Sterling - The Sun

[MillionMilesAway]

Can it get any worse.

Banning them will at least send the message to them and others that if they want any access to the club, stadium, training ground, players etc they have to show some balance.

It will also show our players and supporters that the club is willing to fight for them.

I'm sure it can get a whole lot worse.
Banning them can't really be justified really until they print lies - they may spin things like crazy, but most of it falls short of being a lie.

 

[moomba]

I'm sure it can get a whole lot worse.
Banning them can't really be justified really until they print lies - they may spin things like crazy, but most of it falls short of being a lie.

Any worse and we'll start making a lot of money out of successful law suits. They're very close to crossing a line already, if not already over it.

 

[TCIB]

The anti City stuff is a legacy from the way the old guard introduced the skewed FFP. Years of water drip treatment from Uefa and the G14 made sure we got an unfair tag during our expensive team and infrastructure build.
The media were just selling news so had indifference to whether it was fair or not so it took off.

We overcome FFP and this leaves a vacuum of skewed outrage so lets have a go at the players. We upset Liverpool FC who have a disproportionate number of ex players on punditry so we become a natural target which then carries on to a direct attack on Sterling.
Most of the media are already primed to see us as the oil rich Club so why pick on players from other Clubs unless they sell more papers of course.

Just an opinion.

Bloody hell, 2 very good posts in one day on bluemoon i have read now, wonders never cease :-)
It is an accurate and very concise post indeed.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I'm sure it can get a whole lot worse.
Banning them can't really be justified really until they print lies - they may spin things like crazy, but most of it falls short of being a lie.

Alex Ferguson did it all the time. He refused to speak to the BBC for 7 years because he didn't like the way his son was portrayed in a BBC documentary (which I'm sure didn't contain any lies, or it would have been a lawsuit). He also banned Sky cameras from press conferences for a short while after they broadcast footage of him trying to get another journalist banned for asking a question he didn't like. Hell, he's even refused to talk to MUTV before.

The question is do we want to be like that prick. The best way to deal with the media is to offer exclusive access to journalists that are willing to write positive, or at least balanced stories. The difficult thing for us is finding them.

 

[SilverFox2]

I'm sure it can get a whole lot worse.
Banning them can't really be justified really until they print lies - they may spin things like crazy, but most of it falls short of being a lie.

The press in particular are happy to pick on any personality in any walk of life and print stuff that they believe will create revenue. This is nothing new for them just that they are highjacking football this time to peddle their half truths in the hopes of increasing circulation.
They beg and pray that legal action is taken so that they can prolong their story and give their biased twist to the events having factored in the legal defence costs.
In my opinion they are not anti City or even anti Sterling simply maximising their coverage by hinting at possibilities rather than reporting absolute truth.

It is many years since the Sun and its readers ever printed or read anything that was just news. The same goes for much of our media these days where they all are struggling to embrace the digital age.
That bastion of British news The Financial Times was forced to sell out to the Nikkai a few months ago despite getting 75% of its revenue from downloads so those who continue to rely on the printed word for their revenue are vulnerable to put it mildly.

 

[Phil1]

I don't read newspapers but follow a lot of journalists on Twitter and there seems to have been a turnaround in how the majority are talking about Sterling since the Suns hatchet job. Pretty much to a man they seem to be condemning his treatment.
Unsurprisingly the Custis cunts are staying quiet..

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Alex Ferguson did it all the time. He refused to speak to the BBC for 7 years because he didn't like the way his son was portrayed in a BBC documentary (which I'm sure didn't contain any lies, or it would have been a lawsuit). He also banned Sky cameras from press conferences for a short while after they broadcast footage of him trying to get another journalist banned for asking a question he didn't like. Hell, he's even refused to talk to MUTV before.

The question is do we want to be like that prick. The best way to deal with the media is to offer exclusive access to journalists that are willing to write positive, or at least balanced stories. The difficult thing for us is finding them.

The answer to the question is obviously 'no'! The rest I agree with, I'd forgotten about the MUTV thing!
Utd have huge power over journalists which is why Ferguson could do it, and why everyone just let him do so. City just don't have that weight.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

The press in particular are happy to pick on any personality in any walk of life and print stuff that they believe will create revenue. This is nothing new for them just that they are highjacking football this time to peddle their half truths in the hopes of increasing circulation.
They beg and pray that legal action is taken so that they can prolong their story and give their biased twist to the events having factored in the legal defence costs.
In my opinion they are not anti City or even anti Sterling simply maximising their coverage by hinting at possibilities rather than reporting absolute truth.

I agree with this. They're opportunists and swing in the wind. They are just very good at either predicting the wind or making it themselves. Currently, Utd are in a trough, have lots of positive stories to report and could do with their nasty neighbours with the equally newsworthy manager being rubbished.

As I said, they get away with it,because usually they avoid writing lies; instead they write unconnected statements and allow readers to connect them themselves.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I don't read newspapers but follow a lot of journalists on Twitter and there seems to have been a turnaround in how the majority are talking about Sterling since the Suns hatchet job. Pretty much to a man they seem to be condemning his treatment.
Unsurprisingly the Custis cunts are staying quiet..

There is yet hope in the world!

 

[Phil1]

There is yet hope in the world!

I think the last week might be a turning point for him tbh. The Sun, in their rush to try and ruin the lad might just end up doing the exact opposite.
There's definitely been a more sympathetic response coming from the majority since the bathroom story.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Glenn Hoddle: "If there is a campaign to start blaming Raheem Sterling, then it needs to stop right away."

 

[mat]

I don't read newspapers but follow a lot of journalists on Twitter and there seems to have been a turnaround in how the majority are talking about Sterling since the Suns hatchet job. Pretty much to a man they seem to be condemning his treatment.
Unsurprisingly the Custis cunts are staying quiet..

Did someone mention there might be a pattern to the players being bullied by The Sun...?

PARTY ALLI England footie flop Dele Alli relaxes with bikini girls and champagne in Ibiza in wake of shambolic Euros campaign

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

Glenn Hoddle: "If there is a campaign to start blaming Raheem Sterling, then it needs to stop right away."

Oh aye he's changing his tune now the england job is free then. He's part of the problem this ****, little or no praise for sterling whatsoever when commentating on him, notably when Sterling put the cross in for Smalling I think it was in one of the friendlies preparing for the euro's

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Oh aye he's changing his tune now the england job is free then. He's part of the problem this ****, little or no praise for sterling whatsoever when commentating on him, notably when Sterling put the cross in for Smalling I think it was in one of the friendlies preparing for the euro's

It's predictable. Everyone and their mother has been slagging him off in the media, it's been pointed out that it's gone too far and now twats like Hoddle will backtrack.

Meanwhile, Carragher - the first I remember to properly lay into Raheem with an embarrassing rant - is saying the England players "are too soft". At least he's being consistent but it's still just another way of trying to justify what he's said previously.

 

[moenchengladbach blau]

Today' s headline in this troubled world is about more 'fan's fury' this time because the head PR man was silly enough to show a picture of the reserved seat cover of the charter aircraft.

The Sun selectively quotes the 'furious fans' but very conveniently does not appear to see the comments below the article which sya:

'Wow, what a complete crock of S**t this article is. Richard and Nick however did you think up this bile. Surely you can see how you are much more of the reason for England's failure than Andy Walker or embroidered head rests will ever be.'

'This is utter garbage, a shocking piece of journalism and also about as lazy an example of the journalistic craft as one could encounter'

'This story is garbage. This would have not been printed off England were still in the tournament. All the money that is spent and the Sun talk about headrests. Disgusting!'

and so say all of us, although I suspect that many of the very valid comments are from the PR guy's mates. It is a shame that the England players could not rally round Sterling in the same way.

 

[mat]

Today' s headline in this troubled world is about more 'fan's fury' this time because the head PR man was silly enough to show a picture of the reserved seat cover of the charter aircraft.
It is a shame that the England players could not rally round Sterling in the same way.

They could but didn't. The cult of Anfield players probably didn't help there, with the exception of Sturridge who will probably be excommunicated for standing up for him.

 

[Rolee]

They could but didn't. The cult of Anfield players probably didn't help there, with the exception of Sterling who will probably be excommunicated for standing up for him.

I take it that should read Sturridge.

Rooney also defended him pre Iceland game.

 

[warringtonblue]

Every last one of them should have been out defending him, and similarly to Harry Kane

On the shearer programme about euro 96 last week, it spoke about how the treatment of Gazza and a few others in Singapore, galvanised the team and brought them together, shame this bunch didn't show as much compassion to one of their own

 

[mat]

I take it that should read Sturridge.

Rooney also defended him pre Iceland game.

Yep. My bad.

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

Today' s headline in this troubled world is about more 'fan's fury' this time because the head PR man was silly enough to show a picture of the reserved seat cover of the charter aircraft.

The Sun selectively quotes the 'furious fans' but very conveniently does not appear to see the comments below the article which sya:

'Wow, what a complete crock of S**t this article is. Richard and Nick however did you think up this bile. Surely you can see how you are much more of the reason for England's failure than Andy Walker or embroidered head rests will ever be.'

'This is utter garbage, a shocking piece of journalism and also about as lazy an example of the journalistic craft as one could encounter'

'This story is garbage. This would have not been printed off England were still in the tournament. All the money that is spent and the Sun talk about headrests. Disgusting!'

and so say all of us, although I suspect that many of the very valid comments are from the PR guy's mates. It is a shame that the England players could not rally round Sterling in the same way.

Read this guys tweet. He isn't a blue he's completely neutral as far as I know. I don't know a lot about him but he appears to write for four fou two and this was his take on the front page:



It would explain the seemingly unprovoked and bizarre attack on the guy on the front page of the sun, who by all accounts seems a decent bloke