Media thread 2022/23

[dadnlad]

It's the fawning over them that gts me, we know why they do it, for commercial advantage all the arm chair Home Counties United fans need their football ego's tickerling, but it does got on your nerves and I am sure we are not the only ones who find it annoying, and unreadable

i feel more and more ar seeing it for what it is more so ssn and bt coverage

 

[Tracking back]

The narrative has already been written

We will read this constantly from the Rag infested football media up to the FA Cup Final and after it, especially if the Rags beat City and deny City the treble. Arsenal and Real Madrid can deny City the treble before we play the Rags.

To be honest it’s all already sickening the fawning that’s going on over United after their stuffy win against Brighton. Some of the articles, which I won’t post, are absolutely laughable and child like. And just for good Rag football media measure, United have made a move for Harry Kane (again) for next season.

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This is exactly why I was hoping we would meet Brighton in the final.

A much tougher test mind you, but at least it would have shut down the rag media noise.

 

[Colin Bell (genuine name)]

It's the fawning over them that gts me, we know why they do it, for commercial advantage all the arm chair Home Counties United fans need their football ego's tickerling, but it does got on your nerves and I am sure we are not the only ones who find it annoying, and unreadable

Is it possibly the reason why Sevilla fans did the Poznan against the scum and Southampton fans also did the Poznan against Arsenal?

Is every other clubs fans just sick of the attention given to the cartel clubs or is the Poznan just a fun thing to do?

 

[Claytop]

Will Bellingham stay or move? The view from Dortmund

BBC Sport speaks to Borussia Dortmund experts to ask if the club's star player, England midfielder Jude Bellingham, will make a big-money move this year, or remain in Germany.

www.bbc.co.uk

A brief mention of City once but apart from that nothing, it’s like they think if they don’t mention us then it can’t happen.

 

[Protein Junkie]

Spot on... It also needs looking at in a historical context. Football was the working man's game - it's rise to popularity was due to workers being given saturday afternoons off. Teams from Mill towns like Rochdale, Oldham etc. drew massive crowds - more than some Premier League teams get now!
However, with the closing of the Mills it was a downward spiral. Wrexham had the same problem with the mines closing, but not everyone will get bought by millionaire actors (or Sheikhs).

 

[JASR]

Will Bellingham stay or move? The view from Dortmund

BBC Sport speaks to Borussia Dortmund experts to ask if the club's star player, England midfielder Jude Bellingham, will make a big-money move this year, or remain in Germany.

www.bbc.co.uk

A brief mention of City once but apart from that nothing, it’s like they think if they don’t mention us then it can’t happen.

Haaland reporting version 2.0

 

[Manc123]

Will Bellingham stay or move? The view from Dortmund

BBC Sport speaks to Borussia Dortmund experts to ask if the club's star player, England midfielder Jude Bellingham, will make a big-money move this year, or remain in Germany.

www.bbc.co.uk

A brief mention of City once but apart from that nothing, it’s like they think if they don’t mention us then it can’t happen.

the journo who mentions us berger is dortmunds mouth piece so me hes the only one thats really relevent on there

 

[cheekybids]

Teams' fortunes will always fluctuate.
Look at Stockport County and their recent upturn. Hopefully they will get promotion to League 1, as their crowds are high for League 2.
Oldham Athletic definitely over-achieved under Joe Royle. They also had an excellent youth recruitment team under Jim Cassell, many years ago. What went wrong there (apart from City poaching him and others) ?
Bury, unfortunately, is a smallish town with Bolton Wanderers very close. They need to merge the 2 new teams if they have any chance of regaining League status.
Don't know much about Rochdale, but hope all 3 can get back into the League...

Non league attendance has never been so good. It’s not just that National league where I believe all clubs are now full time but the leagues lower.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Rochdales been mismanaged for years and even with their recent success ( promotion to lge 1 narrowly missing out on getting into the play offs) Rochdals average attendance for the 2018/19 season reached at 47-year high.
The average crowd at the Crown Oil Arena, over their 23 Sky Bet League One matches, was 3,574.
This is the highest average since the 1971/72 season, and is up on the 2017/18 season’s figure of 3,484.
Rochdale averaged 2900 this season 3rd worst in division 2 only narrowly above the ex rags Salford, to blame dales demise on our recent success is laughable from.some.in the media and another example of anything to have a dig at city , likewise let's hope Dale along with oldham can return

What the fuck are you doing?

Research, even if it's just a few clicks in Google isn't allowed in mediaworld!!!!

They prefer the ruining football articles where they just do a cut and paste job with different team/players names, how many hospitals we've not built, how to stop us etc.

This latter one is going to be red hot this next 6 weeks. If the written media still used typewriters the CIOPSTY keys would be worn out. ;)

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Agreed but every big club should start the season with the mentality of winning everything they enter. Of course we want to win everything but if you gave me the option of just winning two trophies now I would take it. That wouldn’t mean the season is a failure. She is a no nowt gob on legs whose views are a joke. She is too simple to talk with nuance, she knew what she was saying.

I write this as someone who enjoys ladies football I've watched our ladies play dozens of times live over the years and now watch them on TV or IPTV whenever possible as I've moved 70 odd miles out of Manchester.

Pundits/experts, we have very few male ones who have anything worthwhile to add to any situation, our female ones are no better in fact possibly worse and it's a very low bar to start with...the level they've played at if out of the game before the last 5/6 years was let's be honest pretty dire, it's not that much better even now.

The point I'm getting at is we don't see ex-players from the male game (someone is going to name a few now) who hasn't played football above Conference level filling us with their insights.

Just to again clarify, I'm going to refer any replies that this is a typical sexist post back to my opening paragraph.

 

[MCFC1993]

It's not what the treble would mean to me and you, it's all about what it means to the journalists and apparently it wouldn't be very good...

 

[manimanc]

It's not what the treble would mean to me and you, it's all about what it means to the journalists and apparently it wouldn't be very good...

The meltdown in the media if we do the treble will be hilarious.

 

[MichaelBBack]

I write this as someone who enjoys ladies football I've watched our ladies play dozens of times live over the years and now watch them on TV or IPTV whenever possible as I've moved 70 odd miles out of Manchester.

Pundits/experts, we have very few male ones who have anything worthwhile to add to any situation, our female ones are no better in fact possibly worse and it's a very low bar to start with...the level they've played at if out of the game before the last 5/6 years was let's be honest pretty dire, it's not that much better even now.

The point I'm getting at is we don't see ex-players from the male game (someone is going to name a few now) who hasn't played football above Conference level filling us with their insights.

Just to again clarify, I'm going to refer any replies that this is a typical sexist post back to my opening paragraph.

Just to let you know, saying "I watch women's football sometimes, so I can't be sexist" is the same as "I've got a mate who's black..."

There are plenty of crap pundits, both men and women, but there's absolutely no argument for excluding women's voices from the game entirely based on some subjective premise that their game is equivalent to "Conference level" football.

Personally I'd listen to someone like Emma Hayes or Rachel Brown Finnis over fucking Danny Murphy or Lee Dixon any day of the week.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

It's not what the treble would mean to me and you, it's all about what it means to the journalists and apparently it wouldn't be very good...

Any talk of a treble needs to be put on ice until 2 trophies are lifted and City have the opportunity to play in the champions league final. I’d be happy if we ended up with one of the trophies, two would be amazing, three would be historic.

If City did land all three, we would be looking at the greatest group of players arhat played the game and also the greatest manager in English football. Pep would have put together a team that has won the league by 100 points, lifted a domestic treble, won the premier league 3 times in a row if it happens and then the actual treble on top of that.

The compare and contrast to how they report on their beloved rags is evident. Ten Hag wins the league cup and has got them into the top four a squad that has cost United astronomical amounts of cash, they are hailing him as the new Taggert. The piss boiling if this happens will be delicious.

 

[Protein Junkie]

It's not what the treble would mean to me and you, it's all about what it means to the journalists and apparently it wouldn't be very good...

Is it really what it means to journalists or merely reflecting the worst case scenario for their gullible readers ? Or both ?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

It's not what the treble would mean to me and you, it's all about what it means to the journalists and apparently it wouldn't be very good...

Organically?

About ten years after they’d stacked the deck in their favour? Using the money that move had bestowed upon them to break transfer record after transfer record? To use the domestic income and glory that provided to guarantee qualification for a recalibrated European Cup, the revised finances for which helped further cement the gap between them and those their machinations had left behind?

There was fuck all ‘organic’ about united’s treble win in 1999. It was the culmination of a series of conscious commercial moves to concentrate more and more wealth in the hands of a few clubs, of which united would be at the apex. It was as a result of united et al creating a landscape where they would take revenue away from other clubs in order to widen the gap between them. A decision to break a convention of wealth distribution in football that had lasted a century.

The fact that the team that won the treble had quite a few youth players is merely a sideshow to the main event.

And the irony is, which Herbert’s tiny mind will manifestly struggle to comprehend, is the City model that he so despairs of, arose from what United did in the late 80s and early 90s. The treble win in ’99 was a staging post in the journey to the club City are today.

People say that Pep wouldn’t have come to City if it wasn’t for all the money, and whilst there’s an undeniable truth in that, it’s equally correct to say Mansour wouldn’t have bought the club if united and their cohort hadn’t been such greedy cunts 30 years ago, making the opportunities for commercial revenue from English football so enticing.

The Cambridge Online Dictionary defines ‘organic‘ (inter alia) as follows:
“happening or developing naturally over time, without being forced or planned by anyone”

The cunts certainly didn’t plan for what happened to City; that seems pretty organic to me.

 

[JASR]

There is obviously a clear media agenda against City success.

The ‘treble’ talk is but the latest in a long long line of vitriol and jingoism against the club:
‘How X can stop City’
‘Z promises Y will do all they can to stop City’
‘It won’t be a treble as good as United’s and here’s 99 reasons why’
Etc

Compare and contrast with the fawning love-in with last years prospect of Liverpool getting a quadruple:
‘How Liverpool can win CL’
‘What Liverpool need to do to overhaul City’
‘Will ex legend Gerrard help Aston Villa hand Liverpool the PL’

It’s stating the bleeding obvious, but have the UK media no shame?

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Just to let you know, saying "I watch women's football sometimes, so I can't be sexist" is the same as "I've got a mate who's black..."

There are plenty of crap pundits, both men and women, but there's absolutely no argument for excluding women's voices from the game entirely based on some subjective premise that their game is equivalent to "Conference level" football.

Personally I'd listen to someone like Emma Hayes or Rachel Brown Finnish over fucking Danny Murphy or Lee Dixon any day of the week.

Thanks for letting me know mate, I was never ever aware of that otherwise, I'd have not underlined the point at the end of my post.

As for Murphy & Dixon ....I've learned to not listen to any of them even though they've played at the top level and always tune in if not a home game at kick off usually turning the volume off after about 2 mins due to the shite being said during the match.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

There is obviously a clear media agenda against City success.

The ‘treble’ talk is but the latest in a long long line of vitriol and jingoism against the club:
‘How X can stop City’
‘Z promises Y will do all they can to stop City’
‘It won’t be a treble as good as United’s and here’s 99 reasons why’
Etc

Compare and contrast with the fawning love-in with last years prospect of Liverpool getting a quadruple:
‘How Liverpool can win CL’
‘What Liverpool need to do to overhaul City’
‘Will ex legend Gerrard help Aston Villa hand Liverpool the PL’

It’s stating the bleeding obvious, but have the UK media no shame?

No.

 

[LongsightM13]

Organically?

About ten years after they’d stacked the deck in their favour? Using the money that move had bestowed upon them to break transfer record after transfer record? To use the domestic income and glory that provided to guarantee qualification for a recalibrated European Cup, the revised finances for which helped further cement the gap between them and those their machinations had left behind?

There was fuck all ‘organic’ about united’s treble win in 1999. It was the culmination of a series of conscious commercial moves to concentrate more and more wealth in the hands of a few clubs, of which united would be at the apex. It was as a result of united et al creating a landscape where they would take revenue away from other clubs in order to widen the gap between them. A decision to break a convention of wealth distribution in football that had lasted a century.

The fact that the team that won the treble had quite a few youth players is merely a sideshow to the main event.

And the irony is, which Herbert’s tiny mind will manifestly struggle to comprehend, is the City model that he so despairs of, arose from what United did in the late 80s and early 90s. The treble win in ’99 was a staging post in the journey to the club City are today.

People say that Pep wouldn’t have come to City if it wasn’t for all the money, and whilst there’s an undeniable truth in that, it’s equally correct to say Mansour wouldn’t have bought the club if united and their cohort hadn’t been such greedy cunts 30 years ago, making the opportunities for commercial revenue from English football so enticing.

The Cambridge Online Dictionary defines ‘organic‘ (inter alia) as follows:
“happening or developing naturally over time, without being forced or planned by anyone”

The cunts certainly didn’t plan for what happened to City; that seems pretty organic to me.

Didn’t they also have the most expensive quartet of strikers in world football at the time?