Media Thread - 2021/22

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bobbyowenquiff said:
The BBC will also have to go back and delete some of Dan Roan's and Simon Stone's tweets and articles then. They still have a false story on their website previewing the Footyleaks trial of Rui Pinto (which they have not bothered covering since) which used the phrase: "The data showed how wealthy Gulf Arab individuals and organisations now exert strong influence over some top European clubs...."

The article in September 2020 mentioned City prominently high up but the court documents show that none of the 90 charges against Pinto reference Manchester City.

In fact the Footyleaks case has no reference at all to so-called "Gulf Arabs" and even if it did what relevance would any person's ethnicity have. The reference to Arabs appears to be a fabrication.

I made a formal complaint to the BBC 12 months ago following their complaints process and also contacted Tim Davie the new BBC Director General(who has pledged to clean up bias). They did not respond (Davie did acknowledge my email) and it was later escalated to Ofcom who passed it back to the BBC for a response. And they have still not responded (apparently because their complaints team has been overwhelmed during Covid).

The story is still on their website today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54016147

Meanwhile the trial of Pinto has been ignored by the UK media, presumably because there have been no negative references to Manchester City or Arabs!
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Brilliant Bobby
 
Are people really turning on Micah Richards because he said something they disagree with?

He's one of the very few City players employed regularly in the media and backs us too.

Do you want the media to be fair, which means employing ex-players but where sometimes those ex-City players will say something you disagree with?

Or do you just want the media to be a City fanzine?
 
argyle said:
Are people really turning on Micah Richards because he said something they disagree with?

He's one of the very few City players employed regularly in the media and backs us too.

Do you want the media to be fair, which means employing ex-players but where sometimes those ex-City players will say something you disagree with?

Or do you just want the media to be a City fanzine?
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Yup, It's going to be Evolution not Revolution.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
But if you take that view to its logical conclusion then we should look at all owners' actions, whether related to the clubs they own, other businesses they run or their private lives.

If JD Sports mistreated, bullied or harrassed its employees while John Wardle was chairman of both them and us, does that reflect on his chairmanship of City? FSG cheated in MLB, does that make them unfit owners of Liverpool (even leaving aside the illegal accessing of our data?). If an American owner was an unequivocal supporter of the war in Iraq, and the huge number of deaths arising from that, should that disqualify them?
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I think the issue with this is there's still enough 'distance' involved to allow people to overlook any moral misgivings.

I'm not sure people will ever have the same reaction to an owner who's a supporter of war to an owner who directly directly orders the brutal murder of a journalist.

It's apples and oranges.
 
bobmcfc said:
The daily mail tweeted the article and the Rabin parody burner account has attacked it lol. I have my suspicions as to who created the account but he's too much of a shit the bed to use his own account to attack martin.
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As others have said, look who they follow and who follows them on Twitter.

The first accounts they follow tend to give you a good steer as well.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
The BBC will also have to go back and delete some of Dan Roan's and Simon Stone's tweets and articles then. They still have a false story on their website previewing the Footyleaks trial of Rui Pinto (which they have not bothered covering since) which used the phrase: "The data showed how wealthy Gulf Arab individuals and organisations now exert strong influence over some top European clubs...."

The article in September 2020 mentioned City prominently high up but the court documents show that none of the 90 charges against Pinto reference Manchester City.

In fact the Footyleaks case has no reference at all to so-called "Gulf Arabs" and even if it did what relevance would any person's ethnicity have. The reference to Arabs appears to be a fabrication.

I made a formal complaint to the BBC 12 months ago following their complaints process and also contacted Tim Davie the new BBC Director General(who has pledged to clean up bias). They did not respond (Davie did acknowledge my email) and it was later escalated to Ofcom who passed it back to the BBC for a response. And they have still not responded (apparently because their complaints team has been overwhelmed during Covid).

The story is still on their website today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54016147

Meanwhile the trial of Pinto has been ignored by the UK media, presumably because there have been no negative references to Manchester City or Arabs!
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Same reason Tariq Panja was all over it at the start in the hopes City would be dragged in. Then completely abandoned his reporting of the trial once he realised we weren’t implicated in anything
 
eastmanc said:
Couldn’t agree more. BT and Talkshite asking who will beat this Liverpool side, did they not see the game two weeks ago? Played off the park and given a lesson at times. Talk about darlings of the press. Pathetic.
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I'm glad we're not the darlings of the press...they're all wankers. Let them wank each other off. We don't need wanking off.
 
Gundog’s Gundog said:
Big up the Daily Mail

Great hatchet job from Samuel on the PL cartel and a nice attack on Neville and the rags.

Then a full page article on Nedum and his role at CITC
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IMHO, I thought all the points young Martin wrote about were considered, well reasoned and correct. Whether calling out Wenger, the scum, and the response to Newcastle takeover he was spot on. Long may he continue, wish there were more like him especially those who shine that light on those who believe they are better, those fans who think only the teams they support are special and worthy. As they say form is temporary, class is permanent. Seems most other clubs are clueless and classless
 
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Man-chester copperpot said:
So will Rashford & Sancho be boo’d up and down the country at every football ground this season?
Or is that just for Sterling?
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Bump!
A Good post,(edited)from July this year....

The only abuse the two utd show ponies have heard this year is probably from their own mardy,deluded fans.
 
jrb said:
Some cracking derby names.

We need to get this one going and spread across social media.

The Rags and Dippers will f*ing hate it.

The Dublin Derby tops it so far.

A couple more.

The Air Lingus v Ryan Air derby. The Cockney v Paddy derby.
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The festival of filth
 
Just watched peps interview. Why the fuck are they asking him about steve bruce. No mention of how the team will be against Brighton but all about steve Bruce. What were they trying to achieve. We’re they trying to get a response that they could put in the papers tomorrow?
 
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