Media Thread - 2021/22

[M12Blue]

Maybe the PL have realised that if they cheat City, people love them more - so give them dodgy decisions and people will start to hate them and say their trophies were handed out to them.

Nah, just an excuse to give us nothing the rest of the season

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Lovely salty tears. I can taste the sweet bitterness with each word. offended by everything and ashamed of nothing. Sure it could have been given as a handball but the footballing authorities did not see fit to do so with the use of Var. Just like they never seem to pick up the Salah dives each game. You reap what you sow dippers.

The poor sods need to believe that the only way that their scrupulously honest and upright paragons of virtue (Standard Chartered bank being a fine example), can be beaten is by cheating.
It means that every time they finish 2nd, they can seriously claim they came 1st.
Scouse logic.

 

[JASR]

I eventually found the report and had a wry smile at the bbc doing their usual rag branding promotion with use of the Red Devil’s bollocks, never a mention of our Knick name.

That’s a good point. In all my years of reading the bbc live thread and city match reports I can’t remember seeing one mention of our nickname.

perhaps it’s too ‘positive’ a nickname to allow associating with big bad City.

 

[Norbert D]

Suppose Chelski should make the most of this, if Roman gets fucked off they will go back to crowds of 8,000 and a chairman who wants to put up an electric fence.

 

[Norbert D]

Robertson is a real rat face snide twat.

 

[discopop]

That’s a good point. In all my years of reading the bbc live thread and city match reports I can’t remember seeing one mention of our nickname.

perhaps it’s too ‘positive’ a nickname to allow associating with big bad City.

It’s interesting when we are in France visiting family and we watch a city match on French tv they always use Citizens

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Lovely salty tears. I can taste the sweet bitterness with each word. offended by everything and ashamed of nothing. Sure it could have been given as a handball but the footballing authorities did not see fit to do so with the use of Var. Just like they never seem to pick up the Salah dives each game. You reap what you sow dippers.

You gotta laugh, the most blatant handball ever seen on a pitch was Terence Trent Derby throwing out his arm to stop a ball to Aguero inside the six yard box with the goal gaping.

Compounded further, by Liverpool going down the other end and scoring.

Perhaps they might want to ask who was sport washing decisions earlier this season when that Judas Milner picked up a clear second bookable offence...

 

[MillionMilesAway]

“Melissa Reddy” (who ?) in the independent manages to shoehorn mentions of the UAE abstaining from a UN vote, Abu Dhabi human rights problems and the dippers league cup final into her supposed match report. Phil’s absolutely huge winner is mentioned briefly almost as an afterthought.

Stupid cow.

South African-born Liverpool fan who shows up Anfield Wrap fairly regularly.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Re: Richarlison being offside.

I suspect that he was probably a fraction offside but the thing with these VAR checks is that they review the immediate decision first and if they are starting to get ready to call the referee over to the monitor then they check for offside in the buildup.

Why not do things the other way round? When a review is done in cricket, the first thing they check is the legality of the delivery, then they review the actual decision.

We could all be getting our knickers in a twist over this handball when in fact the play should have been stopped before then. It would have been nice of Sky, with their tens of cameras available at each broadcast, to at least have cleared this up but they didn’t offer one replay of the through ball. I start to wonder why not? Is it because Richarlison was in fact offside and they are just hiding that replay in order to focus on the controversy?

I will say this though, if he was onside then for me it’s a penalty all day. I know the rules are what they are, but if that had happened in Everton’s box I would have been fuming if they said no penalty.

A decision making protocol for VAR would be a great idea. Years in and it’s not there. Billion pound game and the amateurs are ruling it

 

[MillionMilesAway]

So does Thierry Henry ;)

and Suarez.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Hmmm, so Rodris is the most blatant handball ever..........

thinks for two seconds.

Gangly crouch playing pat a ball to score against us for stoke, then joking about it in post match interview.

taa handball prior to dippers first goal v us the other year, nearer to his hand than his fcking elbow.

Just two examples that spring immediately to mind that went against us.

and one for not handball........

spuds match winning penalty v us when Sterling chested a cross but clattenberg? gave a pen anyway, even though he couldnt see it!!!(think he may have apologised later)......thanks twat.

This whole thing is slightly reminiscent of the fallout after that 3-2 win v spuds when Mario "kicked" scott parker in the head, but escaped a red and scored the winning pen..................... and we all know how that season ended.

Thiery Henry vs the oirish

 

[BrianW]

That 'Citizen's' nickname is something we could use more:

'To arms, citizens!
Form your battalions
Let’s march, let’s march
That their impure blood
Should water our fields.'

Much more stirring tune than Bluemoon and the thing about impure blood fits the Scousers and Rags to a T.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Pretty sure she was one pushing the "the cut the grass too long" excuse a few years back.

To be fair, she didn't come up with it, but on the Anfield Wrap podcast (?) she laughed and agreed with the conspiracy theorist host.

 

[jaiguruKun]

We've had a decision go our way - expect a big rule change by the middle of the week.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Man City 'lawyered up and ready to go' after legal threat - Maguire

Football Insider has been told by Kieran Maguire that Man City are "lawyered up and ready to go" after legal threat issued.

www.footballinsider247.com

So apparently a 3rd division team in Chile has a similar badge to us and we have sent a court order for them to stop. At first i did agree with the journalist, surely we have bigger fish to fry? But City have built a global brand around that badge, not just for MCFC but specifically for City Group. There's also a big possibility that we will look toe expand into Chile at some point, the 2nd and 3rd divisions would probably be a route they would be looking into. I'm assuming we have asked this particular club to just change their designs because it's an infringement before going direct to legal measures. By the sounds of it, they have just ignored us so it's pretty fucking normal the position City are taking.

Someone once said that the best judgement on whether a headline is news is if the alternative is a better story.

"City cave in in face of Chilean minnow" would fall into that.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

De Jong really needs a word with the hairy hands cockwomble

 

[LongsightM13]

To be fair, she didn't come up with it, but on the Anfield Wrap podcast (?) she laughed and agreed with the conspiracy theorist host.

Yep it was that Neil Atkinson melt who introduced the nonsense but she sat there nodding her head like a Pier Head hooker when the boats are in

 

[BeerIsTheBest]

De Jong really needs a word with the hairy hands cockwomble

Bring the next one in. This one’s broken

what a complete weirdo

 

[jrb]

In their Norwegian heads 24/7.

 

[domalino]

“Melissa Reddy” (who ?) in the independent manages to shoehorn mentions of the UAE abstaining from a UN vote, Abu Dhabi human rights problems and the dippers league cup final into her supposed match report. Phil’s absolutely huge winner is mentioned briefly almost as an afterthought.

Stupid cow.

Is that the Independent owned by Lebedev? Bought by Oligarch money?