Media thread 2022/23

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manimanc said:
I can't stand Schmeichel. Fuckin hated that gobshite playing for us, gave him dogs abuse everytime he wore our top, fuckin rag twat.
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The man was and is an utter cnut, but he was a magnificent goalkeeper , even in our shirt and he was well past his best.

The derby he played for us at Maine Road when he is laughing at Gary Neville in the tunnel is quality , he went up in my expectations that day.

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jacko74 said:
I know this is good advice in general but I'd strongly recommend not reading the Daily Mail sports section this morning.

The various sycophantic united arse licking articles are truly nauseating even by the DM's usual standards.
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Check out Sky`s coverage this morning, truly nauseating. Some Youtube presenter interviewing a Mockney gangsta musician sat in the Swamp playing some sort of tedious Rag Top Trumps. Both creaming their pants, and needless to say not a Manchester accent between the 2 of them.
 
Keeper! said:
The man was and is an utter cnut, but he was a magnificent goalkeeper , even in our shirt and he was well past his best.

The derby he played for us at Maine Road when he is laughing at Gary Neville in the tunnel is quality , he went up in my expectations that day.

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The save he made at Anfield was one of his best ever saves imo. Past his peak certainly by the time he came to us but didnt let us down on the pitch despite his previous acquaintances

 
Keeper! said:
The man was and is an utter cnut, but he was a magnificent goalkeeper , even in our shirt and he was well past his best.

The derby he played for us at Maine Road when he is laughing at Gary Neville in the tunnel is quality , he went up in my expectations that day.

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He went down in my estimation when he faked injury for the return fixture as he couldn’t stomach playing at Old Trafford in a City shirt. Rags never lose their raggishnness.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
The turning point was in the late ‘80s when the ‘Big 5’, motivated solely by self-interest, recalibrated the gate sharing arrangement that had been in force for around a century.

The football landscape we see today, including City’s dominance within it, started with that selfish step.
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That step took effect starting from the 1983/84 season, IIRC, and City were every bit as complicit in conniving for this measure to be brought in as any other club that. The term 'Big Five' only really took hold in the mid-1980s when the top clubs, having achieved their aim of the home club keeping all gate revenue, moved on and sought a much more inequitable distribution of TV cash.

As was discussed on here recently, in the late seventies and very early eighties, there was no real talk of a 'Big Five', but sometimes people did speak of a six, based on the potential to draw a 40,000 home average attendance. We were the sixth, and indeed over the 8-year period between 1975 and our relegation in 1983 we had comfortably the third-best gates in the league. Until Swales blew it, we were regarded as an indisputably big club and had the influence that brought. Swales used it to campaign very actively for the abolition of sharing gate receipts.

Swales was also very enthusiastic about the formation of the PL. But he can't be regarded as a prime mover in that development, at least, as by then he'd overseen a comprehensive diminution of our status and he was really clinging to the coat-tails of

cheekybids said:
And then he was injured / on strike & waited for the tapping up from Harry at Pompey along with Distin & David James. I don’t remember the out cry that we couldn’t even keep up with them.
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I certainly complained about it. We had great facilities and were drawing 46,000 fans per match, and, even with our ups and downs in the 1980s and 1990s, had a much more illustrious history that Pompey, playing in front of 20K a week in an absolute shithole and with barely a season in the top flight in living memory before the 2000s. And that PL run was gained based on cash injected by a bloke in his twenties with no ostensible track record of his own in business but a father who was subject to an international arrest warrant and avoided arrest because he'd managed somehow to procure himself an Angolan diplomatic passport. It stank, but there wasn't a peep from the press.
 
The floppy haired **** has excelled himself.
Last screen grab of the 3 screen grabs from this morning Daily United online.

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feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
He went down in my estimation when he faked injury for the return fixture as he couldn’t stomach playing at Old Trafford in a City shirt. Rags never lose their raggishnness.
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A great player but everyone that has ever come across him, teammates included , hate him, say's all you need to know of his character.
 
petrusha said:
That step took effect starting from the 1983/84 season, IIRC, and City were every bit as complicit in conniving for this measure to be brought in as any other club that. The term 'Big Five' only really took hold in the mid-1980s when the top clubs, having achieved their aim of the home club keeping all gate revenue, moved on and sought a much more inequitable distribution of TV cash.

As was discussed on here recently, in the late seventies and very early eighties, there was no real talk of a 'Big Five', but sometimes people did speak of a six, based on the potential to draw a 40,000 home average attendance. We were the sixth, and indeed over the 8-year period between 1975 and our relegation in 1983 we had comfortably the third-best gates in the league. Until Swales blew it, we were regarded as an indisputably big club and had the influence that brought. Swales used it to campaign very actively for the abolition of sharing gate receipts.

Swales was also very enthusiastic about the formation of the PL. But he can't be regarded as a prime mover in that development, at least, as by then he'd overseen a comprehensive diminution of our status and he was really clinging to the coat-tails of



I certainly complained about it. We had great facilities and were drawing 46,000 fans per match, and, even with our ups and downs in the 1980s and 1990s, had a much more illustrious history that Pompey, playing in front of 20K a week in an absolute shithole and with barely a season in the top flight in living memory before the 2000s. And that PL run was gained based on cash injected by a bloke in his twenties with no ostensible track record of his own in business but a father who was subject to an international arrest warrant and avoided arrest because he'd managed somehow to procure himself an Angolan diplomatic passport. It stank, but there wasn't a peep from the press.
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My point was aimed at those outside City, my personal opinion was how? How has it got to the point we can’t compete with Pompey?
 
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jrb said:
The floppy haired **** has excelled himself.
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The floppy haired **** has excelled himself.
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As Worzel Gummidge would say " He's Gort is ruddy nitid edd on"
 
cheekybids said:
I thought it was debunked. Calling @Gary James do you know of any evidence?
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It's bollocks.
For some of those games, the only "home grown" player was John O' Shite.
The rags signed him as a 17 year old - certainly can't be called home grown a rag academy player.
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You can let football be the escape we all want it to be, just accept that hypocrisy is everywhere, and give yourself a pass. For City, don’t talk about the charges laid down by the same man who handed them their Premier League medals last week, nor Abu Dhabi’s record – according to Amnesty – on arbitrary detention, LGBTQ+ rights and torture. Much the same goes for all state-run clubs. Just where are the benevolent billionaires?

A lot of people don’t care. Many journalists and broadcasters ignore it or allude to it once and think their job is done. Gay allies taking money from Qatar to promote the World Cup. “Today I feel gay.” Today I care about other gay people. Sorry, how much? OK, I care about my LGBTQ+ brothers and sisters but only within the nearest 4,000 miles.

To divorce the two seems the only way. Are you still listening to Michael Jackson? Do you still nostalgically remember Gordon the Gopher, even after last week? I want to love that Alexander Isak run. I want to delight in Erling Haaland’s pure massiveness. And of course similarly powerless United fans could be in the same predicament pretty soon.

And it’s not just them. Don’t mention the player on bail amid allegations of rapes bossing the [redacted] for [redacted] helping them to [redacted] place. Don’t keep highlighting corruption or gambling addiction. Forget the racism and the abuse of referees. Don’t mention the continuing sexist abuse female presenters and pundits receive. It’s a long, depressing list.
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Mad Eyed Screamer said:
It's bollocks.
For some of those games, the only "home grown" player was John O' Shite.
The rags signed him as a 17 year old and didn't play in the Youth Cup- certainly wasn't a rag academy player.
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I thought Mourinho destroyed it recently but then not sure if it’s now changed to match day squad to make it harder to trace.

It’s clearly bollox historically.
 
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