Media coverage 2018/19

[Neville Kneville]

Even by the Guardian's standards this is low....

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/may/24/welcome-to-elite-football-great-summer-of-hate

Football plays with fire as it merrily fans the flames of hate and division

....Football rage is there most obviously in the self-contained shout-box inanities of the internet. At last weekend’s FA Cup final there was a minor media furore as a lone, well-refreshed Manchester City supporter stormed the press box and began to offer up rambling brain-thoughts about anti-City bias, conspiracies against the little man and the inexplicable trend for publishing newspaper articles about Premier League golden boot winner Mohamed Salah.

It became a kind of confirmation event, proof that the angry social media presence among City’s fanbase is indeed present in the flesh; a support that appears to have never been so upset even while watching their team win a sublime domestic treble....

This tribalism has been weaponised, expertly. Firstly by broadcasters and newspapers, who have become practised in fanning the idiot wind. Red against blue, super Sunday showdowns, overheated clickbait feuds. All of this has been good for business. And secondly by something more sinister and managed. Like Orwell’s two minutes in 1984, rage can be a useful thing too.

City are right to resist Uefa’s investigation into financial fair play if they feel it is in error. They may well be exonerated at the end. But the tone of this resistance, the aggressive statements, the idea put out there that this is all some ill visited on the disempowered, is at best cloth-eared and at worst a glimpse of the hard edges, the regime behind this extraordinary project club.

These ****s keep going on about 'the club' turning City fans against them.

They need to come on here & read back for ten years or more to get the message that we despise the Scouse/rag loving, bent, wankers.

The club have got fuck all to do with it.

 

[Marvin]

No.

He is accusing our owners of using the fan base as a promotional mouthpiece for Abu Dhabi and weaponising our supporters in a campaign against those in the media who "justifiably" criticise our "sports washing" club.

Thanks for replying. It's certainly that. I think he's gone further and accused some of the dissent as emanating straight from the hard edges of the UAE regime, but I'll see what others think.

I think it's quite some cheek for a journalist to complain about hate, and then use the pages of his newspaper to make remarks like this.

 

[The perfect fumble]

These ****s keep going on about 'the club' turning City fans against them.

They need to come on here & read back for ten years or more to get the message that we despise the Scouse/rag loving, bent, wankers.

The club have got fuck all to do with it.

I suspect, no scratch that, I'm certain that Ronay knows that.

 

[big gaz]

I hope Pep won’t be hounded out as he is a true genius and as long as he stays we will continue to dominate.

I also hope fellow fans will not question other fans’ loyalty when they disagree about something!

First point I'm with you, second point fu** oF* its blue moon.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Thanks for replying. It's certainly that. I think he's gone further and accused some of the dissent as emanating straight from the hard edges of the UAE regime, but I'll see what others think.

He's conflating the anger we feel towards the media and the "hard edged" anger displayed in the clubs fuck off reply to UEFA.

He's sees them as one.

He looks down on the likes of you and me as nothing more than knuckle dragging Neanderthals, stupid, reactionary and easily manipulated.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Have united just win a treble? Every time I have had radio manchester on this week there has either been a programme on about them winning the treble, or an advert about a programme about them winning the treble, every fucking day. It was 20 frigging years ago; we completed something special less than a week ago and it’s not even mentioned

 

[Newman Noggs]

Things are warming up nicely. The fact that anti-City journalists are bleating about fans using the Internet to expose their lies and hypocrisy is sign that it's working.

It says something about their insolent, self-aggrandising hubris that they expect us all to sit idly by whilst they spread their hate-filled, poisonous propaganda about us (and I use the word"us" advisedly).

They're finding out that they aren't immune from the treatment they like to dish out to others and that their "weapon" of choice can be just as easily turned on them. And they don't like it one bit.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Ronay is one of the modern fanboy generation. Not a proper reporter, just another smarmy posh boy who has latched onto football by following the blogging route. He is in the same camp as Matthew Syed. Ronay doesn't actually get any stories, or reveal anything new. Just another narcissist stealing a living. I respect people like Rory Smith of the New York Times even though he has criticised City plenty of times or Henry Winter. These people have at least done the hard yards in their careers.

 

[bluealf]

Have united just win a treble? Every time I have had radio manchester on this week there has either been a programme on about them winning the treble, or an advert about a programme about them winning the treble, every fucking day. It was 20 frigging years ago; we completed something special less than a week ago and it’s not even mentioned

Ah those clubs that bleat on about history, it is now funny as it is all that they have left :)

 

[CelesteItis]

Prick Harris and Knob Harris. Two different people.