PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[johnny crossan]

I have always maintained (can’t remember when I first posted it) that this is a smear campaign against us.
The punishment is the ongoing damage to our reputation. The hacked emails were the vehicle to give the perpetrators a semblance of substance.
The Perpetrators are very often narcissistic which would fit the Rag,Dipper,Arse air of superiority. Although smear campaigns are nothing new it is a favourite Yank tactic.
And this is still my view, guilty of nothing but victim of a smear campaign which is why I think we will prevail.

As the club described it in their original press statement - 'ongoing reputational damage' - using their client media this is simply one of the tools deployed by our US-owned competitors to protect their revenue streams. Alas all in vain.

 

[mexico1970]

Yup this. IO dont think any sane City fan thinks there is an organised conspiracy. Follow the money though.. Yes, thats where the bias is. It pays to knock City, literally pays.

The real tragedy here is that these people get to call themselves journalists without putting a jot of work into the shit they write.

 

[Damocles]

Yup this. IO dont think any sane City fan thinks there is an organised conspiracy. Follow the money though.. Yes, thats where the bias is. It pays to knock City, literally pays.

I don't think it's an organised conspiracy. But nor do I think that the fact that lots of left wing journalists just so happen to write for the Guiardian and lots of right wing journalists just so happen to write for the Sun is a coincidental display of spontaneous negentropy

 

[LeonardoDaVnci]

Yup this. IO dont think any sane City fan thinks there is an organised conspiracy. Follow the money though.. Yes, thats where the bias is. It pays to knock City, literally pays.

and soon to be joined by the barcodes, the more successful they become the more they will be targeted, and CFC will always be a free hit on a slow news day....its not personal it's the algorithms...

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[johnny crossan]

The real tragedy here is that these people get to call themselves journalists without putting a jot of work into the shit they write.

and have never even seen the NUJ Code.

National Union of Journalists (NUJ): Code of conduct

The code of conduct has set out the main principles of UK and Irish journalism since 1936. The code is part of the rules of the union.

www.nuj.org.uk

 

[Damocles]

and have never even seen the NUJ Code.

Most of them nowadays couldn't spell NUJ

EDIT: In fact not to go on a large old man shouts at cloud rant here, but the amount of spelling and grammar mistakes that I see in broadsheet newspapers now, in an age of AI spell and grammar checkers, is somewhat bizarre

 

[TFC]

The real tragedy here is that these people get to call themselves journalists without putting a jot of work into the shit they write.

They aren't around to present facts though, just to pander to their dwindling base.

 

[Kinkybyname]

and have never even seen the NUJ Code.

National Union of Journalists (NUJ): Code of conduct

The code of conduct has set out the main principles of UK and Irish journalism since 1936. The code is part of the rules of the union.

www.nuj.org.uk

it's McNae's they need to fkn read first

 

[Goats left knee]

We are regarded as filthy rotten rule breaking cheats. It’s going to take something else to turn that around.

Its all tainted they say

 

[johnny crossan]

it's McNae's they need to fkn read first

it's well beyond their vocabulary limit too.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Not gonna lie, reading you lot argue with each other has filled the void of no news on this.
As you were.

 

[BamberBridgeBlue]

It's more because negative City content is more commercially valuable in terms of attracting a big online audience. There is a big appetite from a huge volume of LFC, MUFC and Arsenal fans for City "knocking stories" which are also read by City fans ourselves. The legacy media is struggling so there is a huge pressure to chase declining revenues. The stories which generate the most clicks will always be the most prominent. It's not so much that journalists are told what to write (though most media firms have an established editorial angle on many issues) but they soon learn what is most likely to be published or broadcast. They want to hang on to their jobs.

Whilst I 100% agree with every word, it’s a really sad indictment of the I.Q. of your average football fan.

 

[CoventryBlue]

Haha. Exactly. That would certainly constitute “the horses mouth”.

I can go and delete most of last night's ramblings then. You tease, you had me thinking you'd been dining with Soriano or something

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

T

A perfect life motto.

It’s Magic Hat for me.

That reminds me

I've been invited by Twitter to delete my "CAN'T YOU JUST DO THE DECENT THING AND SET FIRE TO YOURSELF"? response to Magic Hat"s anti-City bollocks last week

Apparently I then go into Twitter Jail for two weeks and show a bit of remorse

NAH!
I'll delete it when I'm ready and on my terms

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I have always maintained (can’t remember when I first posted it) that this is a smear campaign against us.
The punishment is the ongoing damage to our reputation. The hacked emails were the vehicle to give the perpetrators a semblance of substance.
The Perpetrators are very often narcissistic which would fit the Rag,Dipper,Arse air of superiority. Although smear campaigns are nothing new it is a favourite Yank tactic.
And this is still my view, guilty of nothing but victim of a smear campaign which is why I think we will prevail.

There is no doubt it has been a smear campaign. Khaldoon has publically stated this. You can go back to the two emails being pasted together, the relentless leaks from the UEFA case of information directly from the investigations team itself, the negative media briefings and whispers, the hateful 8 letter, even the press releases from the PL comms team have been distorted and biased to show City in a bad light. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is just a fact.

 

[bluemonkey71]

It would be quicker to get an update from Pannick. Set up a forum collection,book an hour of his time and ask him directly. After he says no comment he could be asked the more important questions such as muffin or barm and does he like the banner.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

T

That reminds me

I've been invited by Twitter to delete my "CAN'T YOU JUST DO THE DECENT THING AND SET FIRE TO YOURSELF"? response to Magic Hat"s anti-City bollocks last week

Apparently I then go into Twitter Jail for two weeks and show a bit of remorse

NAH!
I'll delete it when I'm ready and on my terms

I just laugh at the levels of copium that goons like him have to take.

As and when we’re cleared, that week is going to be absolutely glorious.

I’ll be charging up my power packs to make sure I’ve got enough battery to drink it all in!

 

[flb]

It drags on and on and on....

Probably looking for a 'Get out' for Masters.

He'll be unemployable without one.

He's already got one, he became a director of the newly formed premier league studios back in November. He's the one with his neck in the noose, Alison Brittain, Matthew Ryder and no doubt a few others are complicit to the charges the club face and are equally as bad in my book.

 

[levets]

On the topic of Marc Bolan, I recently found out that the original singer of "Tainted Love" was Gloria Jones

Really? Only recently? One of the classic ‘Northern Soul’ tunes. The soft cell version was shit by comparison, in my opinion of course. Meanwhile, back on topic…

 

[M18CTID]

T

That reminds me

I've been invited by Twitter to delete my "CAN'T YOU JUST DO THE DECENT THING AND SET FIRE TO YOURSELF"? response to Magic Hat"s anti-City bollocks last week

Apparently I then go into Twitter Jail for two weeks and show a bit of remorse

NAH!
I'll delete it when I'm ready and on my terms

I thought that now Musk owns Twatter you can say whatever the fuck you want to people with no comeback. While I was still on there before closing my account last August, I was certainly able to call Liverpool fans cunts a lot more often than I was pre-Musk