Media thread 2022/23

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Prestwich_Blue said:
The absolute fucking hypocrite. He had to be threatened with police and legal action over his harassment of me and a few other Blues, plus he was one of the group that complained to my then employer and tried to get me sacked.

And he's complaining about a few insults thrown at Delaney.
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Didn’t he also try to out Rabin on Twitter? Think he tried to find his personal details, name and address. The blokes a full on weirdo.
 
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Hard to know where all this ends - perhaps when the kids / new supporters who've watched from Aguero to Haaland over the past ten years start coming of age, we maybe have a larger social media fanbase, so it won't pay as handsomely to slag the club off day and night.

In the meantime, City supporters - who are certainly more knowledgably than the average football journalist on FFP matters - have to endure the constant articles, containing some truths, many inaccuracies and some complete fabrications. It does grind you down. When your 9 year old kid comes home from school and he's been called a 'cheat' for supporting City, you begin to wonder who the real victims are in this, and what the point of it is exactly.

So, well read, well informed, and mature, City supporters, engage with these journalists, attempt to highlight some of the nuance, and hypocrisy involved in just targeting City constantly. In a world that's going to shit, and getting worse, there may be some more important things to write about, than if Mancini got a Christmas bonus 13 years ago, or if the investment in City is partly about making money, or advertising Abu Dhabi, or soft power in a shifting geo-political landscape, or a genuine love of football. Personally, I think a mixture of all four. But there's nuance involved there - we can't have that now.. Just shout 115!!! over and over, and ignore Fly Emirates, Visit Rwanda, Saudi Telecom, Standard Chartered, AXA, gambling, clubs with a billion in debt passing FFP, La Liga clubs mortgaging their future income, Chelsea amortising players over 8 years, and on and on and on.

These City supporters attempt to highlight how strange it is that a football club who have been found guilty of nothing, are pilloried constantly by people with a limited understanding of the rules, who have a refusal to believe that a hugely successful and brilliantly organised club could make legitimate money.

These supporters get sneered at by - mainly - Guardian writers, but plenty of others - for being thick, brain washed, sports washed, for refusing to agree 100% with them. The almighty educated football journalists, running what's very obviously an editorial agenda to hammer us at every turn, as soon as the final whistle blows in many cases. Then they act shocked when they get a bit of grief at an airport or ground, all innocent - having gas lit a support base for years.

However - even a polite disagreement / conversation can seem threatening, when you're outnumbered by annoyed people, so they really shouldn't be approached, or photographed, or shouted at. It's not on, no matter what they wrote. Ignore.

Then, maybe most irritating of all, they get told that they didn't really feel anything - it was like a trip to the Grand Canyon.. the bucket list.. soulless.. empty.. hollow.. predictable. They booed the piano player (WTF?)... They get told how they felt, and if they actually did feel anything, it was all meaningless and manipulated anyway, they're shills - the dummies of a 'state'. A country not as good as England or America - both of which are perfect. Neither of which sell billions in arms and property to the Middle East and buy billions worth of oil.
I think we got called vermin, or rats, too at some stage, by an actual professional journalist. Don't remember or care which one.

Then you get the rank hypocrisy of the likes of Ronay, who wrote an entire book twerking for Putin and the Russian World Cup. Panja, who interviewed Mbappe but was too cowardly to mention Qatar. The list goes on..

It's hard not to get wound up by it, it's hard to just keep saying to yourself "it's bitterness, it's spite, it changes nothing", however the best course of action is still to try as hard as possible to ignore them. Reaction is what they want really. Any kind. Then they can paint City supporters in an even worse light. It's addictive, reading their stuff, and getting annoyed by it. I suspect it's designed that way - Twitter is certainly designed for rage-engage, to drag you down the rabbit hole of annoyance, until you realise your morning has gone.

I'm going to work harder to just roll my eyes and move on quickly to something else. They don't actually deserve your attention. They don't have the depth of knowledge of some of the excellent posters on here - Prestwich Blue, Project River, Petrusha, Tolmie and all the rest... read their stuff instead.
 
Damocles said:
Yeah he did, that's what prompted me to have a pop at him
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All because Rabin owned every single one of them. Babies spitting out their dummies coming to mind. Or even bullies getting a free run of picking on the vulnerable then crying when getting an upper cut back.
 
Wexford Blue said:
Hard to know where all this ends - perhaps when the kids / new supporters who've watched from Aguero to Haaland over the past ten years start coming of age, we maybe have a larger social media fanbase, so it won't pay as handsomely to slag the club off day and night.

In the meantime, City supporters - who are certainly more knowledgably than the average football journalist on FFP matters - have to endure the constant articles, containing some truths, many inaccuracies and some complete fabrications. It does grind you down. When your 9 year old kid comes home from school and he's been called a 'cheat' for supporting City, you begin to wonder who the real victims are in this, and what the point of it is exactly.

So, well read, well informed, and mature, City supporters, engage with these journalists, attempt to highlight some of the nuance, and hypocrisy involved in just targeting City constantly. In a world that's going to shit, and getting worse, there may be some more important things to write about, than if Mancini got a Christmas bonus 13 years ago, or if the investment in City is partly about making money, or advertising Abu Dhabi, or soft power in a shifting geo-political landscape, or a genuine love of football. Personally, I think a mixture of all four. But there's nuance involved there - we can't have that now.. Just shout 115!!! over and over, and ignore Fly Emirates, Visit Rwanda, Saudi Telecom, Standard Chartered, AXA, gambling, clubs with a billion in debt passing FFP, La Liga clubs mortgaging their future income, Chelsea amortising players over 8 years, and on and on and on.

These City supporters attempt to highlight how strange it is that a football club who have been found guilty of nothing, are pilloried constantly by people with a limited understanding of the rules, who have a refusal to believe that a hugely successful and brilliantly organised club could make legitimate money.

These supporters get sneered at by - mainly - Guardian writers, but plenty of others - for being thick, brain washed, sports washed, for refusing to agree 100% with them. The almighty educated football journalists, running what's very obviously an editorial agenda to hammer us at every turn, as soon as the final whistle blows in many cases. Then they act shocked when they get a bit of grief at an airport or ground, all innocent - having gas lit a support base for years.

However - even a polite disagreement / conversation can seem threatening, when you're outnumbered by annoyed people, so they really shouldn't be approached, or photographed, or shouted at. It's not on, no matter what they wrote. Ignore.

Then, maybe most irritating of all, they get told that they didn't really feel anything - it was like a trip to the Grand Canyon.. the bucket list.. soulless.. empty.. hollow.. predictable. They booed the piano player (WTF?)... They get told how they felt, and if they actually did feel anything, it was all meaningless and manipulated anyway, they're shills - the dummies of a 'state'. A country not as good as England or America - both of which are perfect. Neither of which sell billions in arms and property to the Middle East and buy billions worth of oil.
I think we got called vermin, or rats, too at some stage, by an actual professional journalist. Don't remember or care which one.

Then you get the rank hypocrisy of the likes of Ronay, who wrote an entire book twerking for Putin and the Russian World Cup. Panja, who interviewed Mbappe but was too cowardly to mention Qatar. The list goes on..

It's hard not to get wound up by it, it's hard to just keep saying to yourself "it's bitterness, it's spite, it changes nothing", however the best course of action is still to try as hard as possible to ignore them. Reaction is what they want really. Any kind. Then they can paint City supporters in an even worse light. It's addictive, reading their stuff, and getting annoyed by it. I suspect it's designed that way - Twitter is certainly designed for rage-engage, to drag you down the rabbit hole of annoyance, until you realise your morning has gone.

I'm going to work harder to just roll my eyes and move on quickly to something else. They don't actually deserve your attention. They don't have the depth of knowledge of some of the excellent posters on here - Prestwich Blue, Project River, Petrusha, Tolmie and all the rest... read their stuff instead.
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Bravo
 
Manchester_lalala said:
All because Rabin owned every single one of them. Babies spitting out their dummies coming to mind. Or even bullies getting a free run of picking on the vulnerable then crying when getting an upper cut back.
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My "crime" was that he was threatening to post Rabin's details online so I went to his publicly available website in his Twitter bio header, and then posted the correspondence address that he personally wrote on his personal website available to the public and that he advertises.

He claimed it was threatening behaviour and that I was prompting people to burn his house down or some shit, instead of seeing that it was an ironic point being made that maybe people don't want their details to be put on Twitter. Instead he has a personal website that features an article that he personally wrote that has pictures of him, his late wife, his two teenage daughters, details on where they live and go on holiday and where his kids go to school. That he directly links in his Twitter bio and published in The Times. He sounds petrified of the invasion of privacy and not at all using it as a stupid point to shut down debate.

So the SJA Head mentioned to the club in a wide ranging conversation about how hard done to these journos are by City fans and how me as an admin here gives me some sort of influence over the fanbase. You know, the ones who I've spent a decade arguing with online.

He's a dickhead. A fat Scottish twat with a victim complex.
 
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Brassell is also one of the biggest fraud journalists I’ve ever listened to. He makes predictions about players and teams that hardly ever are correct. If he was a punter he’d be skint. The World Cup made the competition smaller, wtf? The competition was smaller when the Rags won it where no round of 16 existed, he really is a fucking idiot who gets by because he knows the names of a lot of players, his reading of the game is akin to that of an 11 year old.

Delooney, once Bayern and Real Madrid were knocked out it was a clear route for City, what a fucking knob head, fair do’s to those that abused him in Instanbul, ****.
 
jrb said:
Last seen crying their eyes out and stamping their feet when City won the Champions League trophy in Istanbul.

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McGeehan doesn't belong on that list. He's a researcher who couldn't get noticed about his UAE labour issues research so decided to use City to find a popular angle that people would pick up. He's not the same as the rest, he might say some outrageous shit but his agenda is to highlight issues. The other's agenda is to enrich themselves.
 
Damocles said:
My "crime" was that he was threatening to post Rabin's details online so I went to his publicly available website in his Twitter bio header, and then posted the correspondence address that he personally wrote on his personal website available to the public and that he advertises.

He claimed it was threatening behaviour and that I was prompting people to burn his house down or some shit, instead of seeing that it was an ironic point being made that maybe people don't want their details to be put on Twitter. Instead he has a personal website that features an article that he personally wrote that has pictures of him, his late wife, his two teenage daughters, details on where they live and go on holiday and where his kids go to school. That he directly links in his Twitter bio and published in The Times. He sounds petrified of the invasion of privacy and not at all using it as a stupid point to shut down debate.

So the SJA Head mentioned to the club in a wide ranging conversation about how hard done to these journos are by City fans and how me as an admin here gives me some sort of influence over the fanbase. You know, the ones who I've spent a decade arguing with online.

He's a dickhead. A fat Scottish twat with a victim complex.
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is Rabin still doing his thing on twitter mate? i had to get off that place a few years ago as it was affecting my mood!
i never did get around knowing where Rabin was from, not that its important mind, but the whattsapp group seemed to be fascinated by his country of origin
 
adr2.8i said:
is Rabin still doing his thing on twitter mate? i had to get off that place a few years ago as it was affecting my mood!
i never did get around knowing where Rabin was from, not that its important mind, but the whattsapp group seemed to be fascinated by his country of origin
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He's still on Twitter although he's calmed down a little in terms of his research into these clowns. He still does it but not as regularly. His stuff about Tebas' Nazi history was brilliant.
 
It really is amazing the part that social media plays in peoples perception of the club.

I had the following arguments (on whatsapp) with friends last weekend, all of their opinions originated from social media.

Are there any City fans there one asked during the first half.
Another said that all Citys fans would be from Saudia Arabia (!)
Needless to say i turned the phone off, not listening to that shite during a big game.

Then the next morning i woke up to mocking of that video that was doing the rounds on social media of muted celebrations in a neutral area of the stadium, with them saying these were the heights of our celebrations.
This descended into empty seats, can't sell out talk, the usual shit.

Of course i pointed out that Saudi Arabia are nothing at all to do with City, what a daft fucking point.
Two friends then got rattled (Celtic and Arsenal fans) when i pointed out that bar the home game against Rangers and European nights, Celtic park usually has thousands of empty seats every week.
The emirates has had thousands of empty seats on several games over the years.
As i said, nothing is said when other clubs have empty seats. Its a social media phenomenon which stupid people have bought into.

And they're still going - a photo yesterday of Grealish's price tag compared to all the Inter players.
Sure why point out Grealish when there have been a lot worse signings in the past few seasons - Pogba, Lukaku twice, Enzo Fernandez, Mudryk etc etc

If Real Madrid beat Inter in next year's final for example, does anyone think there'll be anyone mentioning Bellingham's price tag for example?
Didn't see anyone pointing to Bales price when they were beating Atletico in finals
 
Wexford Blue said:
Hard to know where all this ends - perhaps when the kids / new supporters who've watched from Aguero to Haaland over the past ten years start coming of age, we maybe have a larger social media fanbase, so it won't pay as handsomely to slag the club off day and night.

In the meantime, City supporters - who are certainly more knowledgably than the average football journalist on FFP matters - have to endure the constant articles, containing some truths, many inaccuracies and some complete fabrications. It does grind you down. When your 9 year old kid comes home from school and he's been called a 'cheat' for supporting City, you begin to wonder who the real victims are in this, and what the point of it is exactly.

So, well read, well informed, and mature, City supporters, engage with these journalists, attempt to highlight some of the nuance, and hypocrisy involved in just targeting City constantly. In a world that's going to shit, and getting worse, there may be some more important things to write about, than if Mancini got a Christmas bonus 13 years ago, or if the investment in City is partly about making money, or advertising Abu Dhabi, or soft power in a shifting geo-political landscape, or a genuine love of football. Personally, I think a mixture of all four. But there's nuance involved there - we can't have that now.. Just shout 115!!! over and over, and ignore Fly Emirates, Visit Rwanda, Saudi Telecom, Standard Chartered, AXA, gambling, clubs with a billion in debt passing FFP, La Liga clubs mortgaging their future income, Chelsea amortising players over 8 years, and on and on and on.

These City supporters attempt to highlight how strange it is that a football club who have been found guilty of nothing, are pilloried constantly by people with a limited understanding of the rules, who have a refusal to believe that a hugely successful and brilliantly organised club could make legitimate money.

These supporters get sneered at by - mainly - Guardian writers, but plenty of others - for being thick, brain washed, sports washed, for refusing to agree 100% with them. The almighty educated football journalists, running what's very obviously an editorial agenda to hammer us at every turn, as soon as the final whistle blows in many cases. Then they act shocked when they get a bit of grief at an airport or ground, all innocent - having gas lit a support base for years.

However - even a polite disagreement / conversation can seem threatening, when you're outnumbered by annoyed people, so they really shouldn't be approached, or photographed, or shouted at. It's not on, no matter what they wrote. Ignore.

Then, maybe most irritating of all, they get told that they didn't really feel anything - it was like a trip to the Grand Canyon.. the bucket list.. soulless.. empty.. hollow.. predictable. They booed the piano player (WTF?)... They get told how they felt, and if they actually did feel anything, it was all meaningless and manipulated anyway, they're shills - the dummies of a 'state'. A country not as good as England or America - both of which are perfect. Neither of which sell billions in arms and property to the Middle East and buy billions worth of oil.
I think we got called vermin, or rats, too at some stage, by an actual professional journalist. Don't remember or care which one.

Then you get the rank hypocrisy of the likes of Ronay, who wrote an entire book twerking for Putin and the Russian World Cup. Panja, who interviewed Mbappe but was too cowardly to mention Qatar. The list goes on..

It's hard not to get wound up by it, it's hard to just keep saying to yourself "it's bitterness, it's spite, it changes nothing", however the best course of action is still to try as hard as possible to ignore them. Reaction is what they want really. Any kind. Then they can paint City supporters in an even worse light. It's addictive, reading their stuff, and getting annoyed by it. I suspect it's designed that way - Twitter is certainly designed for rage-engage, to drag you down the rabbit hole of annoyance, until you realise your morning has gone.

I'm going to work harder to just roll my eyes and move on quickly to something else. They don't actually deserve your attention. They don't have the depth of knowledge of some of the excellent posters on here - Prestwich Blue, Project River, Petrusha, Tolmie and all the rest... read their stuff instead.
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Another brilliant post!
 
I note the rest of the press are complaining about City players disrespecting England by being on the lash before the MALTA game.
Seriously?
 
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