Good post except for the "Israel" bit.The Guardian's position on City and our owner is a product of their 'ideology'. They are the voice of what we now call "the woke"; those who believe themselves to be tolerant of all faiths, sexualities, creeds and colours. The climate warriors and those seeking to remove traces of our colonial past. (I'm not criticising or mocking those people by the way.)
But here's where their problem is. In being impeccably tolerant, they have become intolerant of those who don't share those views. They celebrate diversity but simultaneously have a great aversion to elements of that diversity that conflict with their liberal, western, christian views. They will celebrate Islamic culture, for example, but reject elements of that culture that they celebrate that they don't like. LGBT rights is one good example. It's a part of a conservative religion but that doesn't count in the Guardian's eyes. Islam should be what the Guardian thinks it should be, not what it is.
You'll see many Guardian readers champion Hamas over Israel, yet Hamas is a determinedly illiberal organisation that rejects virtually everything the Guardian holds dear whereas Israel, for all its many faults, is the sort of liberal, inclusive (unless you're a Palestinian of course) democracy it champions.
It fails to recognise, despite the many failings of our own democracy, that sometimes autocracy, properly managed, has its benefits, particularly when it comes to avoiding major political instability.
It's for all these reasons that it ideologically hates our owner and his country. In being impeccably liberal, it's implicitly (and often explicitly) illiberal.
We don'tOf all the clubs in the top 6, we do tbf
utd are not top 6, they are 7th, thats the point being madeWe don't
That's Utd
And they spend more on wages than we do
Lol I'd not even thought about thatutd are not top 6, they are 7th, thats the point being made
Actually 5 out of 11, but your point is still validI find it so strange that the UK media doesn’t talk more about the fact that there was a contrast on the pitch yesterday: the entirety of Chelsea’s starting XI was foreign whereas more than half of ours was English. Or maybe it was talked about and I missed. But it speaks to the decision-making and mentality behind the clubs
I think or rather i hope most of us can see this but, then I see at numerous times each season smoke being blown up Neville's arse after he says something 'un bad' about us.All of them (Ronay, Liew, Delaney, Wilson, Conn, etc etc) will routinely throw in a little sugar, partly with the aim of creating the illusion of fair-mindedness and partly because to deny the quality of City’s football would be utterly absurd.
However, if you think their intentions and sentiment toward us are born of anything other than calculating spite, then it’s you that needs to gain a little perspective. These people are part of a co-ordinated and deliberate policy to undermine us at every opportunity and to a man they would relish the ruination of our club. They’re absolute cnuts. Never forget it
Not watched it yet and from the comments probably not bother.Fuck off MOTD, those highlights made it look like an even match - BBC wankers!
Why BBC is on its last legs and will be stripped of public funding soon?