Media Thread - 2021/22

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hammocity said:
Britain acquired its wealth from invading countries and making them part of the Commonwealth, they didn’t do it for philanthropic purposes did they? Also, the much revered Royal Family have a lineage steeped in murder, executions and torture not to mention financial embezzlement of the highest order.

Do we have a right to take the moral high ground? Sometimes, definitely yes but hypocritical standpoints don’t always get the scrutiny they deserve especially if it suits the media agenda.
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Britain acquired SOME of its wealth from invading countries, far, far from all of it.
 
Literally every single thing you mentioned has had ample praise afterwards. Bluemoon isn't happy unless every single media piece is gushing about city through the bluest of blue tinted specs whilst shitting on every other team simultaneously.

And even if they hadn't been talked about at all, who cares? Why the desperation for praise from no mark journalists and pundits who we all regularly slag off and say know very little and whose opinions are worthless anyway?
 
hammocity said:
Britain acquired its wealth from invading countries and making them part of the Commonwealth, they didn’t do it for philanthropic purposes did they? Also, the much revered Royal Family have a lineage steeped in murder, executions and torture not to mention financial embezzlement of the highest order.

Do we have a right to take the moral high ground? Sometimes, definitely yes but hypocritical standpoints don’t always get the scrutiny they deserve especially if it suits the media agenda.
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and recent shennanigans with under age girls.....?
 
The whole football world is desperate to see a last-day title win in front of thousands of smiling faces at St James Park
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Marvin said:
I have heard this stance quite a lot in the media. Of course you can not argue with it. Chinese, Russian, and Middle-eastern sovereign funds are hugely invested in Western infrastructure.

It annoys me greatly that the Britain, the capital of the commonwealth and ancient empire is regarded as clean and Johnny Foreigner as dirty. This is racism. Was North Sea oil somehow cleaner than Arab oil. Yes the middle-east is run by autocratic authoritarian rulers and the UK is a parliamentary democracy but this is all a legacy of Empire.

I accept that the UAE is a conservative autocratic state but the UK is not clean either. The British Army and RAF have long marched and flown over the Arab world and we are to be mortally offended if a football club falls into Arab hands? This is absurd! Your moralism has no basis. This is because we have human rights groups whose focus is on the third world when they should be pointing the finger at Washington, London, Moscow and Beijing. Geopolitical power does not lie in Abu Dhabi now does it.

Another point is that somehow over the last 12 months it has become common practise in the British media to claim that MCFC are owned by the UAE state. We are not. We are owned by Sheikh Mansour and sponsored by Etihad. That is not the same thing but they want to create a moral panic with MCFC at its centre because it fits their commercial strategy of selling news to outraged Liverpool and Man Utd supporters
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Excellent post.
 
Spurs quarter 69 said:
What the BBC don't realise is that Rashford can never be universally loved. Playing for United is a double edged sword they are both the most loved and hated football club in the country. While he is a poster boy for all that is good in the home counties and the West country he is an object of hatred and ridicule in Leeds, Liverpool and a good half of his home town and many more places besides . The BBC should choose a less decisive figure as their poster boy an athlete or swimmer perhaps.
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He is now a benchwarmer, and will be increasingly a non football entity, so he may get a little more love
 
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