Media thread 2022/23

[mayo31]

These accusations will fire up the fans of every ground we visit, and the consequences are fans are gonna get hurt because the fans will be getting fired up. But it will have nothing to do with the media and there agenda.

That has been happening for a few years now.

I go all away games and the gauntlet ran is there v the so called big clubs

Spuds on Sunday we saw bother

 

[Lavinda Past]

Well at least they aren't "sportswashers." I think it's great that Sheikh Mansour has made big profits out of his investments and even better that he has put something back into our local community.

You'll get no argument from me on that!

To be honest, I'd probably rate the work done to improve the Manchester community as highly as that they've done for the football club.

 

[Lavinda Past]

The whole issue here is not really about so-called rules. At this point no one is saying City have done anything illegal. But have they broken the PL's own internal rules? Let's wait and see.
But the main issue here is why has there been selective action taken by the PL against City. For example how many players in the PL have had image right deals? Probably scores, perhaps hundreds. Most clubs do it as way of helping players reduce their tax payments. It's not very nice but tax avoidance is legal. We have heard about the huge offshore image right firms used by Ronaldo and Pogba for instance. It all looks a bit dodgy. So how many investigations have been made into other clubs' image rights deals by the PL? The answer is zero. That tells you the rules are not rules at all.

The PL clearly think otherwise. Time will tell.

I'm just hoping that this is all sorted out in my lifetime and I get to see the fallout!

 

[Ric]

Good letter in today’s Times:

 

[waspish]

Good letter in today’s Times:

Sir,

Whatever the outcome of the legal battle between Manchester City and the Premier League, we should not lose sight of the risible rules that govern football investment ("Man City facing relegation for 115 breaches of rules'", )
Feb 7). The case for a regulator has been made on the basis that asset-stripping owners must be stopped from ruining clubs and communities. Yet in Manchester we have two models. At Manchester United, owners have championed extractive investment on an industrial scale, with a leveraged buy-out and no investment in the ground, facilities or training - never mind the locality or community. At Manchester City, the owners have spent their own money, not just on the club and players but on a whole infrastructure, which has transformed east Manchester and has extended well beyond football.
The Premier League is oblivious to the first model and desperate to stop the second. I hope City win its case, but whatever the upshot there is something deeply wrong about the governance of football.


Alun Francis
Manchester

 

[Kinkys Left Foot]

....and for an unbiased view of tomorrow's back pages on Sky sports.
Everyone's favourite Dwarf and all round lying **** and sportswashing guru and pedant, Miguel Wanker Delaney.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The kind of article the City writer for the Athletic you would like to think would write.

He has neither the brains nor the writing technique to write like that.

 

[eyalluvitt]

“Ex City youth player sticks two fingers up at Pep as he gives the young reds a stunning point against the big spending Yorkshire powerhouse that is Leeeeeeds”

 

[Moss Side's Finest]

If there ever was anything to epitomise how the old American led old guard and media are trying to tarnish and degrade us at the same time in broad daylight, we currently have a fucking rag and scouser on SSN giving 'their opinions' on what their paymasters should do with our great club

 

[Doctor Jimmy and Mr Jim]

Good letter in today’s Times:

Concise, balanced and nailed it. Arise Sir Alun!

 

[Blue Mist]

The line a lot of the media are now going with is we could be expelled from the PL. The real point that they all love saying is the EFL won't accept us as there is no provision in the rules for an extra team.
So the PL are going to run with 19 teams for the next 50 years ? At a time when clubs are struggling financially they will be happy to have one less home match. Yeh right.
How about some honest reporting and say 4 teams would be promoted and we would have the place in what ever division thats left, but no, they would rather rather write shite that makes rags wet themselves.

 

[mrbelfry]

Good letter in today’s Times:

Another example of Manchester City fakery. They can't even spell Alan correctly. Basic spelling mistakes of common English first names is a joke and wouldn't stand if Gary Cook was still in charge. How I pine for the simpler times of Chad Evans and Sean Goater.

 

[hammocity]

Sky reporting the Rags actually had a great result against Leeds, this against a team that had scored just 4 goals since the World Cup. Then lauded a Sancho goal that was fucking bad keeping but the commentator was jizzing himself. Ffs, the narrative is fucking sickening.

 

[argyle]

We should have taken FFP to the Courts years ago.

City probably don't want to challenge FFP as it stops other clubs from being bought and challenging us.

Newcastle are currently held back for a number of years because of it.

 

[argyle]

Sky reporting the Rags actually had a great result against Leeds, this against a team that had scored just 4 goals since the World Cup. Then lauded a Sancho goal that was fucking bad keeping but the commentator was jizzing himself. Ffs, the narrative is fucking sickening.

sky are just a utd and liverpool fanzine. honestly stop watching anything by them and you'll feel so much better.

 

[hammocity]

sky are just a utd and liverpool fanzine. honestly stop watching anything by them and you'll feel so much better.

Yep, just showed a back page headline by some no mark in the Mail (I think) which has the headline about Sancho:

"Comeback Kid!"

He scored a goal that should have been a routine save from he keeper, how these wankers sleep at night is beyond me.

 

[bobom]

Yep, just showed a back page headline by some no mark in the Mail (I think) which has the headline about Sancho:

"Comeback Kid!"

He scored a goal that should have been a routine save from he keeper, how these wankers sleep at night is beyond me.

Bloody hell, they're not serial killers, they're just doing their job and flogging newspapers.

 

[jrb]

Bloody hell, they're not serial killers, they're just doing their job and flogging newspapers.

And lying in the process. You call that a job?

 

[bobom]

And lying in the process. You call that a job?

Yes. I'm always amazed that people on here care.

 

[John Wayne]

sky are just a utd and liverpool fanzine. honestly stop watching anything by them and you'll feel so much better.

There is so much truth in this. Before Covid, SSN was always on in our house. Apart from the two title wins and our CAS victory, I never watch it now. It's lost a lot of respectability since it started to compromise on the principle of impartiality.

On the whole, I'm much happier for completely disconnecting from the saturated sport that is football, outside of watching games. I don't watch any pre or post-match bullshit. Half-time is for leaving the room and doing something else. I don't need or want the opinions of ex-players. I don't need or want a summariser when a single commentator is more than adequate.

The glee and euphoria on the part of supposedly credible media outlets at the announcement of us having been charged by the Premier League reminded us of who these people really are. They outed themselves. By God, they're going to be disappointed when this comes to a conclusion.