Media Discussion - 2023/24

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Plain Speaking said:
Simon Bajkowski, Manchester City writer for the Manchester Evening News, writes about our Brighton game opening with the following:

"The damage was done in the first half as Phil Foden scored with a swooping header before Julian Alvarez saw a free-kick deflect in and ruthlessly punished some helpless Brighton defending in their own box...with Foden goal...netting a fourth late on"


****! How can he get it so wrong? All goal scorers wrong! He mustn't have even seen the game highlights let alone the game itself! Disgraceful.
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How do these 'journalist' keep their jobs. I would be in the right shit if I did something as wrong as that !

My missus would be sacked on the spot as a solicitors secretary if she put the wrong names down !!
 
give it to gordon said:
How do these 'journalist' keep their jobs. I would be in the right shit if I did something as wrong as that !

My missus would be sacked on the spot as a solicitors secretary if she put the wrong names down !!
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The muen really don’t care. One of the most successful clubs in world football and we get a useless turd like Bajkowski writing on us in the local “newspaper”
 
Andy TheCatalyst Morrison said:
Pabulum- right, yeah, I didn’t need to look that up at all. Definitely not. No way
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I know but it fits for Ronay who likes big words and Pseuds' Corner. Here's his description of Federer's backhand,

"His backhand was frankly ridiculous, overblown, hilariously good. This, one thought, watching that thing—the flex of the knee, the flourish of the wrist—is a kind of artefact, a European cultural treasure, like a Bach cantata or a complete acorn-fed Iberian ham, the kind of backhand a power-crazed Bond super villain might try to steal from its laser-guarded case and transport to the moon."

What a complete acorn-fed Iberian ham.
 
madloaf said:
Sarah Connor?
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Chris in London said:
It's interesting to think about the vocabulary the media on the whole uses about City even when they are (supposedly) praising us. "Relentless." "Ominous." "Machine." "Unstoppable."

They are all words with deeply negative connotations.

Actually, we play beautiful football. We innovate by bringing defenders into central midfield and inverting our full backs. We play our way through high presses with instant, one touch football. We play no-look passes because we know where our team mates are going to be. We cut through defences with team goals like a knife through butter (how many times have we seen a far-post tap in come at the end of a 20 pass move?). We score top corner thunderbastards from 20+ yards. Our wide players bring 40 yard cross-field balls under instant control. Our goalkeeper, no less, pings highly accurate 60 yard balls into spaces we can exploit behind high defensive lines. Oscar Bobb and Jeremy Doku excite crowds by taking on defenders one-on -one. Even our big, old-fashioned centre forward (Kevin de Bruyne) bangs his headers into the top corner from 12 yards out.

The vocabulary used to describe us invokes none of these things. There's a piss funny Jaws Paddy Power thing from last season where some grizzled old scouser tells a bunch of Arsenal fans in a bar what it's like being hunted down by City, and he talks about our black lifeless eyes. That's a parody - I think - but it's not actually a million miles away from the way the Telegraph and the Mail describe it.

Those words I've used above. "Ominous." "Machine." "Relentless." Even when they are complimenting us - through their gritted teeth - it's a long way from the way they used to describe Arse or the rags back in the day.

It's how they'd describe the fucking Terminator.
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give it to gordon said:
How do these 'journalist' keep their jobs. I would be in the right shit if I did something as wrong as that !

My missus would be sacked on the spot as a solicitors secretary if she put the wrong names down !!
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My missus would be sacked on the spot as a solicitors secretary if she put the wrong names down !!
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Do you think the 115 was really for the other club…..
 
At-Swim-Two-Birds said:
I know but it fits for Ronay who likes big words and Pseuds' Corner. Here's his description of Federer's backhand,

"His backhand was frankly ridiculous, overblown, hilariously good. This, one thought, watching that thing—the flex of the knee, the flourish of the wrist—is a kind of artefact, a European cultural treasure, like a Bach cantata or a complete acorn-fed Iberian ham, the kind of backhand a power-crazed Bond super villain might try to steal from its laser-guarded case and transport to the moon."

What a complete acorn-fed Iberian ham.
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Oh absolutely. I’ve already said how much I hate BRIAC and his oh-so-pretentious look at me look at me writing style

I love new words as well. Not sure how I’m going to slip “pabulum” casually into conversation. But rest assured I will!
 
All I heard from McCoist and crouch was wanking themselves off about Flopp - according to crouch he’s worked wonders scrimping on a budget a fraction of Pep’s - I would have said spent a bit less, won a lot less. Football focus doing the same, then obsessing about how forest can beat City, then on to liverpools previously unheard of new manager, then on to the great week that Hojlund has had - a pen against the mighty Coventry, a goal against super Sheff Utd.

They really are deluded useless wankers
 
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