public library to read books if he could not afford them?

Together with the other salient points you make about free access to reading books at school, (I remember the school library, Janet and John and Through the Rainbow books at school), and cheap second hand books I then wondered what the point of the Marcus Rashford book scheme actually was?

Then I remembered it was mentioned by the BBC that all kids joining the scheme get a free copyrof Marcus Rashfords autobiography "You are a Champion" and it all became clear.
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I missed that autobiography but no doubt it will be featured three times by his Auntie Sally in the morning. No doubt there will be more whoppers in there but especially in using the word 'champion' in an autobiography.
 
I love this thread just after one of the usual suspects plays City bingo.
Just remember, you are all feral rats and like vermin you should be put down.
 
Inter Me Nan said:
Nick Cohen is a ****.

Miguel Delaney is a ****.
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I really think we should just end the thread here, these people get off on their click bait articles and then watching us post all their tweets and talk about them.

I know it’s hard when they post such hypocritical & laughable articles but they really need to be ignored by us.
 
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15 Oct 2006 The Muslim Council of Britain has written a detailed letter to Ruth Kelly, the Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government, about her speech last Wednesday October 11th in which she appeared to link access to public funds to support for the government's...
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wondered what gollum was up to these days
 
nijinsky said:
Funnily enough modern batteries fuelling everything from phones to laptops to electric cars rely largely on cobalt mined by children in Congo for their Chinese overlords.
Luckily these middle class media twats with selective ethics don’t have to worry about this as they can make their click bait, money from misery, directly from a cloud above pious mountain.
It’s just us mere mortals who encourage this child slavery due to our addiction to the latest iPhone, and our lack of morals of course. Shame on us who don’t boycott anything Chinese made.
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Tbh I think you will struggle to find any corporate entity large enough to sustain the sponsorship of an elite level football club that doesn't have a few murky or questionable aspects to its business.
 
LongsightM13 said:
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State of fucking journalism in this country. I wonder who the fuck Migeul is?
You’d hope spelling was a basic skill when writing a full article but writing 5 words and spelling 20% of them wrong is seriously poor....
 
LongsightM13 said:
And as surely as night follows day, the “Touchy” card is deployed by Cohen

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And of course, having deliberately baited City fans in order to provoke a response, he is now also deploying the “Antisemitism card”. Clear and organised. It has played out exactly as he intended.

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Mancunians barely knowing where UAE is......

Of course we are all thick with our flat caps & stubby thumbs & our pigeons don’t fly that far, we barely know anywhere beyond our cobbled streets.
 
domalino said:
We know the difference. City are not viewed as being owned by an individual but being owned by a state.

That is the crux of most of City's problems in the media and its one where the club has completely failed.

Whether the club is actuslly owned by Abu Dhabi or Mansour as an individual (and I've seen even people like @Prestwich_Blue say we are effectively owned by the AD executive council) is largely irrelevant, they allowed the club to be tied to the state from day 1 and that brings with it all the baggage of that state.

We weren't bought by Sheikh Mansour the individual. We were bought by Abu Dhabi United Group. Leicester and Chelsea were bought by individuals.

The Abu Dhabi state airline sponsors us. Leicester are sponsored by the personal company of the srivaddhanaprabha family.

Our chairman is the Head of a state owned investment fund, he sits on a bunch of government boards and councils. Leocester's chairman was the owners son.

The club failed to separate Sheikh Mansour as the owner and Abu Dhabi as the owner.

You look at Abramovic and hes front and centre of things at Chelsea. He went to every game for 10 years, he is known to make decisions personally. Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha went to almost every game before he died at a Leicester City game. He was publicly visible, in press releases and seen in public at club events etc.

Mansour issues a press release when we win the league and is snapped by a club photographer when the squad flies out to Abu Dhabi every couple of years and it only gets seen by City fans. There is 1 photograph of Mansour at a game that is used a decade after it was taken.

People believe the club is owned by a state because the club and its owner have done almost nothing to dissuade anyone from that idea.

And who knows if they even want to? They have done nothing to stop people linking the two. If they really wanted they could have a lawyer or PR person contact every single newspaper that says the club is owned by Abu Dhabi and make them correct it. They don't want to.


States are easy to hate. They all do terrible things and there's millions of people motivated to investigate them. They're on a global stage full stop.

Individuals are much harder to target. Abramovic is a horrendous person with a lot of blood on his hands, but its all rumours and its all very very small time compared to the bad deeds of even the smallest state.

As long as the club is linked to a state we are going to be hated by the press and treated completely differently to clubs owned by individuals. I would argue there's really not much point in caring about it anymore, particularly as the club doesn't.
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In order to separate individual and state, the owner, Mansour himself, must be more visible at the stadium.
Maybe he will be at the chumps league final, but that should only be the start.
Regular visits to the games is what is needed.
Until that happens our ownership will be perceived as government state, by proxy. No matter what the reality is.
 
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