Media discussion - 2025/26

bondsman said:
Barney Ronay in the Guardian today has gone all in on our ownership and basically intimated that as a club we are linked to genocide and as a fanbase don’t give a toss about it.
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If anyone were ever to commit barneyronaycide, I would buy them a pint.
 
manimanc said:
Who?
I keep seeing all these names but haven't got a scooby who they are.
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Here's the headline, why don't we take these cunts to court slebs take each other to court every day for saying trivial naughty things.

Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?​

Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests

How would you feel if the owner of the football club you support was implicated, even as those implications are repeatedly denied, in famine, ethnic cleansing and the deaths of 1,500 men, women and children?

www.theguardian.com

Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?

Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
bondsman said:
Barney Ronay in the Guardian today has gone all in on our ownership and basically intimated that as a club we are linked to genocide and as a fanbase don’t give a toss about it.
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Let me guess . He has cited the old racist trope that we are state owned so are totally to blame for the civil war in Sudan. Like all the London trendies he has moved on from the Gaza story and joined the latest crusade for the chattering classes who have got rich on the London property market and don’t give a shit about struggling people closer to home.
 
mexico1970 said:
Here's the headline, why don't we take these cunts to court slebs take each other to court every day for saying trivial naughty things.

Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?​

Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests

How would you feel if the owner of the football club you support was implicated, even as those implications are repeatedly denied, in famine, ethnic cleansing and the deaths of 1,500 men, women and children?

www.theguardian.com

Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?

Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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The central premise of the article is that Sheikh Mansour can’t have his own personal wealth and is incapable of independent thought. Those Arabs are all the same don’t you know. He fails to mention that 25 per cent of our club is US owned.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
The central premise of the article is that Sheikh Mansour can’t have his own personal wealth and is incapable of independent thought. Those Arabs are all the same don’t you know. He fails to mention that 25 per cent of our club is US owned.
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What really is puzzling me is how can our owners not go after them? If the journalists would have gone after the scousers they would have been tied up in litigation from the get go.

Makes you think they are not arsed about either their or the clubs reputation at all.
 
waspish said:
Tuchel gets it!

Thomas Tuchel on @PhilFoden: "Where he played [against] Dortmund was where I see him strongest; close to the opponent's box, a mix between No.9 and No.10. For me, Phil scores and assists more from the 18-yard box - where he scored against Dortmund - on the half-turn, in the pockets.

"I think the main thing with Phil is he gets a role central. I don't see him as a winger at the moment, maybe not any more. He should have a central role, I think that brings out his strengths most - we talked about this with him.

"So he will contribute as a No.9-and-a-half, No.10-and-a-half-ish position, very fluid, but in the middle of the pitch close to the box, be able to assist, and score like he did against Dortmund..."
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He gets it but what he means is he will continue to play as the whipping boy and play when Bellend isn't
 
mexico1970 said:
What really is puzzling me is how can our owners not go after them? If the journalists would have gone after the scousers they would have been tied up in litigation from the get go.

Makes you think they are not arsed about either their or the clubs reputation at all.
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Ronay has a track record of producing racist anti-Arab content. His most notorious article described the new Newcastle owners as a “row of grinning beards.” If it walks like a duck it’s a racist. The Guardian seems happy to promote this sort of hate-filled bile.
 
bondsman said:
Barney Ronay in the Guardian today has gone all in on our ownership and basically intimated that as a club we are linked to genocide and as a fanbase don’t give a toss about it.
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He's heard the verdict in the 115 case and wants to get ahead of the rest, so has picked up the old stick to beat us.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw bricks (unless you are scouse, obviously) and the UK supplying Israel (and others) is swept under the Guardian carpet along with the Arsenal/Rwanda connection.
 
Asa's left peg said:
He's heard the verdict in the 115 case and wants to get ahead of the rest, so has picked up the old stick to beat us.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw bricks (unless you are scouse, obviously) and the UK supplying Israel (and others) is swept under the Guardian carpet along with the Arsenal/Rwanda connection.
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The Sudan civil war has become the latest cause celeb now that what passes for peace has broken out in Gaza. Sudan is another sectarian bloodbath driven by religious hatred on both sides. The western narrative is being driven by the media activists and a comms campaign driven by the human rights industry (and it is an industry). I predict that when they get bored with Sudan they will move back to Syria which is the biggest bloodbath of the lot (except perhaps Ukraine). And so on it goes.
 
mexico1970 said:
What really is puzzling me is how can our owners not go after them? If the journalists would have gone after the scousers they would have been tied up in litigation from the get go.

Makes you think they are not arsed about either their or the clubs reputation at all.
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To engage is to legitimise.

Roney and Liew forged their worldview in the hot house of student union politics and then it ossified.

Roney is howling at the Blue Moon and he knows it, his petulance is a testimony to it.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
The Sudan civil war has become the latest cause celeb now that what passes for peace has broken out in Gaza. Sudan is another sectarian bloodbath driven by religious hatred on both sides. The western narrative is being driven by the media activists and a comms campaign driven by the human rights industry (and it is an industry). I predict that when they get bored with Sudan they will move back to Syria which is the biggest bloodbath of the lot (except perhaps Ukraine). And so on it goes.
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Ronay’s own paper has already reported that the UAE is regretting its (still denied) involvement with the RSF and is discretely withdrawing support. So any protests would be demanding something that is already happening. None of which has anything to do with football
 
Palerider said:
The Guardian is nowhere near the paper it was. It's just as full with bile as the Daily Mail. Safe to ignore.
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Ever since it fucked off to London it's gone from a worldwide well-respected example of high quality journalism to nothing more than chip wrappings. Barney will be scribbling today's page as he's eating some deep-fried King Edwards out of what he scribbled yesterday.

He's another example of the RDAHMeedya who should have a permanent ban from the Campus.
 
Norbiton said:
Ronay’s own paper has already reported that the UAE is regretting its (still denied) involvement with the RSF and is discretely withdrawing support. So any protests would be demanding something that is already happening. None of which has anything to do with football
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There is a hard core group of activists who are trying to politicise football because it is a convenient vehicle to promote their causes. Some of them hate football. Some of them, like Ronay, have adopted football as a way of promoting their career and lifestyle. Ronay, who went to Dulwich School and Oxford University, ludicrously claims to be a Milwall fan. It is just a cloak of convenience.
 
Norbiton said:
Ronay’s own paper has already reported that the UAE is regretting its (still denied) involvement with the RSF and is discretely withdrawing support. So any protests would be demanding something that is already happening. None of which has anything to do with football
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There is a hard core group of activists who are trying to politicise football because it is a convenient vehicle to promote their causes. Some of them hate football. Some of them, like Ronay, have adopted football as a way of promoting their career and lifestyle. Ronay, who went to Dulwich School and Oxford University, ludicrously claims to be a Milwall fan. It is just a cloak of convenience.
 
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