Media bias for FourFourTwo

[Pete Campbell]

Looking forward to the outrage and the sniggers in the media and social media towards United's 2/3rds empty stadium that thinned out even more at FT. Certainly looking forward to how pathetic the United fans are for not staying for LVG's speech and for the few that remained booing him.

For the record, I couldn't care less about the above. Its the disparity of coverage that I'm over.

 

[George Hannah]

For the record, I couldn't care less about the above. Its the disparity of coverage that I'm over.

and therefore you do.

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Can anyone remember the furore at the start of the season when James, savage et al, had the audacity to suggest we could finish outside the top 4??? Me neither (:

 

[franksinatra]

Can anyone remember the furore at the start of the season when James, savage et al, had the audacity to suggest we could finish outside the top 4??? Me neither (:

Or how they kept misquoting Mangalas tranfer as 42 million to make us look bad. Its swings and roundabouts sometimes.

 

[Tarzan41]

Can anyone remember the furore at the start of the season when James, savage et al, had the audacity to suggest we could finish outside the top 4??? Me neither (:

I would say fair enough but 5 games in they had revised their opinion to 'they will run away with the league '.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Or how they kept misquoting Mangalas tranfer as 42 million to make us look bad. Its swings and roundabouts sometimes.

What's your opinion of the way the press has reported Sunday's shambles, Frank?

 

[Phil1]

What's your opinion of the way the press has reported Sunday's shambles, Frank?

Entirely fair I'd have thought.

 

[franksinatra]

What's your opinion of the way the press has reported Sunday's shambles, Frank?

Not ducking it GDM but had a problem with my broadband, until yesterday, and pretty busy at work so bit out of the loop with the reporting of that incident.

Noticed this morning plenty of mentions of the empty seats at Old Trafford in the Press as there should be.[/QUOTE]

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

I would say fair enough but 5 games in they had revised their opinion to 'they will run away with the league '.

So they made two predictions, within the space of five games, and got them both wrong. Expect more crystal ball gazing from them and their ilk in the weeks and months ahead. Mind you, why anyone gives a shit what Savage, James et al think, is beyond me.

 

[franksinatra]

So they made two predictions, within the space of five games, and got them both wrong. Expect more crystal ball gazing from them and their ilk in the weeks and months ahead. Mind you, why anyone gives a shit what Savage, James et al think, is beyond me.

To be fair many City fans thought after 5 games, and Chelseas poor start, we would win it. What we, and the press did not realise that start was then followed by a lack of application and attitude. Im not one to defend the press but I dont think anyone could have predicted how Citys season would unravel

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

To be fair many City fans thought after 5 games, and Chelseas poor start, we would win it. What we, and the press did not realise that start was then followed by a lack of application and attitude. Im not one to defend the press but I dont think anyone could have predicted how Citys season would unravel

Me neither. What I don't get is why, if Savage, James, Merson etc say we are going to finish outside top four there is outrage on BM, as if these blokes are a modern day Nostradamus equivalent. Equally, why don't they have the courage of their convictions? They were nearly right, after all....

 

[George Hannah]

Me neither. What I don't get is why, if Savage, James, Merson etc say we are going to finish outside top four there is outrage on BM, as if these blokes are a modern day Nostradamus equivalent. Equally, why don't they have the courage of their convictions? They were nearly right, after all....

At the risk of being considered impolite I would invite you to consider in whose camp you are pitching your 'nearly right' tent.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

At the risk of being considered impolite I would invite you to consider in whose camp you are pitching your 'nearly right' tent.

Impolite you George? Surely not. I'm not pitching in any camp just saying that whichever 'expert' said we'd finish outside the top four was a lot closer to being right than many of us ever thought possible.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Not ducking it GDM but had a problem with my broadband, until yesterday, and pretty busy at work so bit out of the loop with the reporting of that incident.

Ok then. How do you think it should have been reported?

 

[dickie davies]

Me neither. What I don't get is why, if Savage, James, Merson etc say we are going to finish outside top four there is outrage on BM, as if these blokes are a modern day Nostradamus equivalent. Equally, why don't they have the courage of their convictions? They were nearly right, after all....

As a matter of interest, do you know who they then tipped for the top four and champions?

 

[capiloton]

media portray City as a bad club, and City work hard to play a nice kid.
i'd rather to see us being a really bad guy and ruthless to these fucking idiots.
close the door to all pathetic media who clearly have an agenda, and be nice to media with fair reports.
hope Pep realize this, stop being kind and charming with the media. it's looks silly.
ask them where they from, and if it's from media who clearly anti-City, hit them back or just ridicule their company in front other journalist.
these shithead deserve nothing. payback time with Pep, perhaps.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

As a matter of interest, do you know who they then tipped for the top four and champions?

I only know some of them tipped us to finish outside the top four by reading it on here, so no I don't.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I think pretty much every pundit predicted united would get top 4, which is understanding given all that money they spent.

 

[unexpected item]

hope Pep realize this, stop being kind and charming with the media.
it's looks silly.
ask them where they from, and if it's from media who clearly anti-City, hit them back or just ridicule their company in front other journalist.
these shithead deserve nothing. payback time with Pep, perhaps.

Pep already has Jamie Jackson sussed, so the other fuckers need to watch it if they feel the need to disrespect him..

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...jamie-jackson-bayern-munich-manchester-united

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

To be fair many City fans thought after 5 games, and Chelseas poor start, we would win it. What we, and the press did not realise that start was then followed by a lack of application and attitude. Im not one to defend the press but I dont think anyone could have predicted how Citys season would unravel

Like you, I don't think there is an orchestrated campaign against City, but I do think that many sports opinion writers (and, by extension, their papers) do have an obvious leaning away from City. Looking on newsnow, I came across this headline from the Star: Ozil, Lallana and Lamella make list of best attacking midfielders on stats. There then followed the 'top' 12, as reported by football-observatory.com. I clicked the link as, not only was I surprised to see Lallana and Lamella on it, I wondered if Merlin might have scraped in given that he's not had a great season by his standards and has had a few injuries.
The PL had six representatives, who were listed as follows: 9th Payet, 8th Lallana, 7th Ericsson, 4th Lamella, 2nd Ozil, 1st David Silva.
Now, you could easily argue, that it's not much of a story. But, if you're going to bother with it, I'd have thought the story was more about the number 1 ranked player is playing in the PL. It might, at a push, have been about having 2 players from the PL in the top 2. But to not mention he bloke who's ranked first seems like a bit more than an oversight.