The constant legal battles and defamatory coverage has damaged our reputation and distressed some of our fans. I really believe a more proactive comms approach could have reduced a lot of the damage. Other club directors have been encouraged to smear us without any pushback. I am not talking about suing every journalist but we should have attacked some of the big operators with the biggest audiences.I like to think our owners are more pragmatic and cavalier than that.
I often imagine a scenario during their biannual board meetings where the director of communications says "we're continuing to receive negative views across most media platforms"
Sheikh Mansour: "where are we with our current trophy haul and what was our end of year profits?"
Director of keeping tabs: "trophy wise we're well ahead of the game and with regards to profit my Lord, we've superseded our expectations significantly"
Director of communications: "what about the British media my Lord?"
Sheikh Mansour: "Fuck em!"
Jargon....Yep you feel the likes of the rags Liverpool have a department of people looking at all media/social media reporting on there club and stamp it out pretty quickly or threaten the main corporation with legal jango!
For me, this has been a very rare misstep during the Sheikh’s ownership. What’s done is done, but I hope when we are cleared of the charges we are a lot more proactive in protecting our good name and reputation.The constant legal battles and defamatory coverage has damaged our reputation and distressed some of our fans. I really believe a more proactive comms approach could have reduced a lot of the damage. Other club directors have been encouraged to smear us without any pushback. I am not talking about suing every journalist but we should have attacked some of the big operators with the biggest audiences.
im sure we will when the time is correct, there wouldnt be any point in it at this current time because were neither guilty or innocent therefore any remarks from journalists etc cannot be proven to be correct or wrong, im sure we'l scoop up the worse of the worse and sue there arses once the result comes inThe constant legal battles and defamatory coverage has damaged our reputation and distressed some of our fans. I really believe a more proactive comms approach could have reduced a lot of the damage. Other club directors have been encouraged to smear us without any pushback. I am not talking about suing every journalist but we should have attacked some of the big operators with the biggest audiences.
We don't have to clear our name.
We couldn't if we wanted to.
MCFC is a very successful football club and people don't like it.
If you ask other fans how they feel/felt about the rags in their pomp under the pisscan the majority would say "cheating fuckers, bought all the best players and Ferguson was a bully who had the refs in his pocket".
Whether that was true or not is irrelevant - it was the opinion of many fans across the country (nothing is ever going to change that) but the majority of rag fans couldn't give a shit about it. If anything they're craving to have those days back.
The issue we have is our owners are brown, the British Media is racist and the red cartel are hemorrhaging money and prestige at an alarming rate. The media is more than happy to step up and create a smear campaign and set the narrative that 'MCFC are cheats". Why wouldn't they? It placates the masses, creates provocative headlines and brings in more clicks than they could have only dreamt of.
Does anyone really buy into this public outcry? If we strip this right down to it's rudimentary level, MCFC are being accused of 'spending money' albeit the acquisition of which has been brought into question.
What successful football club hasn't spent money and can we be 100% certain of it's legitimacy? I'm pretty certain that most fans of said clubs couldn't give two hoots about it.
What about those football clubs that have spent billions of pounds and have not been successful. They're often riddled with debt and resort to panic buying their way out of trouble.
I am convinced that if MCFC had experienced a different journey since Sheikh Mansour took over in 2008 and we managed to break into the top four now and again with a couple of domestic cups under our belt there would be no investigation into our finances whatsoever.
Success is bitch..... ask any loser.
And that is the whole point off the trial.It questions the validity of our success.Those damn Arabs, eh…always playing the long game!
Do you think there are enough fingers for a dam that size with so many holes? The internet is a bullshit repeater. Twas always going to be “us vs them” no matter the number of turkey sandwiches the reporters ate!
Post and a half that Wolvie me old spud gun.The unfortunate truth is media & football will always have an uncomfortable existence.
City is a huge club world wide. The tribunal case will keep the press printing and making huge financial sums. They won’t be giving that up.
City as a club has to exist in this arena. All we can do is remain professional.
The league has a right to investigate but my main bug is the selective investigation.
Treat all equally is a myth. So until the league is not controlled by arse, dips and rags then we will see this type of commercial attacks on another team. The league is compromised.
Some clubs are actively using financial rules to try and destroy another. The clubs who orchestrated the attacks on us should be named and shamed.
Thank fook we have people like khaldoon at the club otherwise we would have been beaten already.
Arsehole are the worst imo. Cant understand why any blue would be happy for them to win a champions league. I want them destroyed personally -:)
I know this is going slightly of topic but I believe no matter what City's approach was towards the media, we would get the same shit.
Start banning them than it becomes City are trying to silent the free press/ media. Say nothing and the press/media tell lies.
I really really hope once the case is over Khaldoon comes out all guns blazing. It's nothing more than us fans deserve. The shit we have put up with from rival fans has increased year on year. Even from fans of teams not in the pl !.
Last season had some Swansea fans giving it large as we queued at a subway on a service station when travelling to the Etihad. Calling us cheats and being fairly aggressive as if they wanted us to respond.
At a wedding on Wednesday some gooners trying to get a reaction. I just said "this is a wedding we are innocent and don't rely on owner interest free loads which apparently are free market value"
So please Khaldoon come out fighting because us grass roots fans have had to deal with alot of shit
Of course not.Here is a slight difference between accusations of Ferguson bullying referees - which is a subjective opinion to these god forsaken charges were we are spending millions to clear our name.
Unless United see the courtroom for buying all good young players or bullying refs - i don’t buy the similarity between them and us.
And I don’t think there were a million guardian articles about how bullying refs and spending top money has destroyed the league in United’s time.
I agree but since we have fed & watered this collection of absolute cunts my hope is many have had an unexpected Slurgie moment on their way home, if not at least someone is pissing in their drink of choice!The very least we could have done is not fed and watered the cunts slagging us off but we didn't. There is nothing big and clever in turning the other cheek and allow lies "if they are lies" to fester and establish as fact in other fans heads and mouths.
The piss can was never a First Amendment type of guy maybe our boys believe more in freedom of speech?Yep
Ferguson used to ban journalists for far less, but for some reason we've not made any effort to even protect Pep at a pre match press conference
Instead we just allow the same journalists to tread the same tedious patch
The issue with banning a media representative is that they are entitled to be be at games as part of the media contract so unless the club can prove they have over stepped the mark then it becomes difficult However, we should offer them the absolute minimum to what they are entitled to according to the contract and nothing moreGood points but...
Even if City are obliged by legal restraints to not fight back in public they could have and should have barred/banned and stopped feeding the media vermin who have lied/speculated about us at the very least.
Unless we can't prove they are lying that is.
The issue with banning a media representative is that they are entitled to be be at games as part of the media contract so unless the club can prove they have over stepped the mark then it becomes difficult However, we should offer them the absolute minimum to what they are entitled to according to the contract and nothing more
Different yep, the media sucked up to him the rags were the positive story and the income generators for them so, they bowed down to them Look at the slime ball BBC, he refused to give them interviews and the club were fined each week as a result then when the retired they sucked up to him and did a nice documentaryFerguson banned journos all the time but I suppose that’s different.
Long history of playing the long game, and they rarely lose. Smartest is rarely quickest.No mate it's not about revenge, the damage is already done the truth doesn't matter a jot. Between the big wigs fighting they've stained not just us but the entire game and its future.
Because they have painted themselves into a corner.
The only people our club feel comfortable preaching too is us, the City fans.
What the fuck Arabs have to do with it is beyond me.
False or on the non-City side of innocent or guilty?The problem is not the online loons but the big media operators like the BBC and the Daily Mail which have been allowed to publish thousands of false stories about our club with no challenge. That would not happen with Coca Cola or the Disney organisation.
And…?And that is the whole point off the trial.It questions the validity of our success.
Financial fair play is a joke and anybody who knows anything about football knows this.
It’s not a trial it’s a tribunal significantly differentAnd that is the whole point off the trial.It questions the validity of our success.
Financial fair play is a joke and anybody who knows anything about football knows this.