Media discussion - 2025/26

[Earlyriser]

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Who was it posted by?

His daughter

 

[CC1]

His daughter

Really? It doesn't look as if it was. Who is Leyla Hamed then?

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

It feels like a lot of the recent posts on this thread should be moved to the politics forum (or arguments taken to PM's) so the rest of us can get on with calling Stephen Warnock a ****?

I agree mate, he comes across as smug, little media stooge who things that wearing "nerd-cool" glasses and saying things he's been told to say in a meeting 2 hours earlier somehow make him an intelligent and insightful addition to whatever programme he's on. It doesn't, it just makes him appear to be a bitter ex-dipper (even that's a bit of a stretch) who's unable to speak about City without shoe-horning in some infantile "115" related bullshit.

****!

 

[andthesunshineband]

only takes one visit to for treatment at Klanfield. Nothing like getting into the ‘Big Rat’ for your full indoctrination into the cult.

Nice one, I was thinking how to crow bar "big rat" into the conversation.

 

[Earlyriser]

Really? It doesn't look as if it was. Who is Leyla Hamed then?

Try following the thread of Leyla's post, It's there.
The irony of posting this link to Leyla by Prestwich Blue is clearly lost on him' If he'd bothered to check her out a little more he would have seen that she is also raising money to support the family of a famous Palestinian footballer who was killed whilst trying to feed his family

 

[SWP's back]

I disagree. I hate mixing football and politics. I hate the fascist fan groups in Eastern Europe as much as I hate the Green Brigade. For me football is an escape from all the sectarian hatred which is destroying our world. When Pep retires he can speak out publically

And you’re welcome to your opinion, just as Pep is. As far as I’m aware he wasn’t at work or in the dug out when he said what he said.

Also calling out genocide and the killing of tens of thousands of children isn’t fucking politics. It’s humanity.

 

[CC1]

Try following the thread of Leyla's post, It's there.
The irony of posting this link to Leyla by Prestwich Blue is clearly lost on him' If he'd bothered to check her out a little more he would have seen that she is also raising money to support the family of a famous Palestinian footballer who was killed whilst trying to feed his family

Like I said in an earlier post - never trust a Daily Fail headline or story. If they can throw dirt at us in any way they will

 

[Earlyriser]

I disagree. I hate mixing football and politics. I hate the fascist fan groups in Eastern Europe as much as I hate the Green Brigade. For me football is an escape from all the sectarian hatred which is destroying our world. When Pep retires he can speak out publically

I would rather have a Manager who has a moral conscience rather a money grabbing idiot the likes of Redknapp who continues to sell his soul chasing a £

 

[TinFoilHat]

It feels like a lot of the recent posts on this thread should be moved to the politics forum (or arguments taken to PM's) so the rest of us can get on with calling Stephen Warnock a speccy Scouse ****?

Slight edit.

 

[TinFoilHat]

City becoming a threat again so the Daily Heil bait people against Pep.

 

[old get]

Like I said in an earlier post - never trust a Daily Fail headline or story. If they can throw dirt at us in any way they will

Apart from being written by Dan Hodges, the Mails political hitman and son of Glenda Jackson th co author is the politics editor of the mail. His main notoriety was his story that Angela Raynor kept crossing and uncrossing her legs during PMQs in an effort to distract Boris Johnson, the then PM.
Better occasionally to judge articles by their authors !

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

The attacks on Gaza go on every fucking day Colin you myopic twunt and with far greater loss of life.

He has every right to point out the Israeli government’s shameful actions.

And I have every right to complain about his actions.

 

[mad4city]

The shameful thing is that Pep completely disrespected the victims of the synagogue stabbing and the whole Jewish community by making those remarks hours after that cowardly attack. It was crass and grossly insensitive. He also probably breached the club's social media policy as well. He deserves all the shit he gets for that.

It's perfectly possible to be outraged by both the genocide/quasi-genocidal war crimes in Palestine and the outrageous attacks perpetrated upon the Jewish community.
Condemnation of one of these inhumane activities is not a tacit insult to the victims of the other(s). Neither is it support of either side's inhumanity.
I appreciate that this is a subject close to your heart, if not your entire identity. I've been there, when the Irish community were the pariahs, I was quick to anger and condemnation of everything I felt/ feared was a threat to my people. Now, with the benefit of hindsight, it's possible for me to see the wood from the trees
You're possibly going to accuse me of patronising you but, even so, I would very respectfully urge you to try to refocus. There's far too much polarisation of opinion in the world right now. Your post further contributes to that phenomenon.

 

[audenshaw blue]

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Haaland sends Henderson the wrong way with a cool, calm and collected spot-kick.

It's redemption for Haaland, who saw his penalty saved by Henderson in the FA Cup final in May. Sly sports think Haaland took the pen in the final.

 

[Blue Mist]

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Haaland sends Henderson the wrong way with a cool, calm and collected spot-kick.

It's redemption for Haaland, who saw his penalty saved by Henderson in the FA Cup final in May. Sly sports think Haaland took the pen in the final.

It's ok, they also think we've returned to the dark arts. What a stupid commrnt to make.
There isn't a brain amongst them, from the producer in charge of the cameras, why do we want to see a 4th replay of an incident when the match has restarted, to the dozy fuckwits commentating.

 

[johnny crossan]

The Sky commentator today was ex-Radio City (Dipperland) Dan Mann - a fine example of the ignorant, hackneyed, sneering, City-hating, cartel cockroach species that infest our media.

 

[Blue_eyes]

My stream today was from slysports, the co comms was a very impartially selected ex player, glen murry.

I say impartial, but turns out he had played for palace the last time they beat us at theirs ten years ago, and scored too.

During the late game he suggested that we had returned to the "dark arts", a polite way of saying we cheat.

I am pleased we won cos the above is less annoying to me, but probably grates on someone "selected" for their affiliations with our opponents, but then has to publicly witness them lose to us.

City, ruining gloaters on sky tv since 2008.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Sorry, go away with your politics.

 

[asahartford1]

There's no doubt whatsoever which side City are on, shame on the owners

My inoffensive star of david cap was zoomed in on by stadium security on more than one occasion yet palestinian / hamas flags are waved with impunity at the stadium most weeks

Long live Israel

Why do you not wear a City cap instead.

 

[asahartford1]

I agree with that. I am certain that Pep is not anti-semitic. I don’t know the full context of Pep’s Barcelona protest comments or when he said them and I don’t trust selective comments on social media. But I agree that our club has a very poor record in terms of comms bungles going back years. Pep represents the club and should not allow himself to become a political figure.

People need to understand the context. As a Spaniard Pep will be well aware of the sentiment in Spain.
Many Spanish do believe that the atrocities in Gaza are Genocide. The swell of public feeling is clearwhen you spend as much time in Spain as I do. It is not anti semitic it is a belief that the Israeli government is a rogue organisation without a hint of human compassion.