Media Thread - 2021/22

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give it to gordon said:
Man utd v liverpool underlines all that is wrong with football. The American owners want a closed shop league, a country that wants to rule the world by their standards. A country that allows its citizens to carry guns and kill each other. A country that has huge race problems where police shot first and than ask questions. Clubs that have shirt sponsor fined 1.3 billion for money laundering. Owners that take money out of football. Are these the sort of owners we want in the English football ?.

Yes of course it is this country loves the yanks !!
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A country that dictates what is morally correct yet votes against a free health service for all.
 
Marvin said:
The Guardian implies that Sheikh Mansour's stake is a front for the UAE state who want to wash their reputation, and yet at the same time they can not even identify our owner's face. Any Arab face will do! We all stink!

Boycott the Guardian. There are still hundreds of City fans happy to make their home in the Guardian comments pages. Why? How can you identify with a media organisation that regards City fans in such a way?
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The article is racist. It would not have been written this way about any other foreign owners. To use a banknote with the face of someone who is not our owner (but another Arab person) as an image is as bigoted as it gets. Imagine for one minute that our owner was Nigerian and they used an image on a banknote of a caricature African black person complete with a Fez. Why has the Guardian failed to mention that 25 per cent of our club is owned by US and Chinese investors?
 
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gordondaviesmoustache said:
The UAE’s human rights record isn’t ‘hideous‘ either, not relatively speaking. It’s far from perfect that’s for sure, and is a long way from being as good as Norway’s or Germany’s for example, but it’s certainly discernibly better than North Korea’s or the USA’s, for example.
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The UAE never features anywhere near the top of the list of those countries which are criticised by leading human rights groups like Amnesty. The usual suspects are always near the top:China, Russia, USA, North Korea. lots of African countries and usually Saudi. Even within the Gulf region the UAE is one of the most liberal regimes. The worst thing about the Guardian is that it is totally selective in picking its targets.
 
LongsightM13 said:
And like clockwork….

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This isn’t even Sheikh Mansour. It’s Sulaiman Al-Fahim, involved in the takeover in its early days but soon flirted off.
But the paper that previously referred to Arab owners as “a row of grinning beards in the directors box” probably thinks “Well, they all look the same to me”

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The same old Guardian cliches and tropes are scattered throughout the article. Not least equating City and our owners with some of the more extreme actions of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as well as the old state owned lie and then an attack on fans for defending their club against the Guardian’s own open hostility:

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Then we move into libel. If Wilson and the Guardian really nelieve Shiekh Mansour is “disreputable” to the point he “carries bonesaws in his pockets” then I hope he sues them into oblivion

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And one final attack on fans, who are “weaponised bots” rather than supporters who choose to challenge the outright lies and open bias of certain media organisations who seem loathe to scrutinise or criticise the true enemies of English football: crooked white American owners seeking to impose a closed shop

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In short, the Guardian sports desk is a dog whistle racist, City hating nest of perverts and deviants like Nakrani and Glendenning who have the gall to lecture us about morality.
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Writes in a vacuum…. Ignores the commercialisation of the game by the ‘red teams’, seems to think cash injection from overseas investors started with us and Newcastle, repeats the lies that we are state owned…. Whole article belongs in the bin.
 
Bozzie said:
My sister's school mate won a competition to meet him at the BBC when they were 15 or 16, so close on 50 years ago now, our kid went along with her. His behaviour was, shall we say, 'inappropriate' towards two teenage girls and made them both feel very uncomfortable in his presence. So no real surprise in our family when the allegations started.
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He used to live near (could have been next door) to Selwyn Demmy the Bookmaker (Gus Demmy’s son for those old enough), Wilmslow/Alderly Edge way. Selwyn once told me Hall was a weird bloke who always over did the after shave, could smell him before you could see him. It’s a little strange that because Selwyn was a weird fucker as well.
 
bluealf said:
You never hear anything but praise for what they have done for horse racing but of course, these people are terrible for football.

It is absolutely terrible that they have given the Rags and Scousers a huge kicking and shown that the Yank owners are only in it for the cash and are in fact the worst owners in football.
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Godphin are Dubai owners, still part of the UAE, been a huge boost for the British Horse Racing Industry, breeders, trainers, sponsorship, prize money all at a level unimaginable without them. I agree, you’ll never see anything other than praise from the media and the British Horse Racing Board. Negatives comments and criticism and they would be off in a flash, France and the USA would be beneficiaries.

The difference with football is they want our owners to fuck off and will continue to perpetuate myths to do so, it’s not working so you’d think they would give up. Not a bit, the click bait aimed at the red wankers is their salvation. Wilson, Glendenning, the Harris cunts, Delooney, and the rest are just desperately sad wankers who hopefully go their graves with City still at the top, their lives will have been wasted.
 
manimanc said:
Wilson is a mackem.
Obviously a bitter mackem.

We just need nostrils Harris to tweet his usual guff then we got a full house.
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Wilson seems to have betrayed his North East roots. He now earns a living writing articles which mock and vilify working class football fans. The world looks different when you are one of the so-called London chattering class elite. He has made no attempt at all to understand what has happened commercially at Manchester City. His latest hate-filled article is just a cut and paste job wth a few snide comments thrown in. He should be ashamed of himself.
 
hammocity said:
Godphin are Dubai owners, still part of the UAE, been a huge boost for the British Horse Racing Industry, breeders, trainers, sponsorship, prize money all at a level unimaginable without them. I agree, you’ll never see anything other than praise from the media and the British Horse Racing Board. Negatives comments and criticism and they would be off in a flash, France and the USA would be beneficiaries.

The difference with football is they want our owners to fuck off and will continue to perpetuate myths to do so, it’s not working so you’d think they would give up. Not a bit, the click bait aimed at the red wankers is their salvation. Wilson, Glendenning, the Harris cunts, Delooney, and the rest are just desperately sad wankers who hopefully go their graves with City still at the top, their lives will have been wasted.
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Let's hope sooner rather than later.
 
hammocity said:
Godphin are Dubai owners, still part of the UAE, been a huge boost for the British Horse Racing Industry, breeders, trainers, sponsorship, prize money all at a level unimaginable without them. I agree, you’ll never see anything other than praise from the media and the British Horse Racing Board. Negatives comments and criticism and they would be off in a flash, France and the USA would be beneficiaries.

The difference with football is they want our owners to fuck off and will continue to perpetuate myths to do so, it’s not working so you’d think they would give up. Not a bit, the click bait aimed at the red wankers is their salvation. Wilson, Glendenning, the Harris cunts, Delooney, and the rest are just desperately sad wankers who hopefully go their graves with City still at the top, their lives will have been wasted.
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Yup, more than just Godolphin though, Qatar Racing is a big part of the UK scene as well now.

Of course, the Aga Khan way back in the day as well, was he the first to get involved? I will have been really young back then lol
 
bluealf said:
Yup, more than just Godolphin though, Qatar Racing is a big part of the UK scene as well now.

Of course, the Aga Khan way back in the day as well, was he the first to get involved? I will have been really young back then lol
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The Aga Khan did just that, took all his horses to France, he was a major player along with Robert Sangster at the time, the first race I remember watching was when Red Alligator won the Grand National, where have the years gone? :-)
 
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