Media discussion - 2025/26

[citymad]

Flip it on its head...if Guehi had kicked though Solanki in the box, what would the outcome have been?

Rhetorical btw

Yep, the whole world knows what that decision would’ve been.

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Face it, the Daily Mail is a favourite read for females. The Beckham/Spice Girl thing kicked off a huge marketing thing and young women in the 90s fell for it because it was, for them, the perfect romance. So now these women are into their fifties, they still love the Beckhams, except maybe Brooklyn, but the Mail continues to slag off City at every opportunity, ignoring the fact that Man U are badly run and frankly, crap.

For the really old farts - The Daily Fail has been popular with females since the Mitford Sisters were about...

 

[ArniArason]

So him venting his spleen achieves nothing in your book? It’s brought the issue to discussion, I’d rather him do that than bend over and get shafted by all and sundry. His comments weren’t ill judged, it was an honest appraisal of how he saw it.

Venting your spleen rarely achieves anything unfortunately. It may make you feel better, but often taking stock and reacting in a more controlled and strategic manner is far better, especially in work or business (which it is in this case). All he has done is given ammunition to the red press and media, plus probably got himself a ban and fine to boot. As I said, I agree with what he said and may have done the same thing, but I don't think it's done him or the club any good.

 

[Fordyboy46]

I think it's pretty desperate that companies pay for this crap. Why does everything require "ranking"?

Here's my ranking of desperate MSM outlets;
1. The Sun
2. TalkSport
3. Daily Mail
4. Goal.com
5. ESPN
6. 90min
7. Sky Sports
8. CBS Sports
9. BBC Sport

Add the Mirror and Guardian to that list just to balance things up

 

[ArniArason]

Boiling some piss in HYS, nice to know we are still living rent free in so many peoples heads.

Pep Guardiola: Man City boss jokes about spending

Pep Guardiola mischievously said he is "a little bit sad and upset" that Manchester City have only the seventh highest net spend on transfers in the Premier League over the last five years.

www.bbc.co.uk

He's a slimy cnut, everything he writes is calculated to be shitty to us in an underhand manner, example:

He writes:

"City WERE the heaviest spenders in January for a second year running, signing Antoine Semenyo and Marc Guehi for around £84m after shelling out £180m last January. (so written in a way that the reader regards the statement as absolute fact plus the use of sensationalist words)

But City's ability to generate money from sales has seen them bring in £550m over the last five years, ACCORDING to numbers from Transfermarkt.
(whereas this paragraph is written in a much more dumbed down way, and elludes to the fact that 'someone else says this is the case')

 

[GOULDYBOBS]

Keep seeing rags twisting history and celebrating Cantona assaulting that fan. The post is titled "Cantona kicks out racism, literally". Article goes on about how the victim deserved it because he is a facist and was a member of the national front and Cantona was doing the world a favour with his assault.
They all fail to mention that the French man had no idea about any of this when he assaulted the supporter. Two cheeks of the same arse with the victims

 

[madloaf]

Boiling some piss in HYS, nice to know we are still living rent free in so many peoples heads.

Pep Guardiola: Man City boss jokes about spending

Pep Guardiola mischievously said he is "a little bit sad and upset" that Manchester City have only the seventh highest net spend on transfers in the Premier League over the last five years.

www.bbc.co.uk

When he does stuff like this it's fucking ace.

 

[jrb]

Why you can trust Sly News.

The headline and article had nothing to do with City and 115 in particular, but the c*nt Mark Kleinman decided to add it to the article.







Who is Mark Kleinman Sky News?

Mark Kleinman is City editor, breaking major business stories and analysing what they mean for the financial sector. He has revealed some of the biggest stories in the City in the past decade, with a string of exclusives about major takeover deals.

 

[Norbert D]

Why you can trust Sly News.

The headline and article had nothing to do with City and 115 in particular, but the c*nt Mark Kleinman decided to add it to the article.

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Mark Kleinman is City editor, breaking major business stories and analysing what they mean for the financial sector. He has revealed some of the biggest stories in the City in the past decade, with a string of exclusives about major takeover deals.

Aren’t Chelsea awaiting a verdict on their 85 FA charges? Funny how that never gets mentioned.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Im sure that fans of clubs can provide evidence of incidents similar to the ones we have suffered

1. Newcastle offside goal
2. Newcastle no penalty for handball
3. Newcastle no penalty for a late tackle on Foden (of which, Fulham got a penalty for )
4. Haaland wrestled to the ground today, VAR admitting it was a foul but not given because the corner hadn’t been taken
5. Guehi kicked today, Solanke can only score by kicking through our player, no foul
6. The horrendous ‘offside’ disallowed goal away at Newcastle in the cup
7. The Dalot red card a couple of weeks ago
8. Henderson FAC handball
9. No pen v Wolves
10. The Rashford not offside despite running with the ball for 30 yeards
11. The allowing advantage only to blow when Jack was clear on goal
12. The Ashley Cole "tackle" on Sergio in the derby that was an horrendous foul should been a pen

etc

We could say the same for every club in the entire pyramid.

You're not providing any evidence of bias etc, you're just giving a few examples of where you (and have my agreement in most of the cases) have identified possible mistakes made by match officials. However, you fail to mention any questionable decisions that have gone in our favour... There will have been some, but as football fans we invariably choose to overlook such trivial matters...

Were those mistakes definitely intentional? Did the officials actually conspire before every match to penalise City? Can you prove it?

The answer is no. All I can say is that shit happens and we get on with it. In an ideal world (irony intended) it all balances itself out in the end....

 

[PeterBarnesShorts]

This thread is 99% 'off the scale' paranoia.

Is there a particularly strong batch of marijuana circulating around Manchester?

That's a purely subjective view. I'm sure that every club could provide such 'evidence'. It still wouldn't actually  prove anything.

Could every club provide an example of a goal being allowed to stand,when it’s blatantly offside,after var?

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

I'd be amazed if he doesn't get a ban for his ill judged comments. Whilst I totally agree with what he said about lack of neutrality, his experience should have told him to keep that part out.

Much had been said about Haaland's form and attitude of late (mostly unfairly IMO) but if one player epitomises our problems it's Rodri. Rewind back to before our drop off and Rodri was a leader, a leader by example. Rarely complained, seemed to always make the right judgements on and off the field, he was perfection. I'm not saying he's gone rogue now, but if you look back over that past month or so, he's looked angry, frustrated, his football has dropped off, he doesn't look composed, he's made numerous rash on field decisions, he's been sent off once, lucky not to have been sent off again, then comes out and says something in the heat of the moment that'll probably get him another ban.

I'm not complaining, he's human, we all make mistakes and can't be perfect, but it feels like we need him and our other leaders now. Dias, Stones, Bernardo, Foden etc.

You have got more chance of catching me hanging out of Michelle Keegan 'hi Michelle' than seeing Stones as a leader, let alone anywhere near a football pitch ( unless of course its for England!)

 

[dadnlad]

Grumpy pep in press conference
He was laughing and taking the piss

 

[eyalluvitt]

Grumpy pep in press conference
He was laughing and taking the piss

One thing he won’t miss when he goes will be the press pack window lickers, you can almost taste his utter contempt for them

 

[Norbert D]

Boiling some piss in HYS, nice to know we are still living rent free in so many peoples heads.

Pep Guardiola: Man City boss jokes about spending

Pep Guardiola mischievously said he is "a little bit sad and upset" that Manchester City have only the seventh highest net spend on transfers in the Premier League over the last five years.

www.bbc.co.uk

Love it when Pep does this. If it’s all about money then why haven’t the others won what we have? Then they trot out about our academy blah blah well maybe the others should invest more in their own academies if it’s a proven money maker.

 

[levets]

That Jay Boothroyd one has just described a player as “taking up the mantelpiece”.

FFS.

He’s thicker than O’Hara. Really does my head in that he’s got that gig on Sky. On what basis is he qualified for that?

 

[philiph20]

Add the Mirror and Guardian to that list just to balance things up

The Guardian are the worst of the lot.

 

[GOULDYBOBS]

Gaslighting cunts


They are lying over the footage that Solanke got a foot to it. It's playing back on loop and the two of them are lying. It's just bizarre. How can anyone take them seriously


Still no mention that he was fucking offside in the first place. Didn't even bother making the cartoon this time

 

[manimanc]

Why you can trust Sly News.

The headline and article had nothing to do with City and 115 in particular, but the c*nt Mark Kleinman decided to add it to the article.

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Who is Mark Kleinman Sky News?

Mark Kleinman is City editor, breaking major business stories and analysing what they mean for the financial sector. He has revealed some of the biggest stories in the City in the past decade, with a string of exclusives about major takeover deals.

Looks like he signs the register every week.
Beady eyed gobshite.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Could every club provide an example of a goal being allowed to stand,when it’s blatantly offside,after var?

Probably.

VAR has killed enjoyment in football. If it didn't exist that goal would have stood. We've probably had similar situations.

I've always wondered how the VAR panel decide the precise moment that the ball leaves the player's head/foot/shoulder etc.

It could be a matter of milliseconds where the player's big toe crosses the line. It's a shit system and I can only hope that decisions like that will get rid of it in the long term.