Media bias against City

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To be fair if I had not been educated via particularly the FFP thread I would probably have assumed that some of the inaccurate, often skewed media reports were a fair reflection on the circumstances.

Perhaps Mr Quinn has not seen the need to defend City, after all unlike virtually all of us, he has not been a City supporter all his life so perhaps thinks more about say Sunderland or Arsenal than us ? Expecting any player who has had a part career with us to particularly retain an allegiance with City is a little optomistic.
I agree he has probably been persuaded to toe the party line and appear to be the voice of fairness among so many ex LFC players at Sky. This is why the LFC single club players / media men at Sky are currently so vocally bitter because they know nothing else except Liverpool and have been brainwashed so are therefore unlikely to be suited to a job that may compromise their allegiance should LFC be involved.

The real question is why Sky have allowed this obvious bias to happen.
I remember reading somewhere that Quinn is still bitter towards us over how we prevented him getting a transfer when he wanted out, some kind of financial pay off, maybe someone could clarify. Whatever the case, ever since I heard his punditry on us. Little light inside I felt for him died, he was a great player for us in troubled times, we rescued his career & probably made him as a top flight player. So sad how it's turned out.
 
To be fair if I had not been educated via particularly the FFP thread I would probably have assumed that some of the inaccurate, often skewed media reports were a fair reflection on the circumstances.

Perhaps Mr Quinn has not seen the need to defend City, after all unlike virtually all of us, he has not been a City supporter all his life so perhaps thinks more about say Sunderland or Arsenal than us ? Expecting any player who has had a part career with us to particularly retain an allegiance with City is a little optomistic.
I agree he has probably been persuaded to toe the party line and appear to be the voice of fairness among so many ex LFC players at Sky. This is why the LFC single club players / media men at Sky are currently so vocally bitter because they know nothing else except Liverpool and have been brainwashed so are therefore unlikely to be suited to a job that may compromise their allegiance should LFC be involved.

The real question is why Sky have allowed this obvious bias to happen.

Well I agree that Mr Quinn may not have the affinity towards City like us fans do, but I would hope he would give some consideration to the fact that he is in the club's Hall of Fame, and understand by now the underlying status of the club in current times. To a man, you would never hear an ex-rag or scouse acting as indifferently to a former club.
 
I remember reading somewhere that Quinn is still bitter towards us over how we prevented him getting a transfer when he wanted out, some kind of financial pay off, maybe someone could clarify. Whatever the case, ever since I heard his punditry on us. Little light inside I felt for him died, he was a great player for us in troubled times, we rescued his career & probably made him as a top flight player. So sad how it's turned out.

Lets be fair any ex player may very well have some less than happy thoughts about why they moved on or were sold against their wishes. We may be guilty of thinking we are more special than other teams if we expect anything else.

The team we support in our formative years is the one we will defend through thick and thin. The places we have worked at have mixed memories for all of us so are simply part of our CV not our soul.
 
I remember reading somewhere that Quinn is still bitter towards us over how we prevented him getting a transfer when he wanted out, some kind of financial pay off, maybe someone could clarify. Whatever the case, ever since I heard his punditry on us. Little light inside I felt for him died, he was a great player for us in troubled times, we rescued his career & probably made him as a top flight player. So sad how it's turned out.

IIRC, he had a possible move to Sporting Lisbon that fell through the summer we appointed Alan Ball. I think we may have expected Sporting to stump up the cash for his pay off that he was entitled to because he didn't ask for a move, and that put paid to the deal.

He's always clearly had the greatest affection for Sunderland out of his former clubs, even before he got involved in a boardroom role there. It's still obvious any time he comments on their games. He seemed to me to be really happy at City under Peter Reid, and then to regard all the anti-Swales takeover stuff followed by other changes at the club as ruining a good thing we had going. I think that also affected his perception of MCFC afterwards, and his autobiography seemed to confirm that. (IMO, he was naive in his views because the club was in a pretty horrific off-field state under Swales despite relatively decent league placings under Reid, but that's another story).

I also recall that Quinn never seemed (to me, at least) as critical of or hostile towards us when he cropped up as a Sky regular during 2011/12, after Andy Gray got himself sacked along with Keys. Certainly, back then, whenever Niall commentated on us, there used to be regular moans from opposition fans on Twitter sugegsting he was biased towards us. And I recall more than one Arsenal fan asking why he so clearly preferred us over them when he'd played for them, too.

I'm not saying he was biased towards us, by the way, and admittedly he was always a bit ambivalent about the size of our investment (which I put down to his having been chairman of a rival PL club at the time it happened). However, back in 2012, I definitely didn't see him in the same way as we do now. I thought there was a definite change in his tone between that 2011/12 season and the following season, and I assumed that it was a result of someone at Sky having had a word.
 
According to Stewart Robson, Pellegrini doesn't have a game plan and all he does is buy good players, puts them in their positions and hopes they win games for him. He must have missed the season before when we won the Premier League and League Cup scoring 156 goals in the process.

Or he's confusing Pellegrini with the Turtle because that's exactly what that shiny headed clown does.
 
This is what I just don't understand and it's not only limited to Quinn. Bar the Goat who is generally positive about City, however when he does criticise it is in a constructive way, making suggestions to improve rather than being negative.

Yet there seems to be no end of ex city players who are prepared to crawl out of the woodwork to denigrate us. Quinn is one, never heard Steve Howey or Didi Hamman say a good thing about us and the less said about Danny "steal a living" Mills, the better.

Maybe it's my perception.

On the flip side, I can not stand Colin Murray from his MoTD time. However when Hamann has tried to have a go at City, Murray has put him back in his place.

Be interested to listen to Quinns first commentary game on us I swear he was full off positives about our play and players, next game he changed to what he is now!
 
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niall quinn just gave a lovely interview on sly sports.




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that comment by Quinn really got on my nerves and it was said with a knowing look IMO, my mrs has been coming with me for the last 5 years ( yes she's a glory hunter ) and she said I've never heard one player singled out for constant abuse, Garcia & Mario were not my favourites but id never shout abuse at the match and Mario was someone who would not even try, i can't see that being the case with Sterling
 
Actually no it's not.

For BBC World News they will use US$ as a reference point for transactions as the base currency.

For information on the website you would be directed to your local version depending on your IP address. So there may be 3 or 4 different versions of the same article relating to local currency be it US$, GPB or Euros. All of those figures could change depending on the exchange rate at the time.
It's always in Sterling when I go on their website and I'm using a Eurozone IP.
 
For me a good tactic we've played is this data mining with SAP.

in 50yrs time (if this planet is still here) we would have preserved the data analysis highlighting our achievements such as wins/goals/trophies and how we played on the pitch.
In the record books it will say who won the league/cups and so on and clubs like Liverpool/Scum/Arsenal/Chelsea and City will get the credit for the recent success of English clubs.
Going further back then Forest/Leeds and so on will also get credit but with the way in which we're going digitally we'll have so much fucking data preserved online and easy to access the future generations who will literally have Microsoft/Google/Apple software implanted into their brains like some episode of Futurama will know how good we have been.

When I was a young boy newspapers/tv channels were still relatively important... I haven't read a newspaper for years, and alot of tv channels I watch are with foreign commentary so I can't even understand what it is they're saying.
So if my future Son asks me: Daddy, what is a newspaper? is it like my Ipad Mini 15? I'll explain to him what the gutterpress is and what propaganda is.

The future generations will actually know what the sun is - as they won't be assed paying for a subscription on their shitty website.

Let's play it cool.
 
The only reason the media are like they are is because most of the journos don't support City...They mainly support the traditional top 4

This is unavoidable and we will just have to suck it up until the new generation come through the ranks...Chances are there may be a better representation of City journos the more years we are there or thereabouts at the top of the tree
 
Quinn like all of them has to undergo punter lobotomy before being allowed to appear.

The main treatment is to ensure all Lpool. Gooner and Scum signings get praised whilst the default for City is a good slagging off. It was the same for Chelsea until Mourinho arrived so they are now somewhere in the middle.

If you look carefully you can see pre-lobotomy Niall trying to get out and sing about disco pants.
 
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